A Reference List of
1937-2006
(English-language
dissertations, in chronological order)
complied by
William W. Kelly
1937 John Fee Embree Suye Mura: A Changing Economic Order. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1947 Robert F. Spencer Japanese Buddhism in the United States, 1940-1945: A Study in Acculturation. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1950 William A. Caudill Japanese-American Acculturation and Personality. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Chicago.
1950 John Campbell Pelzel Social Stratification in Japanese Urban Economic Life. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1951 George A. DeVos Acculturation and Personality Structure: A Rorschach Study of Japanese Americans. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1952 Edward Norbeck Takashima: A Fishing Community of Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1953 Robert J. Smith Kurusu: A Changing Japanese Agricultural Community. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1954 Ishino Iwao The Oyabun-Kobun Institution: An Introductory Analysis of a Ritual Kinship System in Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1955 I. Roger Yoshino Selected Social Changes in a Japanese Village, 1935-1953. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California.
1957 John D. Donoghue An Eta Community in Northern Japan: A Study in Intra-Group Relations. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1957 Thomas W. Maretzki Child Rearing in an Okinawan Community. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1958 William Philip Lebra Okinawan Religion. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1961 Erwin Henry Johnson Nagura Mura: An Historical Analysis of Stability and Change in Community Structure. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1962 Harumi Befu Hamlet in Nation: The Place of 3 Japanese Rural Communities in Their Broader Social Context. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.
1962 James Akira Hirabayashi The Relation between National and Local Normative Systems: A Study of a Japanese Mountain Community. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Social Relations, Harvard University.
1962 David W. Plath The Strung and the Unstrung: Holidays in Japanese Life. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1963 John F. Plummer Oya, a Village of Northeast Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1964 L. Keith Brown Dozoku: A Study of Descent Groups in Rural Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1965 John Singleton Education as an Instrument of National Policy: A Case Study of a Modern Japanese Middle School and Its Communities. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1967 Takie Sugiyama Lebra An Interpretation of Religious Conversion: A Millennial Movement among Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1968 Kenne H K. Chang The Dynamics of Cultural Ecology of Suruki Hamlet, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in the Postwar Years. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1968 Christie W. Kiefer Personality and Social Change in a Japanese Danchi. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1968 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney A Northwest Coast Sakhalin Ainu World View. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1969 Robert Lewis Ramseyer Takachiho, 1868-1968: Evolving Patterns of Community Decision-Making in a Developing Nation-State. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1969 David K. Reynolds Directed Behavior Change: Japanese Psychotherapy in a Private Mental Hospital. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles.
1969 S Seshaiah The Sociological Impact of Postwar Land Reform on the Rural Community in Japan: A Study of a Tohoku Village. Ph.D. dissertation. Indian School of International Studies.
1970 Bernard Bernier The Popular Religion of a Japanese Village and Its Transformation. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1970 Mitsuru Shimpo Economic Development and Social Change in Rural Japan: A Case Study of Shiwa Community, Iwate Prefecture. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia.
1971 Thomas P. Rohlen The Organization and Ideology of a Japanese Bank: An Ethnographic Study of a Modern Organization. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
1971 Eugene E. Ruyle The Political Economy of the Japanese Ghetto. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1972 Rodney Clark Social Relations in a Japanese Company. Ph.D. dissertation. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
1973 Ronald O. Haak Nishijin Weavers: A Study of the Functions of Tradition in Modern Japanese Society. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
1973 Thomas Wayne Johnson Shonendan: Adolescent Peer Group Socialization in Rural Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley.
1974 Sonya Salamon In the Intimate Arena: Japanese Women and Their Families. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1974 Tanaka Masako Uchida Kinship and Descent in an Okinawan Village. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester.
1974 Yamamoto Akira Communication in Culture Spaces: A Study of the Buraku. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University.
1975 Atsumi Reiko Personal Relationships of Japanese White-Collar Company Employees. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1975 Sylvia Junko Yanagisako Social and Cultural Change in Japanese-American Kinship. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.
