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CURRICULUM VITA
TERESA TOGUCHI SWARTZ
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology
909 Social Sciences Building
Tel. 612-626-1862 / Email:
PRESENT POSITION:
2004- Present Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota
Core Faculty, Asian American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
2002-2004 National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Associate, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota
2001-2002 College of St. Catherine, Centers of Excellence Coordinator
1999-2001 Hamline University, Lecturer
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2001 University of California San Diego, Sociology
Dissertation: The Eyes of Hope: An Ethnography of a Non-Profit Foster Family Agency in Los Angeles County
Advisors: Richard Madsen and Rebecca Klatch
B.A. 1988 University of California, Los Angeles, Psychology
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RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Books
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2005. Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care. New York: Routledge.
Refereed Articles
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. Forthcoming. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Governmental Assistance on Young Adults’ Civic Participation.” The Sociological Quarterly.
Extent of contribution: Lead on constructing theoretical framework, lead in writing literature review, qualitative analysis, and conclusions. Worked collaboratively on revisions, total 60%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2009. In Press. “Intergenerational Family Relations in Adulthood: Patterns, Variations, and Implications in the Contemporary United States.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 35.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2008. “Family Capital and the Invisible Transfer of Privilege: Intergenerational Support and Social Class in Early Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 119: 11-24.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2004. “Mothering for the State: Foster Parenting and the Challenges of Government-Contracted Care Work,” Gender & Society. Vol. 18: 567-587.
Book Chapters/Invited Contributions
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Kirsten Bengtson O’Brien. Forthcoming. “Extended Family Support and Intergenerational Relationships in Young Adulthood” International Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood. Edited by Andy Furlong. London: Routledge.
Extent of Contribution: Lead role in literature review, development of argument, and writing of chapter, total 85%.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan T. Mortimer. Forthcoming. “Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.” In Coming of Age in America edited by Patrick Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Holdaway, and Mary Waters. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Extent of contribution: Conducted interviews, wrote framing, conclusions and several substantive sections, lead in putting together final draft and revising, total 60%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2008. “Parenting for the State: Foster Parenting and the Challenges of State-Supervised Carework.” Adaptation from Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care. In The Social Issues Collection, edited by David Smith. New York: Routledge. (Electronic Reader: http://www.socialissuescollection.com/)
Hartmann, Douglas and Teresa Toguchi Swartz. 2007. “The New Adulthood? The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults.” Pp 255-289. Constructing Adulthood: Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Course. Advances in Life Course Research Volume 10. Edited by Ross Macmillan. Oxford, UK: Elsevier/JAI Press.
Extent of Contribution: Equal coauthorship, 50%
[To be reprinted in Classic and Contemporary Perspectives in Social Psychology. Edited by Sharon Preves and Jeylan Mortimer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.]
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Jennifer C. Lee and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2003. “Achievements of First-Generation Hmong Youth: Findings from the Youth Development Study.” CURA Reporter. Spring: 15-21.
Extent of contribution: Lead role in drafting and revising, total 70%
Book Reviews and Other Publications
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2008. The Social Issues Collection: Families and Social Issues Topic Editor, General Editor David Smith. New York: Routledge. (Electronic Anthology: http://www.socialissuescollection.com/)
Swartz, Teresa. 2003. Review of Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds edited by Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman. (Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.) Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. Vol 32: 441-442.
Works Under Submission and In Progress
Book Projects
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. Growing Up But Not Apart: Intergenerational Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood. Prospectus and selected chapters to be submitted to potential presses Spring 2009.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Douglas Hartmann and Ruben Rumbaut (eds). Inside the Frontiers of Adulthood: How Young Adults Understand and Navigate Their Lives. (Edited volume based upon collaborative research of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood.) Full draft to be submitted to University of California Press, Fall 2008.
Extent of contribution: Lead editor, managing contributions, equal sharing of reviewing and feedback to authors with Hartmann, project still underway.
Articles and Book Chapters
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Douglas Hartmann, and Pao Lee. “Segmented Assimilation in Cultural Cross Generational Perspective: The Incorporation Experience of Hmong Young Adults and their Parents To be submitted to American Journal of Sociology in Spring 2009.
Extent of contribution: Conducted interviews with young adult respondents, qualitative analysis with young adults, equal sharing of theoretical framing and drafting paper with Hartmann, total 50%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Mayumi Uno, Jeylan Mortimer, and Kirsten Bengtson O’Brien. Providing Scaffolds and Safety Nets or Enabling Slackers? Parental Support of Contemporary Young Adults To be submitted to Journal of Marriage and the Family in March 2009.
