Notes on Contributors
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Daniel P. Aldrich is professor in and director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University. He is, most recently, coeditor of Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters: Community Ties, Market Mechanisms, and Governance (Springer, 2015) and Healthy, Resilient and Sustainable Communities after Disasters (National Academy of Sciences, 2015). He is currently completing a project on the 3/11 disasters.
Robert Aspinall is a professor at Doshisha University. Author of International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk (Global Oriental, 2013), he is now working on a comparative study of elite boys' education in Japan and England.
Axel Berkofsky is a senior lecturer at the University of Pavia. He is coeditor of Understanding China Today: An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations (Springer, 2017) and is doing research on Asian history and security and on relations between China and the German Democratic Republic.
Heather Blair is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. She recently published "Mothers of the Buddhas," Monumenta Nipponica (2016); "Ladylike Religion," History of Religions (2016); and Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015). Her research is on religious lifestyles of the Heian aristocracy and on contemporary Japanese picture books.
Rosina Buckland is a senior curator at the National Museum of Scotland. She is author of Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints (National Museum of Scotland, 2013), and her current research is on preparatory drawings by Taki Katei (1830–1901). At present she is planning the museum's new East Asia gallery.
Peter Cave is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Manchester. He is author of Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education (Chicago, 2016) and is doing research on education and childhood in Japan, 1900–1945.
James l. Ford is a professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University. He is author of The Divine Quest, East and [End Page 532] West: A Comparative Study of Ultimate Realities (SUNY, 2016) and "Jōkei: Revisioning Hossō Doctrine in Early Medieval Japan," in Kopf, ed., Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy (Springer, 2016). He is currently doing research on the sociocultural history of Mahayana Buddhism.
Gideon Fujiwara is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge. He is author of "Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and His Kaganabe Journal," in Nosco, Ketelaar, and Kojima, eds., Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan (Brill, 2015). He is completing a book manuscript on kokugaku and communities in transition.
Curtis Anderson Gayle is an associate professor at Waseda University. He has recently published "The Importance and Legacy of Marxist History in Japan," in Wang and Iggers, eds., Marxist Historiographies: A Global Perspective (Routledge, 2015). His research is on the Meiji centenary and culturalism during the high-growth period.
Patricia J. Graham is an adjunct research associate in the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. Her most recent publications include "Langdon Warner's Vision for the Japanese Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1930–1935," Journal of the History of Collection special issue: "Ideas of Asia in the Museum" (2016). Among her current research projects is a book about the role of art in U.S.-Japan cultural diplomacy and U.S. collectors' taste in Japanese art in the first half of the twentieth century.
David J. Gundry is an associate professor at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (Brill, 2017) and "Samurai Lovers, 'Samurai Beasts': Warriors and Commoners in Ihara Saikaku's Way of the Warrior Tales," Japanese Studies (2015). He is working on annotated translations of Ihara Saikaku's Budō denraiki (1687) and Honchō nijū fukō (1686).
Nanyan Guo is an associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. She is author of Shiga Naoya de...
