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Dorinne Kay KondoProfessor of Anthropology and American Studies and EthnicityContact Information E-mail: kondo@rcf.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-1910 Office: GFS 120 LINKS Anna Deavere Smith Culture Clash |
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 Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 6/1982
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M.A. Anthropology, Harvard University, 6/1978
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B.A. Anthropology, Stanford University, 6/1975
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Postdoctoral Training |
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Fellow, University of California, Irvine Humanities Research Institute,
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2002
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Research Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 2000-2001
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Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, 1993-1994
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Fellow, University of California, Irvine Humanities Research Institute,
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1993
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Rockefeller Fellow, Rice University, 1989-1990
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Rockefeller Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1987-1988
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| cultural theory, performance , aesthetics and politics, cross-racial identification/ multiracial collaboration, modes of embodiment, ethnography | |
Research Keywords |
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| Cultural Theory, Contemporary Performance in the U.S., Aesthetics and Politics, Race, Bodies/Subjects, Transnationalism, Japan and the United States | |
Research Specialties |
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| (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982) Professor of Anthropology and ASE. Specialties include: race and power, performance studies, theories of the subject, cultural theory. | |
Publications |
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Book |
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Kondo, D. K. Toward an Anthropology of Creativity: Making Art, Producing Difference in Contemporapry American Theater.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1997).
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater, 1997.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1990).
Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace, 1990.
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Book Chapter |
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Kondo, D. K.
(2005).
"The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis. (Vol. NA). No Journal Defined.
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Kondo, D. K.
(2005).
"Polishing Your Heart: Artisans and Machines in Japan. Oxford: Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader/ Berg Publishers.
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Book Review |
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Kondo, D. K.
(1988).
Marriage in Changing Japan, by Walter Edwards. Contemporary Sociology.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1987).
Becoming Japanese by Joy Hendry. The Journal of Asian Studies.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1986).
Haruko's World by Gail Bernstein. Comparative Studies in Society and History. pp. 794-5.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1985).
Gender, Self and Work in Japan: Some Issues in the Study of Self and Other. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. pp. 319-328.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1985).
Gender, Self and Work in Japan: Some Issues in the Study of Self and Other. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. pp. 319-328.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1984).
"Against the State by David Apter and Nagayo Sawa." "Behind the Mask by Ian Buruma." "The Japanese by Jean-Claude Courdy.". The New York Times Book Review..
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Kondo, D. K.
(1984).
Work and Lifecourse in Japan by David Plath. Journal of Asian Studies,.
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Journal Article |
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Kondo, D.
(2010).
DRESSTUDY, journal of the Kyoto Costume Institute. DRESSTUDY.
Vol. April 2010
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Kondo, D. K.
(2005).
"The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis.". Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader/ Oxford: Berg Publishers..
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Kondo, D. K.
(2004).
"Dorinne Kondo, author of Crafting Selves and About Face, an interview with Nirmal Puwar.". Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture..
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
How the Problem of ‘Crafting Selves’ Emerged. Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations.
Vol. 8, pp. 188-202.
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
A Challenge from Without: A Conversation with Dorinne Kondo. Where the Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis.. pp. 38-146.
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
Visions of Possibility. Theater/special issue on Theater and Social Change,.
Vol. 31 (3)
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
Asian/Asian American Studies:(Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De) Colonizing the Academy?. Orientations: Mapping Studies In The Asian Diaspora./ Durham: Duke University Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
Orientalizing: Japanese Fashion. Toikakeru Fasshon: Shintai/ Imeeji/ Nihon (Inquiry into Fashion: Body, Image, Japan)..
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Kondo, D. K.
(2001).
Life Patterns. program notes for Mark Taper Forum/ Asian Theatre Workshop production of Sunil Kuruvilla’s Rice Boy..
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Kondo, D. K.
(2000).
(Re)visions of Race: Critical Race Theory and the Cultural Politics of Racial Crossover in Contemporary Documentary Performance. Theatre Journal,special issue on Latino Performance..
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Kondo, D. K.
(2000).
Program Notes, The Square, Production of Mark Taper Forum/ Asian Theatre Workshop.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1999).
Empire and Masculinity. Between Women and Nation/Durham: Duke University Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1999).
Introduction. The Color of Language: Asian American Plays in a Multicultural Landscape. Applause Theatrebooks.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1996).
Shades of Twilight: Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.". Late Editions III: Media-tions. /Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1996).
The Narrative Production of 'Home', Community and Identity in Asian American Theater. Dislocation, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity/ Durham: Duke University Press..
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Kondo, D. K.
(1995).
Bad Girls: Theatre, Women of Color, and the Politics of Representation. Women Writing Culture./University of California Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1995).
Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity. Amerasia Journal/Special issue on theory.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1993).
Uchi no Kaisha: Company as Family?. Uchi/Soto: Shifting Linguistic and Social Boundaries./ Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1992).
The Aesthetics and Politics of 'Japanese' Identity in the Fashion Industry. Remade in Japan: Everyday life and Consumer Tastes./ New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1992).
The Aesthetics and Politics and Artisanal Identities. Japanese Selves: Creating and Receiving Culture./ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
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Kondo, D. K.
(1992).
Turning Leaves: The Photograph Collections of Two Japanese American Families by Richard Chalfen. Visual Anthropology.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1991).
Feminism and Orientalism. Committee on Women in Asian Studies Newsletter.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1991).
Women of Color and the Cultural Politics of Identity. California Sociologist.
Vol. 15, pp. 57-70.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1990).
