Lee Pennington (U.S. Naval Academy/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Japanese disabled veterans during and after the Fiffteen-Year War of 1931-1945.
lkpennington(at)gmail.com
www.usna.edu/history

John C. Perry (Tufts University/Henry Willard Denison Professor/Director, Maritime Studies Program, Fletcher School) – An imperial history of the China Seas.
johncurtis.perry(at)tufts.edu
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/maritime

Joan R. Piggott (University of Southern California/Gordon L. Macdonald Professor of History, History Dept.; Director of the Project for Premodern Japan Studies and the Kambun Workshops) – Completing edited volume Teishinkoki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira; Working on 2 monographs:  On Beyond Shomu: Monarchy in Late Nara and Heian Japan and The Eleventh-century Heian Capital: The World of Fujiwara Akihira's Monkey Music.
joanrp(at)usc.edu
http://www.usc/dept/LAS/history

Tamae K. Prindle (Colby College/Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Women in Japanese Cinema (book title). 
tkprindl@(at)colby.edu
http://www.colby.edu/personal/t/tkprindl/

Steve Rabson (Brown University/Professor Emeritus, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Early postwar accounts of the Battle of Okinawa. 
steve_rabson(at)brown.edu

Ronald Richardson (Boston University/Associate Professor of History, History Dept.; Director, African American Studies Program) – Comparative study of African American and Japanese nationalist intellectuals, 1850-1945.
Hdarodius(at)aol.com, rrichard(at)bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/afam

Marleigh G. Ryan (State University of New York at New Paltz/Professor Emerita of Japanese) – Continuing research on Leonie Gilmour, mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, with particular emphasis on experiences not covered in the recent excellent biography of Isamu and his family by Masayo Duus.  
marleighryan(at)comcast.net

Atsuko Sakaki (University of Toronto/Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Photography, text interface, corporeality and spatiality in literature. 
atsuko.sakaki(at)utoronto.ca

Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel (Wesleyan University/Professor of Emerita, Dept. of Asian Languages & Literatures) – Korean resident writers of Japan.  
ysamuel(at)wesleyan.edu

Richard J. Samuels (MIT/Ford International Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for International Studies) – Japanese-American relations and Japanese security policy; Comparative research on right wing groups within democratic states.
samuels(at)mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/R.Samuels.html

Ernesto F. Sanz (University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Professor Emeritus of Economics, Dept. of Economics) – Development and Change of Japanese Trade Policies in Europe.
Ernesto_Sanz(at)uml.edu 

Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis University/Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology) – Book project: “Facing the Dead: Japan and its Dolls in the Mirror of War,” examining the significance of dolls and human figurines in popular Japanese experiences and memories of WWII.
eschatt(at)brandeis.edu
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro/faculty/schattschneider.html

Frank J. Schwartz (Montclair State University/Special Assistant to the President, Office of the President) – Contemporary state-society relations. 
schwartzf(at)mail.montclair.edu

Amanda C. Seaman (University of Massachusetts Amherst/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Literature of Japan’s Low Fertility Era (1989-) and popular representations of pregnancy and motherhood in literature, manga and magazines. acseaman(at)asianlan.umass.edu

Vyjayanthi R. Selinger (Bowdoin College/Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Studies) – Japanese war tales and medieval literature.
vselinge(at)bowdoin.edu
http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/v/vselinge/index.shtml

Franziska Seraphim (Boston College/Associate Professor, Dept. of History) – Politics of social integration and exclusion in post-occupation Japan and Germany, especially in 1950s and 1960s. 
seraphim(at)bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/seraphim-franziska/

Hiraku Shimoda (Vassar College/Assistant Professor, History Dept.) – Regional history and nation-state formation in 19th century Japan.  
hishimoda(at)vassar.edu

Toru Shinoda (Waseda University/Professor, School of Social Sciences) – Comparative/Trans-Pacific historical study of the labor movement in Osaka and Chicago during the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century. 
torus(at)waseda.jp
www.socs.waseda.ac.jp

Mark Silver (Connecticut College/Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures) – The photography of Yamahata Yosuke, as part of a project on representations of Japan’s “national body” in the aftermath of the Asia Pacific War. 
msilv(at)conncoll.edu
www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/silver.html

Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Completing book manuscript that examines the history of Japanese political violence from 1860 to 1960, focusing on the role of violence specialists (yakuza, soshi, and tairiku ronin) in modern Japanese politics. 
emaruko(at)williams.edu
http://www.williams.edu/history/saf/faculty/marukos.html

Kerry Smith (Brown University/Associate Professor, Depts. of History and East Asian Studies) – Continuing work on the social and cultural histories of the Great Kanto Earthquake. 
Kerry_Smith(at)brown.edu
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/

John P. Solt (Independent scholar; occasional lecturer, Asian Institute of Technology, Thammasat University,Thailand) – Completing preface to Japanese edition of Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning; L.A. County Museum of Art exhibit in Sept. 2007 includes 25 pieces from Solt’s collection; Co-organizing conference on Kenneth Rexroth at Kanda Gaigo Daigaku.  
highmoonoon(at)hotmail.com
http://www.highmoonoon.com

Tanya Steel (Harvard Extension School, Instructor of Japanese History) – Working on publishing Ph.D. thesis on Kamisaka Sekka (modern Rinpa artist, 1866-1942).  
tanyasteel(at)comcast.net

Sarah M. Strong (Bates College/Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Asian Studies Program) – Currently researching the life and work of the Ainu woman writer Chiri Yukie (1903 -1922); Investigating the Ainu oral traditions.  
sstrong(at)bates.edu
http://www.bates.edu/JPN.xml

Shizuko Suenaga (Seattle University/Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures) – Interviewing Japanese “war brides” in the Seattle area for a book project.
suenagas(at)seattleu.edu
www.seattleu.edu

Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton (Independent scholar; Curator of Asian Art Emerita, Worcester Art Museum) – William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926):  a biography. 
edess(at)comcast.net

 

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