Fellows

Mark Rowe

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: Bukkyo University
Project title: Female Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Japan

Benjamin Whaley

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Affiliation in Japan: Kanagawa University
Project title: Sketching Semitism: Jewish Identity in Postwar Man

Melek Ortabsai

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
Affiliation in Japan: Kanagawa University
Project title: A World of Friends: The Transnational Story of Modern Japanese Children’s Literature, 1870-1930

Tsuyoshi Ono

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Project title: The Grammar and Use of “Disfluent” Utterances in Japanese

Valerie Harvey

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Research Assistant, Teluq-Université
Affiliation in Japan: Konan University
Project title: Mothers’ changing image and fathers’ use of family public policies

Stephen Lofts

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Full Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, King’s University College at Western University
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Ernst Cassirer and the Kyoto School: The Construction of an Open Cosmopolitanism for a Global World

Daniel Adler

Ishibashi Foundation/ The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art & Art History, York University
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University and the National Museum of Modern Art
Project title: Tainted Goods: Assemblage Sculpture in Japan

Jesse Cumming

Ishibashi Foundation/ The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art
Position at time of fellowship: Independent Curator and Writer
Affiliation in Japan: Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive, National Film Archive of Japan, VIDEOART CENTER
Project title: Back and Forth: Experimental Media Art Between Japan and North America 1960-1975

Carin Holroyd

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Japan 5.0: In Pursuit of a Smart Social Strategy

Rudiger Meyer

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Director of Graduate Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University)
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Japanese Models for Flexible Dwelling Design in Canada

David Murakami Wood

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Securing the Olympics: Tokyo 2020

Nathan Renner

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Hokkaido University
Project title: Ainu Music, Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Multicultural Japan

Mark Rowe

Japanese Studies Fellowship
Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: Bukkyo University
Project title: Female Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Japan

Ekaterina Komova

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University
Project title: Affect and Emotional Communities in Genji monogatari and its Reception

Joshua Trichilo

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of Humanities, York University
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University
Project title: Vibrant Assemblages in Japan: An Intellectual History of “Posthuman” Ecological Thought and its Politics Since the Taishō Era

Vincent Wing-Chung Chan

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute
Project title: Tracking the Words in the Wind: Rumors and the Information Network in Warring-States Japan

Claude Yves Charron

Position at time of fellowship:Professor, The Montreal Institute of International Studies, L’Université du Québec à Montréal
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: The Cyber Attack Against SONY:New Challenges and Opportunities Ahead in Cyberdiplomacy and Cybersecurity

Nicholas Fraser

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University
Project title: Bureaucratic Discretion: A Comparative Study of Refugee Status Determination Procedures

Kimie Hara

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of History and Political Science, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: The San Francisco System: Politics, Security and Regional Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific

Alexander Yves-Andreas Schweinsberg

Current position: PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Affiliation in Japan: Osaka City University
Project title: The Hinterland Next Door: Uneven Modernity and Rural Decline in Wakayama

Amin Ghadimi

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: The Second Meiji Revolution: Democracy and the Japanese Empire, 1873-1890

Joshua Mostow

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Gakushūin University
Project title: The Hundred Poets and Early-Modern Literary Literacy

Robert Pontsioen

Position at time of fellowship: Researcher, Asian Cultural History Program, Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tsukuba
Project title: Strategies for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Traditional Craft Practice and Promotion in Tokyo

Mark Rowe

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Female Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Japan

Andrew Campana

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Affiliation in Japan: Keio University, Tokyo
Project title: Poetry Across Media in 20th-Century Japan

Namiko Kunimoto

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Ohio State University
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University, Tokyo
Project title: Anxious Bodies – Gender and Nation in Postwar Japanese Art

Marie-Josée Lorrain

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, Université du Québec à Montréal
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Improving Intra-Organizational Communication – A Lesson from Japanese Organizational Communication Practices

Aaron Peters

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Doshisha University, Kyoto
Project title: A Complicated Alliance: Indo-Japanese Relations, 1915-1947

