ANNA SKARPELIS
Department of Sociology (646) 705-9862 New York University [email protected] 295 Lafayette St., 4th Floor www.skarpelis.com New York, NY 10012
DISSERTATION Racialised: Nazi Germany, Fascist Japan and the Rise of Racist Welfare States
RESEARCH Theory INTERESTS Race and Ethnicity Comparative Historical Sociology Cultural Sociology Translation
EDUCATION New York University Ph.D., Sociology (expected May 2018) M.A., Sociology, 2014
London School of Economics and Political Science M.Sc., International Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, 2006
School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) B.A., Japanese and Management, 2004
AWARDS 2016 Japanese-American Association of New York 2015 Best paper prize, EHESS-Fondation France-Japon 2015 Paper travel award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
SKILLS Language Fluent: German (native), French, English Advanced: Japanese Intermediate: Greek, Spanish, Italian
Research Skills Digital Methods certification from the University of Amsterdam MAXQDA and quantitative text analysis skills Java, Stata and R (competency) Archival Research
PUBLICATIONS In Preparation for Submission “The Nation, Unbound: One Hundred Years of Making Germans” “Beyond Aryans: Germanification, Racial Classification and Stratified Citizenship in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe” “Rethinking the Japanese Welfare State: War, Fascism and Colonial Entanglements” “Race into Culture: Military Intelligence and the Remaking of the Social Sciences during World War II”, with Stefan Bargheer (UCLA).
Published “The 2016 Junior Theorists’ Symposium”. Perspectives (38) 2, 16-18, with Clayton Childress (2016). CV Skarpelis | July 2017 | 2
“Review: War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction.” Social Science Japan Journal 17(1):141-44. (2014). “Proceedings of the of the French, German and Japanese ministerial tripartite long term care symposium in Tokyo February 2009”, German Ministry of Health (2010). “Alterung der Mitgliedschaft von Parteien und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland”, in Altern: Familie, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik (2009). “Altern: Familie, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik”, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. Co-editor alongside Kocka, J., Kohli, M. and Streeck, W. and Brauer, K. (2009). “Review: Low-wage work in Germany, edited by Gerhard Bosch and Claudia Weinkopf.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 47(3):605-06 (2009). “How far can a minimum wage compensate for the decline in collective bargaining? The challenges facing Germany and Britain”, with William Brown. In: Challenges in European Employment Relations, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations (2008). "Review: The political economy of Japan's low fertility, edited by Frances McCall Rosenbluth." Czech Sociological Review 44(6):1215-20 (2008).
TEACHING 2017 Sociological Theory, NYU, Instructor 2016 GSAS Teaching Certificate, NYU 2016 Introduction to Sociology, NYU, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Molotch 2015 Introduction to Sociology, NYU, Instructor 2012 Introduction to Sociology, NYU, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Molotch
ACADEMIC 2016 Graduate Advisor, New York University SERVICE 2016 Organizer, Junior Theorists Symposium (pre-conference of the American Sociological Association’s Theory Section) 2012 Organizer, NYLON annual conference 2011 Coordinator of the NYLON network (2011 – 2013) 2011 PhD graduate student admissions committee, NYU 2011 Organizer, EHESS mini conference on Japan 2010 Discussant and Panel Organizer (ASA, SSHA, AAS, and various other conferences, 2010 - 2017) 2008 PhD representative at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
CONFERENCE 2017 Beyond Aryans: Germanification, Racial Classification and Stratified TALKS Citizenship in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe. ASA, Montréal.
2016 Colonial Soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army. Presented at: Social Science History Association, Chicago.
2015 Insidious Racialization: The ‘Korean Problem’ and Japanese Welfare State Development. Presented at: SSHA; ESS; and the 24th Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia.
Brutality in Stone? Nazi Germany, the Japanese Colonial Empire and Racialized Welfare States. Presented at: Junior Theorists Symposium (ASA pre-conference).
