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Faculty Affiliates
MICHAEL BERMAN
Japanese Studies
Michael Berman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis and a Lecturer at Brown University. A sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist who has conducted extensive research in Japan, Michael’s work has focused on the relation between compassion and alienation, especially in acts of listening. His publications have contributed to our understanding of topics ranging from the politics of hope to suffering and secular forms of governance and have appeared in multiple top-tier scholarly journals such as American Ethnologist, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, positions: Asia critique, Language and Communication, and SubStance.
Anthropology
Joseph Hankins joined the Japanese Studies Program in 2009. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, his research focuses on social movements of labor and identity, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and stigma, with particular attention to the semiotics and materiality of circulation, publics, and processes of recognition.
jdhankins@ucsd.edu
History
Todd A. Henry (PhD, UCLA, 2006; Assistant/Associate Professor, UCSD, 2009-Present) is a specialist of modern Korea with an interest in the period of Japanese rule (1910-1945) and its postcolonial afterlives (1945-). A social and cultural historian attuned to global forces that (re) produce lived spaces, he studies cross-border processes linking South Korea, North Korea, Japan, and the US in the creation of “Hot War” militarisms, the transpacific practice of medical sciences, and the lived experiences of heteropatriarchal capitalism. Also a historian of gender, sex, and sexuality, Dr. Henry seeks to expand Euro-American-centric approaches to queerness, transgenderism, and intersexuality through a sustained focus on Asian forms of embodiment that center the geopolitics of imperialism/colonialism, military occupation, and diasporic mobility.
tahenry@ucsd.edu
Political Science
Germaine A. Hoston, Political Science joined the Japanese Studies Program in 1992. She is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her most recent publication is The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan (Princeton University Press, 1994). Professor Hoston is also a member of the Chinese Studies faculty.
ghoston@ucsd.edu
History
Wendy Matsumura received her Ph.D. in History from New York University. She is currently working on two major research projects: the first on the unfolding of transnational labor struggles across Japan’s prewar sugar empire and the second on the emergence of the concept of surplus labor in Japanese social scientific discourse. She will teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the development of class antagonisms, gender oppression and racialized discourses in the Japanese empire.
wmatsumura@ucsd.edu
Literature
Andrea Mendoza holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (August 2019) and a B.A. from Connecticut College (May 2013). Her research and teaching areas combine the studies of 20th and 21st century East Asian and Latin American literatures and visual cultures; transpacific studies; feminist and gender studies; critical race studies; and intellectual history. Her current projects focus on developing an intersectional and transpacific approach to comparing philosophical, literary, and cinematic discourses on race and racism in Mexico and Japan and their role in constituting ideas about national identity in the twentieth century.
anm015@ucsd.edu
Literature
Daisuke Miyao, the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, joined the Japanese Studies Program of UC San Diego in 2014. He is a professor with the Department of Literature. His research focuses on film history and theory. Prof. Miyao has published The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press, 2013), Cinema is a Cat: Introduction to Cinema Studies (Heibonsha, 2011), Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (Duke University Press, 2007). He is also edited The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-edited Transnational Cinematography Studies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer, ASC.
dmiyao@ucsd.edu
Political Sciences
Megumi Naoi received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research focuses on the politics of trade, redistribution, and inequality in East Asia.
mnaoi@ucsd.edu
Global Policy and Strategy
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at GPS (School of Global Policy and Strategy). Her areas of research include business strategy and management, financial markets, regulation, and innovation in Japan. Her 2020 book “The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters” (Stanford University Press 2020) won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize from Japan, as well as the 2021 U.S. Axiom Business Book Award (silver medal, “Economics”). In 2022, it was published in Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA 日本のビジネス・リインベンション by Nikkei BP. She is also the Director of JFIT, the Japan Forum of Innovation and Technology, a Japan center that bridges business and innovation interests in San Diego and Japan.
uschaede@ucsd.edu
Visual Arts
Kuiyi Shen is a Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Vice Chair and Director of Ph.D. Program at Visual Arts. He teaches a broad range of courses and topics from surveys on the arts of Japan, Japanese Buddhist art and architecture, Japanese painting and Ukiyo-e prints, and the arts of modern Japan.
kshen@ucsd.edu
Sociology
Director, Japanese Studies Program
Christena Turner, Sociology Director, Japanese Studies, joined UCSD in 1987. Professor Turner is an associate professor with the Department of Sociology and an adjunct associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her areas of research and teaching include Chinese and Japanese Studies, culture, consciousness, labor relations and workplace cultures, everyday life, religion, and ethnography. She has published Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness (University of California Press, 1995).
chturner@ucsd.edu
JEFF TURSHFIELD
Sociology
jtirshfield@ucsd.edu
Emeriti Faculty Affiliates
- Stefan Tanaka, Professor (Communication)
- Yasuhiko "Yashy" Tohsaku, Professor (School of Global Policy and Strategy)
