WEAI - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Columbia
- Economics and Education, Teachers College
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Alex Eble is associate professor of economics and education at Columbia's graduate school of education, Teachers College. His research focuses primarily on two key themes: the economics of education in low-income contexts, and the economics of beliefs and information applied to education and inequality. He has published his work in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Nature Human Behavior. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, Spencer Foundation, and Jacobs Foundation. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Faculty Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He received his PhD in economics from Brown University.
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- Member of the Program Officers Team
- Senior Communications Coordinator
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- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Inst
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Inst / Research
- Research Interest / Japan
Ayumi Teraoka is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and a lecturer in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in the fall of 2023. She earned her PhD from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she was also the A.B. Krongard fellow from 2021 to 2022. Her research focuses on coercive diplomacy, alliance politics in the Indo-Pacific, and Japanese foreign policy and national security. Her book project, based on her doctoral dissertation, examines the interactive effects of US alliance management efforts and China's attempts to weaken US alliances from both historical and contemporary perspectives. In 2022, she was a World Politics and Statecraft Fellow with the Smith Richardson Foundation and from 2022 to 2023, an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to Princeton, she worked as research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2013 to 2015 and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 2015 to 2017. She holds an MA in Public Affairs from Princeton University, an MA in Asian Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in Law from Keio University. Her writing has appeared in The Japan Times, the Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs among others.
Veteran journalists Bill Emmott and Tomoko Kubota discuss current challenges and changes to come for Japanese women in "Reporting Asia: Japan"
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- Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economics Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Department of Economics / Research Interest
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- Research Interest / History
- Special Research Scholar George Sansom Professor Emerita of History, Department of History
- Special Research Scholar George Sansom Professor Emerita of History, Department of History / Research Interest / History
Professor Gluck is a prize-winning historian, whose most recent books include Shisōshi toshite no gendai Nihon [Thought and society in contemporary Japan], coedited with Akio Igarashi (Iwanami shoten, 2016) and Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, coedited with Anna Tsing (Duke University Press, 2009). Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History, will be published by the University of California Press, and Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Some of her recent articles include "Une métahistoire de l'historiographie japonaise d'après-guerre » [A meta-history of postwar Japanese historiography], in L'histoire du Japon et l'histoire au Japon (Regards sur l'histoire, 2016), "Kindai Nihon ni okeru ‘sekinin' no hen'i [Changes in the meaning of ‘responsibility' in modern Japan] in Shisōshi toshite no gendai Nihon (Iwanami shoten, 2016), and a short piece on "The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II's End in Asia," Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 3 (August 2015).
She was the Cleveringa Professor for 2014-15 at Leiden University and this past year spoke in Tokyo, Oxford, Paris, Beijing, Accra, and the Hague; she was a Japan Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo and gave the Marius B. Jansen Memorial Lecture at Princeton and the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. She also moderated seminars for the Aspen Institute in Colorado and Berlin. She directs the transnational project on The Politics of Memory in Global Context, which this past year held workshops and symposia in Paris and at the Columbia Global Center | East Asia in Beijing.
At Columbia she has taught undergraduates, graduate students, and students in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for 40 years. She has contributed to innovations in undergraduate education at Columbia and around the country, including a four-year $2-million project on Expanding East Asian Studies (www.exeas.weai.columbia.edu/). Her PhD students in Japanese history now teach in universities across the United States, Asia, and Europe.
She is a founding member and now the chair of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought, and is a member of the publications committee responsible for the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Weatherhead Books on Asia, and Asia Perspectives. She is the Columbia coordinator of the international Consortium on Asian and African Studies (CAAS), a member of the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Libraries, and vice-chair of the faculty steering committee of the Columbia Global Center | Europe. She is a member of the National Commission on Language Learning, an elected member of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, cochair of the Trustees Emeriti of the Asia Society, member of the Board of Directors of Japan Society, the board of the Weatherhead Foundation, and numerous editorial boards and national and international committees.