1976 Walter L. Ames Police and Community in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1976 Stewart E. Guthrie A Japanese New Religion: Rissho Kosei-Kai in a Japanese Farming Village. Ph. D. dissertation %( DAI, 40, no. 08A, (1976): 4652. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1976 Margaret M. Lock Oriental Medicine in Urban Japan: A Harmony of Tradition and Science. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1976 Linda L. Perry Mothers, Wives, and Daughters in Osaka: Autonomy, Alliance, and Professionalism. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1977 Namihira Emiko Hare, Ke, and Kegare: The Structure of Japanese Folk Belief. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas.
1977 Paul H. Noguchi The "One Railroad Family" Of the Japanese National Railroads: A Cultural Analysis of Japanese Industrial Familialism. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1978 Jane M. Bachnik Inside and Outside the Japanese Household (Ie): A Contextual Approach to Japanese Social Organization. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1978 Samuel J. Coleman Induced Abortion and Contraceptive Method Choice among Urban Japanese Marrieds. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1978 Liza Crihfield The Institution of the Geisha in Modern Japanese Society. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1978 Jeffrey Lewis Dann "Kendo" In Japanese Martial Culture: Swordsmanship as Self-Cultivation. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
1978 Kenneth A. Skinner The Japanese Salaryman in a Government Bureaucracy: A Participant Observation Study of a Public Corporation. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
1978 Barbara Bowles Swann Affines, Office and Factionalism in Three Rural Japanese Settlements. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.
1979 Joy Hendry Changing Attitudes to Marriage in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Social Anthropology, Oxford University.
1979 Jill Kleinberg Kinship and Economic Growth: Pottery Production in a Japanese Village. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1979 H. James McLendon Sogo Shosha: Social Structure and Sociocultural Process and Change in a Japanese General Trading Company. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1980 James W. Genovese Karate Organization in Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
1980 Hamada Tomoko Comparative Study of Business Culture: A United States-Japanese Joint Venture Company in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1980 William W. Kelly Water Control in an Agrarian State: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600-1870. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.
1980 Susan Orpett Long Fame, Fortune, and Friends: Constraints and Strategies in the Careers of Japanese Physicians. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
1980 John A. Mock Social Change in an Urban Neighborhood: A Case Study in Sapporo, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University.
1981 Pamela J. Asquith Some Aspects of Anthropomorphism in the Terminology and Philosophy Underlying Western and Japanese Studies of the Social Behaviour of Non-Human Primates. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oxford.
1981 Laurel L. Cornell Peasant Family and Inheritance in a Japanese Community, 1671 to 1980: An Anthropological Analysis of Local Population Registers. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University.
1981 John B. Grossberg Formulating Attitudes toward Death: A Study of Elderly Japanese Jodo Shinshu Buddhists. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1981 Robert C. Marshall Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1981 David Harold Stark The Yakuza: Japanese Crime Incorporated. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1982 Dorinne Kay Kondo Work, Family and the Self: A Cultural Analysis of Japanese Family Enterprise. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1982 Sharon J. Traweek Uptime, Downtime, Spacetime, and Power: An Ethnography of the Particle Physics Community in Japan and the United States. Ph.D. dissertation. Program in the History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz.
1983 Michael Ashkenazi Festival Change and Continuity in a Japanese Town. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1983 Theodore C. Bestor Miyamoto-Cho: The Social Organization of a Tokyo Neighborhood. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1983 Taimie L. Bryant Mediation of Divorce Disputes in the Japanese Family Court System, with Emphasis on the Tokyo Family Court. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1983 Barbara Darlington Ito Entrepreneurial Women in Urban Japan: The Role of Personal Networks. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa.
1984 Akiyama Hiroko Resource Exchanges in Dyadic Family Relations in the U. S. And Japan: Towards a Theory of Dependence and Interdependence of the Elderly. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1984 Eyal Ben-Ari Community Action and Community Care in Present-Day Japan: A Study of Two Communities. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford.
