Ph.D., pending, Columbia University
Japanese History
Dissertation: "Dress Codes: Breaking Rules and Making Meanings in Japan, 1590 - 1890"
Orals fields: Modern Japanese History, Early Modern Japanese History, Cultural History and
Histories of “Culture,” Theories of Visual and Material Culture.

M.Phil., Columbia University
Master of Philosophy in Japanese History, 1998
Thesis: “Interlacing Histories: Woven Pictorial Haori Linings and Modern Traditions”

M.A., Stanford University
Master of Arts in Japanese Cultural History, Center for East Asian Studies, 1993

B.A., Stanford University
Bachelor of Arts in Modern Thought and Literature, Humanities Honors Program, 1993

Publications

“Donald Richie’s The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan.” Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture (http://www.persimmon-mag.com) IV:3 (Winter 2004). – book review

“Ichidô no nisatsu: Chino Kaori san o shinobu [Two books at a time: Remembering Chino Kaori].” Imêji to jendâ 3 (12/02).

Kyoto National Museum, ed. “Sacred Treasures of the Asuka Shrine” In National Treasures of the National Museums, Japan (http://www.emuseum.jp/), 2001. – translation of textiles entries

Chino Kaori, Anata e no purezento: Idemitsu Mako-san no sakuhin [A Present for You: The Work of Idemitsu Mako]. Kobe: Kobe Art Village Center, 2000. – translation

Satô Kenji. “News as Narrative.” In Kinoshita Naoyuki et al, eds., Nyûsu no tanjô [The birth of the news]. The University Museum of University of Tokyo, 1999 [CD Rom 2000]. – translation

Current Position

Mellon Fellow, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University in St. Louis