Professor Gluck received her BA from Wellesley in 1962 and her PhD from Columbia in 1977. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1975.
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History / Research Interest / History
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- Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economics Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Department of Economics / Research Interest
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- Research Program / Center for Korean Research
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- Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science Special Research Scholar
- Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science Special Research Scholar / Research Interest
- Professor
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Gerald Curtis (Ph.D., Columbia, 1968) is Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University and concurrently Distinguished Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation. He served as Director of Columbia's Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a total of twelve years between 1974 and 1990. Professor Curtis is the author of The Logic of Japanese Politics, The Japanese Way of Politics, Election Campaigning Japanese Style, Seiji to Sanma - Nihon to Kurashite 45 nen (Politics and Saury: 45 Years Living with Japan) and numerous other books and articles written in both English and Japanese and translated into Chinese, Korean, Thai and other languages.
Professor Curtis has held appointments at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London; the College de France, Paris; the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore; and in Tokyo at Keio, Waseda, and Tokyo Universities, the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, and the International Institute of Economic Studies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of New York, the Japan Center for International Exchange USA, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as Special Advisor to Newsweek for its Japanese and Korean language editions, the International Advisory Board of the Asahi Shimbun, the Advisory Council for the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, the Trilateral Commission, the Board of Directors of the US-Japan Foundation and as Director of the U.S.-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program.
Professor Curtis's commentaries are published frequently in newspapers and magazines in the United States, Japan, Britain, and other countries. Fluent in Japanese, he is a frequent commentator on international affairs on Japanese television news programs.
Professor Curtis is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors including the Chunichi Shimbun Special Achievement Award, the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, the Japan Foundation Award presented in a ceremony held in the presence of the Crown Prince and Princess followed by an audience with the Emperor. He is the recipient of the Marshall Green Award of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., the Eagle on the World Award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New York, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, by the Emperor of Japan, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government.
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- Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
Research Associate; Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of History, The University of Chicago; Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, New York University
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- Professor
- Research Interest / Literature / Film
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- Director of the Kyoto Consortium of Japanese Studies
- Professor Emeritus of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Research Interest / History
Henry Smith is director of the Kyoto Consortium of Japanese Studies (KCJS), a junior-year-abroad program that is now administered at Columbia by the recently created Office of Global Programs. KCJS was established in 1989 by a consortium made up of Columbia, its Ivy League peer institutions, the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Stanford University. The program provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to study in Japan for a full year or one semester, spending half their time studying the Japanese language and the other half taking courses in both English and Japanese on Japanese history, culture, and society. Most of the students live with homestay families to help integrate them into Japanese society.
Professor Smith wrote his dissertation on the prewar Japanese student movement, published as Japan's First Student Radicals (Harvard, 1972) and Shinjinkai no kenkyû: Nihon gakusei undô no genryû (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1972). His recent work deals with aspects of the history of Chûshingura, in an effort to integrate the historical Akô Incident with its many later stage and literary versions as a unified history of storytelling in Japan.
Professor Smith continues his research on various dimensions of the "Chūshingura" story, looking at the various ways in which the Ako Incident of the "47 Ronin" of 1701-1703 has become Japan's "national legend" through retelling, embellishment, and reenactment in multiple media over three centuries. More recently, he has turned to research on the modern history of the city of Kyoto and the ways in which Kyoto has become the focus of a continuing reinterpretation of the meaning of "tradition" in modern Japan.
He has written books on woodblock prints, Hiroshige, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (George Braziller, 2000), Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (Thames and London, Ltd., 1988), and Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988). For his recent writings and translations concerning the Chûshingura tradition, see www.columbia.edu/ hds2/hds2_chushingura.html.
Professor Smith received his B.A. from Yale University , 1962, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, 1970. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been at Columbia since 1988.
