RIJS People Associates in Research: P - S

John C. Perry
Tufts, Fletcher School, Henry Willard Denison Prof.; Director, Maritime Studies Program
An imperial history of the China Seas
johncurtis.perry(at)tufts.edu

Samuel Perry
Brown, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies
Revising ms., "Fiction on the Frontlines: Revolutionary Culture in Japan and Colonial Korea"
samuel_perry(at)brown.edu

Lizbeth Halliday Piel
Lasell, Asst. Prof. of History
"History of childhood in Japan; as a member of the Mapping Buddhist Monasteries 600-1000 AD Project" responsible for mapping Buddhist temples in Japan
lpiel(at)lasell.edu

Joan R. Piggott
USC, Gordon L. Macdonald Prof. of History; Director, Project for Premodern Japan Studies and the Kambun Workshops
Preparing ms.,"Fujiwara no Akihira’s Monkey Music and its World"; "Ôbe no shô, a Medieval Estate and its World," translated and annotated documents; Fujiwara Munetada’s Chûyûki, selections and research
joanrp(at)usc.edu

Judith Preston
UMass Boston, Researcher in Applied Linguistics
Explaining the developmental order of Japanese language by second language learners n the university classroom setting; developing technology-mediated curriculum and instruction for Japanese pedagogy
jlpresto(at)gmail.com

Tamae K. Prindle
Colby, Oak Prof. of East Asian Lang. and Lit.
Introduction and translation of various versions of a small episode in The Take of Heike
tkprindl(at)colby.edu

Steve Rabson
Brown, Prof. Emeritus of East Asian Studies
Compiling a sequel of translated fiction and poetry to Molasky and Rabson, eds., Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa (Hawai'i, 2000) steve_rabson(at)brown.edu

Ronald Richardson
BU, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director, African American Studies Program
Study of Japanese and American concepts of the self with particular emphasis on dramatic arts and fiction
rrichard(at)bu.edu

Atsuko Sakaki
Toronto, Prof. of East Asian Studies
Photographic narratives of modern Japan; translation of short stories by Horie Toshiyuki; corporeality and spatiality in modern Japanese literature
atsuko.sakaki(at)utoronto.ca

Richard J. Samuels
MIT, Ford Intl. Prof. of Political Science; Director, Center for Intl. Studies
Research for a book ms, "The Rhetoric of Crisis: Japan's Choices after 3.11," examining the policy impact of the March 2011 catastrophe on Japanese security policy, energy policy, and local governance
samuels(at)mit.edu

Ernesto F. Sanz
UMass Lowell, Prof. Emeritus of Economics
Development and change of Japanese trade policies in Europe
ernesto_sanz(at)uml.edu

Minae Savas
Bridgewater State, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Studies
Examining the influence of traditional dramatic forms on contemporary Japanese cinema, and cultural continuities between the two, drawing on fields of history, religion, literature, film, theater, and art
minae.savas(at)bridgew.edu

Janine T. A. Sawada
Brown, Prof. of History of Japanese Religions
Studying texts and images generated by banned religious groups in the Tokugawa period, especially Fujikô
janine_sawada(at)brown.edu

Ellen Schattschneider
Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology
WWII memory and memorialization processes; shamanic traditions; psychoanalytic theory, especially object relations theory
eschatt(at)brandeis.edu

Frank J. Schwartz
Montclair State, Special Asst. to the President
Issues in higher education
schwartzf(at)mail.montclair.edu

Amanda C. Seaman
UMass Amherst, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Lang. and Lit.
Book ms. on treatment of pregnancy and childbirth in contemporary Japanese literature and culture, looking at literature both pure and popular, manga, autobiography, and advice manuals
acseaman(at)asianlan.umass.edu

Vyjayanthi R. Selinger
Bowdoin, Asst. Prof. of Asian Studies
Medieval war tales with focus on Heike monogatari
vselinge(at)bowdoin.edu

Franziska Seraphim
BC, Assoc. Prof. of History
Social legacies of the Allied war crimes program in Asia and Europe focusing on amnesty policies and social integration in the post-trial phase in Japan and Germany
seraphim(at)bc.edu

James Mark Shields
Bucknell, Asst. Prof. of Asian and Comparative
Modernist, progressive, and radical movements in Japanese Buddhism from late Meiji through WWII; Buddhist resources fro contemporary debates on issues such as globalization and sustainability
james.shields(at)bucknell.edu

Toru Shinoda
Waseda, Prof., School of Social Sciences
Trans-Pacific history of social and labor movements  

Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Williams, Assoc. Prof. of History
Conceptions of waste in modern Japan
Eiko.Maruko(at)williams.edu

Kerry Smith
Brown, Assoc. Prof. of History and East Asian Studies, Chair, East Asian Studies
Continuing work on the social and cultural histories of the Great Kantô Earthquake
Kerry_Smith(at)brown.edu

John P. Solt
Independent Scholar
Two exhibits for the Japanese Pavilion of Los Angeles County Museum of Art based on his collection on Ohie Toshio and Kitasono Katue; Getty Research exhibit on photographs of Hamaya Hiroshi and Yamamoto Kansuke
highmoonoon(at)hotmail.com

Amanda Mayer Stinchecum
Independent scholar
Cultural history of Yaeyama Islands seen through changes in cotton sash; history and present circumstances of five private ethnological museums in Yaeyama
amandams1(at)verizon.net

Sarah M. Strong
Bates, Prof. of Japanese
Ainu oral performance genres, especially the kamui yukar; the construction of the human/animal relationship within kamui yukar narratives; Chiri Ukie's (1903-1922) Ainu shin yôshû
sstrong(at)bates.edu

Shizuko Suenaga
Seattle, Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Japanese
Recent publication of Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History; seeking publication in Japanese as well
suenagas(at)seattleu.edu

Noriko Sugimori
Kalamazoo, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Lang.
Ideologies of honorifics in national language policy; oral history digital humanities project connecting people born in 1932 or earlier, and Kalamazoo students in Japan on study abroad
sugimori(at)kzoo.edu

Rebecca M. Suter
Sydney, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Completing book ms on representations of the Christian century in modern Japanese fiction; new project: "Middle West" Australia and Italy in the Japanese Imagination," looking at literature, film, manga, and travel magazines"
rebecca.suter(at)usyd.edu.au