CV
Research Interests
- Gender, sexuality, class Subjectivity
- The body and affect
- Labor and commodity
- Neoliberal globalization
- Human trafficking
- Japan and East Asia
Education
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
- M.A. Asian Studies, University of Oregon, 2001
- B.A. International Studies and Asian Studies, University of Oregon, magna cum laude, 1999
- A.A. English with honors, Kansai Gaidai Junior College, Japan, 1991
Employment
- Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU, 2019 -
- Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU, 2014 -2018
- Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU, 2007-2013
FELLOWSHIP AFFILIATION
- 2020 Visiting Associate Researcher, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), University of California, Los Angeles
- 2017-18 Research Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2017-18 Research Fellow, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Japan
- 2014-15 Special Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2013 Special Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2011-12 Special Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2004-05 Special Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Sociologies, University of Tokyo
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