The CJS Affiliate Program is open to U-M Alumni who are substantially engaged in research and/or teaching on Japan or have an interest in Japanese studies, to scholars at other institutions in the surrounding region (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois*) who are engaged in research and/or teaching on Japan, and to former U-M faculty, visiting instructional faculty, visiting scholars, and postdoctoral fellows who are nominated by CJS Members.
First launched as a pilot program in 2012, the CJS Affiliates Program expands and further develops a locally-based, interdisciplinary community of intellectuals connected by a common interest in Japanese studies. To learn more about the program, please visit the CJS Affiliate Program page.
* Illinois has been recently added to this regional program on the condition that applicants must be nominated by CJS Members.
Current CJS Affiliates
Alumni of U-M graduate and professional programs
- Aozora Brockman, MFA (MFA, Helen Zell Writers’ Program, University of Michigan)
Zell Postgraduate Fellow, University of Michigan - Thomas Burkman, PhD (MA, CJS, and PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Research Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York - Emily Canosa, MA (MA, CJS, University of Michigan)
Interpretive Planner, Detroit Institute of Arts
- Thomas Charney, MLA (MLA, Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan)
Landscape Architecture Designer/Scholar - Charles D. Crabtree, PhD (PhD, Political Science, University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College - Paula Curtis, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in History, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University - Aileen Gatten, PhD (PhD, Japanese Literature, University of Michigan)
Independent Scholar - Heidi Gottfried, PhD, MA (MA, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University - Kevin Gouge, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Upper School Teacher, Dwight School Seoul - Bradly Hammond, MA (MA, CJS, University of Michigan)
Japanese Language Lecturer, California State University, Fullerton
Founder & Director, Engage Japan LLC - Kunisuke Hirano, PhD (PhD, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)
Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, Japan
- Glenn Hoetker, PhD (MS, Economics, and PhD, Business Administration, University of Michigan)
Professor in Business Strategy, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne - Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, PhD (PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of French, Adjunct Professor of Japanese, and Director of Asian Studies, Texas Christian University
- Akiko Kamimura, PhD (PhD, Public Health, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Utah - Takuya Kanamori, MEng, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
Central Japan Railway Company, Japan
- Tsuyoshi Kano, PhD (PhD, Information Science, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Management Systems, College of Information and Human Communication, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan - Jieun Kim, PhD (PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Leeds, U.K. - Atsushi Kinami, PhD, LLM (LLM, University of Michigan)
Professor Emeritus of Law, Kyoto University; Research Officer/Professor by Courtesy at Kyoto University Admissions Center - Gabriele Koch, PhD (MA and PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Anthropology), Yale-NUS College - Mika Koizumi, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
freee K.K., Japan
- William Londo, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Special Lecturer, Department of History, Oakland University - Hiroaki Matsusaka, PhD (MA and PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, College & Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
- Takuro Miyazaki, MPH, MA (MPH, University of Michigan)
GCare Co., Ltd., Japan
- Marie Nitta, PhD (PhD, American Culture, University of Michigan)
Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Global Studies Program, Musashi University, Japan - Yoshikuni Ono, PhD (MA and PhD, Political Science, University of Michigan)
Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University - Hiroe Saruya, PhD (PhD, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Sophia University - Ann Sherif, PhD (MA, Asian Languages and Cultures, and PhD, Japanese Literature, University of Michigan)
Professor of Japanese, Oberlin College - Deborah Solomon, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of Asian History, Otterbein University - Kendra Strand, PhD (MA and PhD, Japanese Literature, University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Iowa - Alan Teo, MD, MS (MS, Health and Health Care Research, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Sciences University - Shuji Tsuda, MD, PhD, MPH (MPH, University of Michigan)
Researcher, Health Care Science Institute and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo - Masako Watanabe, JD, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
Ministry of Justice, Japan
- Noriko Yamaguchi, PhD, MA (MA, CJS, University of Michigan)
Croft Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian History, Croft Institute for International Studies - Tomomi Yamaguchi, PhD (MA, Communications, and PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montana State University - Yusuke Yoshihama, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan
Japan scholars in the region (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
- Jeffrey Angles, PhD
Professor of Japanese Literature, Language, and Translation, Western Michigan University - Benjamin Bartlett, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University, OH - Jorgelina Corbatta, PhD
Professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University - Monika Dix, PhD
Professor of Modern Foreign Languages, Saginaw Valley State University - Natasha Foreman, PhD
Instructor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Wayne State University - Dennis Frost, PhD
Wen Chao Chen Professor of East Asian Studies, Kalamazoo College - Hosanna Fukuzawa
MSW/PhD student in Social Work, Wayne State University - Heidi Gottfried, PhD, MA (MA, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University - Terrence Jackson, PhD
Professor of History, Adrian College - Ann Sherif, PhD
Professor of Japanese, Oberlin College - Deborah Solomon, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of Asian History, Otterbein University - Noriko Sugimori, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese Language, Kalamazoo College - Jonathan Weinberg, JD
Professor of Law, Wayne State University - John Timothy Wixted, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame
Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Former U-M faculty, visiting instructional faculty, visiting scholars, visiting graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and CJS event guests
- Mariko Anno, PhD
Associate Professor of Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Yugo Ashida, PhD
Founder and Technical Executive, JOINLU International Inc. - Emma Cook, PhD
Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University, Japan - Michelle Damian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater - Andre Deckrow, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Heritage Studies and Public History Program, Department of History, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
- Mariko Fujita, PhD
Lecturer, Keio University
Teacher, Keio Shonan Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School - Linda Galvane, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Department for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University - Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
- Takeshi Hamano, PhD
Associate Professor (Sociology), School of Human Relations, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Kitakyushu - Hongfang Hao, PhD
Independent Scholar - Hajime Hasegawa, PhD
Professor of Media Studies, Meiji Gakuin University - Junko Kondo, MA
Language Instructor, Center for Japanese Studies, Nanzan University - Mariko Kunimi, LLM, JD
Associate Professor of Law and Accounting, Den-En Chofu University - Dawn Lawson, PhD
Independent Scholar - David Leheny, PhD
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
- Charles McClean, PhD
Japan Foundation CGP Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
- Kenneth McElwain, PhD
Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo - David Methe, PhD
Professor of International Management, Kwansei Gakuin University
- Yuta Mori, MA
Coordinator of Japanese Language Program for BA in International Studies and Lecturer, Institute of Area Studies, Leiden University
- Katsumi Nakao, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, J.F. Oberlin University - Mariko Okada, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, J.F. Oberlin University - Robert Platt, PhD
Professor, School of Art and Design, Kyushu Sangyo University - Tomoyuki Sasaki, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, William & Mary - Hwaji Shin, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco - Kazuko Suzuki, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University - Satsuki Takahashi, PhD
Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Hosei University - Kiyoteru Tsutsui, PhD
Professor of Sociology, Senior Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Director of Japan Program at APARC, Stanford University
- Ryan Yokota, PhD
Teaching Professor, History Department; Professional Instructor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department and Honors Program, DePaul University - Fang Zhang, MA
Independent Scholar - Jonathan Zwicker, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of California, Berkeley
