2011 Cohort II Participants
Please note that the position and affiliation of each individual are from the time of application.
Celeste Arrington is the Korea Foundation assistant professor of political
science and international affairs at George Washington University. She
specializes in comparative politics, with a regional focus on the Koreas and
Japan. Her research interests include civil society, social movements,
democratic governance, law and society, policy-making processes, the media and
politics, and qualitative methods. She is also interested in the international
relations and security of Northeast Asia and transnational activism. She is currently
completing a book manuscript on victim redress movements and governmental
accountability in South Korea and Japan.
Dr. Arrington earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, an
MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from Princeton University. She
was an advanced research fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at
Harvard University in 2010-2011. During the 2011-2012 year, she is a member of
the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey.
Emma Chanlett-Avery is
a specialist in Asian affairs in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade
division of the Congressional Research Service. She focuses on security issues
in the region, including U.S. relations with North Korea, Japan, Thailand, and
Singapore. Ms. Chanlett-Avery joined CRS in 2003 through the Presidential
Management Fellowship. She has also held positions in the State Department in
the Office of Policy Planning and on the Korea Desk, as well as at the Joint
U.S. Military Advisory Group in Bangkok, Thailand. Professional and academic
fellowships include the Amherst-Doshisha Fellowship, the Harold Rosenthal
Fellowship in International Relations, the Foreign Language and Area Studies
Fellowship in advanced Japanese, the American Assembly Next Generation
Fellowship, and a U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant from the U.S. Department of
State. She currently serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Working Group
on the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Mansfield Foundation Task Force on Creating
a Contemporary U.S.-Japan Vision for Shared Progress and Prosperity.
Ms. Chanlett-Avery received an MA from the School of International and Public
Affairs at Columbia University and her BA from Amherst College.
Erin Chung is the Charles D. Miller assistant
professor of East Asian politics and co-director of the Racism, Immigration,
and Citizenship Program in the department of political science at Johns Hopkins
University. She was an advanced research fellow at Harvard University’s Program
on U.S.-Japan Relation, a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University in
Urawa, Japan, and a visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo and
Korea University. Her research interests include international migration,
comparative ethnic and racial politics, citizenship, and civil society. Her
first book, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge University Press,
2010), examines how the strategic interaction between state efforts to control
immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident
activists to empower the foreign community have shaped contemporary immigration
and citizenship politics in Japan. In 2009, Dr. Chung was awarded an Abe
Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council to conduct research in Japan
and Korea for her second book project on immigrant incorporation in ethnic
democracies.
Dr. Chung received her PhD in political science from Northwestern University.
Annika A. Culver serves as assistant professor of
Asian history and Asian studies coordinator at the University of North Carolina
at Pembroke (UNCP). She has also taught at the University of Chicago, Skidmore
College, and Beijing University, with research and teaching interests in
Japanese cultural imperialism, wartime Sino-Japanese cultural relations, and
U.S.-Asian interactions since the mid-19th century. She has published articles,
essays on teaching, and book reviews for History Compass, U.S.-Japan Women’s
Journal (USJWJ), Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs (SJEAA), Journal of the
North Carolina Association of Historians (JNCAH), Association for Asian Studies
Newsletter, and Perspectives (Overseas Young Chinese Forum), and has a
forthcoming book entitled Japanese “Avant-Garde” Propaganda in Manchukuo:
Modernist Reflections of the New State, 1932-1945.
Dr. Culver received a BA from Vassar College and her MA in regional studies
East Asia from Harvard University. She was a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow
at Waseda University and holds a PhD in modern Japanese intellectual history
from the University of Chicago.
Dyron Dabney is an assistant professor in the
department of political science at Albion College in Michigan. His research and
teaching interests include campaigns and elections, political parties,
political participation, and elite politics. While specializing in Japanese
politics, Dr. Dabney’s research and teaching interests invite comparative
analysis of East Asian politics and culture and American politics. Dr. Dabney’s
present-day research is motivated and informed by interdisciplinary studies
that bring into focus gendered differences in political participation and
behavior. His current research projects include an examination of spousal
participation effects on election campaign outcomes in Japan and the U.S. and
gender and election campaign corruption in Japan and the U.S.
