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2006 Fulbright Grantees

2006~American Grantees


Distinguished Lecturer / Visiting Lecturer / Lecturer-Researcher / Researcher / Journalist / Graduate Research Fellow / Fulbright Fellow / International Education Administrator


Distinguished Lecturer

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
OKIHIRO, Gary Y.
Professor, Columbia U.
American Studies Association Japan / American History; Framing American Studies in Trans-Pacific Perspective


Visiting Lecturer

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
CHUNG, Haeja K.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State U.
U. of the Ryukyus - Law and Letters / American Literature; Dialectical relationship between Japan and the U.S.
GARRY, Ann
Professor and Chair, California State U. Los Angeles
U. of Tokyo / Philosophy; Contemporary American philosophy and gender studies
OLWELL, Russell B.
Associate Professor, Eastern Michigan U.
Kyoritsu Women's U. - Int'l Cultural Studies / History; History of Science and Technology; engaging Japanese students with U.S. history through debates about science and technology
PRATT, Richard C.
Professor/Program Director, U. of Hawaii at Manoa
Japan Women's U. - Letters, Sophia U. - Law / Public Administration; Public service education, organization change and leadership in a period of transition in Japan
ROSENBLUM, Karen E.
Associate Professor, George Mason U.
U. of Tokyo, Japan Women's U. / Sociology; Contemporary American diversity emphasizing the American experience
SEIDEL, Kathryn L.
Dean and Professor, U. of Central Florida
Tsuda College - Letters / American Literature; The culture of honor in the American South

SIMON, Bruce N.
Associate Professor,
SUNY - College at Fredonia

Kyushu U., Seinan Gakuin U. / American Literature; Early American literature as a multiethnic and postcolonial phenomenon



Lecturer/Researcher

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme

GALASKIEWICZ, Joseph J.
Professor, U. of Arizona

U. of Tsukuba / Sociology; Social organization; nonprofit organizations and youth services in Japan
LIEBS, Chester H.
Adjunct Professor and George Pearl Fellow, U. of New Mexico
U. of Tokyo - Civil Engineering / Architecture / Lessons for livable communities from the everyday intangible cultural heritage of Japan


Researcher

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
BROWNELL, Blaine E.
Architect/Independent Scholar
Tokyo U. of Science / Urban and Regional Planning; Design at the Edge: Innovation in Japanese Architecture and Urban Planning
BUNTROCK, Dana L.
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
U. of Tokyo / Architecture; Alternative Modernism in Japan
DYM, Jeffrey A.
Associate Professor, California State U. Sacramento
Kyoto gakuen U. - Media Culture / Japanese History; Kamishibai, A History: From the Streets to the Classroom
LINCICOME, Mark E.
Associate Professor & Chair, College of the Holy Cross
Rikkyo U. - Law and Politics/ Japanese History; Perpheral Visions: Imaginig Asia in Japan and Australia, 1853 - 1933
RAVINA, Mark E.
Associate Professor, Emory U.
Int'l Research Ctr for Japanese Studies / Japanese History; Imagining Comity of Nations: the Japanese nation-state and world society
SASAKI-UEMURA, Wesley M.
Associate Professor, U. of Utah
Rikkyo U. - Law / Japanese History; The Politics of Art in Postwar Japan

SMITKA, Michael J.
Professor, Washington and Lee U.

Chiba U. - Law and Economics / Economic Theory; Grapping with the Paradox of Thrift: The Evolution of Japan's Economy, 1970 - 2005

VAN COMPERNOLLE, Timothy
Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
Waseda U. - Int'l liberal studies, Keio U. - Fukuzawa Memorial Center / Japanese Literature; Ambition in Japan: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1872 - 1932


Journalist

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme

ESSOYAN, Susan E.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin

  Architecture; New Life for Minka
SHAW, Jeffrey
Free-Lance Writer
Okinawa Environmental Network / Environmental Studies; Wild Okinawa: Nature and Culture in the 'Galapagos of the East'


Graduate Research Fellow

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
ANDERSON, Emily
Ph.D. Student, U. of California, Los Angeles
Doshisha U. / Japanese History; Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
BEVILLE, Ryan K.
Ph.D. Student, U of California, Berkeley
U. of Tokyo - Arts and Sciences/ Japanese Literature; Trajectories in 20th Century Japanese poetic form
CAMP, Margaret
Ph.D. Student, U. of Arizona
Keio U. - Letters / Linguistics; Japanese lesbian interactions: secuality, gender identity and language
CAREY, Conan D.
Ph. D. Student, Stanford U.
Nagoya U. - Letters /Japanese Literature; Japanese tales of the supernatural
ETTLINGER, Jason A.
Ph.D. Student, Cornell U.
Osaka U. - Human Sciences / Anthropology; Sustainablity and its colaborative possibilities in Japan
FASAN, Jacques T.
Ph. D. Student, U. of Chicago
U. of Tokyo - Humanities and Sciences/ Japanese History; Construction of a national relifious identity in Japan

