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Junko Habu

Research Interests: Archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers and small-scale societies; human-environmental dynamics; sedentism; landscape archaeology; sociopolitics of archaeology; climate change; local and global environmental issues; Japan, East Asia and the North Pacific Rim

Status: Core Faculty, Chair

Karen Nakamura

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; Disability Studies; LGBT movements; minority social movements and identity politics; visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan

Status: Core Faculty

Miryam Sas

Research Interests: Japanese futurism; intermedia art; experimental animation; pink film; cross-cultural performance; butoh dance.

Status: Core Faculty

Mark Blum

Research Interests: Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia, with a focus on the Japanese medieval period; Japanese Buddhist reponses to modernism; Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan; historical consciousness in Buddhist thought; impact of the Nirvana Sutra (Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra) in East Asian Buddhism

Status: Core Faculty

Yoko Hasegawa

Research Interests: Japanese linguistics

Status: Core Faculty

H. Mack Horton

Research Interests: Premodern Japanese language and literature; classical poetry and diary literature, focusing on issues of performativity, cultural context, and poetics

Status: Core Faculty

Dan O'Neill

Research Interests: Meiji print culture and literature; Taishô aesthetics; postwar intellectual history and popular culture; the novel in comparative perspective; global modernisms; critical theory (particularly in relation to affect and aesthetics)

Status: Core Faculty

Robert Sharf

Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan); Japanese Buddhism; Buddhist art; ritual studies; methodological issues in the study of religion

Status: Core Faculty

Alan Tansman

Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature and culture; Japanese cultural criticism; popular culture; film; Area Studies; the sublime in Japanese literature

Status: Core Faculty

Jonathan Zwicker

Research Interests: Literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Status: Core Faculty

Andrew Leong

Research Interests: 19th-century American; 20th- and 21st-century American; Asian American; Pacific; critical theory; cultural studies; gender & sexuality studies; narrative & the novel; poetry; film

Status: Core Faculty

Miryam Sas

Research Interests: Japanese futurism; intermedia art; experimental animation; pink film; cross-cultural performance; butoh dance.

Status: Core Faculty

Andrew Barshay

Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history

Status: Core Faculty

H. Yumi Kim

Research Interests: Cultural and social histories of women, gender, medicine, religion, and colonialism in Japan, Korea, and the Asian diaspora in the 19th and 20th centuries

Status: Core Faculty

Marié Abe

Research Interests: Sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Status: Core Faculty