Maxime Polleri

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, York University
Affiliation in Japan: Saitama University
Project title: Nuclear Politics – A Study of Experience, Expertise and Science in Fukushima, Japan

Marc Steinberg

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Media Strategies around Contents and Platforms in Japan

Scott W. Aalgaard

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Affiliation in Japan: Tokyo University of the Arts
Project title: Marginal Borderlands – Tracing Critical Voices on Japan’s Peripheral Frontiers

Jeffrey Alexander

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Working for Johnny Walker – Prestige, Masculinity, and Whisky Advertising in Postwar Japan

Ken Coates

Position at time of fellowship: Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan
Affiliation in Japan: Slavic & Eurasian Studies Research Centre, Hokkaido University
Project title: Responding to the 21st Century – Economic Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Areas and Small Towns in Hokkaido

 Joel Legassie

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Victoria
Affiliation in Japan: Date City Institute of Funkawan Culture
Project title: Knowing the North Country – Orders of Information in Modern Hokkaido, Japan 1869-1941

Joshua Baxter

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Nation, Capital, and the Sacred – A Historical Analysis of Yasukuni Shrine

Melanie Coughlin

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Nishitani’s Engagement with German Philosophy

Akane D’Orangeville

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal
Affiliation in Japan: Wako University
Project title: Mental Health, Cultural Communities and Youth in Urban Japan – Creatively Helping Each Other

Darcy Gauthier

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University
Project title: A Cross-Cultural Study of Ghost Narratives

Alexey Lushchenko

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Aoyama Gakuin University
Project title: Transformations of Genpei War Discourse in Premodern Japan and East Asia – Cultural Exchange, Language Choice, and Visions of the Past

Myriam Grondin

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal
Affiliation in Japan: Tokushima Prefectural Museum
Project title: Rupture, Transmission and Intermingling of Iya Heritage in Modern Times

Kazue Harada

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis
Affiliation in Japan: Keio University
Project title: Japanese Women’s Science Fiction in the Post-1970s – Liminal Bodies and the Representation of Gender

Konrad Kalicki

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Interests, Institutions, and the Politics of Managed Labour Migration in Japan, South Korea and Sweden

Tsuyoshi Ono

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Completing the Transcription – Analysis and Translation of Ikema Textual Material

Andre Sorensen

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Planning Processes – Visitors and Actions for Reconstruction and Revitalization in Iwate and Miyagi after 3/11

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, Carleton University
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Restoring Colonial Memories – Japanese Cinema in Taiwan from 1895-1945

Kevin Wilson

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
Affiliation in Japan: Daito Bunka University
Project title: Classical and Medieval Period Temple and Shrine Foundation Legends and the Hachiman Cult

Suzanne Beth

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Montreal
Affiliation in Japan: Nagoya University
Project title: Methodology in Intercultural Film Studies

James Manicom

Position at time of fellowship: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Project title: Bridging Troubled Waters – China, Japan, and the 21st-Century Maritime Order in East Asia

Mikhail Molchanov

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, St. Thomas University
Affiliation in Japan: Aoyama Gakuin University
Project title: Regionalism in Eurasia and Japan’s Promotion of East Asian Community

Cam Van Thi Phan

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Repentance Rituals – From the Textual Tradition to Religious Practices in Pre-Modern China

Martin Picard

Position at time of fellowship: Research Scholar, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: Wako University
Project title: The Culture of Japanese Video Games

Geoffrey Rockwell

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: Ritsumeikan University
Project title: Japanese Videogame Culture and Augmented Reality Games for Learning

Alexis Sornin

Position at time of fellowship: Head, Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: CCA Library Reference Collection on Modern and Contemporary Japanese Architecture

Jodie Beck

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: Nihon University
Project title: Contesting Fictions – Japanese Feminist Speculative and Science Fiction

Ken Coates

Position at time of fellowship: Professor of History and Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: Digital Media in Japan – The Content Revolution

Anne Commons

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: Osaka University
Project title: Shunrai’s Poetic Essentials – Canon Formation and Anecdotal Evidence in the Toshiyori Suino

