RIJS People
Associates in Research:
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Paul D. Talcott (Independent scholar) – The spread of market mechanisms in health care policy in Japan and East Asia: the relationship between economic development, democracy, and the introduction of market principles into social insurance systems.
talcott(at)post.harvard.edu
Alan Tansman (UC Berkeley/Agassiz Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures) – Japanese literature and fascism; comparative cultural responses to atrocity.
tansmana(at)berkeley.edu
Wako Tawa (Amherst College/Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Civilizations) – Grammar instruction for adult learners.
wtawa@amherst.edu
www.amherst.edu/~asian/Japanese.html
Francis B. Tenny (Retired Independent scholar)
rftenny(at)comcast.net
Sarah Thompson (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Assistant Curator, Japanese Prints) – Creating an electronic catalogue of over 60,000 Japanese prints in the MFA collection.
sthompson(at)mfa.org
R. Kenji Tierney (Union College/Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology) – Researching the idea of tradition, identity and consumption in Japanese society and culture, especially the socio-cultural roles of sumo in the past and today, examining topics such as "invented" traditions, nationalism, identity, exchange relationships, globalization, and media; Issues of consumption and identity.
tierneyk(at)union.edu
http://www.union.edu/public/antdept/faculty_pages/ktierney.htm
Carol Richmond Tsang (Independent scholar) – 15th and 16th century social history; famine.
ct144(at)columbia.edu
Alice Y. Tseng (Boston University, Assistant Professor, Art History Dept.) – Art and architecture of modern Kyoto.
aytseng(at)bu.edu
www.bu.edu/ah
Yolanda Alfaro Tsuda (Kobe College/Associate Professor of Global Communication, Dept. of English) – Migration, gender, and globalization issues; Tsuan Sen and Japan’s first modern family’s diasporta.
alfatsu(at)mail.kobe-c.ac.jp
www.kobe-c.ac.jp/courses/co_eng.html/
Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale University/Visiting Professor, Center for Bioethics) – The role of Confucianism and nature in China and Japan.
maryevelyn.tucker(at)yale.edu
metucker(at)religionandecology.org
www.environment.harvard.edu/religion
www.religionandecology.org
Elena Varshavskaya (Rhode Island School of Design/Lecturer in Art History, Dept. of Liberal Arts) – Working on description of a Russian private collection of ukiyo-e prints focusing on actor prints by the Utagawa School print designers.
evarshav(at)risd.edu
http://faculty.risd.edu/faculty/evarshav/
Alexander M. Vesey (Stonehill College/Assistant Professor, Dept. of History) – Early modern social history with an emphasis on the Buddhist clergy.
avesey@stonehill.edu
James Keith Vincent (Boston University/Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature) – Completing manuscript on sexuality and narrative in modern Japanese fiction that includes reading of texts by Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Hamao Shiro, Mishima Yukio, and Oe Kenzaburo.
kvincent@bu.edu
Louise E. Virgin (Worcester Art Museum/Curator of Asian Art/ Dept. of Asian Art) – Research and cataloguing of the Worcester Art Museum's Japanese woodblock print collection (ukiyo-e) and contemporary prints; study of haikai surimono and haiga; research for planned exhibitions (various subjects).
louisevirgin@worcesterart.org
http://www.worcesterart.org
Suzanne Vogel (Harvard University Health Services, retired. Hasegawa Hospital, Tokyo/social work supervisor, psychotherapist) – Writing book on post-war Japanese housewives.
suzanne_vogel@hotmail.com