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- Member of the Program Officers Team
- Special Projects Coordinator
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- Founder of CJEB and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus at Columbia Business School
- Founder of CJEB and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus at Columbia Business School / Research Interest
- Professor
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Professor Patrick is recognized as a leading specialist on the Japanese economy and on Pacific Basin economic relations. His major fields of published research on Japan include macroeconomic performance and policy, banking and financial markets, government-business relations, and Japan-U.S. economic relations. His professional publications include 16 books and some 60 articles and essays. He coedited and coauthored, with David Weinstein and Takatoshi Ito, Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (MIT Press, 2005).
Professor Patrick served as one of the four American members of the binational Japan-United States Economic Relations Group appointed by President Carter and Prime Minister Ohira, 1979-1981. He is on the board of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council. He succeeded Dr. Saburo Okita as chair of the International Steering Committee for the conference series on Pacific trade and development (PAFTAD), between 1985 and 2005, having served on it since PAFTAD's inception in 1968. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Japan Society for twenty-four years. In November 1994 the government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (Kunnito Zuihosho), and he received an honorary doctorate of social sciences by Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in November 2000.
Professor Patrick has also been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the Ohira Prize. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor Patrick completed his BA at Yale in 1951, then earned MA degrees in Japanese studies (1955) and economics (1957), and his PhD in economics (1960) at the University of Michigan. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as professor of economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale.
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- Director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library
- Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Starr East Asian Library
- Research Interest / Education
Jim Cheng has been the director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University since 2010, and served in East Asia Library, Law library at University of Washington, the University of Iowa Libraries, and International Relations & Pacific Studies Library and East Asia Collection at the University of California, San Diego. Cheng served as the President of CEAL (Council on East Asian Libraries) 2016-2018. Due to his distinctive and innovative contribution in library collections of East Asian films, holding Film Festivals and symposiums on East Asian films, Library Journal named Cheng as one of the 2008 Movers and Shakers. In 2009, he won the Fulbright Scholar Senior Research Award for his book project in Taiwan Film Studies.
Cheng has a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, a M.A. in Comparative Literature and a M.L.S. in Library & Information Science from University of Washington, Seattle. His professional activities and academic works involve library information, digital projects, library special collection development, and film studies
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- Professor of Art History, Barnard College / Research Interest
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- Member of the Program Officers Team
- Events Coordinator / Events
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- Director
- Executive Director
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- Research Interest / History
- Research Scholar Academic Director of the MARSEA Program, Interim Director, Center for Korean Research
- Research Scholar Academic Director of the MARSEA Program, Interim Director, Center for Korean Research / Research Interest / History
Kim Brandt is a Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and Academic Director for the MA Program in Regional Studies: East Asia (MARSEA). She specializes in twentieth-century Japanese history. Dr. Brandt's publications include Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2007). Her new book, to be published by Columbia University Press, is titled Japan Boom: Rethinking the Rise of a World Power, 1945-1965. In it she offers a new perspective on Japan and its changing place in the post-World War II world through topics such as industrial design, atomic diplomacy, and the macrobiotic dietary regimen.
Professor Brandt received her PhD from Columbia (1996) and her BA from Smith College (1984).
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- Adjunct Research Scholar Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark / Research Interest / History
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- Research Associate / Research Interest / Education
Late Edo landscape prints; the history of color and pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth century; woodblock views of Edo and Tokyo; "Chūshingura" and the relationship between history and legend in early modern and modern Japan; history of modern Tokyo; history of modern Japanese architecture
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- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Curator of Asian Ethnology and Division Chair, American Museum of Natural History
- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Curator of Asian Ethnology and Division Chair, American Museum of Natural History / Research Interest
- Editor, Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity
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As an anthropologist of Korea, Dr. Kendall has been working with and writing about Korean shamans for more than forty years after an encounter in the early 1970s as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea. She first became interested in the relationship between this largely female tradition and the operation of gender in Korean popular religion. Subsequent work included a study of late 20 th century marriage practices followed by a study of shamanic responses to a rapidly transforming South Korean society, considering questions of space and landscape, performance, ritual consumption, national identity, and market anxieties.
