{"id":511,"date":"2023-08-18T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/cjrc\/?page_id=511"},"modified":"2023-08-18T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:15:33","slug":"postdoctoral-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/postdoctoral-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/duncan-williams\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><a title=\"Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminars\" href=\"https:\/\/mellon.org\/programs\/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities\/fellowships\/sawyer-seminars\/\">Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminars<br \/>\n<\/a>Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Mixed-Race Studies<br \/>\nFall 2013 ~ present<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai<\/strong> grew up in Oxnard, California\u00a0speaking Japanese and English\u00a0in a mixed-race household. Her undergraduate studies in Sociology and Biology shaped her research interests leading to advanced degrees in Biology and a doctorate in History from the University\u00a0of California Santa Barbara. She\u00a0conducted research as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan and in Okinawa.\u00a0Dr. Welty\u2019s dissertation research documents the history of mixed-race American Japanese born to Japanese mothers and American fathers after World War II between 1945 and 1972, and raised during the post-war period. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow and formerly a visiting post-doctoral scholar at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/duncan-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2023\/08\/Lily-Anne-Yumi-Welty-Tamai.jpeg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Former Postdoctoral Scholar\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Christopher T. Callahan\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<br \/>\nPostdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Japanese Religions<br \/>\n2012-2014<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Callahan<\/strong>, a scholar of Japanese religions and Buddhism, completed his B.A in Philosophy at Washington and Lee University and two Masters degrees in Asian Religions and in Japanese Literature at the University of Hawai\u2019i before receiving his Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2011. Dr. Callahan is interested in religious biographies and the role that they play in the \u201clife\u201d of religious communities. His doctoral research at Harvard focused on the narrative and ritual representation of the life and thought of Shinran, the purported founder of J\u00f4do Shinsh\u00fb (\u201cThe True Sect of Pure Land\u201d) Buddhism, particularly in the illustrated hand scroll (<em>emaki<\/em>) biographies produced by Shinran\u2019s great-grandson, Kakunyo.<\/p>\n<p>Current Affiliation:\u00a0Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion\u00a0and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College (from Fall 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Callahan.jpeg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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