Curriculum Vitae

Anne Allison

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Education:

• Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1986
• M.A. University of Chicago, 1979
• B.A. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1975

Areas of Interest

Japan
global culture

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1996 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1992-1996

University of Colorado

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 1988-1992

University of Chicago

Lecturer, Collegiate Division, 1985-1986

Visiting Positions

Advertising Educational Foundational Visiting Professor, New York, NY, 1999

(2 weeks)

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Bookwatch for Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke Libraries, January, 24, 2007
Bass Distinguished Chair - Robert O. Keohane Professor, Arts and Sciences, April, 2006
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council, 1999-2000
Domesticity and Femininity in Japan, Japan Foundation Post-Doctorate Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan, 1997
Boyer Prize, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1994
Domesticity and Femininity in Japan, Social Science Research Council Post-Doctorate Fellowship, 1987-1988
Corporate Usage of Nightlife, University of Chicago-Rikky, University Exchange Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan, 1981-1982
Language training at the Inter-University Language Center, Language training grants from Japan Foundation and University of Chicago, Tokyo, Japan, 1978-1979

Conferences Organized

Co-director, Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, Duke University, September 2002 - May, 2006

Erogenous Fields: The Anthropology of Sexuality in the 21st Century, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, October 16, 2005

Sexual Citizens of Transnational Queer Subjects: Sexuality Studies and the Emergency of Empire, Program for the Study of Sexualities; co-organized with Women's Studies, Duke University, September 30, 2005

Martial Arts/Global Flows, Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, Duke University, April, 2005

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• "The Sociality of the Present: Affect, Family, and Japanese Kids", Middlebury College., October, 2007
• "Calculus of Cool: The Value (and Non-value) of Japanese Youth Today.", Critically Cool. Waseda University. Tokyo, Japan, May, 2007
• "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination", Dickinson College., April, 2007
• "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination", East Asian Institute. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, March, 2007
• "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination", Duke University Bookwatch. Featured Author. Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries. Duke University., January, 2007
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, April, 2006
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, East Asian Studies and Comparative Media Studies, MIT, April, 2006
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, Philadelphia, March, 2006
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, February, 2006
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, November 17, 2005
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Michigan State, East Asian Popular Culture--speaker series, November 09, 2005
• Dreams and Fantasies: Reflections on Murakami Takeshi, Japan Society, Little Boy panel on Japanese Popular Culture, New York City, March 25, 2005
• "Godzilla's Legacy: The Collectible Cuteness of Pocket Monsters", "In Godzilla's Footsetps: Japanese Icons on the Global Stage" conference, University of Kansas, October, 2004
• "Techno Animism and Virtual Intimacies: The Japanese Brand", Yale University, East Asian Studies, September, 2004
• "Nightwork," "Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls," "Enchanting Commodification: Pokémon and the Flow of Japanese Character Goods to the U.S.", President's Visiting Scholar, Western Michigan University, 2004