M. Butterfly: Orientalism, Gender, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity. Cultural Critique.
Vol. 16, pp. 5-29.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1989).
The Forbidden Stitch. Sojourner,.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1987).
Creating an Ideal Self: Theories of Selfhood and Pedagogy at a Japanese Ethics Retreat. Ethos.
Vol. 15 (3), pp. 241-272.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1986).
Dissolution and Reconstitution of the Self: Implications for Anthropological Epistemology. Cultural Anthropology.
Vol. 1 (1), pp. 74-88.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1986).
Review. Haruko's World by Gail Bernstein. Comparative Studies in Society and History..
Vol. 23, pp. 794-5.
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Kondo, D. K.
(1985).
"The Way of Tea: A Symbolic Analysis,". Man(N.S.).
Vol. 20, pp. 287-306.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works |
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Play Reading, Concert reading of SEAMLESS at the Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles. , 2012-2013
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Play Reading, Lark Theatre Development Center, Reading of revised version of SEAMLESS, directed by Ralph Pena, founder of Ma-yi Theatre. The Lark is a major, nationally renowned center for play development, located in New York. , 2012-2013
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Dramaturg, Dramaturgy for Marcos Najera's performance piece, "Brown Oxygen/Oxigeno," Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA., June and September, 2011., 2011-2012
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Expert , Interviewed as an expert on Japanese American internment for Antonia Glenn's documentary on Japanese American history, "The Ito Sisters." , 2011-2012
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Finalist, Finalist in Lark Theatre/ Play Development Center's New Play Festival. 25 finalists selected from over 600 plays. , 2009-2010
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Play Reading, Lark Development Center, New York, Reading of SEAMLESS, at the Lark Development Center, directed by Victor Maog. Play was one of 25 out of 600 plays chosen for readings. , 2009-2010
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Play Reading, Lark Development Center, New York, Reading of revision of SEAMLESS,directed by Eric Ting, Associate Artistic Director, the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, a major regional theatre. The Lark is a renowned venue among theatre professionals; noted Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang developed two plays there. , 07/2010
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Reading of Revised Play, Seamless, in a new version, read at Moving Arts Theatre, November 2008. , 2008-2009
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Dramaturg, Dramaturg for the world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY, play produced at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, directed by Stephen Wadsworth. Play went on to American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Ma., and to Second Stage Theatre in New York. , 2007-2008
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Play Reading, Reading of revised Act One of Seamless, Moving Arts Theatre, August 2008. , 2007-2008
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Play-Reading, Seamless; this is a substantial revision of earlier versions of the play, and in 2008 I intend to finish the play and submit to theatres. , 08/2007
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Play and Production, But Can He Dance? a multiracial relationship comedy, 10/25/2003-11/15/2003
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Play-Reading, Seamless, 05/17/2003
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Play-Reading, Seamless, 03/14/2003
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Play-Reading, Seamless, 03/09/2003
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Play-Reading, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct Staged reading at the Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, 10/2002
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Play-Reading, Seamless, 04/11/2002
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Scholar/ Reflector, Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Director Anna Deavere Smith, Harvard University. , 2000-2001
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Play-Reading, But Can He Dance? a multiracial relationship comedy. , 04/2001
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Dramaturg, Workshop of Anna Deavere Smith's HOUSE ARREST: AN INTROGRESSION, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles. , 1997-1998
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Play-Reading, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct Staged reading at Moving Arts Theater, 04/1998
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Dramaturg, Dramaturg for the workshop of the Arena Stage (Washington, DC)/ Goodman Theatre (Chicago)/ Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles) world premiere production of Anna Deavere Smith's HOUSE ARREST, director Mark Rucker. , 1996-1997
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Play-Reading, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct Staged reading at Women Artists' Group, Sunday PlayDay Series., 04/1997
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Dramaturg, Dramaturg for the world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's play TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES 1992, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, directed by Emily Mann. , 1993-1994
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Play-Reading, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct Staged reading at East West Players., 08/1993
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Play-Reading, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct Staged Reading at Powerhouse Theater, Santa Monica., 12/1992
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Play-Reading, Dis)graceful(l) Conduct, a high disco satire on sexual and racial harassment in the academy. Staged reading at East West Players., 04/1992
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Honors and Awards |
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Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Gender Studies; I gave a week-long series of lectures, seminars and play readings for faculty, students, and members of the general public in Hong Kong,
Fall
2010
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Lark Play Development Center, finalist for New Play Festival, revised version of SEAMLESS, 2009-2010
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USC Humanities and Social Sciences , 2007-2008
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University of California at Irvine, Humanities Research Institute, Residential Research Fellowship, on Transnationalism in Asian/ Asian American Theatre., 2002
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Residency at the Getty Center for Humanities and Arts, Getty Scholar, Getty Research Institute, 2000-2001
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"We Don't Need No Stinkin' Dramas" National Comedy Playwriting Award, Mixed Blood Theatre, for (DIS)GRACEFUL(L) CONDUCT, 2000-2001
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School of American Research Fellowship, awarded—not accepted, 2000-2001
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 2000
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J.I. Staley Prize, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, given to book Craftiing Selves and its impact on the field of Anthropology., 1999
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Service to the University |
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Administrative Appointments |
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Director of Asian American Studies, 2010-2011
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Director of Asian American Studies, 2008-2009
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Director of Asian American Studies, 09/1997-07/2002
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editorial Board, Cultural Dynamics, 2008-
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Editorial Advisory Board, positions: east asia/ cultures/ critique, 2001-2002
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Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology, 1984-1991
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