Guide to the Janet Fitchen Papers

Collection Number: 4952

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
April 2004
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, June 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Janet Fitchen papers.
Collection Number:
4952
Creator:
Janet M. Fitchen.
Quantity:
15 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Files, notes, correspondence, transcripts, manuscripts, maps, testimony.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Subject files, research and field notes, correspondence, data and data analysis, transcripts, case files, manuscripts of books, maps, testimony, and other papers relating to Fitchen's work on rural poverty, mostly in New York State.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Sociologist.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Subject files, research and field notes, correspondence, data and data analysis, transcripts, case files, manuscripts of books, maps, testimony, and other papers relating to Fitchen's work on rural poverty, mostly in New York State.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Fitchen, Janet M.

Subjects:
Rural poor--New York (State)--Study and teaching.

Form and Genre Terms:
Maps.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Restricted.
Cite As:
Janet Fitchen papers. #4952. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Lectures, workshops, and talks
1990
Allegany Talk
Box 1 Folder 1
1990
Rural Human Services Talk/Workshops
Box 1 Folder 2
1990-1991
Public Talks, Workshops, Guest Lectures
Box 1 Folder 3
192
College and Community Lectures
Box 1 Folder 4
The James Mickel Williams Lecture
Box 1 Folder 4
Hunger-Poverty Talks
Box 1 Folder 5
1986
National Association for Rural Mental Health - Keynote "When Communities Collapse: Implications for Rural America"
Box 1 Folder 6
1991
Presentation to President's Council on Rural America
Box 1 Folder 7
1992
Testimony for NYS Senate Social Services Committee
Box 1 Folder 8
1988
American Anthropological Association Presentation, "Changing Communities in Rural America"
Box 1 Folder 9
1989
Testimony for the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
Box 1 Folder 10
1994
Rural Sociological Society Task Force - Rural Poverty
Box 1 Folder 11
1994
Congressional Colloquium
Box 1 Folder 12
1994
Congressional Colloquium
Box 1 Folder 13
Community Visits
Box 1 Folder 14
1994
Cornell University Talk, "Residential Mobility and Urban to Rural..."
Box 1 Folder 15
1988
Cornell Rural Sociology Presentation, "More Poverty in Upstate N.Y. ..."
Box 1 Folder 16
1988
R.S.S. Talk, "Rural Poverty and Policy Research"
Box 1 Folder 17
1993
R.S.S. Talk, "Redistribution of Poverty..."
Box 1 Folder 18
1995
"Pathways from Poverty"
Box 1 Folder 19
1993
Welfare Reform
Box 1 Folder 20
1994
National Rural Studies Committee
Box 1 Folder 21
1985
AAA Panel
Box 1 Folder 22
1993
Corvallis Conference on Rural Poverty
Box 1 Folder 23
1989
Children in Poverty Conference
Box 1 Folder 24
1989-1990
NY State Education Department Conference
Box 1 Folder 25
1987-1992
Miscellaneous Presentations
Box 1 Folder 26
1994
Forest Service Conference - Ithaca
Box 1 Folder 27
1992
Anthropology/Sociology Seminar Presentations
Box 1 Folder 28
1988-1989
Teen Parenting/Teen Pregnancy, "Women and Children at Risk" Presentation
Box 1 Folder 29
1993
Rural Rensselaer County Council - Rural Women Conference
Box 1 Folder 30
1987
Cooperative Extension, "When Rural Communities Collapse..."
Box 1 Folder 31
1987
Farm Family Seminar - Albany
Box 1 Folder 32
1991
R.S.S. Panel
Box 1 Folder 33
1989
American Anthropological Association Panel, "Changing Indentity in Rural Communities in the United States"
Box 1 Folder 34
1994
R.S.S. Session - Heterogeneity
Box 1 Folder 35
1994
R.S.S. Ethics Panel
Box 1 Folder 36
1991
Poverty Research Conference - Penn State
Box 1 Folder 37
1990
Rural Household Livelihood Strategies - Penn State
Box 1 Folder 38
1989
Pennsylvania Rural County Caucus Assembly
Box 1 Folder 39
1990
The Aspen Institute Rural Poverty Research Meeting
Box 1 Folder 40
1988
Wye Conference Aspen Institute - Research Needs in Rural Poverty
Box 1 Folder 41
1988
Wye Conference, "White Poverty in Upstate N.Y."