Gideon Fujiwara

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Hirosaki University
Project title: Spirituality and Identity in 19th-Century Japan – Hirata Nativism and the Tsugaru Group

Kimie Hara

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: After San Francisco – The Post-World War II Japanese Peace Treaty and the Regional Conflicts

Carin Holroyd

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: N/A (short-term)
Project title: National Innovation and Environmental Technologies in Japan

Gergana Ivanova

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University
Project title: Reception and Invention: Heian Women in Japanese Modernity

Nancy Jane Night

Position at time of fellowship: Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: International Studies Program, Waseda University
Project title: Regionalization of higher Education in Asia – The Role of Japan

Victoria Lee

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, a Princeton University
Affiliation in Japan: The Kitazato Institute
Project title: The history of microbiology and industrial research in Japan, 1890-1930

Susan McDaniel

Position at time of fellowship: Prentice Research Chair & Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Welfare Capitalism and the Production/Protection nexus in Ageing and Changing Japan

Rudiger Meyer

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Packaging, its cultural dimension and ecological design

Sara Osenton

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Wako University
Project title: Parody, Paradox and Cyborgs: Contesting Histories, Bodies and Narratives in Contemporary Japanese Art

Maria Petrucci

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, History Department, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Kyushu University
Project title: On Ebbing Waters: Japanese Piratical Networks in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1640

Xiaoli Qin

Position at time of fellowship: Department of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum
Affiliation in Japan: Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties / Kyoto University
Project title: Research of Yagi Site Artifacts in Canada Royal Ontario Museum

Chih-mien(Adrian) Tseng

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Dandidate, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: Tokyo University of Agriculture
Project title: The Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-nature and Dao-nature of Medieval China

Michael Berthin

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, London School of Economics & Political Science
Affiliation in Japan: Advanced Telecommunications Research International
Project title: An Ethnographic Examination of Social Robots in Japan

Sean Callaghan

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Rikkyo University
Project title: Collectivities in Conflict – Life, Nation, and Affect in Prewar Japan

Eric Cazdyn

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Japanese Film Without Japan

Christopher Craig

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Columbia University
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University
Project title: The Middlemen of Modernity – Local Notables and Rural Development, 1890-1930

Aegean Leung

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Affiliation in Japan: University of Kitakyushu
Project title: Entrepreneurship as a Career Path of Highly Educated Japanese Women

Ken McLeod

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Narrating a Narration – Visual Kei and Japanese Identity

Jonathan Service

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Harvard University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Modernizing Music in Meiji Japan

Jeffrey Alexander

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Brewing and Distilling Success—The Postwar Recovery and Growth of Japan’s Beer and Spirit Producers

David Anderson

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Visitors’ Memories of the Aichi World Exposition 2005—A Study of the Psychology of Long-term Memory

Victor Hori

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: Nanzan Institute of Religion and culture
Project title: Little Jade—Language, Experience and Scholarship in Zen

Andrew Kamei-Dyche

Position at time of fellowship: PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
Affiliation in Japan: Saitama University
Project title: The Making of Modern Japanese Intellectual Culture—The Publisher Iwanami Shoten, 1913-1965

Satsuki Kawano

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University, Asia-Pacific Studies
Project title: A Sociocultural Analysis of Family Formation Processes in Contemporary Japan—The Perceptions of Available Resources to Raise one More Child among Married Parents of a Pre-school Child

Tsuyoshi Ono

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: The Ikema Project—Toward Audio and Video Documentation of Grammar and Discourse

Ming Tiampo

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Carleton University
Affiliation in Japan: Keio University
Project title: Cartographies of Gutai

Franz D. Hofer

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Cornell University
Affiliation in Japan: Nagoya University
Project title: Making History (into) Matter—Visual Representations of Traumatic Pasts in Postwar Japan and Germany

Namiko Kunimoto

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University
Project title: Portraits of the Sun—Violence and Nationhood in the Art of the Gutai Group

