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
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
Research Interests: Software and automotive industries; management of technology; Japanese organizations; quality; organizational learning, knowledge management; organizational transformation
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.
Research Interests: Premodern Japanese language and literature; classical poetry and diary literature, focusing on issues of performativity, cultural context, and poetics
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
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
Research Interests: International business and management, particularly Japanese management; corporate governance, organizational networks, organizational theory and research methods; human resource management and industrial relations
Research Interests: Tech, telecom and media strategy; clusters; sharing economies and aging economies; cybersecurity; models for corporate innovation; Japan
Research Interests:Cultural anthropology; Disability Studies; LGBT movements; minority social movements and identity politics; visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan
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)
Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan); Japanese Buddhism; Buddhist art; ritual studies; methodological issues in the study of religion
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature and culture; Japanese cultural criticism; popular culture; film; Area Studies; the sublime in Japanese literature
