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
- Jennifer Andrews, MA
MA student in Disability Studies, City University of New York
Senior Vice President, Group Director, Experience Design, Digitas North America - Yukiko Arai, LLM, MA (LLM and MA in Educational Studies, University of Michigan)
Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
- W. Puck Brecher, PhD, MA (MA, CJS, University of Michigan)
Professor of Japanese History, Washington State University - Aozora Brockman, MFA (MFA, Helen Zell Writers’ Program, University of Michigan)
Writer & Organic Vegetable Farm Hand
- 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)
Exhibit and Learning Designer, Canosa Seiter Partners
Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Arts, College for Creative Studies - 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)
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA - Susan Dine, PhD (PhD, History of Art, University of Michigan)
Senior Lecturer in Asian Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt 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)
MBS Foundation Chair in Sustainability and Business & Professor of Business Strategy, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, PhD (PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of Modern Language Studies (French/Japanese), Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University
- Annabella Jankowski, MIRS (MIRS-CJS, University of Michigan)
PhD student in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures and Media, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities - 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, Admissions Center/ Professor Emeritus of Law, Kyoto University, Japan
- Gabriele Koch, PhD (MA and PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway
- Mika Koizumi, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Keio University; Product Manager, freee K. K., Japan
- Saki Kuzushima, PhD (PhD, Political Science, University of Michigan)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University - William Londo, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Special Lecturer, Department of History, Oakland University - Ruipeng Lu, MA (MA, CJS, University of Michigan)
MA student in Japanese Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa - Hiroaki Matsusaka, PhD (MA and PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of History, 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, Japan
- Glenda Roberts, PhD
Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
Affiliate, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa - Izumi Sakamoto, PhD, M.Sc., MSW (PhD, Social Work & Social Psychology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto - Hiroe Saruya, PhD (PhD, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Sophia University, Japan
- Ann Sherif, PhD (MA, Asian Languages and Cultures, and PhD, Japanese Literature, University of Michigan)
Professor of Japanese and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
- Deborah Solomon, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of East 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)
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Sciences University - Shuji Tsuda, MD, PhD, MPH (MPH, University of Michigan)
Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
- Masako Watanabe, JD, MPP (MPP, University of Michigan)
Ministry of Justice, Japan
- Anna Wozny, PhD (MA and PhD, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sociology, Princeton University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo, 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)
Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University; Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology at 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
Emerita Professor, Wayne State University; Academic Psychoanalyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
- 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 Social Sciences, 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 - David Humphrey, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University - Terrence Jackson, PhD
Professor of History, Adrian College - Dustin London, MFA
Professor, School of Art & Design, Eastern Michigan University - Ann Sherif, PhD
Professor of Japanese and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
- Deborah Solomon, PhD (PhD, History, University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of East Asian History, Otterbein University
- Noriko Sugimori, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese, Kalamazoo College
- Jonathan Weinberg, JD
Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University Law School - Takashi Yoshida, PhD
Professor, Department of History, Western Michigan University
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, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan - Yugo Ashida, PhD
Founder and President, JOINLU International Inc. - Emma Cook, PhD
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
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas
- Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
- Takeshi Hamano, PhD
Professor of Sociology, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan
- Hongfang Hao, PhD
Co-researcher, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Hajime Hasegawa, PhD
Professor of Media Studies, Meiji Gakuin University - Kenji Ishizaka, MA
Provost/Professor, Japan Institute of the Moving Image, Japan - Sachiko Kita, PhD, CNN, RN, PHN
Representative Director of Institute of Trauma Recovery, Japan - Junko Kondo, MA
Language Instructor, Center for Japanese Studies, Nanzan University - Mariko Kunimi, LLM, JD
Professor of Law and Accounting, Den-En Chofu Gakuen University, Japan - Dawn Lawson, PhD
Independent Scholar - David Leheny, PhD
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
- Levi McLaughlin, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University - Charles McClean, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University - Kenneth McElwain, PhD
Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan - David Methe, PhD
Professor of Management, Tokyo International University, Japan
- 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
Professor, Faculty of the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, J. F. Oberlin University, Japan
- Robert Platt, PhD
Professor, School of Art and Media Studies, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
- Tomoyuki Sasaki, PhD
Professor of Japanese Studies, College of William & Mary
- Hwaji Shin, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco - Kazuko Suzuki, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University - Satsuki Takahashi, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Sustainable Studies, Hosei University, Japan
- Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, PhD
Lecturer in Japanese Language and Culture, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK - Kiyoteru Tsutsui, PhD
Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor in Japanese Studies, Director of the Japan Program at Shorenstein APARC, Deputy Director of Shorenstein APARC, Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
- John Timothy Wixted, DPhil
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 - Keisuke Yamada, PhD
Independent Scholar
- Ryan Yokota, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Illinois Wesleyan University - Fang Zhang, MA
Independent Scholar - Jonathan Zwicker, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of California, Berkeley