Levi McLaughlin

Position at time of fellowship: Graduate student, Princeton University
Affiliation in Japan:University of Tokyo
Project title: Soka Gakkai from the Ground up—A History and Ethnography of Soka Gakkai

Simon Nantais

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Victoria
Affiliation in Japan: Ritsumeikan University
Project title: Koreans under the American Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952

Robin O’Day

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts
Project title: Japan (Re)Structured—Under-employed Youth and Emerging Social Justice Movements

Alwyn Spies

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Global Grannies—A Cross-cultural Comparison of Older Women’s Reactions and Responses to ‘Winter Sonata’

Jie X. Yang

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Calgary
Affiliation in Japan: Rikkyo University
Project title: A Study on Narration of Medieval Picture Scrolls

Matthew Linley

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Australian National University
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University, Graduate School of Political Science & Economics
Project title: Can Public Diplomacy Affect Foreign Policy Attitude? A Comparison of Japanese Public Diplomacy in China and South Korea

Rositsa Mutafchieva

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: Osaka City University
Project title: The Construction of Buraku Vernacular in Contemporary Japan

Hisako Omori

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: Sophia University, Faculty of Comparative Culture
Project title: Modernity, Globalization, and Negotiated Identity—An Ethnographic Study of Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Japan

Yuko Yamade

Position at time of fellowship: Lecturer, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Montreal
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Project title: Japanese Women Translators in Meiji Japan—Origin of Women’s Writings and Cultural Translation

James Gellert

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Lakehead University
Affiliation in Japan: Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University
Project title: A Comparative Study of Popular Japanese and European Folktales

Seng Kuan

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Harvard University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Tange Kenzo and his Circle—The Internationalization of a Modernist

Dominic Steavu-Balint

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Stanford University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Seals of the Stars—Daoist Elements in Japanese Religion

James Tiessen

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Japan’s Top Hospitals—The Emergence and Identification of Best Practices

David Edgington

Position at time of fellowship: Director, Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Ritsumeikan University
Project title: Multicultural Planning in Japanese Cities

Caitlin Griffiths

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan:
Project title: Itinerant Nuns and Monks of Medieval Japan

Nam Lin Hur

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities & Sociology, College of Letters
Project title: Zen Monks and the Japanese Invasion of Chosen Korea, 1592-1598—The Case of Seisho Jotai

Satoshi Ikeda

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
Project title: Japan’s Failed Modernization and the Crisis of Ideology—East Asian Regional and World System Analyses of Seclusionism, Emperorism, and Corporocentrism

Ken Kawashima

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Hosei University, Deptartment of Economics
Project title: Colonialism, Culture and Korean Labor Power in Japan (1917-1937)

Anne McKnight

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Nakagami Kenji and Postwar Minoritarian Literature

Livia Rodica Monnet

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal
Affiliation in Japan: Kyoto University
Project title: Women’s Cinema and New Media Art in Contemporary Japan: History, Theory, Criticism, and a Digital Archive

Robert Carter

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Philosophy, Trent University
Affiliation in Japan: Kansai Gaidai
Project title: The Practice of Ethics/ The Ethics of Practice

Mark Driscoll

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Japanese Modernism as Global Modernism—Re-situating the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense

Joel Perron

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Center
Project title: Okakura Kazuko and Irreconcilable Japonismes

Romin Tafarodi

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Self-esteem in Japan and Canada—A Structural Analysis

Christina Laffin

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Columbia University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo, Historiographical Institute
Project title: Women and Cultural Production—A Socio-literary Critique of Heian and Kamakura Travel Diaries

Monica Dix

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Gakusyuin University
Project title: Women, Religion and Myth—Presentations of Chujohime in Religious and Secular Hand-Scroll Paintings

Eric Cazdyn

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Hosei University
Project title: Globalization and Japan—Between Aesthetics and Political-Economy

Jacob Kovalio

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Carleton University
Affiliation in Japan:
Project title: Asianism in Japan and Asia Pacific—Meaning, Importance and Future Potential Impact

