Faculty Publications

Here are some recent publications from our faculty. For more publications, please visit individual faculty members’ homepages (linked from their profiles on this site).

Anne Allison

2019. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. New York: Routledge.

David R. Ambaras

2021. Amy Stanley, Hannah Shepherd, Sayaka Chatani, David Ambaras and Chelsea Szendi Schieder, “‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct,” The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus 19, Issue 5, Number 13 (March 1, 2021)
2021. Timothy Amos, Maren Ehlers, Anne McKnight, David Ambaras and Ian Neary, “Doing Violence to Buraku History: J. Mark Ramseyer’s Dangerous Inventions,” The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus 19, Issue 9, Number 9 (May 1, 2021)
2019 (with Kate McDonald). “What We’re Doing.” In David R. Ambaras and Kate McDonald, eds., Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.
2019. “Border Controls, Migrant Networks, and People out of Place between Japan and China.” In David R. Ambaras and Kate McDonald, eds., Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.
2019 (with Curtis Fletcher, Erik Loyer, and Kate McDonald). “Building a Multivocal Spatial History: Scalar and the Bodies and Structures Project (parts 1-3),” PLATFORM: A digital forum for conversations about buildings, spaces, and landscapes.
2018. Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities, 2019.

Barbara Ambros

2021 (with I.J. Miller). “(East) Asian Studies.” In M. Roscher, A. Krebber, and B. Mizelle, eds., Handbook of Historical Animal Studies. Munich: DeGruyter, 117–130.
2020. “Celebrating Creation and Commemorating Life: Ritualizing Pet Death in the U.S. and Japan.” In P. Stearns, ed., The Routledge History of Death since 1800. New York: Routledge, 460–480.
2019. “Partaking of Life: Buddhism, Meat-Eating, and Sacrificial Discourses of Gratitude in Contemporary Japan.” Religions 10: 279–300.

Cemil Aydin

2021. “Universalizing International Law via Caliphate Diplomacy: On Late Ottoman Strategies of Inclusion into the/a Eurocentric Imperial World Order.” In D. Motadel and H. Chehabi, eds., Struggles for Sovereignty: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019. “Osmanlı Hilafetinin Uluslararası Siyasetin Kutsal ve Sekülerin Müphemliği (Ambivalence of Sacred and Secular in the International Politics of the Ottoman Caliphate).” Cogito, 94: 31-57.
2018. “Modern Muslim Cosmopolitanism between the Logics of Race and Empire.” In Cosmopolitanism in Conflict. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 113-145.

Jan Bardsley

2021. Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Inger Brodey

2022. “Austen’s Paradoxical Place in Indian Cinema.” In Austen in Asia. Eds. Kimiyo Ogawa and Tristanne Connolly. London: Palgrave McMillan UK.

Yunchuan Chen

2021. “Anaphor Reconstruction in Japanese Relative Clauses.” Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 22, 2: 243–71.
2020. “Acquisition of Japanese Relative Clauses by L1 Chinese Learners: Evidence from Reflexive Pronoun Resolution.” Second Language Research.
2019. “Two Types of Possessive Passives in Japanese.” Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 45, 2: 192–210.

Leo Ching

2019. Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia. Durham: Duke University Press.
2018. “Reconciliation otherwise: Intimacy, indigeneity, and the Taiwan difference.” Boundary 2 45, 3 : 27–44.

Marc Driscoll

2022. “Terrorism against Modernity: The Amaksu Incident and Japan’s Age of Terror,” in C. Dietze and C. Verhoeven, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press.
2020. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Ecological Protection in Asia. Durham: Duke University Press.
2019. “Your Place or My Place? A Question from the Margins of the Japanese Empire.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 79, 1: 257-264.

Elizabeth Havice

2021 (with M. Marschke er al.). “COVID-19, Instability and Migrant Fish Workers in Asia.” Maritime Studies 20, 1: 87-99.
2018. “Unsettled Sovereignty and the Sea: Mobilities and More-Than-Territorial Configurations of State Power.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, 5: 1280-1297.
2018 (with L. Campling). “The Global Environmental Politics and Political Economy of Seafood Systems.” Global Environmental Politics 18, 2: 72-92.

Richard Jaffe

2019. Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2018. “D. T. Suzuki and the Two Cranes: American Philanthropy and Suzuki’s Global Agenda.” Matsugaoka Bunko Kenkyū Nenpō 32: 29–58.

Naoko Kurokawa

2018 (with Mari Mori and Gordon Worley). “Speculation on the naming of Moyamoya disease.” Journal of Neuroradiology 45, 4: 261–62.

