{"id":519,"date":"2023-08-18T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/cjrc\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2023-08-18T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:22:06","slug":"visiting-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/visiting-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting 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            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Current Visiting Scholars\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          Nadia Kanagawa\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Nadia Kanagawa<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and History at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She researches how the seventh- through ninth-century Japanese rulers approached the incorporation, assimilation and configuration of immigrants and their descendants. She is the author of \u201cEast Asia\u2019s First World War, 643-668,\u201d in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order<\/i>, and \u201cApproach and Be Transformed: Immigrants in the Nara and Heian State\u201d in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Hapa Japan: Constructing Global Mixed Race and Mixed Roots Japanese Identities and Representations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>She is currently completing a manuscript, &#8220;Transforming the People: Foreign Subjects in Seventh- Through Ninth-Century Japan.&#8221;<\/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\/Nadia-Kanagawa-1.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 class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Ikuyo Matsumoto\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"article cf\">\n<div class=\"article-has-img\">\n<div class=\"html-content\">\n<p><strong>Ikuyo Matsumoto<\/strong> is a Professor of Japanese cultural history at Yokohama City University. She researches rituals that combine Buddhist thought with <i>kami<\/i>\u00a0veneration and considers what such practices can tell us about the religious worlds of medieval Japan. She is the author of\u00a0<i>Ten&#8217;n\u00f4 no sokuigirei to shimbutsu<\/i>\u00a0(The Enthronement Ceremony of Emperors and its connection with the Kami-Buddhas), (Tokyo: Yoshikawakoubunkan, 2017) and Co-Editor of\u00a0<i>F\u00fbzokukaiga no Bunkagaku \u2162: Shunji wo utsusu philosophy<\/i> (Cultural Studies of Genre Painting \u2162: Philosophy of Capturing the Moment), (Kyoto: Shibunkaku shuppan, 2014). She is currently researching on the formation of the kami-buddha relationship in the origin myths of major clans and houses, and related formations of time-space concepts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\/Ikuyo-Matsumoto.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\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 Visiting Scholars\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          Michael Masatsugu\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Michael Masatsugu<\/strong> is Associate Professor of History at Towson University.\u00a0 His research examines the reconstitution of Japanese American Buddhist communities and the rise of world Buddhist social movements during the Cold War.\u00a0 His work has been published in\u00a0<em>Amerasia, Journal of Global History\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Pacific Historical Review.<\/em>\u00a0 Heis currently completing a manuscript, \u201cReorienting the Pure Land:\u00a0 Ethnicity, Transnationalism and Orientalism in Japanese American Buddhism, 1944-1974.\u201d<\/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\/Michael-Masatsugu.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 class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Greg Robinson\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Greg Robinson<\/strong> is Professor of History at l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00c0 Montr\u00e9al. A specialist in North American Ethnic Studies and U.S. Political History, he has written several notable books, including<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>By Order of the President<\/em>:\u00a0(Harvard UP, 2001) which uncovers President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s central involvement in the wartime confinement of 120,000 Japanese Americans, and\u00a0<em>A Tragedy of Democracy:<\/em>\u00a0(Columbia UP, 2009), winner of the 2009 AAAS History book prize, which studies Japanese American and Japanese Canadian confinement in transnational context. His book\u00a0<em>After Camp<\/em>:\u00a0(UC Press, 2012), winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, centers on post war resettlement.<\/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\/Greg-Robinson.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 class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Jane H. Yamashiro\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Visiting Scholar, 2012-2013<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane H. Yamashiro<\/strong>\u2019s research examines the construction of Japaneseness and Japanese identity in multiple social and historical contexts, particularly in terms of race and ethnicity. Her work has focused on Japanese American transnational migrants from Hawai\u2018i and the US continent in Tokyo, looking at the ways in which their ambiguous social positioning in Japan reveals complex processes of social categorization, racialization, and stratification in Japanese society. Other research interests include comparative immigration policies targeting co-ethnics, Japan\u2019s diaspora strategies, and global and transnational structures of race. Her articles have been published in\u00a0<em>Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em>;\u00a0<em>AAPI Nexus Journal: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Practice and Community<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Sociology Compass, Migrations and Identities,<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0CR: The New Centennial Review<\/em>. She is currently working on a book titled\u00a0<em>Negotiating Global Constructions of Race and Ethnicity: Japanese American Transnational Identity Formation in Tokyo<\/em>. Her next project,\u00a0<em>From Hapa to Haafu: Multiracial Japanese Americans in Japan<\/em>, explores the construction of multiracial Japanese identities from a global perspective.<\/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\/Jane-H.-Yamashiro.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-519","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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