Scott W. Aalgard Bruce P. Baird Wesleyan, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies UMass Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Singer-songwriters and critical praxis in modern and Butoh contemporary Japan [email protected] [email protected] Mikael Bauer Marié Abe McGill, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Religions BU, Asst. Prof. of Music Japanese premodern Buddhism and history Intersection of sound, public space, and social difference in [email protected] contemporary Japanese urban life through ethnographic analysis of chindon-ya Jeffrey P. Bayliss [email protected] Trinity, Assoc. Prof. of History; Chair, Department of History History and perception of Korean athletes who participated Michael T. Abele in Japanese sports during the colonial period UNC-Chapel Hill, Research Collaborator, Dept. of Asian [email protected] Studies Social history of outcaste groups during the Tokugawa Thomas U. Berger [email protected] BU, Assoc. Prof. of International Relations The U.S. alliance system in Europe and East Asia in Barbara R. Ambros comparison UNC Chapel Hill, Prof. of East Asian Religions [email protected] Animals and religion in contemporary Japan; the life and teachings of a contemporary Shinshu healer Rosemarie Bernard [email protected] Waseda, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Japanese Studies Anthropology of religion and ritual; Legal Anthropology; Galen D. Amstutz Shinto; Ise Jingû; Emperorship Independent Scholar; Adj. Faculty, Inst. of Buddhist Studies [email protected] Transition of Shin Buddhism from Tokugawa to Meiji [email protected] Joanne R. Bernardi Rochester, Prof. of Japanese and Film and Media Studies Marnie S. Anderson Re-Envisioning Japan (digital humanities project); Smith, Assoc. Prof. of History Itami Juzō monograph; two co-edited volumes (Japanese Social and political history of Meiji Japan cinema, provenance and early cinema) [email protected] [email protected]
Anna V. Andreeva Laura E. Bernhart-Wong Heidelberg Univ., Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Ind. Scholar; FFD Koordinatorin, German Foreign Ministry Studies, Research Fellow in Japanese History Informal Sino-German diplomatic relations Japanese religions, cultural history, Buddhism, Shinto, [email protected] history of medicine [email protected] Victoria Lyon Bestor Executive Director, North American Coordinating Council on Yuko Aoyama Japanese Library Resources Clark, Prof. of Geography; Assoc. Provost and Library resources; development of new internet-based Dean of Research, Office of Academic Affairs Open Source materials on Japan in support of Japan’s regional policy and role of aging population; Social undergraduate education innovation and social entrepreneurship [email protected] [email protected]
Phyllis Birnbaum Anne C. Buxton Independent Scholar; Writer, Editor Market Insights Director, EF Education First Biography of Okakura Tenshin History of Japanese Americans who weathered the years of [email protected] WWII on Japanese soil [email protected] Herbert P. Bix SUNY Binghamton, Prof. Emeritus of History and Sociology Patrick Caddeau America's path to perpetual war, 1820s-present Princeton, Dean of Forbes College [email protected] Study of ways in which environmental factors and critical inquiry have shaped national identity Thomas S. Blackwood [email protected] Tokyo Int’l Univ., Inst. for International Strategy, Prof. of Sociology Gavin J. Campbell Asylum seekers, visa-overstayers, and foreigners Doshisha, Prof. of American Studies convicted of crimes in Japan Transnational history of Japanese menswear, 1600-1935 [email protected] [email protected]
Verena K. Blechinger-Talcott Matthew M. Carlson Free Univ. of Berlin, Prof. of Japanese Politics and Univ. of Vermont, Prof. of Political Science Political Economy Campaign finance; Political corruption; Scandals, Patterns of modernity in East Asia; collaborative project on [email protected] the emergence of global governance due to epidemics [email protected] Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung Okayama Univ., Inst. of Global Human Resource Mark L. Blum Development, Assoc. Prof. UC Berkeley, Prof. and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Semi-refugees, disaster, and marginalization Japanese Studies [email protected] Nenbutsu history; Edo-period Tannisho commentaries; Seishinshugi philosophy in modern Japan Ellen P. Conant [email protected] Independent Scholar Continuation of reappraisal of lives/careers of Ernest/Mary Robert Borgen Fenollosa UC Davis, Prof. Emeritus of East Asian Languages & Culture [email protected] Heian Sino-Japanese cultural relations [email protected] Ian Condry MIT, Prof. of Comparative Media Studies/Writing Daniel Botsman Ethnographic study of music and musicians after