Work with colleagues in Hanoi, Vietnam, on religious images explored the relationship between people and objects, relationships that have rules, obligations, potential benefits, and dangers. Kendall took these interests back to Korea with study of shaman paintings and then a broadly comparative project on the interactions of shamans and spirit mediums with statues, paintings, and masks in Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Bali, Indonesia. Her current work concerns studio photography as handicraft in Vietnam, Korean objects that become Korean icons, and the social relations of Balinese masks.
Dr. Kendall's many publications include "Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places (University of California Press, 2021), "God Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings" (with Jongsung Yang and Yul Soo Yoon, University of Hawaii Press, 2015), "Shamans, Nostalgias and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion" (University of Hawai`I Press, 2009), "Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity" (University of California Press, 1996), "The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales" (University of Hawaii Press, 1988) and "Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life" (University of Hawaii Press, 1985). She edited "Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea" (University of Hawaii Press, 2001) and six other books. She is co-author of "The Museum at the End of the World: Travels in the Post-Soviet Russian Far East" (with Alexia Bloch, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
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- Member of the Program Officers Team
- Student Affairs Coordinator
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- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University
- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University / Research Interest / History
- Professor
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Mark Jones is a Professor in the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching since 2002. Prior to his current position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He has completed publications including "Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan," with Steven Ericson in A Companion to Japanese History, ed. William Tsutsui, in 2006 and "The Samurai in Japan and the World, c. 1900," which was published in June 2005 as part of Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (EXEAS) Initiative.
In 2010, Harvard University Asia Center published his book Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early 20th Century Japan. The book explores the relationship between the creation of modern childhood and the formation of a middle class in early twentieth century Japan. He is currently researching the history of love and marriage in early 20th century Japan. Jones is a graduate of Columbia University's East Asian Languages and Cultures program, receiving his M.A. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2001. He completed his undergraduate course of study in 1991 with a B.A. in History from Dartmouth College.
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- Research Associate
- Editor of the Asia - Pacific Journal
- Research Interest / History
Mark Selden is editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus and Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at Binghamton University. A specialist on the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy, and history of China, Japan, and the Asia Pacific, his work has addressed themes of war and peace, revolution, inequality, development, regional and world social change, and historical memory. In 1968 he was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and for more than thirty years he was an editor of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and its successor, Critical Asian Studies. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and editor of book series at Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, M.E. Sharpe, and Lexington Publishers. His homepage is markselden.info/
Research Associate; Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History, State University of New York at Binghamton
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- Dean Emerita, School of International and Public Affairs Professor of Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs
- Dean Emerita, School of International and Public Affairs Professor of Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs / Research Interest
- Expert
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Merit E. Janow is an internationally recognized expert in international trade and investment, with extensive experience in academia, government, international organizations and business. In addition, she has had a life-long involvement with Asia and is an expert in that region. For the past 18 years, Merit E. Janow has been a Professor of Practice at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and affiliated faculty at Columbia Law School. She teaches graduate courses in international trade/WTO law, comparative antitrust law, China in the global economy, international trade and investment policy, among others. She has held a number of leadership positions at the University. Currently, in addition to being Dean of SIPA, she is also Co-Director of the APEC Study Center and Chair of the Faculty Oversight Committee of Columbia's Global Center East Asia. Previously, she was Director of the Masters Program in International Affairs and Chair of Columbia University's Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. Her research interests focus on international trade and investment, Asia, competition law and economic globalization. She has written several books, numerous articles and frequently speaks before business, policy, and academic audiences around the world.
From 1997 to 2000, Professor Janow served as the Executive Director of the first international antitrust advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Justice that reported to the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Her report recommended the creation of a global network of enforcers and experts which is now the ICN. Prior to joining Columbia's faculty, Professor Janow was Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1989-93). She was responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing U.S. trade policies with Japan and China. She negotiated more than a dozen trade agreements with Japan and China during a period of intense economic and political tension between the United States and both Japan and China.
