Academic Positions
2012-Present Tenured Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo
2008-Present Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
2007-2008 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
2003-2007 Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
2002-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Florida
2001-2002 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Michigan State University
Education
2002 Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1996 M.A. in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1992 A.B. in Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other Professional Activity
2020-Present Editor and Web Designer, Japanese Media and Popular Culture, https://jmpc-utokyo.com.
2014-Present Advisory Board Member, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
2014 “The World Hobbit Project” (with Martin Barker, Matt Hills, and Ernest Mathijs).
An international audience study of the Hobbit film trilogy with over 145 researchers in 46 countries.
Prepared and administered Japanese-language online survey.
2008-Present Editorial Board Member, Social Science Japan Journal (Oxford UP)
2003-2008 Managing Editor, Social Science Japan Journal (Oxford UP)