the end of Yale, Prof. of History the recording industry: Tokyo, Boston, Berlin Emancipation in 19th-century Japan; translations of recent [email protected] work on Tokugawa social history [email protected] Thomas D. Conlan Princeton, Prof. of East Asian Studies and History Ethan D. Bushelle A study of the Ouchi daimyo house and their political, ritual, Western Washington, Asst. Prof., Department of Global economic and social significance Humanities and Religion [email protected] The Mandalization of the World: Esoteric Buddhism and the Reconfiguration of the Classical Imaginary Theodore F. Cook [email protected] William Patterson, Prof. of History; Director, Asian Studies War and memory in shaping Japanese culture [email protected]
Teruko Craig Rachel DiNitto Tufts, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Japanese Univ. of Oregon, Prof. of Japanese Literature Translating essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi Cultural responses to the 2011 triple disaster in literature, [email protected] film, manga [email protected] Michael P. Cronin William and Mary, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Eric Dinmore Alternate histories; Kansai region; 1995 in literature Hampton-Sydney, Elliot Assoc. Prof. of History and popular culture Monograph on resource anxieties in 20th-century Japan, [email protected] legacies of the co-prosperity sphere in Japan's aid to Indonesia's oil industry; monograph on Kurobe Dam Jennifer Cullen [email protected] Northeastern, Adjunct Prof., Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies Sharon H. Domier Father-daughter incest in Japanese manga UMass Amherst, East Asian Studies Librarian [email protected] Reading techniques that will enable students to read authentic foreign language materials more confidently Michael A. Cusumano [email protected] MIT Sloan School, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Prof. of Management James Dorsey Japanese corporate entrepreneurship Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese [email protected] Japan in the 1960s; music and social movements; Japan’s wartime culture; translation Brett de Bary [email protected] Cornell, Prof. of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature Translation as practice and theory in the works of Tawada John W. Dower Yoko, Morisaki Kazue, Lee Chonghwa, and Ukai Satoshi MIT, Prof. Emeritus of History [email protected] U.S.-Japan relations; recent publication The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II Wiebke Denecke BU, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Literatures and Comparative Fabian Drixler Literature Yale, Prof. of History History of early Japanese literary culture through Chinese Demographic history and history of mentalities, especially and Korean eyes with regard to social change in the 17th century [email protected] [email protected]
Jennifer F. deWinter Edward R. Drott WPI, Assoc. Prof. of Rhetoric; Director, Interactive Media Sophia, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Religions and Game Development Program Buddhist medicine in premodern Japan; Religion and the Japanese game studies, game development; Japanese urban senses renewal and sustainability (Kyoto) [email protected] [email protected] Alexis Dudden Frederick R. Dickinson UConn, Prof. of History UPenn, Prof. of History The current trend toward territorialization of sovereignty Global history of modern Japan through Japan's island disputes [email protected] [email protected]
Steven J. Ericson Naomi Fukumori Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of History Ohio State, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Literature and Culture Business reform in occupied Japan Depictions of ritual and ceremony as mise-en-scène in mid- [email protected] Heian period vernacular texts. [email protected] Margarita Estévez-Abe Syracuse, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science (CG 8-15-19) Demographic aging, gender, social policy, electoral politics [email protected]
William R. Farrell Honorary Consul, Japan for Rhode Island Currently representing Japan and lecturing at RI universities and colleges re: Japan [email protected]
Matthieu Felt Univ. of Florida, Asst. Prof. of Japanese, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Reception of classical Japanese literature [email protected]
William D. Fleming UC Santa Barbara, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Literature Early modern Japanese literature; reception of Chinese fiction in Japan [email protected]
Lawrence Fouraker St. John Fisher College, Assoc. Prof. of History Political economy of interwar Japan [email protected]
Matthew P. Fraleigh Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Literature and Culture Sinitic literature (kanshi) in Edo/Meiji Japan; Japan-Taiwan cultural interaction [email protected]