• "Shifting Screens: From Disneyfication to Pokemonification", invited talk, Abe Fellowship Retreat, Abe Fellowship Program, 2004
• "Japanese Monsterology in the Global Marketplace of "Cool"", Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, Conference on "Animation and the Contemporary Japanese Imagination", April, 2004
• "Globalization of Japanese Kid's Culture", Rudelson Lecturer, Dartmouth College, April, 2004
• "Japanese Fantasies in an Era of Millennial Capitalism", Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, March, 2004
• "Fantasy Creatures and Capitalist Creations: Japan's Brand(ing) of Youth Culture", Humanities Institute, Wesleyan College, February, 2004
• "The Currency of Japanese Monsters in the Global Mass Marketplace: From Godzilla to Pokemon", Stanford University, East Asian Studies, January, 2004
• "The Globalization of Japanese Mass Fantasies in the Era of the New Millenneum", University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, 14 November 2003
• "A Traffic in Goods and a Currency of Magic", Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2000
• "Millennial Monsters: The Era of Japanese Global Hits", Japan Society, New York City, 10 April 2003
• "Globalization of Japanese Mass Fantasies", keynote speaker, Moreland Lecture Series, Randolph Macon College, 2003
• "Japanese Pop Characters from Godzilla to Pokémon", Public Lecture Program, "Consuming Culture: Sushi, Hello Kitty, and Anime in America," Japan Society, 2003
• "Circuits of Global Traffic in Toys, Characters, and Cute Goods", invited talk, Department of East Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, 2003
• "Traveling Culture: Pokémon Goes Global", Guest speaker, College of the Atlantic, 2002
• "Enchanting Commodification: Pokemon and the Flow of Japanese Cultural Goods into the US", East Asian Institutional and Cultural Studies, Asian pacific Studies Institue, Duke, September, 2000
• "A Traffic in Goods and a Currency of Magic", Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2000
• "Sailor Moon and the Genre of Pretty Girl Super Girls", Gender Seminar, Tokyo University, February, 2000
• "Immoral Monsters and Moral Warriors", Guest speaker, Institute for Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, 1997
• "Performing Food: Japanese Mothers Who Make Art and Ideology out of a Lunch-box", Guest speaker, Department of Russian and Japanese, Bates College, 1997
• "Pleasures and Performances: Three Case Studies from Japan", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
• "Permitted and Prohibited Desires", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1996
• "Public Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan", Speaker, Department of Cultural Anthropology Colloquia Series, Duke University, 1995
• "Nightwork", Guest speaker, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1994
• "Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1994
• "Everyday Pornographies", Guest speaker, Center for Women's Studies, University of Virginia, 1994
• "Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, 1994
• "Cutting the Fringes", Guest speaker, Edwin Rieschauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 1994
• "Feminism, Anthropology, and Japanese Hostess Clubs", Speaker, Faculty Women's Studies lecture series, Duke University, 1993
• "Japanese Women, Motherhood, and Lunch-boxes", Duke Women's Studies Outreach Program held in Chicago, 1993
• "Nightwork", Speaker, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 1993
• "Leisure, Play,and Commodification: Japanese Recreation and Corporations", Speaker, History of Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992
• "A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons", Guest speaker, Far Eastern Symposium Series, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Japanese Soft Power: Social Science Research Council conference held in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 15, 2005