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

2021 (edited with Takushi Odagiri and Moonim Baek). Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2021. Ch’inmilhan Cheguk. Translated by Jin-gyu Kim, Ahyoung In, and Ki-in Chong. Seoul: Somyong Press.
2020. “The Figure of the Translator: Kim Saryang between Korean and Japanese Literatures.” In Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature. London and New York: Routledge: 215-224.
2019. “Transcolonial Mis en Abyme.” In Rediscovering Korean Cinema. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
2018. “Japanophone Literature? A Transpacific Query on Absence.” Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies 64, 3.
2017. “Disavowal and Intimacy.” Sanghŏ Hakpo 49, 1.

Jessica Liao

2021 (with Saori N. Katada). “Institutions, Ideation, and Diffusion of Japan’s and China’s Overseas Infrastructure Promotion Policies.” New Political Economy.
2021. “Confronting China’s and the United States’ ASEAN Policies.” In ASEAN in a Changing World, ed. Agata Ziętek and Grzegorz Gil. New York: Peter Lang.
2021. “China’s Green Mercantilism and Environmental Governance: A New Belt and Road to the Global South?” Wilson Center China Fellow Report. Washington, DC.
2020. “The Club-based Climate Regime and OECD Negotiations on Restricting Coal-fired Power Export Finance.” Global Policy.
2020 (with Saori N. Katada). “Geoeconomics, easy money, and political opportunism: the Perils under China and Japan’s high-Speed rail competition.” Contemporary Politics 27, 1: 1-22.
2020 (with Saori N. Katada). “China and Japan in pursuit of Infrastructure Development Leadership Competition or Convergence?” Global Governance 26, 3: 449–472.
2019 (with Ngoc-Tram Dang). “The nexus of security and economic hedging: Vietnam’s strategic response to Japan–China infrastructure financing competition.” The Pacific Review 33, 3-4: 669-696.
2019. “A Good Neighbor of Bad Governance? China’s Energy and Mining Development in Southeast Asia.” Journal of Contemporary China 28, 118: 575-591.

Levi McLaughlin

2020 (with Aike P. Rots, Jolyon B. Thomas, and Chika Watanabe). “Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88, 3: 693-725.
2020. “Japanese Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Preliminary Report.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 18, 9, 3.
2019. Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Christopher Nelson

2019 (with B. Weiss and H. Paxson). “Editors’ Introduction.” Cultural Anthropology 34, 1: 1-2.
2018 (with B. Weiss and H. Paxson). “How Cultural Anthropology Operates.” Cultural Anthropology (Fieldsites): 1456.

Simon Partner

2020. “Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945.” Journal of Japanese Studies 46, 1: 195–99.
2018. “Japan’s global peace moment.” Japan Forum 30, 4: 543–63.
2017. The Merchant’s Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. New York: Columbia University Press.

Morgan Pitelka

2022. Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2022. “The Reception of Korean Ceramics in Japan (1537-1647).” A resource for the online exhibition “Stories of Clay: Discovering Choson Korean Potters in Tokugawa Japan.”
2021 (with R. Tanimura and T. Masuda). Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Correspondence of Warlords, Tea, Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats. Berkeley, CA: Institute for East Asian Studies.
2021. “The Life and Afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616).” In The Tokugawa World, eds. Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao. New York: Routledge.
2019. “Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy.” in What is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan, eds., M.E. Berry and M. Yonemoto. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
2018 (editor). Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources. 4 vols. Material Cultures; Visual Cultures; Printed Matter; and Sites and Patrons, Knowledge and Power. London: Bloomsbury.
2017. “The Return of Seduction.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77, 2: 153-163.
2017. “Chinese Ceramics and Warrior Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Japan.” In Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, eds. Dora Ching, Louise Cort, and Andrew Watsky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2017. “Form and Function: Tea Bowls and the Problem of Zen in Chanoyu.” In Zen and Material Culture, eds. Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jennifer Smith

2020. “From Experiment Results to a Constraint Hierarchy with the ‘Rank Centrality’ Algorithm.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5: 144-149.
2019. “Nonce-loan Judgments and Impossible-Nativization Effects in Japanese.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4: 26.
2018. “Stratified Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar and Emergent Core-periphery Structure.” In Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester, eds. R. Bennett et al. University of California Santa Cruz.

Eika Tai

2020. Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Cover of McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution

Cover of Kwon, Theorizing Colonial Cinema

Cover of Allison, Permitted and Prohibited Desires

Cover of Driscoll, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven