Ph.D. Dissertation Direction
- Alexandra Hambleton, “Consuming Pleasures: Women, Sexuality, and Postfeminism in Post-Growth Japan,” 2017.
Current Ph.D. Candidates
- Adrienne Johnson
- Miranda Larsen
- Jia Yang
- Jiaxi Hou
- Frédéric Seraphine
- Junxiao Leng
- Tommaso Barbetta
Masters Thesis Direction
- Michelle Ho, “Japan’s Gendered Morning Television: Housewives, Social Identity, and ‘Wide-Show’ Infotainment,” 2012.
- Hui Chong Yong, “Fukushima on 24-Hour Television News: A Case Study of News as Narrative in Crisis Coverage,” 2012.
- Cathleen Paras, “Informal Media Economy and Remediation: Fansubbing of Japanese Dramas in the Philippines,” 2013.
- Kai Okudara, “Idol Chatter: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Celebrity Social Media Usage in Japan,” 2013.
- Elitza Koeva, “A Different Space: A Globalising Architectural Firm in Contemporary China,” 2013.
- Mizhelle Agcaoili, “Bickering Bitches: An Analysis of Representations of Japanese Femininity through Celebrity,” 2014.
- Fengming Ni, “Rotten Girls in Love: Funü, Fantasy, and Female Sexuality in Contemporary China,” 2014.
- Christopher St. Louis, “For Your Protection: State Surveillance and Narratives of Risk in Contemporary Japan,” 2014.
- Mario Rico Florendo, “Hoops and Dreams: Analysis of Kuwentong Gilas Narratives and National Identity in the Philippines,” 2015.
- Tiffany Lim, “All the Internet’s a Stage: Online Photo-Sharing as a Performance of Self-Esteem and Impression Management in the Filipino Cosplay Community,” 2015.
- Emma Winthrow, “Behind the Camera, In Front of the World: YouTube Vlogs and Messages of Japan to the West,” 2016.
- Xuguang Li, “The Next MOOC Through the Lens of Gamification: A Study of Chinese Users,” 2016.
- Heqi Qiu, “Audience Reception of Micro-Celebrities on Weibo: Urban Users’ Following Behavior of Micro-Celebritites and Its Influences on Their Buying Decisions,” 2016.
- Nicole Hasbum, “Social Media and the Tourist Experience,” 2017.
- Siyan Zhao, “Making Sense of Japanese Violence: Chinese Audience’s Reading of TV News Reports of the Sagamihara Stabbings,” 2017.
- Jiaxi Hou, “Chinese Participatory Culture on a Danmaku Website: Technology, Content, and Interactivity,” 2017.
- Liron Afriat, “Fight Like a Girl: Cosplay in the Work-Life Balance of Japanese Female Cosplayers,” 2018.
- Yue Yang, “From Phoenix to Dragon: Tsai Ing-wen’s Branded Femininity on Social Media,” 2019.
- Chencheng Qian, “Fascination or Discrimination: The ‘Occidental’ Accent in Japanese TV Commercials,” 2019.
- Harley Harrer, “Multicultural Future: An Ethnography of Gaijin Drag Queens in Tokyo,” 2020.
- Liisi Tagel, “’‘What If I Will Be Single Forever?’: Discourses of Female Singleness in Japanese Women’s Magazines,” 2020.
- Yechen Yu, “The Archive of Our Own: Between Platform and Infrastructure,” 2020.
- Andrew Z Le, “Does the Party Ever Stop? Rethinking Regulation and Resistance of Tokyo Nightclubs,” 2020.
- Chujun Zhao, “Only Fans Can Understand? Television in the Age of Social Media,” 2020.
- Jiani Liu, “Conflict and Camaraderie in Women-Only Space: Investigating Japanese Joshikai,” 2020.
- Sisi Gu, “The Contemporary “Happy Housewife Myth”: Japanese Housewife Ideal and Commercialized Domesticity on YouTube,” 2020.
- Xueqin Lu, “Neoliberal Feminism and Consumerism in Contemporary China: A Discourse Analysis of the ‘Straight Male’ on the Chinese Internet,” 2021.
- Sabah Merchant, “‘Do Your Best!’: Representations of Ganbaru in 21st-Century Sports Manga Franchises,” 2021.
- Callum Sarracino, “The Omegaverse: Canine Zoomorphism in Homoerotic Media,” 2021.
- Rongqiu Jin, “Socializing Through Music: Chinese Online Music Platforms in the Streaming Era,” 2021.
Service as Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee
- Joachim Bergstrom (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Entering Transnational Memory: The Trajectories and Representations of the ‘Comfort Women’ in International Media Discourse, 1990-2000,” University of Tokyo, 2011
- Patrick W. Galbraith (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Becoming-Otaku: Men, Girls and Movement in Akihabara,” University of Tokyo, 2011.
- Yang Jeewon (Advisor: Toshiyuki Niwa),「映画における家族像の変遷:小津安二郎と山田洋次作品におけるプロジェクトとしての「家族」の可能性」(Filmic Transformations in the Image of the Family: The Project of the “Family” in the Films of Ozu Yasujirō and Yamada Yōji), University of Tokyo, 2014.
- Yunuen Mandujano Salazar (Advisor: Víctor Manuel Hernández Márquez), “Media Idols and National Representation: Strengthening the National Identity in Contemporary Japan,” Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2014.
- Amanda Weiss, (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Producing the Nation: Memory, Race, and Gender in Chinese and Japanese War Films,” University of Tokyo, 2015.
- Igor Prusa, (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Scandal, Ritual, and Media in Postwar Japan,” 2017.
- Fei Chen (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Disassembling the Empire, Assembling the Nation-State: Imagining Locality, Nation, and State Among Chinese Students in Japan, 1896-1911,” University of Tokyo, 2018.
- Rujirat Vinitphol, (Advisor: Shin Mizukoshi), “Niconico Utaite: Research on Creative Culture in Japanese Social Media,” University of Tokyo, 2020.
- Mengfei Pan, (Advisor: Shunya Yoshimi), “Locating and Localizing the Art Networks: A Sociological Examination of the Role of Place in Art Networks in Ueno, Tokyo in the Meiji Period,” University of Tokyo, 2021.
- Xiaochen Su, (Advisor: Shigeto Sonoda), “The Emergence of a Parallel Society: Measuring the Lack of Social Integration among Chinese Migrants in the Russian Far East, 2021.