RIJS People

RIJS People

Associates in Research:
G - I

Timothy S. George (University of Rhode Island/Associate Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Researching the year 1968 in Japan; Revising Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times:  Seven Basic Bibliographies.
tgeorge(at)uri.edu
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/

William L. Givens (The Japan Fund/Chairman) – Continuing research in U.S.- Japan trade competition. 
wlgivens(at)aol.com

Carol Gluck (Columbia University/George Sansom Professor of History, Dept. of History and Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures) – "Thinking with the Past"
cg9(at)columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/lists/facultyprofiles.html

Janet E. Goff (Independent scholar) – The role of the fox in traditional Japanese theatre and the concept of transformation.
jgoff07(at)gmail.com

Yoshie Gordon (Independent Scholar) – Women, education and career development in Japan. 
yoshiegordon(at)comcast.net

Peter Grilli (Japan Society of Boston/President) – Intercultural exchange.
grilli(at)us-japan.org
http://www.us-japan.org

William W. Grimes (Boston University/Associate Professor of International Relations, Dept. of International Relations) – East Asian financial regionalism.
wgrimes(at)bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/grimes

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis (Boston University/Professor Emerita of Japanese Art History, Dept. of Art History) – Silk Road studies, particularly the global circulation of blue and white ceramics. 
etengrotenhuis(at)gmail.com

Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University/Assistant Professor of Government and East Asian Studies, Dept. of Government) – The reconciliation of liberal democratic values, institutions, and practices in Japan with pre-existing Confucian ones and the development of Japanese democracy.
mahaddad(at)wesleyan.ed
http://www.wesleyan.edu/gov/haddad.html

Tom Havens (Northeastern University/Professor of History, Dept. of History) – History of national parks in Japan, 1873 - 2007. 
thavens(at)bhavens.com
www.history.neu.edu

Kenji Hayao (Boston College/Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science) – Research analyzes the impact of political change on the Japanese Prime Minister’s role in the policy process. 
hayao(at)bc.edu

Robert I. Hellyer (Wake Forest University/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Green tea and the path to an industrial, international Japan.
hellyer(at)wfu.edu
http://www.wfu.edu/history/Faculty_Hellyer.html

Mariko Itoh Henstock (Boston University/Preceptor & Coordinator for the Japanese Language Program, Dept. of Modern Language and Comparative Literature) – Comparative analysis between traditional college program and non-academic Japanese language program in the U.S.  
henstock(at)bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/mfll/people/henstock.html

Money L. Hickman (Independent scholar) – Research on Japanese painting with focus on Kokan Meiyo (1653 – 1717) and Takada Keiho (1674 – 1755). 
Telephone: (781) 641-2584

Junji Himeno (Japan Quality Assurance Organization/Director, Promotion Center) – Corporate activity to create brands; Japan’s big boom in QMS and EMS, status quo and future prospects.
himeno-junji(at)jqa.jp
http://www.jqa.jp

Atsuko Hirai (Bates College/Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Mourning and Political Integration of Japan, 1603-1912: a study of governmental edicts on mourning and their role in the political integration of Japan.
ahirai(at)bates.edu 
http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/depts/history/
 
Hosea Hirata (Tufts University/Professor of Japanese Literature and Chair, Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures) – A study of Kobayashi Hideo and Dostoevsky. 
hosea.hirata(at)tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/grall/faculty/hirata.asp

Allen F. Hockley (Dartmouth College/Associate Professor, Dept. of Art History) –
Finishing book manuscript on 19th century photographs in Japan.
allen.hockley(at)dartmouth.edu
www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist

James L. Huffman (Dartmouth College/Visiting independent scholar, spring 2008) – Daily lives of commoners in Meiji Japan
huffman(at)dartmouth.edu
www.dartmouth.edu/~history

Takaharu Ichimura (Harvard Medical School/Instructor of Medicine, BWH Renal Division) – Study of the Japanese biologist Kumagusu Minakata’s work -- his role in modern Japanese science and culture.  
tichimura(at)partners.org

Eiko Ikegami (New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty/Professor of Sociology & History, Dept. of Sociology) – "Kyoto: A Thousand Years of Celebrations," a book project on the past and present of Kyoto through the study of Gion Matsuri. "Alternative Routes to State and Society Transformation: Japan, China, and Ottoman Turkey," with B. Wong and K. Barkey.  
Eikoikega(at)aol.com

Charles Shirō Inouye  (Tufts University/Professor of Japanese, Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages & Literatures) – Writing book on figurality and the development of modern consciousness.  
charles.inouye(at)tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/grall/

Rei Okamoto Inouye (Northeastern University/Associate Academic Specialist of Japanese, World Languages Center) – Manga and animated cartoons during World War II.
r.inouye(at)neu.edu

James P. Ito-Adler (Independent  Scholar) – Adoption in Japan and England; Japanese diaspora in Brazil.
jitoadler(at)gmail.com

Christopher Ives (Stonehill College/Professor /Chair, Dept. of Religious Studies) – Japanese Buddhist social ethics.
cives(at)stonehill.edu
http://www.stonehill.edu/religious_studies/c_ives.htm

Haruko Iwasaki (U. California, Santa Barbara/Associate Professor Emerita, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) – The surprising ties in youth between Matsudaira Sadanobu and Ota Nampo, the leaders of the two opposing camps at the Kansei Reforms.
harukoi(at)earthlink.net