Endowed in 1988, the Toyota Visiting Professorship is granted to scholars from Japan and countries other than Japan in alternating years. It provides a rotating chair for scholars and public figures to spend one to two semesters at U-M to engage in academic exchange and research. Toyota Visiting Professors present public lectures, offer graduate seminars, and conduct research on various Japan-related topics.
Toyota Visiting Professors
2022-23
Emma Cook - Hokkaido University, Anthropology
2021-22
Charles McClean - Political Science
Previous Toyota Visiting Professors
The Toyota Visiting Professors at the Center for Japanese Studies have been:
2020-21
Hwaji Shin - University of San Francisco, Sociology
2019-20
Levi McLaughlin - North Carolina State University, Religion
2018-19
Mariko Anno - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ethnomusicology
2017-18
Eric Rath - University of Kansas, History
2016-17
Kazuhiro Soda - Filmmaker
2015-16
Satsuki Takahashi - George Mason University, Anthropology
David Leheny - Princeton University, Political Science
2014-15
Katsumi Nakao - J.F.Oberlin University, Anthropology
2013-14
J. Keith Vincent - Boston University; Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Queer Theory
2012-13
Mariko Okada - Japanese Performing Arts
2011-12
Melanie Trede - Heidelberg University; Art History
2010-11
Rieko Kage - University of Tokyo; Political Science
2009-10
Julia Adeney Thomas - University of Notre Dame; History
2008-09
Katsuya Hirano - Cornell University; History
2007-08
Mark McLelland - University of Wollongong; Sociology
2006-07
Sadafumi Kawato - Tokyo University; Japanese Politics
2005-06
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni - Tel-Aviv University; Sociology, Anthropology, and East Asian Studies
2004-05
Kazue Muta - Osaka University; Sociology
Katsumi Nakao - Osaka City University; Anthropology
2003-04
Reinhard Zöllner - University Bonn; Japanese Studies
2002-03
Yukiko Tsunoda - Tanaka & Partners; Law
Ikuo Kabashima - University of Tokyo; Political Science
2001-02
Jordan Sand - Georgetown University; History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
2000-01
Takanori Fujita - Kyoto City University of Arts; Ethnomusicology
Fumiko Umezawa - Keisen University; Japanese Studies
Susumu Yamaguchi - University of Tokyo; Social Psychology
1999-2000
Stephen Vlastos - University of Iowa; Japanese Rural and Agricultural History
Donald McCallum - UCLA; Japanese Art History
1998-99
Hiroyuki Hashimoto - Morioka College; Folk Performing Arts
Mikiro Kato - Kyoto University; Japanese Cinema
1997-98
T.R. Reid - The Washington Post; Journalism
Norma Field - University of Chicago; Japanese Literature
1996-97
Teigo Yoshida - University of Tokyo; Anthropology
Hitoshi Miyake - Keio University; Religion
Hiroyoshi Ishikawa - Seijo University; Social Psychology
1995-96
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - University of Wisconsin at Madison; Anthropology
1994-95
Masako Notoji - University of Tokyo; Anthropology
Shuhei Hosokawa - International Research Center for Japanese Studies; Music
Kazufumi Manabe - Kwansei Gakuin University; Sociology
1993-94
Donald Richie - Film
1992-93
Hideo Kojima - Nagoya University; Education
1991-92
Jennifer Robertson - University of California at San Diego; Anthropology
Takie Sugiyama Lebra - University of Hawaii; Anthropology
1990-91
Kiyonori Sakakibara - Keio University; Business
1989-90
D. Eleanor Westney - Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sociology/Business
1988-89
Motohiro Kondo - Chūō Kōronsha; Editor of Chūō Kōron
