Curriculum Vitae

Anne Allison

230 Friedl Building
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 681-6257 (office)
(email)
Education:
Areas of Interest

Japan
global culture

Areas of Experience

mass/popular culture, globalization, youth and popular youth culture, anthropology and cultural studies of contemporary Japan, gender, sexuality, cyber-technology, capitalism

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Full Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 2006 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1996 - 2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1992-1996
Advertising Educational Foundation
Visiting Professor, Grey Advertising, June 15, 1999 - June 30, 1999
-visiting professor
University of Colorado
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 1988-1992
University of Chicago
Lecturer, Collegiate Division, 1985-1986
Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor, Sophia University, April 01, 2007 - July 25, 2007
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

Digital Youth, Temple University, Tokyo, Japan, June 0810, 2008
Co-organizer, Hip-Hop/ Global Flows, Duke, 0000
Co-organizer, Youth and Affective Labor: East Asia and Beyond, Temple University, Tokyo, Japan, July 25, 2007
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
co-organizer, Hip-Hop/ Global Flows, Duke University, April, 2005
Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

  Meetings:   Talks:   Lectures, Seminars, and Colloquia:   Other:
Professional Service

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
associate chair, Bass Society Executive Committee, December 2011
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
Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, July 1, 2002 - June 31, 2008
Member, Association Memberships and Service

Publications

Books

  1. A. Allison, Precarious Japan (2012), Duke University Press.
  2. A. Allison, Kiku to Pokemon: Guro-barukasuru nihon no bunkaryouku (2010), Shinchousha (This is the Japanese translation of my book, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination..).
  3. A. Allison, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1996), Westview (HarperCollins) (Paperback edition, University of California Press, 2000..).
  4. A. Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), University of Chicago Press.

Published Articles

  1. A. Allison, Ordinary Refugees: Social Precarity and Soul in 21st Century Japan, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 2 (2012), pp. 345-370.
  2. A. Allison, Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo ("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese Youth"), in Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In a World of Flux, Social Sciences of Hope, edited by Todaishaken (Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University); Genda Yuji and Uno, Shigeki, vol. 4 (Summer, 2009), pp. 129-149, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha.
  3. A. Allison, Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture, in Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization, edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham (Summer, 2009), School of American Research.
  4. A. Allison, The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 26 no. 3 (Spring, 2009).
  5. A. Allison, The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth, in Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, edited by Watanabe Yasushi and David McConnell (Spring, 2009), M.E. Sharpe.
  6. A. Allison, La culture populaire japonaise et l'imaginaire global, Critique Internationale, vol. 38 (Winter, 2008), pp. 19-35.
  7. A. Allison, New-age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in the Age of Millennial Capitalism, in Japan after Japan, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian (Fall, 2006), Duke University Press.
  8. A. Allison, The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism, Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, edited by Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia, vol. 1 no. 11-22 (Fall, 2006), University of Minnesota Press.
  9. A. Allison, Cuteness as Japan's Millennial Product, in Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, edited by Joseph Tobin (2004), pp. 34-49, Duke University Press.
  10. A. Allison, Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in Kids' Mass Culture, in Power and the Self, edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo (2002), pp. 71-92, Cambridge University.
  11. A. Allison, Cyborg Violence: Bursting and Borders with Queer Machines, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 16 no. 2 (2001), pp. 237-265.
  12. A. Allison, Memoirs of the Orient, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 27 no. 2 (2001), pp. 381-398.
  13. A. Allison, Carne Furente: Bambole Guerriere Attraverso il Pacifico, Einaudi, edited by Alessandro Gomarasca, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 145-178.
  14. A. Allison, Ogetti e magia come valuta di scambio: Il Gioco Globale dei Pokemon, Einaudi, edited by Alessandro Gomarasca, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 263-278.
  15. A. Allison, A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US, Japanese Studies, vol. 20 no. 1 (2000), pp. 67-88.
  16. A. Allison, Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls, edited by Timothy J. Craig, Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture (1999), Sage Press.

Book Chapters

  1. A. Allison, Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence, in Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Summer, 2006), pp. 163-191, University of California Press.
  2. A. Allison, Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus, in Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (2000), pp. 81-104, University of California Press.

Book Reviews

  1. A. Allison, Review of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore Bestor, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 no. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 288-290.
  2. Review of Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, edited by Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 26 no. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 169-173.
  3. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Education About Asia, vol. 5 no. 2 (Fall, 2000), pp. 42-44.
  4. Aviad Raz, Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 55 no. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 315-317.

Papers Accepted

  1. A. Allison, Ordinary Refugees: Social Precarity and Soul in 21st Century Japan, Post-Fordist Affect, edited by Journal editor- Roy Grinker. Series editors- Andrea Muehlebach and Nitzan Shosan, Anthropological Quarterly (Summer, 2012).
  2. A. Allison, " A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", Sociality Revisited, edited by Nick Long and Henrietta Moore, Cambridge Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 1 (April, 2012), Cambridge University Press.
  3. A. Allison, A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", in Sociality, New Directions, edited by Nick Long and Henrietta Moore (2012), Berghahn.
  4. A. Allison, American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies, in Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics, edited by Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein (July, 2010), Duke University Press.

Preprints

  1. A. Allison, Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as Japan's New Global Power, edited by Anne Allison and Larry Grossberg, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003), Routlege.
  2. A. Allison, Introduction to Special Issue on Children and Globalization, edited by Anne Allison and Larry Grossberg, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003).
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