1984 Walter D. Edwards Ritual in the Commercial World: Japanese Society through Its Weddings. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1984 Ok-pyo Moon Kim Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Village. D.Phil. thesis. University of Oxford.
1984 David C. Lewis Practical Religion in Japan: A Study of Two Urban Neighborhoods. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
1984 Nancy R. Rosenberger Middle-Age Japanese Women and the Meanings of the Menopausal Transition. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1984 Takiguchi Naoko Miyako Shamanism: Shamans, Clients, and Their Interactions. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1984 Jan G. van Bremen The Moral Imperative and Leverage for Rebellion: An Anthropological Study of Wang Yang-Ming Doctrine in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1985 Jennifer L. Anderson Chanoyu: An Anthropological Approach to Tea. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1985 Richard H. Moore Land Tenure and Social Organization in a Rice Growing Community in Tohoku Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin.
1985 Stephen Patrick Nussbaum The Residential Community in Modern Japan: An Analysis of a Tokyo Suburban Development. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1985 Mary J. Picone Rites and Symbols of Death in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford.
1985 Jennifer Ellen Robertson The Making of Kodaira; Being an Ethnography of a Japanese City's Progress. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1986 Anne Allison Sexuality as Ideology in Present-Day Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1986 Thomas S. Hardy People of the Garden: Aesthetics in Everyday Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research.
1986 Robert J. Marra The Katsumoto-Ura Fishing Cooperative: A Lesson in the Autonomous Control of a Fishing Economy. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1986 Glenda S. Roberts Non-Trivial Pursuits: Japanese Blue-Collar Women and the Lifetime Employment System. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1986 David Blake Willis In Search of a Transnational Culture: An Ethnography of the Student Culture of an International School. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Iowa.
1987 John J. Donohue The Forge of the Spirit: Ritual, Motion and Meaning in the Japanese Martial Art Tradition. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
1987 Roger Goodman A Study of the Kikokushijo Phenomenon: Returnee Schoolchildren in Contemporary Japan. D.Phil. thesis. University of Oxford.
1987 Imamura Atsuko Address and Reference in Rural Japan: Dynamics of Social Interaction. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
1987 Nomura Naoki Ethnography of Interaction at a Japanese Mental Hospital. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1987 Ota Yoshinobu Ritual as Narrative: Folk Religious Experience in the Southern Ryukyus. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1987 Christena L. Turner Breaking the Silence: Consciousness, Commitment, and Action in Japanese Unions. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1988 Mildred Rosetta Creighton Sales, Service, and Sanctity: An Anthropological Analysis of Japanese Department Stores. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
1988 Marilyn Ivy Discourses of the Vanishing in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1988 Lauren Joan Kotloff Dai-Ichi Preschool: Fostering Individuality and Cooperative Group Life in a Progressive Japanese Preschool. Ph.D. dissertation. Cornell University.
1988 Dolores P. Martinez The Ama: Tradition and Change in a Japanese Diving Community. D.Phil. thesis. University of Oxford.
1988 John G. Russell The Descendants of Susano: Marginalization and Psychiatric Institutionalization in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1988 Stephen R. Smith Drinking and Sobriety in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1988 Alan N. Timmerman Tradition and Community in Modern Japan: Tradition as a Mediating Agent in Social Change at the Family and Local Level. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-San Diego.
1989 Scott F. Clark The Social and Symbolic Context of Bathing in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
1989 Michael J. Flory More Japanese Than Japan: Adaptation and Social Network Formation among Wives of Japanese Businessmen Temporarily Resident in Bergen County, New Jersey. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1989 Kuwayama Takami The Japanese Conception of the Self: The Dynamics of Autonomy and Heteronomy. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1989 Nitta Fumiteru The Japanese Father, American Mother, and Their Children: Bicultural Socialization Experiences in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii.
1989 Cheryl A. Silverman Jewish Émigrés and Popular Images of Jews in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1989 Yoshino Kosaku Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, University of London.
