|
|
|
, Professor of Anthropology and General Editor, Colonialisms (University of California Press Book Series)
|
Socio-cultural and historical anthropology; ethnography; sex/gender systems; mass/popular culture; feminist theory and women's studies; urban anthropology; theater and performance; colonialism and imperialism in Japan/East Asia; Sri Lanka; Israel
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Cornell University, 1985
- MA, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, 1977
- BA, History of Art, Cornell University, 1975
- Fulbright Research Scholar Grant, April-August 2007, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Blood ideology in Israel and Japan)
- Faculty Research Grant, Center for Japanese Studies, Summer 2006 and Winter 2007 (humanoid robot development in Japan)
- Multicultural Teaching Grant, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, and Teaching with New Technology Grant, College of Literature, Sciences and Arts (University of Michigan), AY 2005-2006 (for Anthropology 335/Near Eastern Studies 335: Tokyo-Tel Aviv: City, Nation and Identity in Israel and Japan)
- Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, Tokyo University, January-April 2002 (eugenics and colonialism in Japan)
- Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), Invited Fellow, 1996-1997
- A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Jennifer Robertson, editor. Waltham, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2005)
- Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader. Jennifer Robertson, editor. Waltham, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2004)
- Odoru Teikokushugi: Takarazuka ni Miru kindai Nihon no Sei to Bunka no Shokuminchifū (Dancing Imperialism: The Colonization of Sex and Culture in Modern Japan as Framed by the Takarazuka Revue). Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, pp. 1-381. (Japanese translation of TAKARAZUKA by Hori Chieko with the assistance of Jennifer Robertson.) (2000)
- Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. i-xvi, 1-278. (1998, 1999, 2001)
- Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. i-xvii, 1-235. (1991, 1994, 2000)
- Creator and Series Editor, Colonialisms (University of California Press). http://www.ucpress.edu/books/COL.ser.html.
- 2005 “Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of ‘East Asian Bioethics’.” Critical Asian Studies 37(2) June: 233-250.
- 2002 “Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose,” pp. 155-174.
- Anne Walthall, ed., The Human Tradition in Modern Japan. NY: Scholarly Resources.
- 2002 “Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on ‘Positionality’.” Anthropological Quarterly 75 (4):755-762.
- 2002 “Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese.” History and Anthropology 13 (3): 191-216.
- 2001 " Japan’s First Cyborg?: Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body, and Blood.” Body and Society 7(1):1-34.
|
