Associate Professor of
Anthropology and
East Asian Studies ORCID:
0000-0003-4335-2818
Chair,
LGBT Studies
Yale
University
10 Sachem Street karen.nakamura @ yale.edu
New Haven CT 06520-8277 USA http://www.disabilitystudies.jp
Monographs and Edited Volumes
2014 ____________________________ [Crazy in Japan: An Ethnography
of Bethel House]. Translation supervision by Koji Ishihara and Tetsuya
Kawano. A revised and updated Japanese translation of A Disability of the Soul. Tokyo: Igaku Shoin Publishing.
2013 A
Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in
Contemporary Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
2006 Deaf
in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press.
- Winner of 2008 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from
the Association of Asian Studies
2003 Co-Editor,
Many Ways to be Deaf: International
Linguistic and Sociocultural Variation. Ed. Leila Monaghan, Constanze Schmaling, Karen
Nakamura, and Graham Turner. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University
Press.
2010 A
Japanese Funeral. Color NTSC DVD and companion website. 14 minutes.
- 2010
Best Short Film Media Award from the Society for Visual Anthropology
- 2011 David Plath Media Award from the Society for East Asian Anthropology
- 2011 University of British Columbia Ethnographic Film Festival Ð Jury Prize
Second Runner Up
2007 Bethel:
Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan. Color NTSC DVD and online
streaming. 41 minutes. Distributed by CreateSpace.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2009 Disability,
Destitution, and Disaster: Surviving the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan.
Human Organization. Volume 68 Issue 1
(Spring): 73-81.
2006a Creating
and Contesting Signs in Contemporary Japan: Language Ideologies, Identity and
Community in Flux. Sign
Language Studies Volume 7 Number 1 (Fall 2006): 11-29.
2006b ____________________________________________________________
[Resistance
and Assimilation: The Relationship between Japanese Federation and the Deaf and
Political Power. Shakai Kagaku Kenkyž Vol 57
(3-4). Tokyo: Tokyo University Institute for Social Science.]
2002 Resistance
and Co-optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with
State Power. Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 5
(1): 17-35.
- Selected as one of the 100 seminal papers from
Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press Centennial)
Book Chapters and Other Journal Articles
2014 No
voice in the courtroom?: Deaf legal cases in Japan during the 1960s. In Going to Court to Change Japan: Social
Movements and the Law. Ed. Patricia Steinhoff. Michigan Monograph Series in
Japanese Studies, Number 77. 147-163. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2014 Barrier-Free
Brothels: Sex Volunteers, Prostitutes and People with Disabilities. In
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty. Edited by
Glenda Roberts, Satsuki Kawano, and Susan Long. 202-220. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press.
2013 The
dysprosody of images. In Visual
Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually. Edited by Jonathan Marion and Jerome Crowder. New
York: Berg.
2010 The
language politics of Japanese Sign Language (Nihon Shuwa). Deaf around the World The
Impact of Language. Ed. Gaurav
Mathur and Donna Jo Napoli. 316-332. New York: Oxford University
Press.
2009 ______________________
2009(5): 52-60_
[Connecting Disability Studies and Deaf Studies. Journal of Disability Studies (Japan) 2009 (5): 52-60. Tokyo: Japanese Society for Disability Studies]
2003a "Deaf
Shock," and the Hard-of-Hearing: Japanese Deaf identities at the
borderlands. Many Ways to be Deaf: International
Linguistic and Sociocultural Variation. Ed. Leila Monaghan, Constanze
Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham Turner. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet
University Press.
2003b Female
masculinity and fantasy spaces: transcending genders in the Takarazuka theatre. With
Hisako Matsuo (co-author). Men and
Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa. Edited
by James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki. 59-76. New York: Routledge.
1999a ________________________________
__________1999.9
(33): 45-54__
[Deaf Movements in the United States and Japan
from a Comparative Analytical Perspective. Sign Language Communication Studies August (33): 45-54. Tokyo: Japanese Institute for Sign
Language Studies.]
1999b ___________________________1998.11.14__
___________________No. 79 _____24-39_
[Deaf
education in Japan and the U.S.: a comparative approach from a linguistic and
sociocultural anthropology perspective (Lecture Transcript of November 14,
1998). Total Communications Research
Group Report No. 79. Winter, 1999. Tokyo: Total Communication Research
Group.]