IRIZARRY, Joshua A.
Ph.D. Student, U. of Michigan

U. of Tokyo - Humanities and Sciences/ Anthropology; Visitors at the gateless gate

KWON, Kyong-Mi D.
Ph.D. Student, Harvard U.
Waseda U. / Literature; Beyond Nationalism: Hybridity in language and culture
ROH, David S.
Ph.D. Student, U. of California, Santa Barbara
Waseda U. - School of Int'l Liberal Studies / Literature; The infinite other: Korean Japanese Diaspora Literature
SHAUGHNESSY, Orna E.
Ph.D. Student, U. of California, Berkeley
Pending. / The role of walking and movement in shaping the perceptual parameters and limits of experience within the narrative prose of Meiji period writer Kanagaki Robun and others
SMITH, Scott E.
Ph.D. Student, Indiana U.
U. of Tsukuba - Inst. of Health and Sport / Japanese History; Contesting the past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics
SOOUDI, Olga K.
Ph.D. Student, Yale U.
Waseda U. - Letters, Arts, and Sciences / Anthropology; Travel, migration, and contemporary Japanese self-fashioning
SUZUKI, Mamiko C.
Ph.D. Student, U. of Chicago
Ochanomizu U. - Letters and Education / Japanese Literature; Kishidas Toshiko's diary and Meiji women's writing
WALLEY, Thomas G.
Ph.D. Student, Harvard U.
Senshu U. /Japanese Literature; Takizawa Bakin's Nineteenth-Century romance Eight Dogs
WILLS, Steven M.
Ph.D. Student, Columbia U.
U. of Tokyo - Arts and Schiences / Japanese History; City of fire: Urban conflagration, culture, and ecology in Edo-Tokyo, 1800 - 1900


Fulbright Fellow

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
COKER, Caitlin C.
Dance Ethnography
U. of South Carolina
Received BA (5/06)
Kobe College - Music / Anthropology; Japanese contemporary dance within its socio-cultural context
CROWEL, Hailey M.
English and Comparative Literature
Occidental College
Received BA(6/06)
Doshisha U. - American Studies/ Communication; The evolution of literature publication in Japan
DePAULO, Julie A.
World Religion
Ohio U.
Received BA(6/06)
Kumamoto U. - Letters / East Asian Studies; Spirituality in a modern Japanese community
GUNASEKARA, Lasantha L.
Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell U.
Received BA(1/06)
Kwansei Gakuin U. - Japan and East Asia, Sociology and Social Work / Public Health; Risk factors for maternal child abuse
LEISURE, John L.
History and Political Science
U. of Southern California
Received BA(5/06)
Kanazawa U. - Kanazawa U. Short-term Exchange Program / East Asian Studies; Japanese language study and Kanazawa urban development
MIYAKE, Lisa M.
Mass Communication/Asian American Studies
U. of California, Los Angeles
Received BA(6/06)
Konan U. - Sociology / Mass Communication; The changeing face of Japanese youth

NORRINGTON, Bryan C.
Int'l Political Economy
Colorado College
Received BA(5/06)

Kobe U. - Int'l Cooperation Studies / Public Administration and Policy; Japan's ODA policy and nongovernmental organizations

PALESKO, Amy J.
Chemistry
College of William and Mary
Received BS(5/06)
Osaka U. - Institute of Science and Industrial Research / Chemistry; Cost impact of lead-free electornics
SELTZER, James E.
Interdisciplinary
Amherst College
Received BA (5/06)
Kyoto Seika U. - Manga / Sociology; Research and production of Japanese animation

TARCOV, Marianne S.
East Asian Language and Culture
U. of Chicago
Received BA(6/06)

Kanto Gakuin U. - Humanities / Japanese Literature; Study of the poet, Kuroda Saburo
THOMPSON, Amity I.
History and Int'l Studies
Kansas State U.
Received BA(12/05)
Tohoku U. - Arts and Letters / Japanese History; Intensive language study and research on history
THOMPSON, David E.
Electrical Engineering
Kansas State U.
Received BS (5/06)
Tohoku U. - Engineering / Engineering; Intensive language study and research on robotics
TURNER, Brian C.
Architecture
Cooper Union
Received BA (5/06)
Kyushu U. - Human-Environment Studies / Architecture; The Miyadaiku hand and the shrine roof


International Education Administrator

 
Name
ANGEVINE, Marci L.
Int'l Student Advisor, Int'l Student and Scholar Services,
Vanderbilt U.
CARPENTER, Kenneth D.
Associate Director, Int'l Programs and Studies, U. of New Mexico
GODWIN, John M.
Chief International Officer, Office of Global Education,
California State U., Sacramento
JOHNSON, Charles A.
Dean/ Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts,
Texas A & M U.
OTIV, Urmi
Associate Director, Center for Int'l Faculty and Student, Rutgers, The State U. of New Jersey
TAN, Lay Tuan
Associate Director, Office of Int'l Education and Exchange,
California State U., Fullerton