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(at)email.unc.edu
Galen D. Amstutz (Ryukoku University/Visiting Professor for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Letters) – Shin Buddhism and Japanese economic history.
gamstutz(at)let.ryukoku.ac.jp
http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp
Marnie Anderson (Smith College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Gender and political culture in the late 19th century.
msanders(at)email.smith.edu
Anna Andreeva (Girton College, University of Cambridge/Margaret Smith Research Fellow in East Asian Studies) – Esoteric Buddhism and emergence of esoteric kami worship in medieval Japan.
ava22(at)cam.ac.uk
Linda I. Angst (Lewis and Clark College/Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology) – Wellness, tourism, longevity, women’s issues, and war memories in Okinawa.
angst(at)lclark.edu
Yuko Aoyama (Clark University/Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow, Graduate School of Geography) - Logistics industry; Globalization and culture; Video game industry.
yaoyama(at)clarku.edu
http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/yaoyama
Bruce Baird (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Buto, angura theater, postwar intellectual history, body techniques.
baird(at)asianlan.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/asialan/
Jeffrey Bayliss (Trinity College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Research on minorities and minority identities in modern Japan.
Jeffrey.Bayliss(at)trincoll.edu
http://www.trincoll.edu/~jbaylis3
Thomas Berger (Boston University/Associate Professor, Dept. of International Relations) – Writing a book on the politics of history from a comparative angle.
tuberger(at)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. In 2007-08, Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Anthropology at Harvard) – Modern Japanese society and religion; Shinto ritual; Gender and religion.
rbernard(at)waseda.jp
Joanne R. Bernardi (University of Rochester/Associate Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Cultures Dept. and Film & Media Studies Program) – Book manuscript in progress: "Tourist Japan."
jobi(at)mail.rochester.edu
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(at)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc
Phyllis Birnbaum (Writer) – Japanese women of occupied Manchuria.
phyllis.birnbaum(at)gmail.com
Herbert P. Bix (Binghamton University-SUNY/Professor of History and Sociology, Dept. of History) – Writing a book about the war atrocities that occurred during the Asia Pacific War and the trials that followed the war.
hbix(at)binghamton.edu
Verena K. Blechinger-Talcott (Berlin Free University/Professor of Japanese Politics and Political Economy, Institute of East Asian Studies-Japan Studies) – Political corruption in developed and developing countries in comparative perspective; Conference project on U.S. alliances with Japan, Germany and Britain (security, political economy, global governance); Cultural diplomacy.
vblechin(at)zedat.fu-berlin.de
http://www.fu-berlin.de/japanologie
Mark L. Blum (University of Albany-SUNY/Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Four articles on topics in Jodoshinshu and Buddhism in general in Japan; one article investigating why the Nirvana Sutra had such an impact in China.
mblum(at)albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/eas
Roger W. Bowen (Independent scholar) – Koizumi’s durability.
rwbowen5(at)aol.com
Lisbeth Kim Brandt (Wesleyan University/Visiting Fellow, Freeman Center) – Postwar Japan-U.S. Relations.
lb28(at)columbia.edu
Ikuko K. Burns (Massachusetts-Hokkaido Association/Vice President; Japan Society of Boston/Board of Directors) – U.S.-Japan relationship: Promoting Japanese artists in the U.S.; Massachusetts/Hokkaido cultural exchange.
ikoburns(at)gmail.com
William James Burton (Independent Scholar) – Japanese utopian thought and literary utopias.
burton.wj(at)gmail.com
Patrick Caddeau (Princeton University/Director of Studies, Forbes College; Lecturer, East Asian Studies) – Censorship in Edo and Occupation period Japan; Edo fiction.
caddeau(at)princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~caddeau
Haeng-ja S. Chung (Hamilton College/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology) - Analysis of the phenomena of "sex work without sex" and "citizens without citizenships" by applying the philosophical notion of hyperreality (cf. Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Daniel Boorstin, and Umberto Eco).
hschung(at)hamilton.edu
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/faculty.html?dept=Anthropology
William A. Clifford (Writer) – Completing a book on the life and thought of Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin).
cliffblill(at)yahoo.com
Gina Cogan (Boston University/Assistant Professor of Religion, Dept. of Religion) – Edo-period nuns and convents.
gcogan(at)bu.edu
http://www.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: Erest F. Fenollosa and Japan."
epconant(at)aol.com
Ian Condry (MIT/Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Foreign Languages and Literatures Dept.) – Book project: a fieldwork-based enthnography, "Global Anime: The Making of Japan’s Transnational Popular Culture," exploring the making of anime culture, from creators in Tokyo studios to overseas fans.
condry(at)mit.edu
http://iancondry.com
Thomas D. Conlan (Bowdoin College/Associate Professor of History, Dept. of History and Asian Studies Program) – Political ideologies of late 14th-century Japan: an exploration of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Nijo Yoshimoto and Manzei and the union of court, warrior, and Buddhist ideals.
tconlan(at)bowdoin.edu
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/asian-studies
Theodore F. Cook, Jr. (William Patterson University/Professor of History, Dept. of History and Asian Studies Program Director) - The Japanese experience of War, 1931-1945; Culture in the midst of total war.
cookt(at)wpunj.edu
http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/history; also http://www.nymas.org
Teruko Craig (Tufts University/Senior Lecturer Emerita in Japanese, Dept. of German, Russian, & Asian Languages & Literatures) – Writing a book on childhood in Japanese autobiography (translations of memoirs of childhood from the Meiji and Taisho periods).
Please address emails to: acraig(at)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(at)mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/cusumano/www