Box 1 Folder 42
1994
"Agricultural Trends Affecting Rural Communities"
Box 1 Folder 43
1993
US/European Symposium
Box 1 Folder 44
1994
Conference on Communities and Watershed Planning - Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 45
1992-1993
Summer Institute
Box 1 Folder 46
1993
Summer Institute - National Rural Studies Committee (NRSC)
Box 1 Folder 47
1994
NRSC Summer Institute Materials
Box 1 Folder 48
1993
Presentation, "A Framework for Analyzing Poverty of Rural People and Places"
Box 1 Folder 49
1984
E.F.N.E.P. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Workshops, "The Aide and the Homemaker"
Box 1 Folder 50
1989
E.F.N.E.P. Workshop Questionnaire Tabulation
Box 1 Folder 51
1979
E.F.N.E.P. Analysis of Program
Box 1 Folder 52
1984
E.F.N.E.P. Materials from Workshops - Alaska, Oklahoma, Arizona, Montana, Tennessee, Ohio
Box 1 Folder 53
1977
E.F.N.E.P. Workshops - West Virginia
Box 1 Folder 54
1978
E.F.N.E.P. - North Dakota
Box 1 Folder 55
1974-1986
Correspondence - Workshop Related
Box 1 Folder 56
1985-1986
E.F.N.E.P. Correspondence, etc.
Box 1 Folder 57
Writings
1988-1991
An Abiding Place
Box 1 Folder 58
1992
Instructions for National Rural Studies Committee Book Chapter
Box 1 Folder 59
1994-1995
Book: Homelessness in America: A Reference Connection; Information on Fitchen's Chapter, "The Case of Rural Homelessness"
Box 1 Folder 60
1986-1988
Review of Chapter from Endangered Spaces
Box 1 Folder 61
1990-1991
Westview Press - Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America
Box 1 Folder 62
1991-1993
Publicity for Book, Endangered Spaces
Box 1 Folder 63
1991
Mailing List - Copies of Endangered Spaces
Box 1 Folder 64
1990-1991
Westview Press - Endangered Spaces
Box 1 Folder 65
1991
Endangered Spaces - Book Reviews
Box 1 Folder 66
1991
Book: Reviews, Responses, and Correspondence for Endangered Spaces
Box 1 Folder 67
1993
Brainstorming for Possible Book on Rural Poverty
Box 1 Folder 68
1979-1989
Material Related to Rural Poverty: An Anthropological Case Study in New York
Box 1 Folder 69
1981
Correspondence - Book
Box 1 Folder 70
1994-1995
Book Revision - Poverty in Rural America
Box 1 Folder 71
1981-1982
Book Review - Poverty in Rural America
Box 1 Folder 72
1988-1989
Poverty Book - Outline, Drafts
Box 1 Folder 73
1991
Poverty Chapter for Mil Duncan's Book
Box 1 Folder 74
1956-1958
College Anthropology Papers
Box 2 Folder 1
1958
Undergraduate Thesis
Box 2 Folder 2
1971
"The People of Road Junction"
Box 2 Folder 3
1964
Paper - College, "The Ambivalent Role of Local Political Leaders in East and British Central Africa"
Box 2 Folder 4
1961
College Papers - University of Illinois
Box 2 Folder 5
1979
"A Day with Mary Cronin," Revised - College
Box 2 Folder 6
"The Role of Women in East Africa..." [Janet Matthews]
Box 2 Folder 7
1962
"A Community Study of Philo, Illinois," University of Illinois, JMF
Box 2 Folder 8
1958
"Critical Review of a Study of Values," Vassar College
Box 2 Folder 9
1972
"Clifford S. Rich," Ph.D. Work at Cornell University
Box 2 Folder 10
1994
Northeastern Anthropological Association Paper - "The Single Parent Family"
Box 2 Folder 11
1974
Paper - Society for Applied Anthropology, "Rural Poverty in Northern Appalachia"
Box 2 Folder 12
1974
American Anthropological Association Paper: "Family and Neighborhood in a Rural Depressed Area, USA"
Box 2 Folder 13
1976
"Special Housing Problems of the Rural Poor"
Box 2 Folder 14
1986
"Individualism," Current Working Version of Paper
Box 2 Folder 15
1988
"Hunger in Amercia," Public Version
Box 2 Folder 16
1977
"Protecting Privacy in Action-Oriented Fieldwork"
Box 2 Folder 17
1979
Society for Applied Anthropology Paper, "Applying Anthropological Perspectives to Anti-Poverty Programs"
Box 2 Folder 18
1979
A.A.A. Paper, "Anthropology in Human Service Programs"
Box 2 Folder 19
1987
N.E.A.A. Paper, "Social Impacts of Agricultural Change..."
Box 2 Folder 20
1989
Rural Sociological Society Paper, "Rural Poverty and School Child..."
Box 2 Folder 21
1991
R.S.S. Paper, "Residential Mobility as a Form of Homelessness in Rural N.Y."
Box 2 Folder 22
1991
R.S.S. Paper for "Sonya Panel"
Box 2 Folder 23
1989
R.S.S. Method, "How Do You Know What to Ask..."
