Notes on Contributors
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Simon Avenell is an associate professor at Australian National University. His most recent publications include “What Is Asia for Us and Can We Be Asians? The New Asianism in Contemporary Japan,” Modern Asian Studies (2014). He is at work on a monograph about Japan in the global environmental movement.
James R. Bartholomew is a professor emeritus of modern Japanese history at the Ohio State University. His recent publications include “Toward a History of Christian Scientists in Japan,” in Doak, ed., Xavier’s Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture (British Columbia, 2011), and his latest research is on Japanese candidates for the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, chemistry, and physics, 1905–50.
Michael Baskett is an associate professor at the University of Kansas. He is author of “Japan’s Film Festival Diplomacy in Cold War Asia,” The Velvet Light Trap (2014), and continues his research on Japanese cold war culture in East Asia.
Amy Borovoy is an associate professor in the East Asian Studies Department at Princeton University. Her most recent publications include “Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Postwar Japan,” Journal of Japanese Studies (2012). She is writing a manuscript on classical texts in Japan studies that used Japan as a laboratory for exploring alternatives to U.S. liberal democracy.
Roselee Bundy is a professor of Japanese language and literature at Kalamazoo College. Her recent publications include “Men and Women at Play: The Male-Female Poetry Contests of Emperor Murakami’s Court,” Japanese Language and Literature (2012), and “Gendering the Court Woman Poet: Pedigree and Portrayal in Fukuro zōshi,” Monumenta Nipponica (2012). Her current research is on women and gender in poetry contests and on waka practice in general.
Thomas W. Burkman is a research professor of Asian studies, emeritus, at University of Buffalo, the State University of New York. He is author of Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938 (Hawai‘i, 2008) and is doing research on reconciliation among Japan and its East Asian neighbors. [End Page v]
Mark E. Caprio is a professor at Rikkyo University. He recently published “Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (2014), and is now doing research on the postliberation occupation and the legacy of Japanese imperialism.
Margaret H. Childs is an associate professor at the University of Kansas. She is author of “Coercive Courtship Strategies and Gendered Goals in Classical Japanese Literature,” Japanese Language and Literature (2010), and is working on an analysis of Kagerō nikki and on a translation of Yowa no nezame.
Elyssa Faison is an associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan (California, 2007) and coeditor of Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class (Routledge, 2009).
William J. Farge, S.J. is an associate professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is author of “Adapting Language to Culture: Translation Projects of the Jesuit Missions in China and Japan,” in Rozbicki and Ndege, eds., Cross-cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and is doing research on Christianity in eighteenth-century Japan.
Daniel H. Foote is a professor of law at the University of Tokyo and the University of Washington. His numerous recent publications include the co-authored article “Judicial Lawmaking and the Creation of Legal Norms in Japan: A Dialogue,” in Haley and Takenaka, eds., Legal Innovations in Asia: Judicial Lawmaking and the Influence of Comparative Law (Elgar, 2014). His research is on Japanese criminal justice reform in historical perspective.
Philip Garrett is a research associate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of “Holy Vows and Realpolitik: Preliminary Notes on Kōyasan’s Early Medieval Kishōmon,” e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions (2013), and continues his research on monastic social and economic power in Japan.
Tom Gill is a professor of social anthropology at...