  Meetings:

• "The Sociality of the Present: Affect, Family, and Japanese Kids", Hope Studies. Conference. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan., December, 2007
• Youth and Affective Labor: East Asia and Beyond, Tokyo, Japan, July, 2007
• "The Sociality of Neoliberalism: Affect, Family, and Japanese Kids", Youth and Affective Labor: East Asia and Beyond. Conference. Tokyo, Japan., July, 2007
• "Objectifying Self in the Mobile Medium of Cell Phones", Object and Media. Panel. Ubiquitous Media Conference. University of Tokyo, June, 2007
• "Portable Citizenship: The Post-cool Brand of Japanese Youth Today." Cool Japan. panel. Ubiquitous Media Conference. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan., June, 2007
• La globalisation culturelle et le role de l'Asie. international conference at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, France, March 17, 2007
• Cyber Sexuality in a Post-Orgasmic Era?, American Anthropological Association annual meetings. Invited session, "Orgasm", October, 2006
• Fantasies and Futures from the Dream(lessnes)s of Japanese Youth, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, co-organizer of panel (Fantasy-Making and Fantasy-Theorizing in the 21st Century), Washington DC, December 02, 2005
• "A Pocketbook Business and a Pokemon World", Annual Meetings for the Association of Asian Studies, April, 2000
• "Bursting Bodies and Borders with Queer Machines", "Violence and Children", Annual Meetings, American Ethnological Society. Vancouver, Canada, 1999
• "Pokémon and Global Merchandising", Fulbright Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
• "Memoirs of the Orient", Panel, "Eroticism, Desire, and Orientalism," Annual Meeting, Association of Asian Studies, 1998
• "Power Heroes: Rangers and Scouts Roam the US", Panel, "Children and Popular Culture," Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1998
• "Sentai Superheroes", Conference, "Apocalyptic Anime and Manga Madness: A Conference on Popular Culture Today," University of California at Santa Barbara, 1997
• "Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls", Conference on Japanese Popular Culture, University of Kentucky, 1997
• "Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls", Panel, "Toys, Dolls, and Video Games: Playing Children (or, Children at Play) in Postmodern Culture, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1995
• "Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls", Panel, "Anthropological Interpretations of Symbolic Meanings," Annual Meetings, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1995
• "Cutting the Fringes: Public Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws", Conference, University of Texas, 1994
• "Desires and Mothers in Japanese Popular Culture", Conference, "Contemporary Cultural Politics in East Asia," University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994
• "Cutting the Fringes", Invited panel, "Body and Psychological Anthropology" at Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1994
• "Desire, Mothers, and Corporate Money in Japan", Featured speaker for Anthropology - Psychoanalysis Interdisciplinary Colloquia, Annual Meetings, American Psychoanalytic Association, 1994
• "Hail Mother: Motherhood, Interpellation, and Obsterical Practice in Japan", Panel, "Feminism and Psychologival Anthropology," Annual Meetings, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1994
• "Anpanman: Japanese Children's Stories of Food, Self-sacrifice, the Gender", Panel, "Food and Popular Culture," Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1993
• "Motherhood, Desire, and Food", Interdisciplinary colloquia, Annual Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Assocation, 1992
• "Structuring Gender out of Sexual Play: Male Workers and Female Hostesses in the Corporate Nightlife of Japan", Organizer of panel, "Gendering Japan," Annual Meetings, Association for Asian Studies, 1992
• "Land of the Sexual Colonization: Japan's Pornographic Manga", Panel, "Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture," Annual Meetings, Association for Asian Studies, 1990
• "The Anthropology of Culture when Culture Encodes Gender and Race", Conference, History of Science Symposium on Gender and Race, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1988
• "Japanese Mothers and Obent_s: The Lunch-box as Cultural Agenda for Representation", Panel, "Food as Culture," Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1987
• Youth and Globalization: Advanced Seminar, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, undefined, 2004
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Soft Power Conference hosted by SSRC, Tokyo, Japan, February 178, 2005
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Soft Power Conference hosted by SSRC, Tokyo, Japan, February 178, 2005
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Soft Power Conference hosted by SSRC. Tokyo, Japan, February 178, 2005
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Softpower Conference hosted by SSRC. Tokyo, Japan, February 178, 2005
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Soft Power Conference. Tokyo, Japan, February 1718, 2005
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Softpower Conference. Tokyo, Japan, February 178, 2005
• Crossing the Wave: Soft Power in Inter-Asia Conference, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, October 045, 2007
• Cultural Globalization and the Role of Asia; international conference, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, France, March 16-7, 2007
• La Globalisation Culturelle et le Role de l'Asie, International conference at Centre d"Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, France, March 167, 2007

  Talks:

• "Studying Sexuality in the Japan Field", Modern Asian Symposium, Yale University, October, 2001

  Lectures, Seminars, and Colloquia:

• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Japanese Soft Power; Tokyo, Japan, February 1415, 2005

  Other:

• Workshop. "Crossing the Wave: Soft Power in Inter-Asia Conference.", Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, October 34, 2007

Professional Service

DGS

Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, July 1, 2002 - present

A&S Council

faculty member, Program II, Advisory Committee, October-December 2003

representative from Cultural Anthropology, Arts & Sciences Council, January-December 2003

faculty member, Founder's Day Committee, July 2003

Univ Committee

Sub-committee of A&S, Program II Selection Committee, 2004 - present

Steering Committee, "Race/Culture/Medicine" New Beginnings Initiative, 2003 - present

Campus Culture Initiative Committee, May, 2006 - Feb 2007

Arts and Sciences Global Health Task Force, September, 2005 - December, 2005

FCC, Faculty Compensation Committee, 2004 - June, 2004

faculty member, Curriculum 2000 Review Committee, May-December 2003

Co-director, Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, January-December 2003

Univ Services

Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press, 2001 - 2006

Director, Program in the Study of Sexualities, October-December 2003

faculty member, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Curriculum Development Committee, January-December 2003

faculty member, Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press, January-December 2003

Other

Member, Association Memberships and Service

Publications (listed separately)

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