1998a ______________________________ _______________________, p______1998.3 (27)_
[Ethnically
deaf: identity, culture, and the making of sign language communities. Sign Language Communication Studies.
April, 1998. Tokyo: Japanese Institute for Sign Language Studies.]
1998b Transitioning
on Campus: A Case Studies Approach. In Working
with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for
Faculty and Administrators. Ronni L. Sahlo, ed. 179-186. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press.
1997 Narrating
Ourselves: Duped or duplicitous? In Gender
Blending. Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough, and James Elias, eds. 74-86. Buffalo:
Prometheus Press.
2013 Making
Sense of Sensory Ethnography: The Sensual and the Multisensory. American Anthropologist. Vol. 115, No. 1 (March
2013): 132-135.
2007 The
Chrysanthemum and the Queer: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on
Sexuality in Japan. Journal of Homosexuality. Volume 52,
Issue _: 267-281.
in review Review
of Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity:
Suffering Sobriety in Japan, by Paul A. Christensen. Japanese Studies.
2015 Review
of Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy:
Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge, by Brigitte Steger and Angelika
Koch, eds. Social Science Japan Journal. doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyv004
2011 Review
of Afflictions: Culture and Mental
Illness in Indonesia [The Bird Dancer,
40 min.; Family Victim, 38 min.; Shadows and Illuminations, 35 min.],
directed by Robert Lemelson (2010).
American Anthropologist, Vol. 113,
No. 4, pp. 655Ð656.
2008 Review
of Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish [Joze
to tora to sakana tachi], directed by Isshin Inudo (2003). Asian Educational Media Services News and
Reviews. Issue 31 (Winter): 3-4.
2006a Two New Ogawa Shinsuke Films
(review).
Visual Anthropology. Volume 19, No. 3-4:
391-392.
2006b Review
of Jennifer Robertson, ed. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan.
Pacific
Affairs. Volume 79, No. 1 (Spring): 129-130.
2006c Review
of Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda, eds. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Journal of Japanese Studies. Vol. 32
No. 2 (Summer): 459-462.
2004a Review
of Keiko Hirata's Civil Society in Japan.
Social
Science Japan Journal. Vol. 7, No. 2 (October): 318-320.
2004b Review
of Megan JennawayÕs Sisters and Lovers:
Women and Desire in Bali.
American
Ethnologist. Vol. 31, No. 1 (February).
2004c Review
of Jennifer RobertsonÕs Takarazuka:
Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Visual Anthropology 17: 205-207.
1998 Review
of Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline UrlaÕs Deviant
Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture. SOLGAN
Vol. 20, No. 3: 5-6.
2011 _____________________ [Sexuality and
Disability Ð from an Anthropological Perspective]. Annual Report of the [University of Tokyo] Center for Barrier Free
Education. Vol. 1: 93-109.
2008 A
Case Against Giving Informants Cameras and Coming Back Weeks Later. Knowledge
Exchange. Anthropology News. Vol. 49,
No. 2: 20. Washington, D.C. American Anthropological Association.
2005 Severe Disabilities,
Liberalism, and Social Welfare Policy in Japan and the United States. Anthropology News. Vol. 46, No. 9: 58. Washington,
D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
2002a Eight
photographs of rural Malaysia in ÒMeeting Malaysia.Ó Text by Jan Shaw-Flamm. Macalester Today (Summer): 22-29.
2002b
"Deafness,
Ethnicity, and Minority Politics in Modern Malaysia." Macalester International Volume 12
(Autumn): 193-202. St.
Paul, MN: Macalester College.
2002c _________________ ___(_): 10-11_ __:_________ [America after
September 11th. Quarterly Mimi No. 95 (Spring): 10-11. Tokyo: Japanese
Federation of the Deaf.]
2002d Morals,
Sexuality, and Fieldwork. Ethical Currents. Anthropology News. Vol. 43 (3 [March]): 24. Washington,
D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
2002e Helpful
or Harmful: How Innovative Communication Technology Affect Survivors of
Intimate Violence. By Ann L. Kranz with Karen Nakamura. Minneapolis,
MN: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
Forthcoming Trans/Japan,
Trans/Disability: Sexuality, Disability, and Eugenics. Manuscript in
preparation.
