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State/Region | Name | Current Position | Area of Research | Project Title | Affiliation in Japan (※Not necessary for short-term fellowship) |
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USA | LIE, John | Professor, University of California, Berkeley | Sociology | Stationary Society Japan | The University of Tokyo |
USA | OSHIMA, Ken Tadashi | Professor, University of Washington | Architecture | Rediscovering Japanese Urban Space | The University of Tokyo |
USA | ROQUET, Paul | Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cultural Studies | Narrating AR/VR in Japan | Tokyo University of the Arts |
USA | SEAMAN, Amanda Catherine | Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Literature | Patient Writes: Stories of Illness and Illness as Story in Modern Japan | Sophia University |
Mexico | CABRERA TORRECILLA, Angelica | Visiting Scholar, The College of Mexico | Japanese Studies | Worshipping Ancestors: A Comparative Approach between Okinawan Kyū Bon and Mexican Día de Muertos | University of the Ryukyus |
Uruguay | SANTINI SALZANO, Tyana | Assistant Professor, ORT University | Urban History | An Urban Environmental History of Kyoto's Waterways during Modernization (1868-1945) | Kyoto University |
State/Region | Name | Current Position | Area of Research | Project Title | Affiliation in Japan (※Not necessary for short-term fellowship) |
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USA | AZUMA, Eiichiro | Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania | History | The Unknown History of a Tropical Colonial Nexus in the Imperial Pacific: The Rise of Commodity Crop Production in Japanese-Ruled Taiwan and the Influences of Hawai'i's Settler Colonialist Agriculture | |
USA | HYMANS, Jacques E. C. | Associate Professor, University of Southern California | Political Science / Economics | The Political Economy of Geothermal Energy in Japan | |
USA | RAVINA, Mark Jason | Professor, Emory University | History | A Search for Missing Monks: Demographic Data and anti-Buddhist Violence |
State/Region | Name | Current Position | Area of Research | Project Title | Affiliation in Japan (※Not necessary for short-term fellowship) |
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Canada | KOMOVA, Ekaterina | PhD Candidate, Columbia University | Premodern Japanese Literature | Affect and Emotional Communities in Genji monogatari and its Reception | Waseda University |
Canada | TRICHILO, Joshua Gordon | PhD Candidate, York University | Japanese Literature and Philosophy | Vibrating in Sympathy: Sound, Environment, and Media in Post-3.11 Art Collectives | Waseda University |
USA | BOOKMAN, Mark | PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania | Cultural Studies | 100 Years of Disability in Japan: Politics, Prosthetics, and the Popular Imagination | The University of Tokyo |
USA | GABRIELSON, Carl Andrew | PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara | Anthropology, Archaeology | Every Soldier an Ambassador?: Militarized Cultural Exchange and the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance | Meio University |
USA | KELLER, Matthew Paul | PhD Candidate, University of Southern California | Japanese Religion and Literature | The Appeal of the Fox: Inari shinko and Premodern Japan | Yokohama City University |
USA | MOLINA, Christopher Hay | PhD Candidate, University of Hawaii, Manoa | Music | Composing for Hogaku Instruments in Tokyo | Senzoku Gakuen College of Music |
USA | NANAVATI, Abhishek | PhD Candidate, Georgetown University | History | Homes, Hygiene, and Hydroponics: Co-Producing the “American Dream” Under Occupation in Japan, Okinawa, and South Korea, 1945-1972 | Waseda University |
USA | PAN, Keyao | PhD Candidate, University of Chicago | History | Claiming a Place in the "New" Japan: Human Rights and War Experience Activism in Postwar Japan | Kanto Gakuin University |
USA | PITT, Jon | PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley | Literature | A Self Among the Trees: Forestry and the Construction of Identity in Modern Japanese Literature and Film | Waseda University |
USA | SIERCKS, Eric James | PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles | Literature | Scaling the Nation: Local Literary Production and National Literature 1946-1955 | Waseda University |
USA | SPIVEY, Hudson Douglas | PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles | Geography | Cultures of Power: Energy Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in Postwar Japan | Meiji Gakuin University |
USA | WARGULA, Carolyn Jane | PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh | Art History | Embodying the Buddha: The Presence of Women in Japanese Buddhist Hair Embroideries, 1200-1700 | International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
USA | YANG, Serena | PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis | Music | "John Cage Shock" and Its Aftermath in Japan | Kyoto City University of Arts |
Brazil | PORTO DA SILVA, Diogo Cesar | PhD Candidate, Federal University of Minas Gerais | Philosophy | Kuki Shuzo's Philosophy of Literature or How Can We Read / Translate Japanese Philosophy | Kyoto University |
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