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University
Affiliation in Japan: Osaka University
Project title: Post-classical Realism as the Theoretical Foundation of Japanese Security Policy

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Departments of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan:
Project title: General Nogi’s Wife—Gender and Japanese Modernity

Catherine Osborne

Position at time of fellowship: Independent scholar
Affiliation in Japan: N/A
Project title: Japan in the Year 2001

Teri Jane Ursacki

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Affiliation in Japan: Hokkaido University
Project title: Changes in Managerial Promotion Practices in Japanese Corporations—Extent, Determinants and Consequences

Raymond Vézina

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, School of Design, Université du Québec à Montréal
Affiliation in Japan:
Project title: A Study of Makoto Nakamura’s Posters for Shiseido

Thomas Heyd

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Victoria
Affiliation in Japan: Konan University
Project title: Nature in Japanese Culture—Beyond Paradox

Wenran Jian

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Japan’s Response to the Rise of China as a Potential Superpower

Kerri Sakamoto

Position at time of fellowship: Writer
Affiliation in Japan: Meiji University
Project: Research for novel Love in the Flesh

Setsu Shigematsu

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, Cornell University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Second Wave Feminist Theory in Japan—Activists, Academics and the Media

Alwyn Spies

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Ritsumeikan University
Project title: Reading the Self—Shoujo Fiction

Jill Grant

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Affiliation in Japan: Chukyo University, Department of Sociology
Project title: Planning Sustainable Communities in Japan

Nam Lin Hur

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: Kanagawa University
Project title: Death and Social Order in the Tokugawa World

Jirina Marton

Position at time of fellowship: Author/ Illustrator
Affiliation in Japan: Intercultural Education Institution
Project title: Japanese Myths and Tales in Western Culture

John McCarthy

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tokyo
Project title: Modern Japanese Literature and National Origins

Joe Moore

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Affiliation in Japan: Wako University
Project title: The Post-War Revival of Japanese Jazz

Alan Belcher

Position at time of fellowship: Sculptor & Photographer
Affiliation in Japan: Wacoal Art Center
Project: Artist residency and research

Françoise Cormier

Position at time of fellowship: Artist
Affiliation in Japan: Canadian Embassy in Tokyo
Project title: The Touched and the Untouched

Paul David Hoelzley

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Trinity Western University
Affiliation in Japan: Gifu Music Therapy Institute
Project title: N/A

Livia Rodica Monnet

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Literature, Université de Montréal
Affiliation in Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kokusai Nihon Bunka Center)
Project title: Cinema and Cinematic Visuality in Japanese Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

Sinh Vinh

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Affiliation in Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kokusai Nihon Bunka Center)
Project title: N/A

Alan Thompson

Position at time of fellowship: PhD candidate, University of Toronto
Affiliation in Japan: Aoyama Gakuin University
Project title: Intercultural Varieties of English in Japan

Yoko Collier-Sanuki

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of British Columbia
Affiliation in Japan: International Christian University
Project title: Functions of Subordinate Clauses in Japanese Conversational and Written Discourse

Jacob Kovalio

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Carleton University
Affiliation in Japan: Daito Bunka University
Project title: Yudayakaron—Japanese Anti-Semitism as Ultranationalism

Laure Lynne Paquette

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, Lakehead University
Affiliation in Japan: The Japan Forum on International Relations, Inc.
Project title: Japan as the Linchpin of Canadian Policy in East Asia

Paul Parker

Position at time of fellowship: Professor, University of Waterloo
Affiliation in Japan: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (Kokuritsu Kankyo Kenkyu Sho)
Project title: Japanese Trade and the Environment—An Evaluation of the Ecological Footprint of Japanese Commodity Trade

Catherine Russell

Position at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Concordia University
Affiliation in Japan: Waseda University Faculty of Letters
Project title: Women in Japanese Film 1930-1960

Thomas Waldichuk

Position at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Affiliation in Japan: University of Tsukuba
Project title: Quality of Life of the Elderly in Konjuka Settlements in Tokyo