Research Interests: Semiotics, Nuclear Things, Toxicity, Waste, Disaster Studies, Environment, Energy, Robotics, Wildlife, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Applied Anthropology, East Asia (Japan), Indigenous Studies
Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes...
Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food...
Dartmouth College, Class of 2024, A.B. in Art History and A.B. in Computer Science
China and Japan: Ink Painting; Religious Visual Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Art; Transnational Artistic Narratives; Contemporary Art.
University of Chicago, Art History B.A., 2025
China and transnational: Jiahe works on East Asian Buddhist material culture. She is interested in the in/stability and lives of religious objects, visions, social dynamics of secrecy, and embodiment. More...
Williams College, B.A. Art History with Honors and Japanese, 2025
Japan and China: Medieval Japanese art, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Zen painting, screen painting, museum studies
Middlebury College, B.A. Philosophy & History, 2025
China and Japan: Medieval-Premodern Chinese and Japanese intellectual and religious history, Buddhist and Daoist philosophy.
Brown University, A.B. in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, 2025
Japan: Premodern and Early Modern Japanese poetry and poetics; history of writing; vernacularization; critical theory; intellectual history
Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts in History, Minor in Japanese Language, 2025
Japan: Modern Japanese history; cultural history; transnational history; leisure; exhibitions; tourism.
Harvard College B.A. in Social Studies and East Asian Studies, Degree Candidate 2026
Japan: early modern and contemporary Japan; legal history; law and governance; classical and contemporary Japanese literature; agricultural production and cultural...
