Rebecca Suter
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo Statement After twenty years researching and teaching in Japan, the United States, and Australia, I have recently relocated to European academia. The nomination as candidate for the EAJS Council is an excellent opportunity to contribute the substantial experience I have acquired in research administration and […]
Yona Siderer
Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Statement I am honored to present my candidacy to serve as a member of the Council of the EAJS. I would like to share my knowledge and interest in the Japanese scientific world, history, literature and art. […]
Ian Rapley
Lecturer in East Asian History at the History Department at Cardiff University Statement I am a historian of modern Japan, based at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. I have been a beneficiary of the European Association of Japanese Studies throughout my research career – as a participant at a doctoral workshop, a presenter on, […]
Björn-Ole Kamm
Junior Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University; Coordinator of the Joint Degree Master Program in Transcultural Studies; Editor-in-chief of the Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies (JARPS) Statement I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the nomination as a candidate for the EAJS Council. In 2021, I served […]
Pia Jolliffe
Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Statement My name is Pia Jolliffe. I am originally from Vienna (Austria), but since 2006, I have lived mostly in Oxford (UK). I am a scholar of Japanese history. As a mother of three young children, I know of the […]
Hanno Jentzsch
Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University Statement I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for the EAJS council. A political scientist by training, my work focuses on regional inequalities, agricultural reform, local governance, and social welfare in Japan. From my time as a PhD candidate to my current position […]
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities at Nagoya University Statement My name is Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, and I teach Japanese modern literature in the Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program at Nagoya University. My work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in contemporary Japanese literature. Specifically, I have published on Zainichi Korean literature, literary representations […]
Barbara Geilhorn
Senior Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Adjunct Researcher at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University Statement I feel honoured to have been nominated for a second term as a member of the EAJS council. Currently based in Japan, I am a mid-‐career scholar with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research. […]
Andrea De Antoni
Associate Professor of socio-cultural anthropology at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Statement I am an anthropologist born in Venice, but I have lived in Kyoto for more than twelve years. In the picture, I am the one on the left. I have been an EAJS Member since 2008, when I took […]
David Chiavacci
Professor in Social Science of Japan at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Statement It is great honor for me to have been nominated again as a candidate for the EAJS Council. For over two decades, I have been a member of the EAJS and participant in its conferences. Besides being a EAJS council member (2020-2023), […]