Selected
Awards
2011 Society
for East Asian Anthropology David Plath Media Award for A Japanese Funeral
2011 University
of British Columbia Ethnographic Film Festival Jury Prize (2nd
Runner up) for A Japanese Funeral
2010 Best
Short Film Media Award from the Society for Visual Anthropology awarded for
A Japanese Funeral (Manic Films
2010).
2008 John
Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies awarded to
Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics
of Identity (Cornell University Press 2006).
2006 Journal
article ÒResistance and Co-optationÓ selected as one of 100 Seminal Papers in
the Oxford University Press Centenary of Publishing.
2003 Tokyo
University Institute of Social Science / Oxford University Award for Modern
Japanese Studies.
1993 Cornell
University: Phi Beta Kappa & Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Selected Grants and Fellowships
2011 Yale
University Senior Faculty Fellowship.
2011 Association
for Asian Studies NEAC Short-Term Travel Fellowship. PI. $3000.
2011 Waseda
University / Yale University 125th Anniversary Asakawa Kanichi
Fellowship. PI. JP´1,200,000 + USD $1200 + rent-free accommodation and use of
research facilities for six months (Sept 1, 2011 to Feb 29, 2012).
2007 Yale
University Junior Faculty Fellowship.
2004-05 Abe Fellow, Social
Science Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. PI.
$83,000.
2004 East-West
Center China-U.S.A. Asian Studies Development Program.
2002-03 Macalester Faculty Research
and Teaching Grants (College Co-Mentoring Fellowship; Freeman Fund China Travel
Grant; Mellon Summer Research Fellowship; Bush Course Development Grant; International
Seminar, Penang, Malaysia).
1999-00 Yale
University Council on East Asian Studies Prize Fellowship.
1999 SSRC
Japan Dissertation Workshop Fellowship.
1997-9 Wenner-Gren Foundation
Small Grant for Dissertation Research. PI. $18,000.
Exhibitions and Film Screenings
Mar
10, 2015 Film
Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker: Bethel:
Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan. Disability Incarcerated
symposium at University of California Berkeley.
Mar 7, 2015 Film Screening: Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in
Northern Japan. Mental Health in Japan symposium at University of
Pittsburgh.
May 11, 2014 Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker:
Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in
Northern Japan. Mad in America Film Festival.
June 26, 2013 Film screening: A Japanese Funeral. International Convention of Asia Scholars
(ICAS) 2013. Macao SAR, P.R. China.
March 22, 2013 Film screening: A
Japanese Funeral. Association for Asian Studies Film Expo at the AAS Annual
Meeting. San Diego, CA.
April 30, 2011 Film screening: A Japanese Funeral. University of British Columbia Ethnographic
Film Festival.
Nov 18, 2010 USA Premiere: A
Japanese Funeral. Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Interactive
Media Screenings at the American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA.
Nov 14, 2010 International Premiere: A Japanese Funeral. Globians International Documentary Festival at
Stuttgart, Germany.
Feb 26, 2009 Film screening: Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan. Oberlin
College (Oberlin, Ohio).
March
2, 2008 Japan Premiere: Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in
Northern Japan. Feminist Active Documentary Video Festival Renren. Tokyo,
Japan.
Sept 7, 2007 International Premiere: Bethel: Community and
Schizophrenia in Northern Japan. Disabled PeopleÕs International World
Assembly. Seoul, Korea.
Nov 11,
2006 Film
screening: Bethel: Community and
Schizophrenia in Northern Japan (rough cut). Conference on Representing
Disability: Theory, Politics, Practice. Haverford College.
Oct
11, 2006 Film
screening: Bethel: Community and
Schizophrenia in Northern Japan (rough cut). Margaret Mead Ethnographic
Film Festival at Yale University, New Haven.
Oct
- Nov, 2006 Photography exhibition: Disability in Japan. Sterling Memorial
Library, Yale University.
