Maki Fukuoka

Name: Maki Fukuoka

Title(s):

• Assistant Professor

Contact Information: 734.763.9178 , mfukuoka@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CJS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Asian Languages & Cultures

Education Background: PhD, Art History, University of Chicago, 2006 MA, Art History, University of Chicago, 1997 BA, Art History and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, 1995

Research/Teaching Specialization: The visual culture of modern Japan with a focus on the history of photography, the relationships between scientific epistemology and pictorial representatios, exhibition practices and formulations of "knowledge," the representations of life and death in modern Japan, and the discursive analysis of "Japanese art history."

Publications:

• "The Life of General Nogi's iei [portraits of the deceased]". Spring 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Contextualizing the Peep-Box in Tokugawa Japan". May 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Inuma Yokusai and Visual Culture". February, 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)