Sarah A. Frederick BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Comparative Literature Book about Yoshiya Nobuko; digital humanities project on Natsume Soseki’s Kyoto [email protected]
Nicole Freiner Bryant, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science Local responses to the repeal of the seed law in Japan [email protected]
Terence Gallagher William W. Grimes Independent Scholar, translator BU, Prof. of International Relations and Political Science; Translation of Japanese texts to English (business, Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs finance, legal, literary) East Asian financial cooperation, US-Japan-China economic [email protected] relations [email protected] Timothy S. George URI, Prof. of History Tristan R. Grunow Toroku arsenic poisoning Yale, Assoc. Research Scholar, Council on East Asian Studies [email protected] Empire by Design: Engineering Networks of Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul William L. Givens [email protected] The Japan Fund, Former Chairman U.S.- Japan trade competition Christine M. E. Guth [email protected] Independent Scholar Crafts in early modern Japan Ryan S. Glasnovich [email protected] Brandeis, Instructor, Dept. of History Development of Japanese police identity in the late- Mary Alice Haddad nineteenth century Wesleyan, Prof. of Government; [email protected] Chair, College of East Asian Studies Environmental politics in East Asia and urban diplomacy Carol Gluck [email protected] Columbia, George Sansom Prof. of History Memory in hypernationalist times Kenneth Haig [email protected] Hokkaido Univ., Research Associate; Senior Director, Oracle Japan Janet E. Goff Energy policy and and market innovation Independent Scholar [email protected] Famous fox characters in classical Japanese theater and their literary, religious, and historical impact William M. Hammell [email protected] Independent Scholar Scholarly publishing, voiceover narration, international Yoshie Gordon school culture Boston Higashi School, Director of Development and [email protected] Corporate Relations Autism education in Japan and in the U.S. Jeffrey E. Hanes [email protected] Univ. of Oregon, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Robert D. Goree Social history of occupied Japan Wellesley, Asst. Prof. of Japanese [email protected] Illustrated book genre of meisho zue and the popular geography of the late Tokugawa period [email protected]
Peter Grilli Japan Society of Boston, President Intercultural exchange [email protected] Walter F. Hatch Allen F. Hockley Colby, Assoc. Prof. of Government; Director, Oak Institute Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Art History for the Study of International Human Rights Visual histories published during the Meiji Period Politics of U.S. military basing in Asia and Europe [email protected] [email protected] Hilary Holbrow Tom Havens Harvard, Lecturer in Sociology Northeastern, Prof. of History Changing stratification in times of demographic decline History of science in Japan and East Asia [email protected] [email protected] Todd J. M. Holden Kenji Hayao Bentley, Lecturer in Sociology BC, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science 3-11 Changing impact of the prime minister in Japanese politics [email protected] [email protected] Saburo Horikawa Robert Hegwood Hosei, Prof. of Sociology Role of Japanese Americans in US-Japan cultural Place, Preservation and Politics: A US-Japan Comparison and commercial relations [email protected] [email protected] Yusaku Horiuchi Robert I. Hellyer Dartmouth, Prof. of Government and Wake Forest, Assoc. Prof. of History Mitsui Prof. of Japanese Studies Japan’s role in the global tea trade in the 19th and 20th Japanese public opinion, political behavior, Japanese centuries politics, electoral politics [email protected] [email protected]
Mariko I. Henstock Christopher W. Hughes BU, Senior Lecturer of Japanese Warwick, Prof. of Japanese Studies and International Politics Assessing Japanese text readability for college-level Japan's international relations and security policy Japanese language learners [email protected] [email protected] Takaharu Ichimura Money L. Hickman Harvard Medical School, Instructor of Medicine Independent Scholar Study of Minakata Kumagusu and Miyatake Gaikotu History of Parinirvana Imagery [email protected] Japanese painter Myoyo Kokan (1653-1717) Kimberly H. Icreverzi Junji Himeno Independent Scholar Keio Medical Univ., Assoc. Coach of Kendo Club Postwar Japanese cinema; Gender and labor The concept of kendo [email protected] [email protected] Evan S. Ingram Hosea Hirata Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Studies Tufts, Prof. of Japanese Literature Chogen and Shunjo’s