Box 2 Folder 24
1990
R.S.S. Paper, "Natives and Newcomers in Rural N.Y."
Box 2 Folder 25
1987
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Agricultural Change and Rural Society in the U.S."
Box 2 Folder 26
1990
A.A.A. Paper, "Homelessness in Rural America..."
Box 2 Folder 27
1991
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Reciprocity in Rural Poverty Research"
Box 2 Folder 28
1994
A.A.A. Paper, "Rural Poverty and Welfare Reform..."
Box 2 Folder 29
1989
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Reciporcity in Rural Poverty Research"
Box 2 Folder 30
1988
A.A.A. "Changing Communities in Rural America"
Box 2 Folder 31
1994
Paper - Karen A. Curtis
Box 2 Folder 32
1994
A.A.A. Paper, "Rural Poverty and Welfare Program..."
Box 2 Folder 33
1989
"Rural Poverty and Residential Mobility..."
Box 2 Folder 34
1992
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Poverty and the 'Single Parent Family'"
Box 2 Folder 35
1992
R.S.S. Paper, "Poverty and the 'Single Parent Family'"
Box 2 Folder 36
1993
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Diversity Without Development..."
Box 2 Folder 37
1993
A.A.A. Paper, "Impoverization of Rural U.S. Communities through Exchange Migration"
Box 2 Folder 38
1988-1991
Miscellaneous Poverty Thoughts
Box 2 Folder 39
1988-1992
Mobility
Box 2 Folder 40
1989
Mobility - Outline, Materials for Previous Papers
Box 2 Folder 41
1994
Originals of Current Papers - J.M.F.
Box 2 Folder 42
1986
Outline for Case Descriptions
Box 2 Folder 43
1995
Paper Sent to Human Organization for Publication
Box 2 Folder 44
1984-1985
Miscellaneous Work
Box 2 Folder 45
1995
R.S.S. Paper, "Spatial Redistribution of Poverty..."
Box 2 Folder 46
1982
Paper - "A Cultural Anthropologist at Work in America"
Box 2 Folder 47
1991
Paper - Adapted from Endangered Spaces, "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal"
Box 2 Folder 48
1961
Paper - University of Illinois, "'Peasantry' as a Social Type"
Box 2 Folder 49
1991
Paper based on Keynote Address, "A Time of Change in Rural Communities"
Box 2 Folder 50
1994
Possible Paper, "Welfare Reform for Rural America"
Box 2 Folder 51
1992
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Single-Parent Family"
Box 2 Folder 52
1987
Human Services in the Rural Environment Paper, "When Communities Collapse"
Box 2 Folder 53
1986
Paper, "Toxic Chemcal Pollution of Residential Areas"
Box 2 Folder 54
1994
"Residential Mobility Among the Rural Poor"
Box 2 Folder 55
1987
R.S.S. Paper, "Agricultural Change, Community Change, and Rural Poverty"
Box 2 Folder 56
1989
"The Dynamics of Rural Impoverization"
Box 2 Folder 57
1988
S.F.A.A. "Anthropological Work in Environmental Problems in U.S. - The Case of Groundwater Contamination"
Box 2 Folder 58
1993
N.R.S.C. Paper, "A Geographic Sampler of Rural Poverty"
Box 2 Folder 59
1992
"Rural Poverty and Residential Mobility"
Box 2 Folder 60
1991
N.R.S.C.
