East Asia | Asian Studies Center

Encompasses China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea

William B.-Crawford

Given Name:

William B.

Family Name:

Crawford

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Rank:

Part-Time Faculty

Department:

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Office:

2709 Cathedral of Learning

Office phone number:

412-624-5568

Regional specialty:

East Asia

China

Japan

Email Address:

wcrawford@katz.pitt.edu

Region:

East Asia

Area of specialization:

Business; Chinese Language; Chinese Literature; Japanese Literature; Research in East Asia; Freshman Studies; Comparative Literature

Qualifications:

PhD, Indiana University, 1972

Publications:

2005 “China’s Management Buyouts in Fiction and Fact”: Part of on-campus lecture series sponsored by Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies

“The Blizzard Leaves no Trace: Putting a Popular Spin on Economic Reality,” presented for Panel 23: “Idealism Besieged: Chinese Anti-Corruption Fiction as a Response to Social Change”, at the 34th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies.

2004 “Penetrating the Cultural Context of Business from Within: Cultural Data-Mining for Expatriates,” open lecture at National Dong Hwa University School of Management, Taiwan.

“Maintaining Local Sensitivity Amid Global Diversity in Human Resources Management”: seminar presentation/discussion, National Dong Hwa University Graduate Program in Management, Taiwan

Gabriella-Lukacs

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Gabriella

Family Name:

Lukacs

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Rank:

Associate Professor

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Regional specialty:

East Asia

Japan

Email Address:

lukacs@pitt.edu

Region:

East Asia

Area of specialization:

Television Industry; Digital Media Industry; Political Economy; Cultural Production; Consumer Culture; Labor; Gender; Japan

Biography:

Gabriella Lukacs is a cultural anthropologist whose research explores the themes of mass media (television), new media technologies (Internet, cellular phones), capitalism, subjectivity, labor, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Japan. Her first book, Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, analyzes post-signification television in 1990s Japan. It focuses on late 1980s development of a new primetime serial, the trendy drama. It interprets the genre as a shift in the Japanese television industry from producing narrative-based entertainment to selling lifestyle. Professor Lukacs' current project continues to examine questions of subjectivity and capitalism, but it focuses on new media technologies.

Publications:

2013 “Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan” Cultural Anthropology

2013 “Cool Japan, Soft Power, and Cultural Globalization,” In Towards New Humanities in the Era of Ubiquitous Media, Yoshimi Shunya and Ishida Hidetaka, eds. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press

2012 “Workplace Dramas and Labor Fantasies in 1990s Japan,” in Global Futures in East Asia, Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren, eds. Stanford University Press

Nicole-Constable

Given Name:

Nicole

Family Name:

Constable

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3124 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-8846

Regional specialty:

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

constabl@pitt.edu

Region:

East Asia, Pacific Asia

Area of specialization:

transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power.

Biography:

Nicole Constable is a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests include transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power. Her geographical areas of specialization are Hong Kong, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, on resistance and discipline among Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers, and among migrant parents. Recent publications have focused on cross-border marriages, internet ethnography, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, religion and labor protests among migrant workers.  Her newest publication is a book titled Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (University of California Press and Hong Kong University Press 2014).

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Publications:

2014 Constable, Nicole. Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. University of California Press, 2014.

2013 "Correspondence Marriages, Virtual Communities, and Counter-Erotics on the Internet" In Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 111-37.

2013 "Conference as Feminist Ethnography and the Blurring of Boundaries". Special issue Remapping the Erotic: Interrogations from Asia, Sik Ying Ho, ed. Sexualities.

2012 Brides, Maids and Prostitutes: Reflections on the Study of “Trafficked” Women. In: Shadow lines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia. Devleena Ghosh, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 14-35.

James A.-Cook

Given Name:

James A.

Family Name:

Cook

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Rank:

Adjunct Associate Professor

Staff

Department:

History

Office:

4112 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-7372

Regional specialty:

East Asia

China

Email Address:

jacook@pitt.edu

Region:

China, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan

Area of specialization:

Impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China

Staff Title:

Associate Director

Biography:

James Cook is currently the Associate Director of the Asian Studies Center. James was born and raised in Southeast Asia, until moving to Long Island and San Francisco in his teenage years. As an undergraduate he studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he wrote his thesis on China’s foreign policy in Southeast Asia. After completing his M.A. in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, he studied at Peking University. He completed his Ph.D. at San Diego in 1998 in East Asian history. After 13 years at Central Washington University in the Department of History and as Director of the Asian Studies Program, he joined ASC. His research interests include the impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China. He works extensively in China, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. Dr. Cook has just published a new edited collection. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1789-Present is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban media such as illustrated sports magazines and movies, Great Leap Forward film, visual commemorations of the Cultural Revolution, Overseas Chinese culture, and the Shanghai 2010 expo.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1998

Publications:

2014 Cook, James, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, eds. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1889-Present. New York: Lexington Press.

2013 “China's New Sorrow: Water-Management Policies, Environmental Degradation, and Salar-Tibetan Minority Relations in Qinghai Province,” Twentieth Century China. (Co-authored with student authors Derek Huls, Marc Janke, and Yesenia Gallardo.)

2011 “A Transnational Revolution: Sun Yatsen, Overseas Chinese, and the Revolutionary Movement in Xiamen, 1900-12,” in Sun Yat-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, ed. Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan, 127-162. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

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