interpretation and transference of Study of Kobayashi Hideo Chinese Buddhism and culture to Japan [email protected] [email protected] Charles S. Inouye Mark A. Jones Tufts, Prof. of Japanese Central Connecticut State, Prof. of History Begun a new book on the attractiveness of things (mono), a Romantic love and marriage in interwar Japan study of neo-animism [email protected] [email protected] Jason A. Josephson Storm Rei O. Inouye Williams, Assoc. Prof. of Religion; Northeastern, World Languages Center, Chair, Department of Religion Teaching Prof. of Japanese Japanese religions, East Asian philosophy, science and Integrating popular culture into Japanese language technology, philosophy of social science pedagogy [email protected] [email protected] Naoki Kamimura Mari Ishida Nanzan, Prof. of British and American Studies Wake Forest, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Japan-U.S. security relations; U.S. policy toward the 1952 Japanophone literature and the ideological visions of the Bolivian Revolution multi-ethnic Japanese empire [email protected] [email protected] Ikumi Kaminishi James P. Ito-Adler Tufts, Assoc. Prof. of Art History Association for Central Asian Civilization and Silk Road The history and politics of Japanese medieval emakimono Studies, Executive Officer [email protected] Adoption in Japan: A case study of fictive kinship [email protected] Miki Kaneda BU, Asst. Prof. of Music Christopher A. Ives Transpacific musicology: race/gender/power in 20-21st Stonehill, Prof. of Religious Studies century music Zen approaches to nature and environmental ethics [email protected] [email protected] Nikhil Kapur D. Colin Jaundrill Rutgers-Camden, Asst. Prof. of History Providence College, Assoc. Prof. East Asian History Finishing book manuscript on 1960 U.S.-Japan Security A multi-layered history of the 1868 battle of Toba-Fushimi Treaty protests and their aftermath [email protected] [email protected]
William D. Johnston Taizo Kato Wesleyan, Prof. of History Waseda, Prof. Emeritus of Psychology History of disease, epidemics, and public health disasters in Unhealthy nature of Japanese addictive relationships modern Japan [email protected] [email protected] Sachiko Kawai Colin Jones USC, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History Postdoctoral Fellow Premodern Japanese history, women and gender, medieval Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt estates, hot springs History of modern Japanese legal history from the [email protected] perspective of political economy [email protected] Sari Kawana UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Modern Japanese literature, History of the Book, Manga [email protected] Terry Kawashima Keigo Komamura UMass Boston, Prof. of Asian Studies; Keio, Vice President; Prof. of Law Chair, Department of Asian Studies Constitutional law, Constitutional politics; Historical Discourses of rebirth in premodern Japan development of the Japanese constitution [email protected] [email protected]
Adam L. Kern Yukinori Komine Univ. of Wisconsin, Prof. of Japanese Literature and American Public Univ., Assoc. Prof. of International Visual Culture; Director, Center for Visual Cultures Relations Japanese literature and visual culture from 1600 to 1900 US-Japan-China security relations over Senkaku/Diaoyu [email protected] Islands Disputes [email protected] Masato Kimura Kansai Univ., Visiting Professor Kimberly T. Kono Shibusawa Eiichi’s thoughts and activities from the Smith, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese viewpoints of global capitalism and transnational relations Images of Japanese women in colonial Manchuria [email protected] [email protected]
Takako Kishima Hiroko Kumaki Waseda, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science Dartmouth, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows Transnational civic participation and digital activism: Environmental health, science policy, and technological a case of “comfort women” movement innovation in Japan [email protected] [email protected]
Aleksandra Kobiljski Thomas Lamarre National Center for Scientific Research, Assoc. Prof. of McGill, James McGill Prof. of Japanese Studies Modern and Contemporary History Sciences and literature in Meiji Japan, on Sōseki, Ōgai, Engineering the Restoration: Envirotech History of Steel in Japan Tōson [email protected] [email protected]