Conference Presentations and Lecture Series (Past
5 Years)
March
28, 2015 Conference
paper on Visualizing Transsexual Rights Movements in Japan. Panel on Revisualizing East Asian organized by
Marc Moskowitz. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Feb
12-14, 2015 Organizer,
Keynote Respondent, Panel Chair. Yale LGBT Studies Conference on Queering Anthropology. Yale University.
Dec
5, 2014 Discussant.
Panel on ÒJapan at the Edge.Ó American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting, Washington DC.
Dec
4, 2014 Roundtable
Presenter. Panel on ÒEthnographic
Film Production and Distribution: Current Practices and Possibilities.Ó Dec
5, 2014 Discussant.
Panel on ÒJapan at the Edge.Ó American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting, Washington DC.
April 3, 2014 Conference
paper: Barrier Free Brothels and Call Girls for Crips. Conference on Composing Disability. George Washington
University.
March
28, 2014 Conference
paper on Trans in Paradise: The Case of
FTM Men in Okinawa. Panel on ÒParadiseÓ organized by Christine Yano.
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
March
21, 2014 Conference
paper on The Medical Anthropology and
Epidemiology of GID: A Global Perspective.
Japanese Association for Gender Identity Studies Annual Meeting,
Okinawa, Japan.
March
13, 2014 Conference
paper on Ethical Dimensions in
Ethnographic Mental Health Research: _Who is Protecting Who?
Conference on ÒNew Directions in Social Studies of Medicine, Science and
EthicsÓ held in honor of Margaret Lock. Princeton University.
Nov
24, 2013 Conference
paper on Bent Nails Standing Proud. Conference
on Japan and the Singularity. INALCO Paris, France.
Nov
24, 2013 Conference
paper on Trans/Japan, Trans/Disability. CoGEA
Invited Panel. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Oct
31, 2013 Lecture
on A Disability of the Soul. Mellon
Lecture Series. University of Missouri at Saint Louis. Tarragona, Spain.
June
13, 2013 Workshop
on Negotiating Access and IRBs for
the Society for Medical Anthropology / European Association for Social
Anthropology Joint Conference. Tarragona, Spain.
Apr
19, 2013 Conference
paper. Biopsychosocial approaches to
Psychiatric Disabilities. Panel on Injury, Illness, Chronic Pain and
Disability Studies. Debilitating
Queerness: The Sixth Annual DC
Queer Studies Symposium hosted by the LGBT Studies Program at University of
Maryland.
Apr
5, 2013 Plenary
paper. Trans/Japan, Trans/Disability. Cripistemologies conference hosted by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.
Mar
18, 2013 Discussant.
Panel title: Diva Nation: Female Icons
from Japanese Cultural History. Organized by Laura Miller. Association for
Asian Studies Annual Meeting.
Nov
20, 2011 Conference
paper. Call Girls and Crips:
Intersections of Disability and Sexuality In a Dark Japan. Panel on
ÒCapturing Japan after the lost decade.Ó Reviewed by the Society for East Asian
Anthropology. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
Montreal, Canada.
Nov
17, 2011 Discussant.
Panel title: The deadly legacies of
neglect: deafness, disability, and HIV/AIDS discourses. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
March
15, 2010 Discussant.
Panel title: A Discourse-Centered
Approach to Japanese Culture. Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS).
University of Texas at Austin.
Public and Guest Lectures and Presentations (Past
5 Years)
Feb
17, 2015 Guest
Speaker. Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Elective
Course on ÒReligion, Spirituality and Worldview in PsychiatryÓ
Dec
2, 2014 Roundtable
Panelist. Critical Intersectionalities with(in) Disability, Sexuality, and
Feminism. Georgetown University.
Oct
28, 2014 Open
Lecture: Studying Disability and Mental
Illness at Yale. Working WomenÕs Network, Yale University.
April
14, 2014 Open
Lecture: Schizophrenia and a Life in Decline in Japan: An Anthropology of Mental
Illness. Department of
Anthropology, University of California Berkeley.
Jan 22, 2014 Open
Lecture: Schizophrenia and Community Life
in Japan: The Bethel House Experience. Connecticut Mental Health Center.
Oct
2, 2013 Open
Lecture: Disability Studies in Japan. A
Pechakucha Presentation. WGSS, Yale University.
