NEAC Japan Studies Grants

Spring 2011 Grant Awards

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Japan Studies Grants. The NEAC Japan Studies grant programs are made possible by the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.

Research Travel Within the USA

1. Elise M. Edwards, Butler University, “Archival Research on the Concept of Kosei for Book Project: Fields of Play and Power: Soccer and Citizenship in Contemporary Japan”
2. Joseph M. Henning, Rochester Institute of Technology, “William Elliot Griffis: A Biographical Essay”
3. Sarah Kovner, University of Florida, “Guards and Prisoners in Japan’s Wartime Empire”

Short-term Research Travel to Japan

1. Patricia Boling, Purdue University, “Continuity and Change: Work-Family Policies in the United States, France, Germany and Japan”
2. Amy Borovoy, Princeton University, “‘We Will Support You!’ Health as a Social Responsibility in Japan”
3. Gina Cogan, Boston University, “Good Nuns and Wise Evangelists: Female Doctrinal Instructors in Meiji Japan”
4. Michael Emmerich, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Replacing the Text: Translation, Canonization and The Tale of Genji as World Literature”
5. Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas, “Accounts and Images of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan”
6. Sabine Frühstück, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Playing War: Childhood and Militarization in the Twentieth Century”
7. Dylan McGee, SUNY-New Paltz, “Allographic Inscription and the Materiality of Reader Reception in Early Modern Japan-Edogawa Ranpo Collection at Rikkyo University Library”
8. Karen Nakamura, Yale University, “Lezubian Lives in Japan: A Visual Ethnography”
9. Kumiko Nemoto, Western Kentucky University, “Japanese Courts and Employment Sex Discrimination in Japan”
10. Lorraine Plourde, Purchase College-SUNY, “The Allure of the Avant-Garde in Department Store Culture of Bubble-Era Japan”
11. Nancy Rosenberger, Oregon State University, “Resiliency of an Alternative Agriculture Movement: Young Organic Farmers in Japan”
12. Satoko Shimazaki, University of Colorado-Boulder, “The Spectacle of the Female Ghost: Kabuki and the Gendered Construction of Jealousy”
13. Alice Y. Tseng, Boston University, “Commemorative Architecture in Modern Kyoto”
14. Garrett Washington, Oberlin College, “Public Intellectuals and the Tokyo Protestant Experience: Takekoshi Yosaburo and Tagawa Daikichiro at Church”

Enhancing Teaching/Materials

1. James Buoye, Northern Valley Regional High School, “Student and Outreach Materials”
2. Annika A. Culver, University of North Carolina-Pembroke, “Comparative Asian Civilizations” course materials.

Small Conferences on Japanese Studies

1. William Marotti, University of California-Los Angeles, “Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice” Conference
2. Susan J. Napier, Tufts University, “Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference: the Poetics of Aging in the Japanese Literature and Film”
3. Joan R. Piggott and Janet R. Goodwin, University of Southern California, “Reassessing the Shôen System: A Workshop”
4. Luke Roberts, University of California-Santa Barbara, “The Return of Politics in Cultural Studies: Nationalisms of Japan” Summer Seminar
5. David Wittner and Roberto Padilla, Utica College and the University of Toledo, “Conference on Science, Technology and Medicine in East Asia: Policy, Practice and Implications in a Global Context”

Distinguished Lecture Series on Japan

1. Rebecca Copeland, University of Missouri-St. Louis, “Japanese Popular Culture”