Junko Habu
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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
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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
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Research Interests: Japanese futurism; intermedia art; experimental animation; pink film; cross-cultural performance; butoh dance. |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Mark Blum
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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 |
H. Mack Horton
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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
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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
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Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan); Japanese Buddhism; Buddhist art; ritual studies; methodological issues in the study of religion |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Alan Tansman
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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
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Research Interests: Literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Andrew Way Leong
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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
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Research Interests: Japanese futurism; intermedia art; experimental animation; pink film; cross-cultural performance; butoh dance. |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Andrew Barshay
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Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Marié Abe
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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 |
Ken Ueno
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Research Interests: Extended Vocal Techniques, Non-Western Instruments, Microtonality |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Steven Vogel
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Research Interests: Japan, comparative and international political economy |
| Status: Core Faculty |
John Lie
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Research Interests: Social theory, political economy, East Asia |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Philip Kan Gotanda
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Research Interests: Playwriting, Asian and Asian American storytelling |
| Status: Core Faculty |