Gabriele Koch Jinhee J. Lee Yale-NUS, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology Eastern Illinois University, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History Gender and sexuality, labor, rights, care Border-crossing women in transnational Japan and Koreans [email protected] in the Japanese empire [email protected] T. James Kodera Wellesley, Prof. of Religion Gary P. Leupp Takashi Paul Nagai (1908-1951): radiologist, Roman Catholic Tufts, Prof. of History Convert, Hibakusha and Pacifist Editing a large compilation of papers on Tokugawa Japan for [email protected] Routledge Publishers [email protected] Takeshi Kokubo UMass Boston, Lecturer Emeritus on Japanese Andrew Levidis A history of the Musashi Koku with emphasis on the Univ. of Central Lancashire, Asst. Prof. of East Asian History influence of the Uesugi Clan International history of the Japanese right-wing, historical [email protected] rise of militarism, imperial thought [email protected]
Adam P. Liff Indiana Univ., Asst. Prof. of East Asian International Relations International Security in East Asia, Japanese security policy, US-Japan-China relations [email protected]
Mark E. Lincicome Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Director Comparative study of national and regional identity formation in Japan and Australia, 1850-1950 [email protected]
Jennifer M. Lind Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Government How countries develop economic and military power [email protected]
Andrew Littlejohn Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute Post-disaster reconstruction and local identity in Northeast Japan [email protected]
Adam Lyons Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies Religion and social work, prison chaplaincy, new religions [email protected]
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Terry E. MacDougall Trent E. Maxey Stanford Japan Center, Bing Overseas Program, Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History Director Emeritus Cultural history of the automobile in twentieth-century Immigration, ethnicity, and citizenship in contemporary Japan Japan [email protected] [email protected] Hiram James McLendon Jr. Edward T. Mack Independent Scholar Univ. of Washington, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Sociocultural organization of a Japanese sogo shosha; Japanese-language literacy activities in Brazil prior to the Japan’s political economy Second World War [email protected] [email protected] Sean H. McPherson Tamaki Maeda Bridgewater State, Asst. Prof. of Art History Independent Scholar Architecture and social history of spaces for Buddhist Sino-Japanese artistic interchanges, 19-20 ct. worship constructed by Japanese-American communities [email protected] [email protected]
Ayu Majima Matthew Mewhinney Meiji, Senior Asst. Prof. Florida State University, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Socio-cultural history of modern Japan; Cultural Lyric poetry, Lyric theory, Literati Culture, Prose and Poetry anthropology (premodern and modern) [email protected] [email protected]
Federico Marcon Jennifer M. J. Milioto Matsue Princeton, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies and History Union College, Assoc. Prof. of Music, East Asian Studies, Introduction of Western philosophy in 19th-century Japan and Anthropology [email protected] Cross-cultural comparison of religious dance in Bali and Japan; research on iconic Icelandic avant-garde artist Bjork Andrew L. Maske [email protected] Univ. of Kentucky, Assoc. Prof. of Art History Preparing an exhibition on Japanese women artists for Richard H. Minear Denver Art Museum, Sept. 2021 UMass Amherst, Prof. Emeritus of History [email protected] Tokyo University in the 1930s [email protected] Thomas Mason ALLEX Foundation, Executive Director Shigeru Miyagawa Chinese and Japanese pedagogy, study abroad MIT, Prof. of Linguistics [email protected] Linguistics, open education [email protected] Reo Matsuzaki Trinity College, Asst. Prof. of Political Science Kuniko Miyanaga Institutional legacy of Japanese wartime occupation in Independent Scholar/Researcher Southeast Asia The Iconic Action- A society coded by rituals [email protected] [email protected]
Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka Jiro Mizuno Wellesley, Prof. of History Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific, Visiting Prof. of Japanese Imperialism and the Nationalist Opposition in Late Meiji Japan and Iran, two friendly states and Iran’s nuclear policy Japan: A Study of the Seikyōsha, 1888-1918 [email protected] [email protected] Robert H. Morehouse Chairman, The December Institute The “Reverse Course”; American defense attorneys of Japanese accused of War Crimes Andrea Murray [email protected] Independent Scholar Book manuscript on tourism and environmental problems in Ryo Morimoto Okinawa Princeton, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Anthropology [email protected] Fukushima nuclear disaster; Decontamination; Nuclear waste management; Memory; Archive Hiromu Nagahara [email protected] MIT, Assoc. Prof. of History Cultural history of modern Japanese diplomacy, with focus Kiyoko Morita on the inter-war