Paul D. Talcott Mary Evelyn Tucker Independent Scholar Yale, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar The spread of market mechanisms in health care policy in Religion and ecology; Book Thomas Berry and the Arc of and East ; the relationship between economic History (2019) development, democracy, and the introduction of market [email protected] principles into social insurance systems [email protected] Timothy J. Van Compernolle Amherst, Prof. of Japanese Wako Tawa The creative exchanges between literature and cinema in Amherst, Prof. of Asian Languages and Civilizations; interwar Japan Director of Language Study [email protected] Japanese grammar for learners of Japanese as a foreign language Floris van Swet [email protected] Northumbria, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Social and political consequences of attainder in early Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis Tokugawa Japan BU, Prof. Emerita for Japanese Art; [email protected] Received start-up grant to construct middle-school curriculum on immigration from and Japan which she Elena Varshavskaya taught at Birches School Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Lecturer [email protected] ukiyo-e prints as historic documents [email protected] Sarah Thompson MFA, Curator of Japanese Art Alexander M. Vesey Japanese prints in the MFA collection, especially ukiyo-e Gakuin, Assoc. Prof. of Global & Transcultural Studies woodblock prints Early modern Japanese Buddhist social history [email protected] [email protected]

R. Kenji Tierney James Keith Vincent SUNY New Paltz, Lecturer. of Anthropology BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Comparative Literature Sumo; Food; Globalization; Sports; The Body; Japan Natsume Soseki and Masaoka Shiki; and the novel [email protected] [email protected]

Maria Toyoda Louise E. Virgin Suffolk, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Independent Curator of Japanese Art Macroprudential financial regulation; Material attributes Shijo surimono with emphasis on their included haiku and and infrastructure complexity the haiku poets who composed them [email protected] [email protected]

Alice Y. Tseng Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano BU, Assoc. Prof. of Art History; Carleton (Ottawa), Prof. of Film Studies Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture Post-Occupation Cinema, especially the 1950s Japan; Modern Kyoto art and architecture; Imperial portraiture "Japan" in the cultural discourses after 3.11 and spaces; History of exhibitions and collections [email protected] [email protected] Mariko N. Walter Yolanda A. Tsuda Independent Scholar, Executive Director of ACANSRS College, Prof. of Global Studies The Silk Road: Interwoven History, vol. 2 Buddhism Religion and migration in Japan [email protected] [email protected]

Garrett L. Washington Aida Yuen Wong UMass Amherst, Asst. Prof. of History Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Art Social impact of urban, built, and social spaces of Japanese China-Japan relations and transnationalism; Nakamura Protestant Churches, 1879-1923 Fusetsu and his circle of Japanese calligraphers who [email protected] popularized metal-and-stone aesthetic in late 19th and early 20th centuries Takeshi Watanabe [email protected] Wesleyan, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies Pre-Edo representations of foodways through text and Tadashi Yamamoto image Independent Scholar [email protected] Japanese mythology and coronations; Computational intelligence; Food culture Robert J. Weiner [email protected] Naval Postgrad. School, Lecturer in Political Science Comparative/domestic politics of Japan, the Koreas, East Emi Yamanaka and Southeast Asia BU, Senior Lecturer in Japanese [email protected] Language pedagogy; second language acquisition, technology in education Victoria Weston [email protected] UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Art Okakura Kakuzo in his international context; Meiji-period Kikuko Yamashita nihonga Brown, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Studies [email protected] Historical background of Buddhist writings used in the Medieval temple schools Merry White [email protected] BU, Prof. of Sociology and Anthropology Ethnographic research on “work” in Japan in food, from Midori Yoshii domestic, to artisanal, to industrial work Albion College, Prof. of International Studies [email protected] Japan’s role in the JFK/LBJ era U.S. policy toward Taiwan [email protected] Ellen B. Widmer Wellesley, Mayling Soong Prof. of Chinese Studies Anna M. Zielinska-Elliott A 17th century Chinese poet; Dual identity of a Chinese BU, Master Lecturer in Japanese; Director, revolutionary woman; How biographies of heroines made BU Translation Initiative their way from America to China via Japan History of translation of Tanizaki’s “Kagi” around the world [email protected] [email protected]

Michael A. Witt Eve K. Zimmerman INSEAD, Prof. of Strategy and International Business Wellesley, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Varieties of capitalism, de-globlalization, comparative Trope of girlhood in modern Japanese literary culture corporate governance [email protected] [email protected] (CG 8-25-21) David Wittner Utica College, Prof. of East Asian History Meiji industrialization, visual and material culture [email protected]