Curriculum Vitae

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• Ph.D. The University of Chicago, 1986
• MA University of Chicago, 1979
• BA University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1975

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

John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, February 01, 2025
Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Speaker, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, April, 2024
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

  Invited Lectures:

• Being Dead Otherwise, online, 1 October 2024
• Signing Up for Death: Mortuary Plans for the Solitary Dead in Japan, Copenhagen, 1 January 2023
• Discounted Life/Reconfiguring Death in Post-Crisis Japan, Chapel Hill, NC, May 11, 2013
• "Precarity, Sociality, and Hope: Japan in Times of Crisis", University of Cape Town, Department of Anthropology, August 22, 2012
• Precarity, Sociality, and Hope: Japan in Times of Crisis, University of Cape Town, Department of Anthropology, 22 August 2012
• Social Precarity: Sensing Hope in Post-Earthquake Japan, American Anthropological Association annual meetings in Montreal, Canada, 18 November 2011
• "Stopping Death and Organizing Around Life: A Politics of Survival", Temple University in Japan. Tokyo, Japan, June 11, 2011
• Stopping Death and Organizing Around Life: A Politics of Survival, Temple University in Japan. Tokyo, Japan, 11 June 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, East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 7 April 2011
• "Precarious Sociality: Social Life and Death in Post-Corporate Japan", Department of Anthropology. University of Toronto, March 25, 2011
• Precarious Sociality: Social Life and Death in Post-Corporate Japan, Department of Anthropology. University of Toronto, 25 March 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
• 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., 7 March 2011
• "Soul on Strike: Global Precarity/Transnational Response", Chao Center, Rice University, February 18, 2011
• Soul on Strike: Global Precarity/Transnational Response, Chao Center, Rice University, 18 February 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
• Soul on Strike: Precarity, Insecurity, and Restitching the Social in 21st Century Japan, University of Alberta. East Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology, 3 February 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
• Precarious Lives, Emergent Sociality, Cultural Typhoon Conference, Komazawa University, Fukazawa Campus, Tokyo, 11 July 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
• Virtual Cartographies and Techno-Intimacy: Youth in Millennial Japan, National University of Singapore, Global Studies Symposia, 17 November 2008
• "Sexual Connections in a Disconnected Age", University of Brussels, "Sexual Heterotopias Conference", October 15, 2008
• Sexual Connections in a Disconnected Age, University of Brussels, "Sexual Heterotopias Conference", 15 October 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
• Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, Japan Society, New York City, 5 May 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, Center for East Asian Studies. Brandeis University, 17 April 2008
• Monstrous Youth and the Youth Industry of 'Cool' in 21st Century Japan, Monsters and the Monstrous in Modern Japanese History Conference. Indiana University, 21 March 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, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 20 March 2008
• "Sociality of the Present: :Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids", Society of Fellows, Columbia University, February 28, 2008
• Sociality of the Present: :Family, Affect, and Japanese Kids, Society of Fellows, Columbia University, 28 February 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
• "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
• 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
• Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 67, 2009
• "Life and Death in Precarious Japan", Universita Ca'Foscari. Venice, Italy, March 078, 2011
• "Stopping Death and Organizing Around Life: A Politics of Survival", Temple University of Japan. Tokyo, Japan, June 1213, 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

• Planting Futures on the Edge of Death in Post-Nuclear Japan, Chicago, October 22, 2013
• "Missing Elderly, Lonely Death: A Sociality (or De-Sociality) of Loneliness", American Anthropological Association meeings,San Francisco, 3 December 2012
• "Sharing Death as a Form of Sociality in Post Postwar Japan", Society of Cultural Anthropology meetings, Providence, R.I., 3 December 2012
• Missing Elderly, Lonely Death: A Sociality (or De-Sociality) of Loneliness, San Francisco, CA, 3 December 2012
• Sharing Death as a Form of Sociality in Post Postwar Japan, Providence, R.I., 3 December 2012
• "Social Precarity: Sensing Hope in Post-Earthquake Japan", American Anthropological Association annual meetings in Montreal, Canada, November 18, 2011
• Digitality, Affect, and Home: Net-Cafe Refugees in Japan, American Anthropological Association, 19 December 2009
• Discussant, December 04, 2009
• "Monstrous Youth and the Youth Industry of 'Cool' in 21st Century Japan", "Monsters and the Monstrous in Modern Japanese History" Conference. Indiana University, March 21, 2008
• "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

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

• Being Dead Otherwise, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1 September 2024
• "Social Precarity and Hope", Possible Futures of Japan workshop, Shonan Village, Japan, 3 December 2012
• Social Precarity and Hope, Shonan Village, Japan, 3 December 2012
• Sensing Precarity: Amamiya Karin's Activism and Post-Feminism of Life Pain, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, 22 January 2011
• Discussant, Sophia University, Toyko, Japan, July 11, 2009
• Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Japanese Soft Power; Tokyo, Japan, February 1415, 2005

• Evacuating the Dead: To New Ending Places or to No-Place at All?, New York, 1 October 2024
• Being Dead Otherwise, Cambridge, UK, 1 May 2024
• Being Dead Otherwise, Chicago, 1 April 2024
• Anthropology of Hope, Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2024
• The (un)social Smells of death: Changing Tides in Contemporary Japan, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 January 2023
• Smelling Death: New Necro-scents in Contemporary Japan, Alesunde, Norway, 1 January 2023
• Workshop. "Crossing the Wave: Soft Power in Inter-Asia Conference.", Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, October 34, 2007

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

Chair, 1 January 2024

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 (listed separately)