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Was interviewed on Boston Public Radio about research she conducted with students in her Latinxs and Housing seminar. This research was also highlighted in an article by WGBH news on March 7, 2022. Additionally, Rosa chaired a session at the Eastern Sociological Society鈥檚 annual conference on March 7 and was invited to present her research on race and public housing in New York City at the New England Consortium for Latina/o Studies on March 25, 2022.


Was invited to speak at the closing session for the Fall 2020 Campus Compact Symposium, 鈥淎dvancing Equity Through Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Transforming Faculty Reward Policies and Practices.鈥 Vanessa also spoke about her research at the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 19 symposium and celebration in November 2020.


Roth, J.H. (2019).  Kamikaze Truckers in Postwar Japan. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 9(3), 1-19.


Roth, J.H., Hoko onchi:  Way-finding and the Emergence of Directional Tone-Deafness in Japan, Ethos v. 43 i. 4 (December, 2015):  402-422


Roth, J.H., "Interpreting Minority Experiences of Japan's March 2011 Triple Disasters" (chapter in East Asia and the World, edited by Anne Prescott, M.E. Sharpe).


Roth, J.H., Japanese Brazilian Croquet in S脿o Paulo: Ethnic Identity, Contestation, and Integration,  in Sports Culture in Latin American History, edited by David Sheinin, Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press.


Roth, J.H., Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary Japan (chapter in Vehicles of Moral Imagination, edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler, Berghahn Books)


Roth, J.H., Lightweight Cars and Women Drivers: The De/construction of Gender Metaphors in Recessionary Japan, (chapter in Capturing Contemporary Japan, edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda Roberts, and Susan Long, University of Hawai'i Press). (2014)


Roth, J.H., Heartfelt Driving: Discourses on Manners, Safety, and Emotion in Japan's Era of Mass Motorization. The Journal of Asian Studies, v. 71: pp 171-192


Roth, J.H.,  The Asia-Pacific Memo, Memo #158, May 24, 2012