Box 2 Folder 61
1986
Paper, "Cultural Values Affecting Risk Perception"
Box 2 Folder 62
1982
"The Academic Community and the Image of Limited Good"
Box 2 Folder 63
Correspondence
1972-1995
Correspondence, A-C
Box 2 Folder 64
1972-1995
Correspondence, D-F
Box 2 Folder 65
1972-1995
Correspondence, G-K
Box 2 Folder 66
1972-1995
Correspondence, L-Q
Box 2 Folder 67
1972-1995
Correspondence, R-S
Box 2 Folder 68
1972-1995
Correspondence, T-V
Box 2 Folder 69
1972-1995
Correspondence, W-Z
Box 2 Folder 70
1990
Correspondence, Professor Emilia Martinez-Brawley
Box 2 Folder 71
1991-1994
Allegany - Current and Planned
Box 2 Folder 72
1988-1989
Correspondence, Laura B. Chodus - Regent
Box 2 Folder 73
1990-1991
Correspondence, Mark Cohen
Box 2 Folder 74
Correspondence Addresses
Box 2 Folder 75
1992-1994
Correspondence, General
Box 2 Folder 76
1992-1993
Correspondence, Mississippi State
Box 2 Folder 77
Research related
1992
North County G.N.L. Planning
Box 3 Folder 1
1987
Allegany County Field Notes
Box 3 Folder 2
1992-1993
State Write-Ups, Research Notes
Box 3 Folder 3
1991
Mobility - 20 Departments of Social Services Cases - Allegany County
Box 3 Folder 4
1991
Mobility Aspen Research - Questionnaire: D.S.S. Resdiential
Box 3 Folder 5
1991
Mobility - Aspen Research - Questionnaires: Headstart
Box 3 Folder 6
1990
Mobility - Aspen Research - Questionnaire Possibilities
Box 3 Folder 7
1990-1991
N.Y. Questionnaire Respondents
Box 3 Folder 8
1990-1991
N.Y. Questionnaires - Respondents
Box 3 Folder 9
1992
Mark Cohen
Box 3 Folder 10
1991-1992
Steuben Addison Elementary School Data
Box 3 Folder 11
1992-1993
Research Description - Research on Rural Poverty
Box 3 Folder 12
1986-1988
Research for Book - List of Interviews
Box 3 Folder 13
1986-1989
Data Sources - Field Notes - Allegany, Chenango, Delaware
Box 3 Folder 14
1984
United States Notes on Visits
Box 3 Folder 15
1992-1993
North Carolina Field Notes
Box 3 Folder 16
1992
Northern California Field Notes
Box 3 Folder 17
1987
Sentence Completion Survey
Box 3 Folder 18
1987
Sentence Completion Survey
Box 3 Folder 19
1992
New Mexico Arrangements to Conduct Research
Box 3 Folder 20
1993
New Mexico Borderlands Research Notes
Box 3 Folder 21
1992-1993
New Mexico Research Pueblos, etc.
Box 3 Folder 22
1991
New Mexico - TX Research Borderlands/Reading Material
Box 3 Folder 23
1988-1993
New Mexico Research San Miguel - Mora
Box 3 Folder 24
1990
New Mexico Research Income and Poverty Status
Box 3 Folder 25
1992-1993
Research Write-Ups, Analysis, Ideas
Box 3 Folder 26
19701-1971
Field Notes II
Box 3 Folder 27
1971-1972
Field Notes III
Box 3 Folder 28
19992-1994
Miscellaneous Research
Box 3 Folder 29
1987-1988
Economic Research Service Materials
Box 3 Folder 30
Personal and miscellaneous files
1989-1995
Personal File - Vita
Box 3 Folder 31
1972
Candidacy Examination to Cornell University for J.M. Fitchen
Box 3 Folder 32
1995
Personal/Employment Ithaca College, Cornell University
Box 3 Folder 33
1984-1995
Personal File Cornell Appointments
Box 3 Folder 34
1990-1991
Personal File Cornell Contacts
Box 3 Folder 35
1991-1995
Personal File Cornell Position
Box 3 Folder 36
1992
Personal File Cornell University Rural Sociology Department
Box 3 Folder 37
1976-1989
Personal File Cornell University Anthropology Department
Box 3 Folder 38
1992-1995
Material for Tenure
Box 3 Folder 39
1991-1999
Personal File Western Rural Development Center/National Rural Studies Committee Center Associate
Box 3 Folder 40
1992-1993
N.R.S.C. Center Associate Activities
Box 3 Folder 41
1972-1977
School Board Material (Previously Located in 3-Ring Binder)
Box 3 Folder 42
1990-1995
CARDI - Community and Rural Development Institute
Box 3 Folder 43
1993-1994
Articles Sent to J.M.F. for Review - Rural Sociology
Box 3 Folder 44
1992-1995
Peer Review
Box 3 Folder 45
1974-1989
Rural poverty video
Box 4 Folder 1
Student file: Jayne Spring
Box 4 Folder 2
1990
Student file: Myram Contiguglia, Diane Crews
Box 4 Folder 3
1987-1992
Rural Poverty - newspaper clippings, reports from around the U.S., contacts with reporters
Box 4 Folder 4
1988-1991
Grants, proposals, etc.
Box 4 Folder 5
19861989
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 6
"Rural Poverty" chapters I-VII
Box 4 Folder 7
"Rural Poverty" chapters VIII-end
Box 4 Folder 8
1988
Food and Foodways article
Box 4 Folder 9
1990
Journal of Rural Community Psychology
Box 4 Folder 10
1991
Urban Anthropology, Summer
Box 4 Folder 11
19881990
Rural Sociologist article
Box 4 Folder 12
1988
Practicing Anthropology
Box 4 Folder 13
1989
Human Organization
Box 4 Folder 14
1989
Cooperative Extension program, Tuskegee University
Box 4 Folder 15
1960-1991
Featured publications
Box 4 Folder 16-17
1979
The Outreach Manual
Box 4 Folder 18-19
1977
Working with Families
Box 4 Folder 20