1990 Arima Midori An Ethnographic and Historical Study of Ogasawara/the Bonin Islands, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1990 Clare P. Fawcett A Study of the Socio-Political Context of Japanese Archeology. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, McGill University.
1990 Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa Stratification, Social Control, and Student Culture: An Ethnography of Three Japanese Junior High Schools. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University.
1990 Furuno Kazuko The Emperor and the Japanese: Power and Faith in Japanese Culture. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research.
1990 Kinoshita Futoshi Population and Household Change of a Japanese Village, 1760-1870. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
1990 Yagasaki Junko Emotionally Becoming "Japanese"? A Study of Cultural Identity of Americans Living in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1991 Han Kyung-Koo Company as Community: A Processual Anthropological Approach to the Study of a Medium-Sized Japanese Business Organization, Tokyo Inshokan 1947-1990. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1991 David Link McConnell Educational Policy for Global Integration: The Social and Political Construction of Internationalization in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1991 Mary Carter McConnell Culture and Capital in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
1991 Brian J. McVeigh Gratitude, Obedience, and Humility of Heart: The Cultural Construction of Belief in a Japanese New Religion. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University.
1991 Andrew Allen Painter The Creation of Japanese Television and Culture. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1991 Katarina V. Sjoberg Mr. Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in a Hierarchical Culture. FILDR dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Lund.
1991 Tada Eiko Maintaining a Balance: Between "Hito" (Person) And "Kojin" (Individual) in a Japanese Farming Community. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-San Diego.
1991 Tai Eiko Taiwanese in Japan: A Legacy of Japanese Rule in Taiwan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
1992 Kalman D. Applbaum Takatsuki: A Study of the Living Arrangements, Marriage, and Institutional Membership in a Japanese Commuter City. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1992 Chung Byung Ho Childcare Politics: Life and Power in Japanese Day Care Centers. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois-Urbana.
1992 Christopher Romig Keener Grass-Roots Industry in the Town of Sakaki: An Alternative Perspective of the Japanese Postwar "Miracle". Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1992 John Knight Depopulation, Tourism, And "Village Revival" In Wakayama, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, University of London.
1993 Sharman Lark Babior Women of a Tokyo Shelter: Domestic Violence and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1993 Jennifer E. Beer Packaged Experiences: Japanese Tours to Southeast Asia. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1993 Diana Lynn Bethel From Abandonment to Community: Life in a Japanese Institution for the Elderly. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii.
1993 Carol Jean Corkern Formal and Informal Aspects of Japanese Education as Represented in a Rural Town in Northern Honshu, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University.
1993 Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni Packaged Weddings, Packaged Brides: The Japanese Ceremonial Occasions Industry. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of London.
1993 L. Benjamin Hill Japanese Students at an American University in Japan: An Ethnography. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oregon.
1993 Gordon Clark Mathews Ikigai: The Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Japan and the United States. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1993 Molly Ann McGinn Spring in the Stone Garden: One Japanese Monastic Community's Attempt to Return to The "Original Spirit" Of Zen. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
1993 John Kenneth Nelson Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1993 James Earl Roberson Work Hard, Play Hard: Japanese Working Class Lives. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii.
1993 Scott Randall Schnell The Rousing Drum: Ritual, Change, and Adaptation in a Rural Mountain Community of Central Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University.
1993 Karen Ann Smyers The Fox and the Jewel: A Study of Shared and Private Meanings in Japanese Inari Worship. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University.
1993 Lisa Yoneyama Hiroshima Narratives and the Politics of Memory. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1994 Amy Borovoy Good Wives and Mothers: The Production of Japanese Domesticity in a Global Economy. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1994 Richard Takashi Hara Dividing Harvests: Household and Property in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, City University of New York.
1994 Masami Iwasaki-Goodman An Analysis of Social and Cultural Change in Ayukawa-Hama. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta.