May
8, 2013 Open
Lecture: Fieldwork Studies in Disability
Studies. University of California at Los Angeles.
May
11, 2012 Open
Lecture: A Disability of the Soul: Japan,
Schizophrenia, Psychotourism, and Bethel House. Asia Center. University of
Utah.
Mar
22, 2012 Open
Lecture: Crooked Nails Standing Tall:
Images and Stories of Disability and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan. Museum
of Anthropology, Wake Forest University.
Jan
19, 2012 Open
Lecture:
______________ _______________________________
Trans/Disability: Disability, Queer Sexualities, and
Transsexuality_from a Comparative Ethnographic Perspective. Barrier
Free Education Center Lecture Series, University of Tokyo.
Oct
21, 2011 Open
Lecture: The Identity Politics of
Disability. Department of Linguistics. International Christian University,
Tokyo Japan.
April
12, 2010 Lecture: A Disability of the Soul: Community-based
Mental Health Care in Japan. Yale Global Mental Health Program, Department
of Psychiatry. Yale University.
Feb
8, 2010 Lecture:
Call Girls for Crips: Intersections of
disability and sexuality. Diversity Week. Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Sciences.
Higher Education
2001 Ph.D.
in Sociocultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
Dissertation title: Deaf Identities,
Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan
(1868-2000). Advisor: Professor
William Kelly.
1998 M.Phil. in Sociocultural Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1993 B.A. magna cum laude. Cornell University.
Double major, College Scholar Program and Psychology with a concentration in
Women's Studies. Distinction in all subjects.
2013.7 ~ Associate Professor of Anthropology and East
Asian Studies with Tenure, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2011.7 ~ 2013.6 Associate Professor of Anthropology and East
Asian Studies on Term, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2005.8 ~ 2011.6 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and East
Asian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2001.8 ~ 2005.8 Assistant
Professor of Anthropology. Macalester College, St. Paul
MN.
Volunteer
and Service Positions
2014-2015 Chair, LGBT Studies Committee, Yale
University.
2014-15,
15-16 Member, AAUW International Fellowship
Selection Panel (Social-Sciences).
2013-2015 Chair, Association Operations Committee,
American Anthropological Association.
2012-2015 Executive Board member, American
Anthropological Association (Elected Section Assembly Representative).
2013-2016 Member, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies.
2015-2016 Chair, Northeast Asia
Council, Association for Asian Studies.
2014-2015 Vice-Chair, Northeast Asia
Council, Association for Asian Studies.
2013-15,
2009-11 Board member, Society for Visual
Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2014 Panelist, National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Fellowships for
Advanced Social Science Research on Japan Review Board.
2013-2014 Jury Member, SVA Film Festival.
2012 SVA Film Festival Czarista, Society for
Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival.
2011 SVA Film Festival Czarista and
Co-Coordinator, Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival.
2010~ Member, WomenÕs, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Council, Yale University.
2009-2011 Member, Yale University Human Subjects
Committee.
2008~ Member, LGBT Studies Committee, Yale
University.
2008-2012 Editorial Board, American
Anthropologist, American Anthropological Association.
2008-2010 Co-Chair, SOLGA: The Society for Lesbian
and Gay Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2008-2009 Member, Yale College Course of Study
Committee.
2008-2009 Academic Mentor, Yale Mellon-Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship
Program.
2005-2008 Elected member, Committee on Minority
Affairs in Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2004-2005 Nominated Member, American
Anthropological Association SOLGA /
2002-2005 Elected member (Minority Seat),
Long-Range Planning Committee, American Anthropological Association.
2002-2004 Academic Mentor. Mellon Minority
Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Macalester College.
2002-2004 Nominated member, American
Anthropological Association SOLGA Payne Student Research Prize Committee.
2000-2005 SOLGA Liaison (AAA Board nominated
position), Committee on Ethics, American Anthropological Association.
Engineering and Systems Development Background
1996 Ð cont. President,
Global Mapping Systems. Lead developer of GPSy.
GPS/GIS Macintosh mapping and navigation systems development.
Shipping
products: GPSy for MacOS, GPS portion of DeLorme StreetAtlas 4 for
Macintosh.
1993 Ð 1996 Macintosh
systems and network developer, Yale University. Responsible for development of Macintosh
PPP/ARA end-user solutions.
