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Curriculum Vitae

Anne Allison

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Contact Info
    230 Friedl Building
    East Campus
    Durham, NC 27708-0091 (919) 681-6257 (office)
    (email)
Education

    PhD University of Chicago 1986
    MA University of Chicago 1979
    BA University of Illinois, Chicago Circle 1975
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
  • Co-directorCenter for Asian and Asian American Studies, February 2003

Professional Service
  • Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 2002-05
  • Program in the Study of Sexualities, October-December 2003, Director
  • Program II, Advisory Committee, October-December 2003, faculty member
  • Curriculum 2000 Review Committee, May-December 2003, faculty member
  • Arts & Sciences Council, January-December 2003, representative from Cultural Anthropology
  • Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, January-December 2003, Co-director
  • Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Curriculum Development Committee, January-December 2003, faculty member
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press, January-December 2003, faculty member
  • Founder's Day Committee, July 2003, faculty member
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. A. Allison. "The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth." Theory, Culture & Society 26:3 (Spring, Spring, 2009). [PDF]
  2. A. Allison. "Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization  (Summer, Summer, 2009). [PDF]
  3. A. Allison. "Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence." Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination Summer, Summer, 2006: 163-191. [PDF] [abs]
  4. A. Allison. "Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus." Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan 2000: 81-104. [PDF]
  5. A. Allison. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club.  University of Chicago Press, 1994. [PDF]
Selected Talks

  • "Stopping Death and Organizing Around Life: A Politics of Survival", Temple University in Japan. Tokyo, Japan, June 11, 2011
  • "Precarious Sociality: Social Life - and Death - in Post-Corporate Japan", East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, April 07, 2011
  • "Precarious Sociality: Social Life and Death in Post-Corporate Japan", Department of Anthropology. University of Toronto, March 25, 2011
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", International Conference on "Death and Desire in Modern and Contemporary Japan." at Universita Ca' Foscari. Dipartmento di Studi Sul 'Asia e Sul' Africa Mediterranea. Venice, Italy., March 07, 2011
  • "Soul on Strike: Global Precarity/Transnational Response", Chao Center, Rice University, February 18, 2011
  • "Soul on Strike: Precarity, Insecurity, and Restitching the Social in 21st Century Japan", University of Alberta. East Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology, February 03, 2011
  • "Sensing Precarity: Amamiya Karin's Activism and Post-Feminism of "Life Pain"", Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, January 22, 2011
  • "Precarious Sociality: Life and Death of Post-Corporate Japan, Weatherford Institute, Harvard University, September 28, 2010
  • "Precarious Lives, Emergent Sociality", Cultural Typhoon Conference, Komazawa University, Fukazawa Campus, Tokyo, July 11, 2010
  • Keynote: "What Difference Does Gender (Still) Make?", Gendered Labor in Popular Culture Conference, Temple University Tokyo, Tokyo, July 05, 2010
  • "Precarious Sociality for Flexible Youth, "Youth, Labor and Neoliberal Governmentality" Conference, Pittsburgh University, March 05, 2010
  • Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, East Asian Studies, New York University, November 20, 2009
  • Everyday Monsters in Post-Bubble Japan, Tufts University Art Gallery, October 30, 2009
  • Precarious Sociality: Social Life--and Death--for Youth in Post-Corporate Japan, University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology, October 23, 2009
  • Precarious Sociality: Social Life--and Death--For Youth in Post-Corporate Japan, University of Manchester, Program in East Asian Studies, October 20, 2009
  • Hope and Hopelessness in Times of Economic Decline, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, October 16, 2009
  • Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 6, 2009
  • "Virtual Cartographies and Techno-Intimacy: Youth in Millennial Japan", National University of Singapore, Global Studies Symposia, November 17, 2008
  • "Sexual Connections in a Disconnected Age", University of Brussels, "Sexual Heterotopias Conference", October 15, 2008
  • Sociality of the Present: Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids, Center for East Asian Studies, Brandeis University, May 10, 2008
  • "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination", Japan Society, New York City, May 05, 2008
  • "Sociality of the Present:: Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids", Center for East Asian Studies. Brandeis University, April 17, 2008
  • "Sociality of the Present: Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids", East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, March 20, 2008
  • "Sociality of the Present: :Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids", Society of Fellows, Columbia University, February 28, 2008
  • "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
  • "Globalization of Japanese Kid's Culture", Rudelson Lecturer, Dartmouth College, April, 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
  • "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
  • "Circuits of Global Traffic in Toys, Characters, and Cute Goods", invited talk, Department of East Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, 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
  • "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
  • "Permitted and Prohibited Desires", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1996
  • "Pleasures and Performances: Three Case Studies from Japan", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
  • "Public Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan", Speaker, Department of Cultural Anthropology Colloquia Series, Duke University, 1995
  • "Cutting the Fringes", Guest speaker, Edwin Rieschauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 1994
  • "Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws", Guest speaker, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, 1994
  • "Everyday Pornographies", Guest speaker, Center for Women's Studies, University of Virginia, 1994
  • "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
  • "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
  • "A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons", Guest speaker, Far Eastern Symposium Series, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
  • "Leisure, Play,and Commodification: Japanese Recreation and Corporations", Speaker, History of Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Universita Ca'Foscari. Venice, Italy, March 078, 2011
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Universita Ca'Foscari. Venice, Italy, March 078, 2011
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Venice Italy. Universite Ca'Foscari, March 078, 2011
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Universite Ca'Foscari. Venice, Italy, March 078, 2011
  • "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Universita Ca'Foscari. Venice, Italy, March 7, 2011
  • "Stopping Death and Organizing Around Life: A Politics of Survival", Temple University of Japan. Tokyo, Japan, June 1213, 2011
  • Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 67, 2009
  • Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 67, 2009
  • Digitality, Affect, and Youth: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 67, 2009
  • Digitality, Affect, and youth: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 67, 2009
  • 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
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