RIJS People
Associates in Research:
A - C
Barbara Ambros (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Assistant Professor, East Asian Religions, Dept. of Religious Studies) – Early modern and contemporary Japanese religions in Japan.
bambros@email.unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/index.shtml
Galen D. Amstutz (Ryukoku University/Visiting Guest Professor Faculty of Intercultural Communication) – History of Jôdôshinshû Buddhism.
gamstutz@let.ryukoku.ac.jp
http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp
Marnie Anderson (Smith College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Gender and political culture of the Meiji period.
msanders@email.smith.edu
http://www.smith.edu/history/
Anna Andreeva (Girton College, University of Cambridge/Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions) – Esoteric Buddhism and emergence of esoteric kami worship in medieval Japan.
ava22@cam.ac.uk
http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/japanese/Andreeva.htm
Linda I. Angst (Lewis and Clark College/Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology) – Wellness tourism and longevity/aging, violence and women, and Pacific war memories in Okinawa.
angst@lclark.edu
http://www.lclark.edu/eas/faculty
Yuko Aoyama (Clark University/Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography, Graduate School of Geography) – Logistics industry; video game industry; role of consumption in shaping cultural industries and tourism; textbook in economic geography
yaoyama@clarku.edu
http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/yaoyama
Bruce Baird (University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Butô, angura theater, intellectual history.
baird@asianlan.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/asialan/
Jeffrey Bayliss (Trinity College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Burakumin and Koreans in prewar and wartime Japan; modern history of Koma Shrine.
Jeffrey.Bayliss@trincoll.edu
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1235284
Thomas Berger (Boston University/Associate Professor, Dept. of International Relations) – Writing a book on the politics of historical representation from a comparative angle.
tuberger@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/berger.html
Rosemarie Bernard (Waseda University/Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, School of International Liberal Studies) – Ritual and history; Ise Jingû in modernity; religion and law; Islam in Japan
rbernard@waseda.jp
Joanne R. Bernardi (University of Rochester/Associate Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Cultures Dept.) – Book manuscript in progress: “Tourist Japan.”
jobi@mail.rochester.edu
http://www.cc.rochester.edu/college/mlc/
Victoria Lyon Bestor (North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources/Executive Director) – Broadening access to library information services on Japan; philanthropy and Japan’s civil sector.
vbestor@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc
Phyllis Birnbaum (Writer) – Princesses of Manchuria.
phyllis.birnbaum@gmail.com
Herbert P. Bix (Binghamton University-SUNY/Professor of History and Sociology, Dept. of History) – Post-World War II war crimes trials and changing views of war crimes.
hbix@binghamton.edu
Verena K. Blechinger-Talcott (Berlin Free University/Professor of Japanese Politics and Political Economy, Institute of East Asian Studies-Japan Studies) – Corporate social responsibility in Japan in comparative perspective; U.S. alliances with Japan, Germany, and Britain; cultural diplomacy.
vblechin@zedat.fu-berlin.de
http://www.geschkultfu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanologie/
Mark L. Blum (University of Albany-SUNY/Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – How Japanese Buddhist thought and culture can be understood in the context of the history of Buddhist thought and culture.
mblum@albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/eas/blum.html
Ikuko K. Burns (Massachusetts-Hokkaido Association/Vice President; Japan Society of Boston/Board of Directors; Kyoto/Boston 50th Anniversary 2009/Executive Committee) – Assist U.S.-Japan cultural exchange.
ikoburns@gmail.com
Patrick Caddeau (Princeton University/Director of Studies, Forbes College; Visiting Professor, East Asian Studies) – Genji reception; Meiji Taishô fiction.
caddeau@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~caddeau
Haeng-ja S. Chung (Hamilton College/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology [in 2008-09, University of Tokyo/SSRC-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology]) – Erotic capital of Korean nightclub hostesses in Japan: performative, emotional, and affective labor.
hschung@hamilton.edu
Gina Cogan (Boston University/Assistant Professor of Religion, Dept. of Religion) – Edo-period nuns and convents.
gcogan@bu.edu
Ellen P. Conant (Independent Scholar) – Writing two works: “Japan Refracted Through a Southern Lens: The Diaries, Letters and Writings of Mary McNeil Fenollosa” and “Mutual Perceptions and Misconceptions: Ernest F. Fenollosa and Japan.”
epconant@aol.com
Ian Condry (MIT/Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Foreign Languages and Literatures Dept.) – Book project: “Anime Revolution: The Making of Japan’s Media Success Story,” examining the question, “who makes anime?”
condry@mit.edu
Thomas D. Conlan (Bowdoin College/Associate Professor of Japanese History, Dept. of History and Asian Studies Program) – Political importance of Esoteric Buddhism in fourteenth-century Japan; medieval Japanese warfare; literacy in medieval Japan.
tconlan@bowdoin.edu
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/asian-studies/
Theodore F. Cook, Jr. (William Patterson University/Professor of History, Dept. of History; Director, Asian Studies Program) – The Japanese experience of War, 1931-1945; culture in the midst of total war.
cookt@wpunj.edu
http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/history
Teruko Craig (Tufts University/Senior Lecturer Emerita in Japanese, Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures) – Translating essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi.
Please address emails to Teruko Craig at: acraig@fas.harvard.edu
Michael Andrew Cusumano (MIT Sloan School of Management/Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management) – Problems and solutions in the Japanese economy; business models.
cusumano@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/cusumano/www/