Extent of contribution: Lead in conceptualization and constructing theoretical framework, writing 2/3 of paper including literature review, discussion, and conclusions, total 65%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. “Passing on Privilege: Social Reproduction and Intergenerational Supports.” To be submitted to American Sociological Review, Spring 2009.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Erika Busse. “Families Across Generations and Borders: Intergenerational Relations and Supports Among Latino and Asian American Young Adult Children of Immigrants.” To be submitted to Journal of Marriage and the Family. Summer 2009.
Extent of Contribution, Lead in analysis, conceptualizing theoretical framework and argument, and writing of paper, total 80%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Erika Busse. “Home, Help, and Being on Your Own: Independence and Continued Dependence in Early Adulthood.” To be included as a chapter in Inside the Frontiers of Adulthood: How Young Adults Understand and Navigate Their Lives. Edited by Teresa Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Ruben Rumbaut.
Extent of contribution: Lead in analysis, conceptualizing theoretical framework and argument, and writing of paper, total 80%
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Arturo Biaocchi. “Privatization of Child Welfare Services: Promises and Problems of Marketing Services to Vulnerable Children.” To be submitted to a peer reviewed journal.
Extent of contribution: Project underway, to be determined.
Presentations
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi 2008. “Intergenerational Relations Among Asian American Families.” Grinnell College, October 16. (Invited Lecture)
Biaocchi, Arturo, Douglas Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz. 2008. “Ethnic and Racial Identity Among Young Adult Immigrants Americans: Diverse, Evolving Conceptions and Their Societal and Theoretical Implications.” American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, August.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2008. “Teaching Asian American Studies in the Heartland and Beyond.” Association for Asian American Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2007. “Hmong Acculturation in Intergenerational Perspective.” Presented at the Family Social Science Department Colloquium Series, St. Paul, April.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2007. “Family Capital and the Invisible Transfer of Privilege.” Emerging Adulthood Conference, Annual Meeting, Tucson, February.
Hartmann, Douglas and Teresa Toguchi Swartz. 2007. “The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults: Findings from a New Battery of Interviews.” Emerging Adulthood Conference, Annual Meeting, Tucson, February.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2006. “Young Adults’ Diverse Understandings of their Relationships with their Parents: Preliminary Findings from Interviews with Diverse Ethnic Groups.” American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, August.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2006. “Role Reversal, Family Burden, or Family Interdependence?: Second Generation Asian American Young Adults’ Understandings of their Relationships with their Parents.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, March.
Swartz, Teresa and Raphi Rachitsky. 2006. “Growing Up But Not Apart: Media Portrayals of Parent-Young Adult Relationships.” Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Omaha, March.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Erika Busse. 2006. “Families Across Generations and Borders: Intergenerational Relations Among Latino and Asian American Young Adult Children of Immigrants.” Sociologists for Women in Society, Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, February.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2005. “Role Reversal, Family Burden, or Family Interdependence? Second Generation Asian American and Latino Young Adults’ Understandings of their Relationships with their Parents.” Presented at the Family Social Science Department Colloquium Series, St. Paul, November.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Jeylan Mortimer and Douglas Hartmann. 2005. “The Transition to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, August.
Swartz, Toguchi. 2005. “The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Foster Youth and the Child Welfare System.” Leave No Adolescent Behind Conference. Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, Minneapolis, June.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Erika Busse. 2005. “Latino Families Across Generations and Borders: Intergenerational Relations and Supports Among Latino Young Adult Children of Immigrants.” The Second Cumbre of the Great Plains: Re-Visioning Latino America New Perspectives on Migration, Transnationalism and Integration, Omaha, March.
