List of Fellows in 2017: The Americas

The Americas

Scholars/Researchers (Long-Term)
State/Region Name Current Position Area of Research Project Title Affiliation in Japan
（※Not necessary for short-term fellowship）
Canada HARA, Kimie Professor, University of Waterloo International Relations, Diplomatic History of Japan The San Francisco System: Politics, Security and Regional Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific The University of Tokyo
USA KIETLINSKI, Robin Joy Associate Professor, The City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College History Reclaiming Land: The Olympic Games and Japan's Changing Environment University of Tsukuba
USA LOO, Tze May Associate Professor, University of Richmond History Religion and Rule in Prewar Okinawa Waseda University
USA MATSUMURA, Wendy Yumiko Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego History The Shifting Frontiers of Empire: The Politics of the Household and Global Okinawan Struggle Kyoto University
USA SLAYMAKER, Douglas Neil Professor, University of Kentucky Literature Between Animals and Disaster: Representing Life after 3.11 Meiji University
USA WATTLES, Miriam Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Art History Drawing Relations: From Kyoga to Manga, circa 1870-1930 Sophia University
Scholars/Researchers (Short-Term)
State/Region Name Current Position Area of Research Project Title Affiliation in Japan
（※Not necessary for short-term fellowship）
Canada CHARRON, Claude Yves Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal International Communication and Diplomacy The Cyber Attack Against SONY:New Challenges and Opportunities Ahead in Cyberdiplomacy and Cybersecurity
USA JOHNSON, David Ted Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa Criminology Criminal Justice and the Consequences of Japan's Lay Judge Reform
USA LOWE, Bryan Daniel Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Philisophy and Religion An Underground History of Provincial Temples in Early Ninth-Century Japan
USA SHINZATO, Rumiko Simones Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Languages and Linguistics Creation of a text-based database of natural conversations in Shuri/Naha Okinawan
Brazil MIYAZAKI, Silvio Yoshiro Mizuguchi Professor, University of São Paulo Economics Political Economy Impacts of the TPP on Japan
Doctoral Candidates
State/Region Name Current Position Area of Research Project Title Affiliation in Japan
（※Not necessary for short-term fellowship）
Canada CHAN, Vincent Wing-Chung PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Medieval Japanese Hisotry Tracking the Words in the Wind: Rumors and the Information Network in Warring-States Japan The University of Tokyo
Canada FRASER, Nicholas Alexander Rymal PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Comparative Politics and Public Policy Bureaucratic Discretion: A Comparative Study of Refugee Status Determination Procedures Waseda University
Canada SCHWEINSBERG, Alexander Yves-Andreas PhD Candidate, Yale University Modern Japanese History The Hinterland Next Door:Uneven Modernity and Rural Decline in Wakayama Osaka City University
USA DAHL, Jessa Kennedy PhD Candidate, University of Chicago History In a Man's World: Negotiating Networks of International Exchange in Nagasaki 1827-1899 Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies
USA FOX, Natasha Elizabeth PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia Geography Disaster Resilience, Gender, and Diversity: Lessons From Japan's Grassroots Women's NGOs The University of Tokyo
USA LEISURE, John Lyman PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles History Danchi: the Vertical Housing of the Postwar Public Kogakuin University
USA NISHIMURA, Keiko PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cultural Studies Building the Future of Sociality: The Culture and Economy of Japanese Communicative robots Sophia University
USA PORTER, Samuel Parkinson PhD Candidate, Univsersity of Wisconsin-Madison History From Soldier to Civilian: The Reintegration of Japanese World War II Veterans into Postwar Japanese Society, 1945-1960 Hitotsubashi University
USA READE, Elizabeth Hofmann PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley Literature The Tree of Life: The Politics of Kinship in Meiji Japan Waseda University
USA RUSENKO, Rayna Marlene PhD Candidate, Florida International University Sociology The Legacies of Vagrancy Law in Contemporary Homelessness Regulation: A Comparative Historical Examination of Tokyo, Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ochanomizu University
USA SIVERSON, Rolf Isaac PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania History Running an Empire, Building a Nation: Korean Bureaucrats and the Manchukuo Legacy, 1931-1961 International Research Center for Japanese Studies
USA STEPHENS, Maura Haley PhD Candidate, University of Hawaii at Manoa Anthropology and Archaeology The Menstrual Body in Japan Ochanomizu University
USA STONE LUNDE, Paul Gilbert James PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley History Japanese members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: recruitment and conscription of Japanese civilians, medics, and soldiers into the PLA, 1945-1958 Waseda University
USA TOJIMBARA, Yue Eric PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Philosophy and Religion Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Buddhism, Print, and the Culture of Intellectual Debate in Early Modern Japan, 1600-1868 Waseda University
USA TRUSCOTT, Danica Marie PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Literature Gender and Voice in the Poetry of Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume Waseda University
Brazil CAMOÇA GONÇALVES DE OLIVEIRA, Alana PhD Canditate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro International Political Economy Between Japan and China: the Geopolitics of power in East Asia. Territorial disputes, nationalism and diplomacy in Sino-Japanese relations. Osaka University
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