Dr. Dabney holds a PhD in comparative politics from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. He currently serves as a board of directors
member of ASIANetwork, and is an advisory committee member and the 2011-2012
resident director for Japan Study at Waseda University, Tokyo.
Linda Hasunuma is an assistant professor at
Franklin and Marshall College. Dr. Hasunuma specializes in East Asian,
comparative, and international politics. Prior to coming to Franklin and
Marshall in 2010, Dr. Hasunuma was a professor and lecturer at Loyola Marymount
University, Pepperdine University, and the University of California, Los
Angeles. Her research interests include Japan’s local governments, civil
society, and Japan’s relationship with its regional neighbors, and in
particular, the Korean Peninsula and Russia. She is currently working on a
project examining the role of local environmental movements on national energy
policies since the March 11th disasters. Dr. Hasunuma is the recipient of a
number of grants and awards, including the Sasakawa Grant and Aratani
Fellowship.
Dr. Hasunuma received her BA and PhD from University of California, Los Angeles
with concentrations in comparative politics and international relations.
Jeffrey Hornung is an associate professor at the
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). His area of expertise
includes East Asian security issues, primarily those related to Japan and the
U.S.-Japan alliance. His interests at APCSS focus on maritime security. Prior
to joining APCSS, Dr. Hornung served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio
State University’s East Asian Studies Center, where he taught courses on the
international relations of Japan, government and politics of Japan, and
international relations of East Asia. Previously, he served as a research
assistant at George Washington University for a project entitled Memory and
Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific.
In addition to three years of teaching English in Japan, Dr. Hornung also
worked for a member of the House of Representatives during the 2001 House of
Councilors election. Additionally, he spent 15 months on a Fulbright Fellowship
conducting his doctoral research at the University of Tokyo, where he was a
visiting scholar.
Dr. Hornung received his PhD in political science from the George Washington
University. He received his BA in political science and international affairs
from Marquette University, where he graduated magna cum laude. Dr. Hornung also
holds an MA in international relations with a concentration in Japan Studies
from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
David Jänes is the director of foundation grants
and assistant to the president at the United States-Japan Foundation. He also
works on broader Asia-wide projects including U.S.-Japan-China relations.
During his tenure at the Foundation, Mr. Jänes created the Elgin Heinz
Outstanding Teacher Awards and founded the Reischauer Scholars Program that is
directed by Stanford University. Previously, Mr. Jänes served as director of
college and university relations for the International Partnership for
Service-Learning & Leadership. Mr. Jänes is a trustee of the Japan ICU
Foundation; a board member of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center; a board
member of Saeko Ichinohe and Company, Inc.; a Scott M. Johnson Fellow of the
United States-Japan Leadership Program; and a Fellow of the British-American
Project.
Mr. Jänes holds a BA from Mary Washington College where he graduated summa cum
laude, an MA in Asian religions from the University of Hawaii, and an MA in
international affairs and a certificate in the advanced study of nonviolent
conflict from the Fletcher School. Mr. Jänes is also a graduate of the Japan
Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone, Japan. Mr. Jänes is concurrently
pursuing a doctorate in sociology at The New School for Social Research, where
he is focusing on civil society in Japan.
