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 |
Sabrina C. Agarwal
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Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Andrew Barshay
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Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Mary Elizabeth Berry
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Research Interests: Japan, Kyoto during the sengoku period, the Confucian family orientation |
| Status: Emerita |
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 |
Dana Buntrock
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Research Interests: Architectural practice in Japan, construction industry |
| Status: Emerita |
Robert Cole
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Research Interests: Software and automotive industries; management of technology; Japanese organizations; quality; organizational learning, knowledge management; organizational transformation |
| Status: Emeritus |
Nelson Graburn
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Research Interests: Ethnic arts, tourism, heritage, museums; multiculturalism, Inuit, Circumpolar peoples, China, Japan |
| Status: Emeritus |
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 |
Yoko Hasegawa
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Research Interests: Japanese linguistics |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani
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Research Interests: Japanese American history; API educational issues |
| Status: Lecturer |
Hidetaka Hirota
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century United States; American immigration law and policy; the U.S. and the World; and transnational history |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Susan Holloway
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Research Interests: Families and schooling within the United States and Japan; Social and emotional development |
| Status: Emerita |
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 |
Kayoko Imagawa
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Research Interests: Effective uses of technology in the classroom, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). |
| Status: Lecturer |
Yuichiro Kamada
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Research Interests: Revision games; solution concepts for games; search; social networks; market design; communication; political economy; marketing |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Philip Kan Gotanda
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Research Interests: Playwriting, Asian and Asian American storytelling |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Grace Lavery
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Research Interests: Critical theory; gender & sexuality studies; Pacific; 19th-century British; cultural studies |
| Status: Affiliated 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 |
Gregory Levine
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Research Interests: Art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures |
| Status: Core Faculty |
John Lie
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Research Interests: Social theory, political economy, East Asia |
| Status: Core Faculty |
James Lincoln
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Research Interests: International business and management, particularly Japanese management; corporate governance, organizational networks, organizational theory and research methods; human resource management and industrial relations |
| Status: Emeritus |
Jonathan Marshall
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Research Interests: Jurisprudence and social policy program |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Susan Matisoff
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Research Interests: Noh drama; sekkyô-bushi |
| Status: Emerita |
Jon Metzler
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Research Interests: Tech, telecom and media strategy; clusters; sharing economies and aging economies; cybersecurity; models for corporate innovation; Japan |
| Status: Lecturer |
Yuriko Miyamoto-Caltabiano
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Research Interests: Language and identity, multiculturalism in Japan |
| Status: Lecturer |
Hitoshi Murayama
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Research Interests: Particle physics |
| Status: Core Faculty |
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 |
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 |
T.J. Pempel
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Research Interests: Contemporary Japan, Asian regionalism, comparative politics, political economy |
| Status: Emeritus |
Hayato Saito
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Research Interests: The use of metaphor in Japanese political cartoons |
| Status: Lecturer |
Miryam Sas
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Research Interests: Japanese futurism; intermedia art; experimental animation; pink film; cross-cultural performance; butoh dance. |
| Status: Core Faculty |
Kevin Shadel
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Research Interests: Aesthetics and politics in colonial Korea |
| Status: Affiliated 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 |
Chika Shibahara
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Research Interests: Translating and writing, advanced Japanese |
| Status: Lecturer |
Zenichi Shishido
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Research Interests: Japanese and comparative corporate governance |
| Status: Affiliated Faculty |
Kyoko Takahara-Ahn
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Research Interests: Japanese pedagogy and the learner-centered approach to language teaching |
| Status: Lecturer |
Maki Takata
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Research Interests: Teaching Japanese as a second language |
| Status: Lecturer |
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 |
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 |
Bonnie Wade
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Research Interests: South and East Asia, ethnomusicology |
| Status: Emerita |
Keiko Yamanaka
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Research Interests: Gender & generation; transnational migration in Asia |
| Status: Lecturer |
Jonathan Zwicker
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Research Interests: Literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan |
| Status: Core Faculty |