JAMES LANG
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1974
TITLE:   Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
OFFICE:   207 Garland Hall
EMAIL:   james.j.lang@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7516

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Danforth/Kent Graduate Fellowship

American Council of Learned Societies

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Fellow, Kellogg National Fellowship Program

Rockefeller Foundation Field Research Grant

Grant In Aid, International Potato Center

Chancellor's Cup

Faculty In Residence

Past Director, Vanderbilt Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies

Past Director, Vanderbilt McTyeire International House

Academic Advisor, POSSE, NYC

COURSES TAUGHT

  Introductory Sociology
  Contemporary Latin American
  Human Ecology and Society
  Comparative Asian Development
  Development for a Small Planet
  Contemporary American Society

METHODOLOGIES:

  Hands-On Field Work
  Comparative/Historical Sociology


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Construction
Comparative Colonial Systems
Food, Crops, and Agriculture
Small-Scale Development

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Sociology Unplugged
Crops That Changed the World

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Conquest and Commerce: Spain and England in the Americas (Academic Press, 1975)

Portuguese Brazil: The King's Plantation (Academic Press, 1979)

Inside Development in Latin America: A Report from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Brazil (UNC Press, 1988)

Feeding a Hungry Planet: Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America (UNC Press, 1996)

Notes of a Potato Watcher (Texas A&M, 2001);
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2001/lang.htm

Copies of field notes for the development, rice, and potato projects are on deposit at the Heard Library, Special Collections. Materials include about 1000 pages. Designated the James Lang papers, a description can be found on the Collection's webpage. Contact: Kathy Smith, Associate University Archivist. http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/langj.shtml

"New Developments," International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 30 (January-April 1993): 5-19.

"Tomato Seed Production in Asia: A View From Taiwan," Seed World (September 1993): 7-8. (With Jack Reeves)

"Think Globally Act Locally: The Key to Success in India's rue Potato Seed Program," in International Potato Center Annual Report 1996 (CIP: Lima, 1997): 24-26.

"Potatoes for Egypt An IPM Success," in International Potato Center Annual Report 1996 (CIP: Lima, 1997): 16-17.

"Integrated Control of Bacterial Wilt Paying Off in East Africa," in International Potato Center Annual Report 1997 (CIP: Lima, 1998): 14-15.

"Food Security in East Africa: A Battle on Many Fronts," in International Potato Center Annual Report 1998 (CIP: Lima, 1999): 10-12.

"Diversifying Diets in China," in International Potato Center Annual Report 1998 (CIP: Lima, 1999): 15-20.

Review of Darcy Ribeiro, The Brazilian People in Latin American Literature and Arts Review (Fall, 2002): 88-90.

Review of Warren Belasco and Phillip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies in Technology and Culture (April 2003): 419-421.

Review of E. Melanie DuPuis, Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink in Contemporary Sociology (May 2003): 341-343.

Review of Mark Harvey, Steve Quilley, and Huw Beynon, Exploring the Tomato: Transformations of Nature, Society, and Economy in Technology and Society (January 2004): 222-224.

Review of Robert Harvey, Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence in Hispanic American Historical Review (November 2004).