Weston Konishi is associate director of
Asia-Pacific studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA), where
he specializes in Japan and Asia policy issues. Before joining IFPA, he was an
adjunct fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. In 2009, he served
as an analyst in Asian affairs at the Congressional Research Service (CRS),
authoring Japan’s Historic 2009 Elections: Implications for U.S. Interests, the
first report to Congress focusing on the Democratic Party of Japan. He was also
principal author of the CRS report, South Korea: Its Domestic Politics and
Foreign Policy Outlook. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Konishi was a Council on Foreign
Relations/Hitachi International Affairs fellow in Japan, conducting research on
Japanese foreign and defense policies at the Tokyo-based Institute for
International Policy Studies (IIPS) and the National Institute for Defense
Studies (NIDS). From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Konishi served as director of programs
at the Mansfield Foundation, where he oversaw the Foundation’s exchanges,
policy dialogues, research projects, and development activities. From 2000 to
2008, Mr. Konishi was a monthly contributing columnist on regional affairs for
The Daily Yomiuri.
Mr. Konishi received his BA and MA from the International Christian University
in Mitaka, Tokyo, where he was awarded a Monbusho (Ministry of Education)
Scholarship. He is a member of the United States Council for Security
Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP) and a participant in numerous
leadership forums, including the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society.
Kenji Kushida is a postdoctoral fellow at the
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. He is also an
affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
(BRIE). Dr. Kushida’s research focuses on comparative political economy —
political and regulatory issues surrounding information technology, foreign
direct investment, Cloud Computing, and the IT-enabled transformation of
services activities. Geographically, he focuses mostly on Japan, Korea, and the
US. He has written two books entitled Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond
English Linguistic Capabilities (2006) and International Schools, an
Introduction (2008).
Dr. Kushida received his PhD in political science from the University of
California Berkeley. He received a BA and MA in East Asian Studies from
Stanford University.
Mary McCarthy is an assistant professor at Drake
University. Dr. McCarthy joined the politics department in the fall of 2007.
Her research and teaching interests include the influence of domestic politics
on foreign policymaking, the interaction between the state and the market, the
relationship between bureaucrats and politicians, the role of the media in the
political system, and the impact of environmental degradation and resource
depletion on international and national security. Her regional focus is East
Asia.
Dr. McCarthy received her MA and PhD degrees in political science, as well as
her BA degree in East Asian studies, from Columbia University.
Kenneth McElwain is an assistant professor of
political science at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He studies the
comparative politics of institutional design, particularly in Japan and other
advanced industrialized democracies. His current book manuscript examines how
partisan incentives influence the initial selection and subsequent manipulation
of electoral systems, and how these choices can help unpopular governments to
stay in power. Other research topics include the organizational principles of
political parties and the procedural complexity of constitutional amendments.
Dr. McElwain’s work is motivated by a general interest in asymmetrical party
systems: legislatures where one large party coexists with multiple small
parties. These cases represent idiosyncrasies in “normal” forms of party
competition and have distinctive patterns of government composition, policy,
and longevity.
Dr. McElwain joined the political science faculty at Michigan in fall 2008,
following post-doctoral appointments at Stanford and Harvard. He was born and
raised in Tokyo, Japan, and he received his A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School
at Princeton University. He received his PhD from Stanford University.
Andrew Oros is an associate professor of political
science and international studies at Washington College. Dr. Oros is a
specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the
advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on contending approaches to
managing security. He also serves as director of the first-year student Global
Perspectives: Research and Writing seminar program and director of
international studies at Washington College. Dr. Oros was on academic leave in
China and Japan in fall 2010 where he pursued research on prospects for
China-Japan-US security cooperation under a Japan Foundation Abe Fellowship.
Dr. Oros received a PhD and MPhil from Colombia University and a BA from the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Gene Park is an assistant professor of political
science at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). He specializes in comparative
politics, international relations, and political economy. Dr. Park has written
extensively on the politics of public finance in Japan including a book
entitled Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in
Japan (Stanford University Press, 2011). He is currently working on a
comparative study of taxation. Prior to arriving at LMU, he taught at Baruch
College, City University of New York. Dr. Park has been a Japan Fellow at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Shorenstein Fellow at
Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC). He also spent two
years as a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Policy
Research Institute.
Dr. Park received his PhD in political science from the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Institute of
International Education fellowship. He holds a BA in philosophy from Swarthmore
College and an MA in city and regional planning from Berkeley.