History and Memory; Everyday Life; Ethnography; Critical Theory; Storytelling, Ritual and Performance; Japan and Okinawa. Central theme of his research has been transformational possibilities of every day life.
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas experience in Japan
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Fulbright Fellow, Declined a Fulbright-Hays, a Burkhardt Fellow, as well as a fellow at the National Humanities Center and UNC's Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 149 Marxism and Anthropology • ANTH 330 Japan, Myth and Memory • ANTH 331 Anthropology of Memory • ANTH 701 Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography • ANTH 702 Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography • ANTH 897 History, Memory, Forgetting • Anthropological courses (149: Marxism and Anthropology, 330: Japan, Myth, and Memory, 331: Anthropology of Memory, 701 & 702: Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography, 897: History, Memory and Forgetting)
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Koryūkyū: Iha Fuyū’s Archeology of the Future. A critical introduction and translation of the work of the Japanese scholar and critic Iha Fuyū. Book in preparation
• 2013 “Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 11, No. 2. March 18, 2013.
• 2013 “In a Samurai Village.” Critical Readings on Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japan, 3 vol. Edited by Richard Siddle, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
• 2012 “Occupation Without End: Opposition to the U.S. Military in Okinawa.” South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2012.
• 2011 “A Letter from Okinawa.” Hot Spots 3.11. Cultural Anthropology, 2011.
• 2010 “No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.” Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
• 2010 “In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed.” Over There: Living with the US Military Empire, edited by Maria Hoehn and Seungsook Moon, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
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