Hartmann, Douglas and Teresa Toguchi Swartz. 2005. “The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults: Findings from a New Battery of Intensive Interviews.” Midwest Sociological Association meetings, Minneapolis, April.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Amy Blackstone and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Governmental Assistance on Voting Behavior.” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, August.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Erika Busse. 2004. “Passing on Privilege: Social Reproduction and Intergenerational Supports. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meetings, San Francisco, August.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Jeylan T. Mortimer and Douglas Hartmann. 2003. “Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon” MacArthur Foundation Research on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy Conference on the Qualitative Studies, Philadelphia, December.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Debra Jozefowicz-Simbeni. 2003. “Passing on Privilege: Intergenerational Support during the Transition to Adulthood,” Emerging Adulthood Conference, Cambridge, MA.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Jennifer C. Lee. 2003. “Growing Up Hmong in St. Paul, MN: Attainment and Well-being of First Generation Hmong Youth.” Minnesota Refugee Health Task Force, St. Paul, MN.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Douglas Hartmann, and Mai Vang. 2003. “Hmong, American and Twenty-something: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Preservation in Multigenerational Minnesota Families." Sociologists of Minnesota Annual Meetings, St. Paul.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Douglas Hartmann, and Mai Vang. 2003. "Growing Up Hmong in St. Paul, MN: Acculturation, Mobility, and Cultural Preservation in Intergenerational Perspective" American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2002. “Contracting Care: The Gender, Class and Ethnic Dimensions of Carework in a Private, Non-Profit Foster Care Agency” Annual Carework Conference: Linking Informal and Formal Carework: Perspectives from Research, Policymakers and Advocates, Chicago.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 2001. “Negotiating Hope: Social Workers Serving Children, Families, Science and the State.” Midwest Sociological Association Annual Meetings, St. Louis.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 1999. “The Promises and Perils of Privatization: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Privatization of Foster Care in Los Angeles County.” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 1997. “Providing for Families through Caring for Children: The Economic and Gender Strategies of Foster Parenting.” Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, San Diego.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi.1997. “Ethnography and Social Policy: The Power and Potential of Participant Observation.” Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, San Diego.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 1995. “Maintaining Traditional Family Practices among the Working Class within a Changing Economy: The Case of Foster Parenting in the United States.” American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. 1992. “The Czechoslovakian Dissident Movement as a Subculture: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach.” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh.
Public Sociology
Writing
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi and Douglas Hartmann. “Does Class Still Matter in America?” St. Paul Pioneer Press. (op-ed article) July 19, 2005, Section B, p. 7
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. “Washington County Child Protection Citizen Review Panel Report on Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect,” Spring 2002. Prepared for the Washington County Citizen Review Panel.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. “Minnesota’s Child Protection Citizen Review Panels County Survey Report,” Spring 2001. Prepared for the Minnesota Department of Human Services and Ramsey, Washington and Chisago Counties.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. “Minnesota’s Child Protection Citizen Review Panels Citizen Survey Report,” Spring 2001. Prepared for the Minnesota Department of Human Services and Ramsey, Washington and Chisago Counties.
Swartz, Teresa Toguchi. “Minnesota’s Child Protection Citizen Review Panels Citizen Survey Report,” Spring 2000. Prepared for the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Press Interviews
Interview with Star Tribune and quoted for article “Grads Face New Realities in Tight Labor Market” by Emma Carew. Published on July 14, 2008
April 28 2008. Minnesota News Network interview on rising prices and how might affect young adults.
Interview with Gainesville Sun for article on “The Odyssey Years” of young adulthood, February 2008.
Interview with ThreeSixty online magazine on youth poverty, February 2008.
Interview with Time magazine for article on media representations of families: “Baby Einstein vs. Barbie: Overscheduled Kids. Overprotective Parents. They Are Hot-Button Issues But Are They Really The Issues Faced By Most American Families?” written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, published in online edition, September 22, 2006.
Interview with Gainesville Sun for article on “Grups: A New Category of People,” concerning adults in 30s and 40s with lifestyles and tastes of younger adults and adolescents, popularly referred to as “GRUPS.” Quoted in article written by Amy Reinink and published on June 27, 2006.
Interview with St. Paul Pioneer Press for article entitled “Meet the GRUPS” Quoted in the article written by Amy Carlson Gustafson and published on April 23, 2006.
Guest on Pat Miles WCCO Radio morning show, discussing “Grups” phenomenon and article in Pioneer Press, aired on April 28, 2006.
Interview with Star Tribune for article “The Parent Trap.” Quoted in the article written by Susan Barbieri and published on December 13, 2004.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008 University of Minnesota, President’s Faculty Multicultural Research Award, $5952
(Awarded Spring 2008 for funding in Fall 2008).
2008 R-01 from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health for “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth.” PI: Jeylan Mortimer. I am a co-PI along with six others. (2008-2013: $1,250,000 status currently: “to be paid.”)
2007 University of Minnesota, Single Semester Leave, Fall 2007.
2006-2008 Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, Supplementary Support, Macarthur Foundation. $25,000. Inside the Frontiers of Adulthood: How Young Adults Understand and Navigate Their Lives. Co-P.I. with Douglas Hartmann. University of Minnesota, Life Course Center.