Curriculum Vitae

Anne Allison

Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
(email)
Education:
Areas of Research

youth, labor, desire, capitalism, precarity, sociality, Japan

Areas of Interest

Japan
global culture
youth
precarity/security
sociality
desire/fantasy/sexuality

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
Traditional Fulbright Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Domesticity and Femininity in Japan, Japan Foundation Post-Doctorate Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan, 1997
Boyer Prize, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1994
Society for Psychological Anthropology-Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
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. Allison, A, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (January, 2023), pp. 1-206.
  2. Allison, A, Permitted and prohibited desires: Mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan (January, 2019), pp. 1-225, Westview (HarperCollins) (Paperback edition, University of California Press, 2000..).
  3. Baldwin, F; Allison, A, Introduction: Japan’s possible futures (January, 2015), pp. 1-10.
  4. Allison, A, Precarious Japan (October, 2013), Duke University Press.
  5. Allison, A, 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..).
  6. Allison, A, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), University of Chicago Press.

Published Articles

  1. Allison, A, Scorching the everyday, Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 48 no. 2 (December, 2023), pp. 404.
  2. Allison, A, The (Un)social Smells of Death: Changing Tides in Contemporary Japan, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 21 no. 6 (June, 2023).
  3. Allison, A; Gould, H, New life in Japan's ‘endingness’ business, Anthropology Today, vol. 39 no. 3 (June, 2023), pp. 7-9.
  4. Allison, A, Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan, in New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change, and Contestation (January, 2023), pp. 145-161.
  5. Allison, A, Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 81 no. 3 (2022), pp. 594-596, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
  6. Allison, A, Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan, International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 24 no. 4 (July, 2021), pp. 622-636.
  7. ALLISON, A, Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. David B. Edwards. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 292 pp., American Ethnologist, vol. 46 no. 2 (May, 2019), pp. 227-228, Wiley.
  8. Allison, A, Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan, in ETHNOGRAPHIES OF WAITING (2018), pp. 181-202.
  9. Allison, A, Afterword: Reflections on welfare from postnuclear Fukushima, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 115 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 175-181.
  10. Allison, A, LONELY DEATH Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality, in LIVING AND DYING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: A COMPENDIUM (2016), pp. 662-674.
  11. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editing the times, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 4 (November, 2015), pp. 525-530.
  12. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT, Introduction, vol. 42 (August, 2015), pp. 19-21.
  13. Allison, A, Discounted life: Social time in relationless Japan, Boundary 2, vol. 42 no. 3 (August, 2015), pp. 129-141.
  14. Allison, A, Sailor Moon: Japanese Superherofeosr global girls, edited by Craig, TJ (April, 2015), pp. 259-278, Sage Press.
  15. Allison, A, Author’s response, Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 5 no. 1 (March, 2015), pp. 124-127, SAGE Publications.
  16. Allison, A, Precarity and hope: Social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan, in Japan: The Precarious Future (January, 2015), pp. 36-57.
  17. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT, Crisis of the Everyday/Everyday Crisis: Across Time in Japan Introduction, BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE, vol. 42 no. 3 (2015), pp. 19-21.
  18. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' farewell, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 4 (November, 2014), pp. 599-601.
  19. Allison, A, 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, edited by Sciences, TIOS; University, T; Yuji, G; Uno, S, vol. 4 (February, 2014), pp. 129-149, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha.
  20. Allison, A, "Shinjidai no Fuetesshu, Monsuta-, Soshite Tomodachi: Mireniamu (Shinseki) no Pokemonshihonshugi", in Media and Popular Culture, edited by Tsuchiyua, R; Shunya, Y (February, 2014).
  21. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' note on "neoliberal futures", Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 1 (February, 2014), pp. 3-7.
  22. Alison, A; Piot, C, Editors' introduction: Open access, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 201-202.
  23. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' note, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 28 no. 3 (August, 2013), pp. 369-371.
  24. Allison, A, American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies, in Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics, edited by Mankekar, P; Schein, L (July, 2013), Duke University Press.
  25. Allison, A, Ordinary refugees: Social precarity and soul in 21st century Japan, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 2 (June, 2012), pp. 345-370, Johns Hopkins University Press.
  26. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' notes, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 27 no. 1 (February, 2012), pp. 1-2.
  27. Allison, A, Japanese mothers and obentōs: The lunch-box as ideological state apparatus, in Food and Culture: A Reader (January, 2012), pp. 154-172.
  28. A. Allison, "A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", in Sociality, New Directions, New Directions, edited by Henrietta Moore and Nick Long (2012), Cambridge University Press.
  29. A. Allison, "A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", edited by Nick Long and Henrietta Moore, Cambridge Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 1 (2012).
  30. Allison, A, A Sociality Of, and Beyond, ’My-Home’ in Post-Corporate Japan, in Sociality, New Directions, edited by Moore, H; Long, N (2012), Cambridge University Press.
