On the Contributors
- On the Contributors
Guest Editors
Izumi Kuroishi is Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architectural Theory and History at the University of Pennsylvania, under the direction of Joseph Rykwert and Marco Frascari. Kuroishi has been an invited researcher at the Canadian Center of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University, Bartlett School of Architecture, Virginia Tech University, and TUDelft. Her publications examine interdisciplinary issues of architecture, specifically the works of Kon Wajirō, the role of ethnography, sketches and stories in architectural design, the idea of housing, and the design of crisis. She has contributed chapters to many books and journals: Design and Modernity in Asia: National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945–1990 (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (Routledge, 2021), Arch+ (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (Springer, 2019), Journal of Urban History (2019 and 2016), Journal of Architectural History (2018), Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (Routledge, 2017), Review of Japanese Culture and Society (2017), Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge, 2016), West 86th: (2016), and Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro's Modernologio (2014). She has organized intercultural projects and edited/authored Sensing Cities (2008–13), Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII (Ashgate, 2014), and Reports on Japanese Covid-19 Situation in Everyday Life (Academy of Lifeology, 2021).
(izumi-k@sccs.aoyama.ac.jp)
Jilly Traganou is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design. Her work examines urban and material questions related to social movements and participatory democracy, and her current research focuses on the role of embodied infrastructures in prefigurative politics. Traganou has been a fellow of GIDEST (The New School), the Fulbright, the Japan Foundation, the European Union Science and Technology Post-Doctorate Program, Bard Graduate Center, and Princeton Program in Hellenic Studies. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Design and Culture with Barbara Adams and Mahmoud Keshavarz. Traganou is author of Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation (Routledge, 2016), and The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), and editor of Design and Political Dissent (Routledge 2020); Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories with Sarah Lichtman (Routledge 2023, forthcoming), and Travel, Space, Architecture with Miodrag Mitrašinović (Ashgate, 2009). She has guest-edited several special issues including "Design in the Pandemic," with Barbara Adams and Betti Marenko, Design and Culture (2021); "Material Displacement," with Sarah Lichtman, Journal of Design History (2021) and "Design and Society in Modern Japan," with Sarah Teasley and Ignacio Adriasola Munoz, Review of Japanese Culture and Society (2016).
(traganog@newschool.edu)
Assistant Editor
Miho Tajima received her Ph.D. in Comparative Cultures from Josai International University and her B.A. in Japanese and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a translator, editor, and researcher of modern Japanese literature.
(mtalvarez@berkeley.edu)
Production Editor
Natta Phisphumvidhi is a freelance graphic designer. She holds a certificate in Interior Design & Interior Architecture from UC Berkeley Extension Program and received her MFA in graphic design from Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
(nattaphis@gmail.com)
Section Editors
Andre Haag is Assistant Professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has served as the literary section editor of the Review of Japanese Culture and Society since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Stanford University.
(andreh@hawaii.edu)
Rika Hiro is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Scripps College, California. Her doctoral dissertation looked at the aftereffects of the atomic bombs in arts and exhibition culture in postwar Japan. She co-founded the non-profit art space Art2102 of Los Angeles and co-curated Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950–1970 and Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968–1988 at the Getty Research Institute. She is currently researching Japanese diaspora artists in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles with a fellowship from the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.
(rikahiro@gmail.com)
Reiko Tomii is an independent art historian and curator who investigates post-1945 Japanese art in global and local contexts for the narration of global art history of modernisms. Co-director of PoNJA...
