Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the early 20th century, Paris gathered to herself a heterogeneous collection of artists and thinkers. Among them were many self-defined expatriates, including Gertrude Stein and Natalie Clifford Barney, who saw themselves as American yet resided in France most of their adult lives. Both women were writers, salonièrres, and lesbian, and both chose Paris because they felt at home in the city’s artistic mileau and relatively tolerant sexual atmosphere. Without abandoning their nationality or their citizenship in one country, they, like other expatriates, felt they belonged in another country and chose to relocate there, so that they were in some ways permanently suspended between the two.
The expatriate is, perhaps, a modernist position--a relocation rooted in singular nationality. Despite deep differences, the expatriate shares certain qualities with the transnational, such as hybridity and fluidity, and the less ‘positive’ qualities of fissure and dis-integration. How is the expatriate like and unlike the transnational? How does the former presage the latter?
These are questions underlying my proposal, but I hope in this presentation to map the tensions that Stein and Barney negotiated as queer expatriates as a way of exploring the limits and possibilities of the fractured modern subject. I am particularly interested in the confluence of expatriate and queer and the way such alignments allowed both outsider and insider status. For instance, while Stein wrote in English and defined herself as an American writer, Barney wrote in French. Barney was outspokenly lesbian; Stein was not. While Barney followed the conventions of the elite salon, Stein—along with Alice B. Toklas—created a bohemian salon.
Each of these choices point to ways in which Stein and Barney formed themselves as insider/outsiders, and allows one to think about specific questions. What were the boundaries of insider/outsider status in their Paris circles? How much were Barney and Stein identified as outsiders by others? How did they consciously construct themselves as outsider/insider? How do the tensions negotiated by these women reflect (or not) the contradictions and repressions embedded in citizenship and sexuality in the Euro-US modern subject, in a period which could be seen as one of the concluding chapters of modernity?
My paper will map Paris as the 'cultural capital of the world' and locate Barney and Stein within it by 1) placing Paris within the global network of colonialism, 2) indicating political and cultural affiliations between the US and France 3) exploring sites of cultural exchange (salon, private garden, public garden, bedroom) 3) overlaying insider/outsider codes on the map. Resources will include texts written by and about Stein and Barney and Foucault’s essay, “Of Other Places.”

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper argues that the concept of expatriate politics—how countries treat their citizens who reside abroad, whether permanently or temporarily—can improve our understanding of how states react to globalization and transnationalism. In order to develop a comprehensive conceptualization of the most important dimensions of expatriate policies, provide evidence that such policies appear to have become increasing common, and develop some initial hypotheses to explain the trend, the paper presents the results of a survey of the people responsible for implementing them: consular officials.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this paper, I explore the actions of Irish American nationalists, the Fenians, who launched a
series of daring attacks to free Ireland from English rule, invading Canada in 1866 and sending
men to foment rebellion in Ireland. Despite their legal status as naturalized Americans, the
Fenians were tried for treason as British subjects, not as American citizens. Declaring their
allegiance to the United States, the Fenians succeeded in stirring up a volatile diplomatic crisis
which ended with the passage of path-breaking legislation and the negotiation of international
treaties which explicitly guaranteed, for the first time, the right of individuals to change their
allegiance. While affirming the right of individuals to change their allegiance, the expatriation
treaties also served to bolster the power of the nation states.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The North American software industry faces two distinct—and seemingly contradictory—geographical imperatives: centrifugal pressures engendered by the industry’s omnipresent need for abundant supplies of low cost, highly skilled labor; and centripetal pressures engendered by the industry’s need for command, control, and communications (C3). How are the inherent tensions engendered by the desire for foreign labor and the need for command and control resolved? I hold that “expatriate knowledge networks” populated by emigrant scientists and engineers play a key role in mediating the relationship between North American information technology (IT) firms and their overseas associates and thereby mitigate—albeit by no means eliminate—the manifold impediments to offshore software development in their places of origin.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this paper, findings from the project on cognitive gaps between Japanese expatriates and local employees working for Japanese subsidiaries in Asian countries and the U.S. are reported. In this project, 2,558 participants in China, the Philippines, Malaysia (Chinese and Malay Malaysians) and the U.S. completed the Cultural Schema Questionnaire. Four objectives were investigated: (a) Determine whether the cultural schema scales of the Cultural Schema Questionnaire was valid, (b) investigate whether the cognitive reactions of local-employee groups toward Japanese behaviors are likely to vary across 5 local groups, (c) investigate whether Japanese samples' reactions to local employee groups vary across 5 Japanese groups, and (d) investigate whether subjects' cognitions are influenced by their cultural schemas and therefore cognitive reactions toward the other cultural members' behaviors are affected by the cultural schemas of their own and those of the other cultural group.