  31. Allison, A, HUMAN NO MORE Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology Afterword, in HUMAN NO MORE: DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITIES, UNHUMAN SUBJECTS, AND THE END OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2012), pp. 231-234.
  32. Allison, A; Piot, C, Untitled, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 27 no. 2 (2012), pp. 191-192.
  33. Allison, A; Piot, C, New Editors' Greeting, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 26 no. 1 (February, 2011), pp. 1-5.
  34. Allison, A; Piot, C, Untitled, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 4 (2011), pp. 511-513.
  35. Allison, A; Piot, C, INTRODUCTION, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 2 (2011), pp. 157-157.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. Allison, A, The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 26 no. 3 (Spring, 2009), pp. 89-111.
  39. Allison, A, The cool brand, affective activism and Japanese youth, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 26 no. 2-3 (March, 2009), pp. 89-111.
  40. Allison, A, 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 Yasushi, W; McConnell, D (Spring, 2009), M.E. Sharpe.
  41. Allison, A, La culture populaire japonaise et l'imaginaire global, Critique Internationale, vol. 38 no. 1 (Winter, 2008), pp. 19-35.
  42. Allison, A, Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture, in Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth, edited by Cole, J; Durham, DL (August, 2008), School for Advanced Research Press.
  43. Allison, A, Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 32 no. 1 (December, 2006), pp. 170-173, Project MUSE.
  44. Allison, A, Ajase Complex, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 12.
  45. Allison, A, obentō, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 367-368.
  46. Allison, A, Pokemon, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 396-397.
  47. Allison, A, Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence, in Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Summer, 2006), pp. 163-191, University of California Press.
  48. Allison, A, New-age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in the Age of Millennial Capitalism, in Japan after Japan, edited by Yoda, T; Harootunian, H (Fall, 2006), Duke University Press.
  49. Allison, A, The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism, Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, edited by Lunning, F, Mechademia, vol. 1 no. 11-22 (Fall, 2006), University of Minnesota Press.
  50. Allison, A, 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.
  51. Allison, A, Cuteness as Japan’s Millennial Product, in Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, edited by Tobin, J (2004), pp. 34-49, Duke University Press.
  52. Allison, A, Introduction to Special Issue on Children and Globalization, edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003).
  53. Allison, A, Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as Japan’s New Global Power, edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003), Routlege.
  54. Allison, A, Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in Kids’ Mass Culture, in Power and the Self, edited by Mageo, JM (2002), pp. 71-92, Cambridge University.
  55. Allison, A, Memoirs of the orient, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 27 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 381-397, JSTOR.
  56. Allison, A, Cyborg violence: Bursting borders and bodies with queer machines, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 16 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 237-265, WILEY.
  57. Allison, A, Ogetti e magia come valuta di scambio: Il Gioco Globale dei Pokemon, Einaudi, edited by Gomarasca, A, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 263-278.
  58. Allison, A, Carne Furente: Bambole Guerriere Attraverso il Pacifico, Einaudi, edited by Gomarasca, A, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 145-178.
  59. Allison, A, 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.
  60. Allison, A, Review of Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, edited by Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 26 no. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 169-173.
  61. Allison, A, Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 55 no. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 315-317, JSTOR.
  62. Allison, A, A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US, Japanese Studies, vol. 20 no. 1 (2000), pp. 67-88.
  63. Allison, A; Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S, Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 26 no. 1 (2000), pp. 169-169, JSTOR.
  64. Allison, A, Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives, American Anthropologist, vol. 101 no. 3 (September, 1999), pp. 665-666, Wiley.
  65. Allison, A, About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. $17.95., The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 3 (August, 1998), pp. 806-809, Duke University Press.
  66. Allison, A, Cyborg Heroes Populate Popular Culture, in Popular Culture in Japan and Outside, edited by Slaymaker, D (1998), pp. 25-40, University of Hawaii’i Press.
  67. Allison, A, Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Obscenity Laws, in Hair in Asian Cultures: Context and Change, edited by Heitelbeitel, A; Miller, B (1997), pp. 195-218, SUNY Albany Press.
  68. Allison, A, Producing Mothers: Production, Motherhood, and Schools in Japan, in Re-imaging Japanese Women, edited by Imamura, AE (1996), pp. 135-155, University of California Press.
  69. Allison, A, Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture, Positions, vol. 2 no. 3 (1995), pp. 67-499.
  70. Allison, A, A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? (1993), Duke University Working Papers, Asian Pacific Studies Institute.
  71. Allison, A, Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Tokyo Hostess Club, Genders, vol. 16 no. 16 (1993), pp. 1-16, University of Colorado.

Book Reviews

  1. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Education About Asia, vol. 5 no. 2 (Fall, 2000), pp. 42-44.

Others

  1. Makhulu, A-M; Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, C; Peterson, M; Rajak, D, Welfare, edited by Makhulu, A-M, SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 115 no. 1 (2016), Duke University Press.
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