{"id":156,"date":"2023-08-17T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/cjrc\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:45:40","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Duncan Ry\u016bken Williams<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Director, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
\nProfessor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
\n\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duncan Ry\u016bken Williams<\/strong> is currently Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Religion, and the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams\u2019 latest monograph, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2019) is the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Religion Award and a LA Times bestseller. Williams is also the author of The Other Side of Zen<\/em> (Princeton) and editor of seven volumes including Hapa Japan<\/em> (Kaya), Issei Buddhism in the Americas<\/em> (Illinois), American Buddhism<\/em> (Routledge), and Buddhism and Ecology<\/em> (Harvard). Find him online at duncanryukenwilliams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

E-mail:<\/strong> duncanwi@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Jason P. Webb<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Associate Director, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
\nProfessor (Teaching), Comparative Literature
\n\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Webb<\/strong>\u2019s research interests lie in Japan\u2019s seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries: the reception of Chinese texts in the archipelago, connections between literary theory and political authority, the architecture of royal poetic anthologies, and poetry composed in Japanese and Chinese. Jason publishes articles in both English and Japanese, most recently \u201cEast Asian Bibliographic Traditions and Current Japanese Premodern Archives Studies,\u201d in Tajima Isao, ed.,\u00a0<\/span>Kinri kuge bunko kenky\u016b<\/i>, vol. 7 (2020),\u00a0\u201cF. V. Dickins\u2019\u00a0<\/span>Man\u2019y<\/i>\u014dsh\u016b<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Poetics\u201d (Man\u2019y<\/i>\u014dsh\u016b\u00a0<\/span>Kodaigaku kenky\u016bnenp\u014d<\/i>, 2017, Japanese), and \u201cThe Big Business of Writing:\u00a0<\/span>Monj\u014d keikoku\u00a0<\/span><\/i>in the Early Heian Court of Saga Tenn\u014d\u201d\u00a0<\/span>(Sino-Japanese Studies<\/i>, 2014). He currently is at work on a book-length manuscript about premodern Japanese archives and a co-edited volume entitled\u00a0<\/span>Before Nara<\/i>.<\/p>\n

E-mail:<\/strong> jasonweb@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Shannon Maiko Takushi\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Program Administrator
\nUSC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
\n\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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