RIJS People
Associates in Research:
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Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University, Ottawa/Assistant Professor of Film Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture) – Digital media’s impact on contemporary Japanese cinema.
mwadamar(at)ccs.carleton.ca
http://www.carleton.ca/ssac/filmstudies/index.html
Mariko Namba Walter (Independent scholar) – Buddhist Mummies: Sainthood and Death in Japan; Buddhist Kingdoms along the Silk Road.
mnwalter(at)comcast.net
Kay B. Warren (Brown University/Tillinghast Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology, Watson Institute and Dept. of Anthropology) – Co-editing Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development, with essays analyzing Japanese foreign aid; Writing Human Trafficking and Transnationalism: Global Solutions, Local Realities, tracing the development of global norms to define human trafficking and the monitoring of these norms through the U.S. Dept. of State's TIP Reports. This research is concerned with the interplay of development and anti-trafficking campaigns in the U.S., Japan, and Colombia, and, with responses to global pressures for legal and policing reforms.
Kay_Warren(at)Brown.edu
Dennis Washburn (Dartmouth College/Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures) – Continuing work on a Critical Edition of The Tale of Genji for Norton, and translating two novellas by Mizukami Tsutomu. dennis.washburn(at)dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~damell/department/washburn.html
Neil L. Waters (Middlebury College/Professor of History, Dept. of History) – A pre-war history of Japanese youth groups.
nwaters(at)middlebury.edu
Robert Weiner (Cornell University/Assistant Professor of Government, Dept. of Government) – Japanese politics, comparative political parties and elections.
robert_weiner(at)post.harvard.edu
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/rw96
Cherie Wendelken (Independent scholar) – History of Japanese architecture.
wendelken(at)alum.mit.edu
Melissa L. Wender (Harvard University/Lecturer of Japanese Literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) – Editing a volume of translated stories by Koreans in Japan; Researching fictional narratives of Japan in three tense, post-war moments of international contact.
Melissa.Wender(at)gmail.com
Victoria Weston (University of Massachusetts Boston/Associate Professor of Art, Art Dept.) – Tokyo Nihonga in the Meiji period; 19th century architecture in Japan and the U.S.
victoria.weston(at)umb.edu
Merry White (Boston University/Professor of Sociology and Anthropology) Researching family and social policy, globalization and material culture.
corky(at)bu.edu
Ellen B. Widmer (Wellesley College/Edith Stix Wasserman Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures) – Japan in the imaginations of late Qing writers, Zhan Kai and Shan Shi Li.
ewidmer(at)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/EALL/faculty.html
Leslie I. Winston (University of California, Riverside/Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Dept. of Comparative Literature and Foreign Language) – Interrogating the female subject in literature from the late 19th century through the early 20th century through the trope of intersexuality.
leslie.winston(at)ucr.edu
http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/people/faculty/winston/index.html
Michael A. Witt (INSEAD/Affiliate Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management, Economics and Political Science Area) – Researching institutional change in different varieties of capitalism, especially the role of beliefs held by business leaders in shaping these processes.
Michael.WITT(at)insead.edu
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/mwitt/
Laura E. Wong (UNESCO/Scientific Advisor; Research Associate, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University) – Currently writing about intergovernmental organizations’ place in transnational history, focusing on UNESCO; concepts of development and East-West; the Cold War and textbook revision.
lwong(at)post.harvard.edu
Genzo Yamamoto (Wheaton College (IL)/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Locating pre-WWII Japanese criticisms of Enlightenment thought in the broader contexts of global discontent with Europe.
genzo.yamamoto(at)wheaton.edu
http://wheaton.edu/History
Tadashi Yamamoto (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka/Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Advanced Studies of Anthropology; Tokyo Institute of Technology/Senior Research Fellow) – Japanese organizations; Japanese and urban culture; Japanese future policies; Philosophy of Japanese arts and crafts (ceramics); Mathematical modeling of social information systems. tyamamoto(at)idc.minpaku.ac.jp, YTigerPhD(at)aol.com
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp
Nobuko Yamasaki (Independent scholar) – Makino Tomitaro's (1862-1957) Botany: From the aristocratic dilettantes' natural history to the citizens' science.
maeda(at)brandeis.edu
Kikuko Yamashita (Brown University/Associate Professor of Japanese, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Writing a textbook of classical/pre-modern Japanese for undergraduates with a collection of texts in prose and poetry (haiku) from mainly pre-modern period and grammar overview of classical Japanese.
Kikuko_Yamashita(at)brown.edu
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies
Midori Yoshii (Albion College/Assistant Professor of International Studies, Dept. of History) – U.S.-East Asian Policy, 1964-1974.
myoshii(at)albion.edu
http://www.albion.edu/internationalstudies
Anna M. Zielinska-Elliott (Boston University/Lecturer in Japanese, Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature) – Translation of Murakami Haruki's Aftadaku into Polish.
aelliott(at)bu.edu
Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley College/Associate Professor of Japanese, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures) – How translated works of European literature impacted Japanese women's literature.
ezimmerm(at)wellesley.edu