Pacts of War? Authoritarianism, War, and the Origins of the Japanese Welfare State. Presented at: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting; Association for Asian Studies.
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2014 Pacts of War? Authoritarianism, War, and the Origins of the Japanese Welfare State. Presented at: SSHA; Japanese History Group, University of Tokyo; Institute of Social Science Social Science Dissertation Workshop, University of Tokyo.
Risk, Rumor, Radiation (2): Remote Event Analysis and the Politics of Digital Archiving. Presented at: World Conference of the ISA Annual Meeting, Yokohama, Japan.
Japanese-Korean Colonial Marriages: Gender and the Racial Politics of Assimilation. Presented at: Seoul Seminar on Mixed Race and Racism. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
2013 Risk, Rumor, Radiation (1): Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe and the Politics of the Apolitical. Presented at: Association for Asian Studies; SASE.
Engendering the Colonies: Intimacy, eugenics and geopolitical ambition in Manchuria, Korea and East Africa. Presented at: SSHA.
2012 Treacherous Translation: The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission and strategic uses of translation. Presented at: ASA (roundtable). Misery in letters - Or, how the Weimar petite bourgeoisie appropriated storytelling as political tool. Presented at: ESS.
2011 Toward a comparative semantics of welfare states: Conceptions of state obligation and old age pensioners’ victimization in the Weimar Republic and beyond. Presented at: ASA, SASE.
Justifying pension reform: Constructing the pensioner in political discourse during good times and bad. Presented at: The Making and Unmaking of Problematic Social Groups Mini-Conference. EHESS Paris.
2007 The erosion of collective bargaining and debates around a minimum wage in Germany. International Industrial Relations Association.
RESEARCH 2013 Prof. Vasant Dhar and Prof. Arun Sundararajan, NYU Stern School of ASSISTANCE Business: Higher education and Massive Online Open Courses. 2012 Prof. Jeff Manza, NYU Sociology: NYU sociology textbook. 2011 Prof. Eric Klinenberg, NYU Sociology: “Communications in Crises”. 2006 Prof. Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany: Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) on the interdisciplinary project Ageing in Germany (Altern in Deutschland).
GRANTS AND External FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Einstein Circle ‘Large-Scale Social Organization’ project 2013 Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (12 months) 2013 German Institute for Japanese Studies Visiting Ph.D. student scholarship (3 months each, in 2008 and 2013) 2008 Toshiba International Foundation Scholarship (3 months) 2008 Max Planck IMPRS Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2010)
Internal (New York University) 2016 Global Research Initiative Dissertation Writing Fellowship, NYU Washington, DC
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2015 Provost’s Global Research Initiative Grant 2014 The Dean’s Travel Grant 2013 Pre-Doctoral Summer Fellowship 2011 Institute for Public Knowledge Fellow (2011-2013) 2011 The Dean’s Travel Grant Graduate Summer Research Award (with Prof. Eric Klinenberg) 2010 MacCracken Fellowship (2010-2015)
OTHER 2016 Translator and copy editor, The New York Times POSITIONS 2015 Translator, WSI Mitteilungen
RESEARCH 2013 Archival Research, University of Tokyo and German Institute for Japanese Studies, STAYS Tokyo (March 2013 – November 2014) 2008 Doctoral Candidate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany (2008- 2010). 2008 Political Ethnography, Okuma School of Public Management, Waseda University, Tokyo. 2004 Maîtrise (1st year), Sciences Po Paris (AY 2004-2005). 2001 Japanese language training, Ochanomizu Women’s University, Tokyo (AY 2001- 2002).
ACADEMIC ASA American Sociological Association AFFILIATIONS SSHA Social Science History Association
REFERENCES Professor Jeff Manza Professor David Garland Department of Sociology, NYU NYU School of Law [email protected] [email protected]
Professor Craig Calhoun, FBA Professor Sheldon Garon President, Berggruen Institute Department of History, Princeton [email protected] [email protected]