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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. 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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. 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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