Professor Janow is on the Board of Directors of several corporations and not for profit organizations. In 2009, she became a charter member of the International Advisory Council of China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation or CIC.
Early in her career, Professor Janow was a corporate lawyer specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York and before becoming a lawyer, worked at a think tank where she focused on US-Japan trade and economic relations. She grew up in Tokyo, Japan, and is fluent in Japanese. She has a JD from Columbia Law School where she was a Stone Scholar, and a BA in Asian Studies with honors from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
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- Research Interest / Political Science
Dr. Sharpe is Professor of Political Science at York College of the City University of New York. He is also Professor of Political Science in the MA/PHD Program in Political Science and Professor of International Migration Studies in the MA Program in International Migration Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Research Scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Sharpe was employed as a political analyst for the Consulate General of Japan in New York and earlier in Tokyo, Japan as a project coordinator for the United Nations affiliated non-governmental organization, the International Movement Against All Form of Discrimination and Racism of which he now serves as a member of its board of directors.
His research interests concern the politics of migration, immigrant political incorporation, and political transnationalism in Japan, the Netherlands, and around the world. He is currently completing his second book manuscript The Politics of Racism and Antiracism in Japan under contract with Cambridge University Press in its Essentials Series on East Asian Politics and Society. Dr. Sharpe's first book, Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: The Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014. His other research investigates the politics of racism and antiracism in Japan, Japan as an emerging migration state, the Japanese government's role in Japanese diaspora politics as well as the paid voluntary return of migrants and their families and implicit boundary making in liberal democracies.
Dr. Sharpe's Visiting Fellow or Visiting Scholar appointments include Sophia University, Keio University, the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) Leiden University, and the University of Amsterdam. He has been a Mansfield Foundation and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar. Dr. Sharpe's work has appeared in scholarly publications including Ethnopolitics, Japanese Journal of Political Science, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Policy and Society, and his appeared or been cited in journalistic venues such as The Washington Pos t, Newsweek, the Associated Press, World Politics Review, Mainichi Shimbun, Nishinippon, and Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (Radio Netherlands Worldwide). He is currently a member of the Association of Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Distinguished Speakers Bureau.
Dr. Sharpe earned his PhD and Master of Philosophy in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Additionally, he holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, a Graduate Diploma in International Law and Organization for Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College / Rutgers University.
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- Director of Finance and Operations
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- Executive Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School / Research Interest
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- Assistant Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Paul Kreitman's research interests include environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. He received his PhD in History from Princeton University in 2015, with a doctoral dissertation entitled "Feathers, Fertilizer and States of Nature: Uses of Albatrosses in the U.S.-Japan Borderlands". He is currently working on a book manuscript exploring the relationship between resource extraction, nature conservation and state formation in the North Pacific. His second project examines the political ecology of excrement in the Greater Tokyo area, focusing on the slow obsolescence of night soil fertilizer over the course of the twentieth century.
Paul received his BA from the University of Oxford in 2006, after which he worked as a carbon offset consultant at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities in Tokyo. He joins Columbia after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, jointly affiliated with SOAS.
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Professor
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- Director
- Director of the Asia for Educators
- Director, Asia for Educators Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
- Research Interest / Education / Education about East Asia in U.S. Schools Education in China
Dr. Martin is director of the Asia for Educators program (AFE) at Columbia, which encompasses the East Asian Curriculum Project for precollege educators and the Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum for the undergraduate level. She is also one of the five founding directors of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) and head of its Columbia Coordinating Site. Dr. Martin is an associate editor of Education about Asia, a publication of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). She has chaired and served on a number of education committees of AAS and NEH, been a member of the advisory board of ASIANetwork, and a consultant to the New York City Board of Education, the New York State Department of Education, the National Council for History Standards, Annenberg/CPB, and several textbook publishers. Dr. Martin received her PhD in political science from Columbia University in 1977. She has taught at Columbia, Fordham, and Teachers College. In October 2015, the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) named Dr. Martin the recipient of the Ronald G. Knapp Award for Distinguished Service to Asian Studies in New York State, "in recognition of her outstanding work as the founder of the Asia for Educators program and many other initiatives to promote the study of Asia in New York state and beyond." She is also the recipient of the Franklin Buchanan Prize 2000 for outstanding curriculum publications for all educational levels, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies and its Committee on Teaching about Asia.