period Tufts, Lecturer Emerita in Japanese [email protected] To find incense ceremony utensils found outside Japan; [email protected] Susan J. Napier Tufts, Goldthwaite Prof. of Rhetoric Carolyn A. Morley Finishing book on Japanese animation director Wellesley, Prof. of Japanese Literature and Theater Hayao Miyazaki Buddhist nun plays in Noh and Kyōgen [email protected] [email protected] Emer S. O'Dwyer James W. Morley Oberlin, Assoc. Prof. of History and East Asian Studies Columbia, Ruggles Prof. Emeritus of Political Science Boss Rule and Democracy in Post-Defeat Japan, 1945-1960 Current affairs and U.S. policy [email protected] [email protected] Misako Ohta Anne Nishimura Morse Kobe University, Assoc. Prof. Grad School of Human Museum of Fine Arts Boston, William and Helen Pounds Development Senior Curator of Japanese Art Music and empathy during the occupation of Japan: A Buddhist art and ritual practice; Japanese sheet music, bicultural perspective 1900-1950, contemporary photography [email protected] [email protected] Halle O’Neal Samuel C. Morse Univ. of Edinburgh, Chancellor’s Fellow; Lecturer. Amherst, Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Prof. of Art and of Japanese Art History History of Art Buddhist palimpsests, Medieval Epistolary; Death Ritual; History of the sculpture of the Kamakura period, with a Memory and embodiment; Sacred Paper focus on its ritual context halle.o’[email protected] [email protected] John C. Perry Mark Mulligan Tufts, Fletcher School, Henry Willard Denison Prof. Harvard GSD, formerly, Assoc. Prof. in Practice, Dept. of of History Architecture An imperial history of the China Seas Modern/contemporary Japanese architecture and urbanism [email protected] [email protected] Samuel E. Perry Brown, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Studies Japan’s Korean War; Queer Korean literature [email protected] Lizbeth Halliday Piel Atsuko Sakaki Lasell College, Assoc. Prof. of History Univ. of Toronto, Prof. of East Asian Studies and Childhood in wartime Japan Comparative Literature [email protected] Sports narrated, Trains of intensities, Photographic books as sites of translation Joan R. Piggott [email protected] USC, Gordon L. Macdonald Prof. of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Richard J. Samuels Book manuscript Visions of Heian Kyoto and collection of MIT, Ford International Prof. of Political Science; annotated translations Obe Estate and its Residents — Director, Center for International Studies the World of a Medieval Estate Japanese security policy [email protected] [email protected]
Tamae K. Prindle Ernesto F. Sanz Colby, Oak Prof. of East Asian Language and Literature UMass Lowell, Prof. Emeritus of Economics Shintoism in Nakamura Ryûtarô’s anime, Trade changes between the European Union and Japan (Shinrei-gari 2007-2008) [email protected] [email protected] Minae Savas Aaron P. Proffitt Bridgewater State, Prof. of Japanese Studies; SUNY Albany, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Studies Monogurui or madwoman motif in the Japanese Noh East Asian and Japanese Buddhism, Esoteric Pure Land Theatre Buddhism in medieval Japan [email protected] [email protected] Janine T. A. Sawada Ronald Richardson Brown, Prof. of East Asian and Religious Studies BU, Assoc. Prof. of History Lay mountain religion in early Tokugawa Japan Popular Movements and the Opening of Japan: [email protected] [email protected] Ellen Schattschneider Amanda Robinson Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Women's, Japanese animal cafes, human-animal relations, sociality in Gender and Sexuality Studies Japan, affect economy WWII memorialization and ritual processes; material [email protected] culture; trauma theory [email protected] Paul Roquet MIT, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Studies Sachi Schmidt-Hori Cultural politics of virtual reality and immersive media in Dartmouth, Asst. Professor of Japanese Literature Japan Representations of gender, sexuality, class, and (pseudo-) [email protected] kinship in premodern Japanese prose narratives [email protected] Brian D. Ruppert Bates, Hirasawa Prof. of Japanese Studies; Frank J. Schwartz Chair, Asian Studies Showa Boston Institute, President Cultural history of Buddhist scripture in Japan International education in Japan [email protected] [email protected] Amanda C. Seaman Kerry Smith UMass Amherst, Prof. of Japanese Language and Literature Brown, Assoc. Prof. of History Illness narratives (fictional and non-fictional) in postwar Disasters, disaster science, and earthquake prediction in Japan 20th-century Japan [email protected] [email protected]
Vyjayanthi R. Selinger John P. Solt Bowdoin, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Studies Independent Scholar Legal imagination of medieval literature History of Japanese visual poetry [email protected] [email protected]