Shipping Products: Network Starter Kit, misc. CGI scripts. for network access
1993Ð1994 Network
Administrator / Computer Systems Development, Department of Modern Languages
and Linguistics, Cornell University. Internal Use Only: AV Materials Library
and Invoicing Control System (4th Dimension).
1991Ð1993 NeXTSTEP
Developer, Focal Point Computer, Inc., Tokyo Japan. Developed a comprehensive
suite of SCSI hard drive utilities and driver software for the Sony Vbox
(computer video controller).
Shipping Products: SCSI Suite; SCSI SpeedGun; SCSI Formatter. Internal Release
Only: Sony V-BOX controller.
1992Ð1993 Co-publisher
and Technical Editor, NeXTWATCH, then the largest commercial newsletter for the
NeXTSTEP system.
1990Ð1991 External
Consultant / Developer, Canon Information Systems, Palo Alto, USA. Developed
the Canon IX-Scans software package, the kernel for the Canon Still Video
Floppy drive system, and the driver software for the Canon Magneto Optical SCSI
system.
Shipping Product: IX-SCANS. Internal Release Only SVVideo Controller;
MO-Controller.
1989Ð1993 Freelance
NeXTSTEP systems developer. Shipping Product: Casssandra.
1989 Senior
Consultant and Programmer, Focal Point Computer Inc., Tokyo Japan. Worked
closely with large corporations to assist in networking and optimizing their
shared computing environments. Clients included the Tokyo offices of Dentsu
Burson Marsteller, Peat Marwick, and Merrill Lynch.
Doctoral Dissertations Supervised
H.
Sheikholeslami
6th year (ABD), Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale U.
ÒPublishers, Translators, and the
Circulation of Western Texts in IranÓ
¥
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant #1226303 awarded.
¥
SSRC IDRF Fellowship awarded.
Elizabeth
Miles
5th year (ABD), Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale U.
ÒHeterosexual Masculinity
in Postmainstream JapanÓ
¥
Fulbright IIE Dissertation Grant awarded.
Doctoral
Dissertations Committees Served
Sarah
LeBaron von Baeyer (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2015) Ð ÒNational Worlds,
Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil.Ó
Chair: William Kelly.
Isaac
Gagne (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2013) Ð ÒPrivate Religion and Public
Morality: Understanding Cultural Secularism in Late Capitalist Japan.Ó Chair:
William Kelly.
Ryan
Sayre (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2012) Ð ÒPreparing for Preparedness:
Security, Disaster and ÔRecursive ModernityÕ in Contemporary Japan.Ó Chair:
William Kelly.
Anne
Watzka Aronsson (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2012) Ð ÒCareer Women in
Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives.Ó Chair: William
Kelly.
Ellen
Rubinstein (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2012) Ð ÒDiagnosing Deviance:
Schizophrenia and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan.Ó Chair: William
Kelly.
Nathaniel
Smith (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2011) Ð ÒRight Wing Activism in Japan
and the Politics of Futility.Ó Chair: William Kelly.
Elizabeth
Busbee (Yale Sociocultural Anthropology 2008) Ð ÒPower Exchange: Interaction and
Identity in a BDSM Community.Ó Chair: Harold Scheffler.
Post-Doctoral and Visiting Assistants in Research
Students Supervised
Magdalena
Szarota (University of Lancaster and Polish Academy of Sciences). Visiting
Assistant in Research funded by Kosciuszko Foundation to do research on
American disability movements. Jan
10 Ð May 31, 2015.
Mana
Kawanishi (Doshisha University). Visiting Assistant in Research funded by the Japan
Student Services Organization (JASSO) Student Exchange Support Program)
Scholarship to do research on American gender and sexuality. Aug 15, 2012 Ð May
31, 2013.
Professional
Memberships
American
Anthropological Association (Life Member; Executive Board Member)
Society
for East Asian Anthropology
Society
for Medical Anthropology
Society
for Linguistic Anthropology (Life Member)
Association
for Queer Anthropology (Past Co-Chair)
Society
for Visual Anthropology (Board Member)
Association
for Asian Studies (member)
North
East Asia Council (Chair)
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