Dr. Martin holds a BA from Smith College, an MA from Columbia Teachers College, and a PhD in Chinese politics from Columbia. She has also studied in Geneva and Taipei and taught at Columbia, Fordham, and, for the past decade, in the Social Studies program at Teachers College.
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- International and Public Affairs, SIPA Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold a. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Saltzman Inst War & Peace Stud
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- Assistant Director
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- Research Interest / Religion / Political Science
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- Professor of Political Science, Dept of Political Science
- Professor of Political Science, Dept of Political Science / Research Interest
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Professor Hirano's research interests include comparative politics, American politics, Japanese politics, political economy and political methodology, with a special focus on the elections and representation. In addition to publishing chapters in edited volumes, Professor Hirano has published articles in World Politics, the Journal of Politics, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. He has received a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation and a Japanese Ministry of Education fellowship.
Professor Hirano received his PhD from the Political Economy and Government Program at Harvard University in 2003. After being on the faculty at New York University Politics Department for two years, he joined the Columbia Political Science Department faculty in 2005. He has also been a visiting faculty in University of Tokyo Economics Department and a research fellow at the Princeton University Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.
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- Member of the Program Officers Team
- New York Southeast Asia Network Program Coordinator
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- Adjunct Senior Research Scholar / Research Interest / Political Science / Japan
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- Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business
- Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business / Research Interest
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Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Associate Director of Research at Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School, has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since completing his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1979. Before joining Columbia, he taught as Assistant and tenured Associate Professor (1979-88) at University of Minnesota; as Associate and full Professor at Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002); as Professor at the Graduate School of Economics at University of Tokyo (2004-2014). He has held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and was the Tun Ismail Ali Chair Professor at University of Malaya.
Professor Ito has held distinguished academic and research appointments, such as: President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the Econometric Society, since 1992; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985; and Faculty Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, since 2006. He was Editor-in-chief of Journal of the Japanese and International Economies and is Co-Editor of Asian Economic Policy Review.
In an unusual move for a Japanese academic, Ito has also been appointed in the official sectors: as Senior Adviser in the Research Department, International Monetary Fund (1994-97); and as Deputy Vice Minister for International Affairs at Ministry of Finance, Japan (1999-2001). He also served as a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (2006-2008).
In 2010, he was the coauthor of a commissioned study of the Bank of Thailand's tenth year review of an inflation targeting regime. He frequently contributes op-ed columns and articles to the Financial Times and Nihon Keizai Shinbun. He is the author of many books, including: The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992); The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy (1997); Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (2000) (both with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison, MIT Press), and An Independent and Accountable IMF (with J. De Gregorio, B. Eichengreen, and C. Wyplosz, 1999). He has also authored more than 130 academic (refereed) journal articles, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Monetary Economics, as well as chapters in books on international finance, monetary policy, and the Japanese economy.
Professor Ito's research interest includes capital flows and currency crises, microstructures of the foreign exchange rates, and inflation targeting. He was awarded the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.
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- Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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- the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
- the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures / Research Interest
Theodore Hughes received his PhD in modern Korean literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include coloniality; proletarian literature and art; visuality and the global Cold War. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book in Korean studies in the year of its publication. Coedited works include Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art (special issue of Journal of Korean Studies, 2015); and Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), a finalist for the Daesan Literary Translation Prize. He is the translator of Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (EastBridge, 2004; reissued under EastBridge imprint at Camphor Press, 2017). His current project, The Continuous War: Cultures of Division in Korea, is under contract at Columbia University Press.
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- Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures / Research Interest
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Research Associate; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University