Franziska Seraphim Amanda M. Stinchecum BC, Assoc. Prof. of Modern Japanese History Independent Scholar; Research Assoc., Inst. for Okinawan Geographies of Justice: Japan and German war criminals in Studies, Hosei University the postwar world, 1945-1958 Changing parameters, expressions, meanings of a sash from [email protected] the Yaeyama Islands: legend, history, identity [email protected] James M. Shields Bucknell, Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Humanities and Sarah M. Strong Asian Thought Bates, Prof. Emerita of Japanese Language and Literature Progressive and radical Buddhist thought and practice in Ainu oral traditions, animism in the works of Miyazawa East Asia, especially Japan and global context, mid-19th Kenji, haikai traditions century to present [email protected] [email protected] Shizuko Suenaga Yumiko Shimabukuro Seattle, Senior Instructor of Japanese Columbia, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs; Japanese war brides today Director of Urban & Social Policy Program [email protected] East Asia’s brewing social welfare crisis and the decline in human capital/labor Noriko Sugimori [email protected] Kalamazoo, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Language ideology, Language policy; Sociolinguistics, Toru Shinoda Honorifics; Critical discourse analysis; Corpus linguistics Waseda, Prof. of Social Sciences [email protected] Trans-pacific history of industrial democracy among Japan, China, and the United States Ronald Suleski [email protected] Suffolk, Prof. of History Using hand-written materials to reconstruct life for the Eiko M. Siniawer common people of China from 1850-1950, including Williams, Prof. of History Japanese materials Global history of 1973 [email protected] [email protected] Rebecca M. Suter Daniel M. Smith Univ. of Sydney, Assoc. Prof. and Chair of Japanese Studies Columbia, Political Science Comparing Australian and Japanese beverage consumption Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and cultures Foreign Policy [email protected] Japanese politics, comparative politics, political economy, and political behavior [email protected]
Paul L. Swanson Nanzan, Institute for Religion and Culture, Permanent Research Fellow Translating 6th-century Tiantai Buddhist texts [email protected]
(CG 7-14-21) 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 Japan and East Asia; 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] Social and political consequences of attainder in early Tokugawa Japan Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis [email protected] BU, Prof. Emerita for Japanese Art; Received start-up grant to construct middle-school Elena Varshavskaya curriculum on immigration from China and Japan which she Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Lecturer taught at Birches School ukiyo-e prints as historic documents [email protected] [email protected]
Sarah Thompson Alexander M. Vesey MFA, Curator of Japanese Art Meiji Gakuin, Assoc. Prof. of Global & Transcultural Studies Japanese prints in the MFA collection, especially ukiyo-e Early modern Japanese Buddhist social history woodblock prints [email protected] [email protected] James Keith Vincent R. Kenji Tierney BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Comparative Literature SUNY New Paltz, Lecturer. of Anthropology Natsume Soseki and Masaoka Shiki; haiku and the novel Sumo; Food; Globalization; Sports; The Body; Japan [email protected] [email protected] Louise E. Virgin Maria Toyoda Independent Curator of Japanese Art Suffolk, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Shijo surimono with emphasis on their included haiku and Macroprudential financial regulation; Material attributes the haiku poets who composed them and infrastructure complexity [email protected] [email protected] Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Alice Y. Tseng Carleton (Ottawa), Prof. of Film Studies BU, Assoc. Prof. of Art History; Post-Occupation Cinema, especially the 1950s Japan; Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture "Japan" in the cultural discourses after 3.11 Modern Kyoto art and architecture; Imperial portraiture [email protected] and spaces; History of exhibitions and collections [email protected] Mariko N. Walter Independent Scholar, Executive Director of ACANSRS Yolanda A. Tsuda The Silk Road: Interwoven History, vol. 2 Buddhism Kobe College, Prof. of Global Studies [email protected] Religion and migration in Japan [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 Tokyo 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 8-15-19) David Wittner Utica College, Prof. of East Asian History Meiji industrialization, visual and material culture [email protected]