1994 Kweon Sug-In Politics of Furusato in Aizu, Japan: Local Identities and Metropolitan Discourses. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
1994 Elizabeth Miller A Borderless Age: Aids, Gender and Power in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1994 Mori Shunta The Social Problems of Students Returning to Japan from Sojourns Overseas: A Social Constructionist Study. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1994 Melvin C. Powell, Jr. Ever a New Beginning: Processes of Symbolization and Social Action in Soka Gakkai, a Contemporary Japanese New Religion. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.
1995 Han Seung-mi From Regional Craft to National Symbol: Politics and Identity in a Japanese Regional Industry. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1995 Matsuki Keiko Creating Showa Memories in Contemporary Japan: Discourse, Society, History, and Subjectivity. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
1995 Louella L. Matsunaga Working in a Chain Store: A Case Study of a Japanese Company. Ph.D. dissertation. School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.
1995 Darrell Gene Moen The Emergent Culture of the Japanese Organic Farming Movement and Its Implications for Political Economy. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1995 Carolyn S. Stevens A Purehabu with a View: Volunteer Activities and Social Marginality in Urban Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1995 Nobuko Imai Thurn Customary Practice and Legal Codes of Succession and Inheritance in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University.
1995 Martin D. Weiss Japanese Immigrants in Brazil: A Quantitative Study of Two Postwar Agricultural Colonies. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1995 Christine Reiko Yano Shaping Tears of a Nation: An Ethnography of Emotion in Japanese Popular Song. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii.
1996 Naomi C. Brown The Nisetai Jutaku Phenomenon: The Prefabricated Housing Industry and Changing Family Patterns in Contemporary Japan. D.Phil. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford.
1996 Louisa May Cameron White-Collar Women in the Japanese Workplace. Ph.D. dissertation. Columbia University, Department of Anthropology.
1996 Janet Kay Fair Japanese Women's Language and the Ideology of Japanese Uniqueness. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1996 Deborah Cordero Fiedler Mothers Helping Daughters to Become Mothers: The Sociocultural Context of Satogaeri Childbirth in Contemporary Japan. PH. D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1996 Tom Gill Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Labourers in Contemporary Japan. D. Phil. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
1996 Inoue Miyako The Political Economy of Gender and Language in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Washington University.
1996 Kawahara Yukari Politics, Pedagogy, and Sexuality: Sex Education in Japanese Secondary Schools. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1996 Karen Kelsky Self as Other, Other Selves: Gender, Identity, and Narratives of Women's Internationalism in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i.
1996 Sharon Kinsella Editors, Artists and the Changing Status of Manga in Japanese Society, 1986-1995. Ph. D. dissertation. University of Oxford.
1996 Sandra Soo Jin Lee Formation of Ethnic Identity among Korean Elderly in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Program in Medical Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley and University of California-San Francisco.
1996 Deborah Lynn Moore The Household Division of Labor in Hokkaido Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University.
1996 Ellen Louise Schattschneider Circuits of Discipline: Production, Reproduction, and the Work of the Gods in Tsugaru (Japan). Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1996 Heung Wah Wong An Anthropological Study of a Japanese Supermarket in Hong Kong. Ph. D. dissertation. University of Oxford.
1996 Jan Morgan Zeserson Language of Menopause: The Change in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1997 Bruce Reid Caron "Performing Democracy": Kyoto's Higashi-Kujo Madang Festical as a Counter-Public Event. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Barbara.
1997 Teresa Anne Hiener Shinto Wedding, Samurai Bride: Inventing Tradition and Fashioning Identity in the Rituals of Bridal Dress in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1997 James Henry II Holland Allusion, Performance, and Status: The Social and Aesthetic World of Elite Practitioners of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1997 Kawano Satsuki Facing Deities and Ancestors: Place, Power, and Gender in Japanese Ritual Life. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1997 William H. Kelly Empty Orchestras: An Anthropological Analysis of Karaoke in Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. University of Oxford.
1997 Otake Emiko Ayabe Life: Its Dimension of Buraku and Buraku-Min. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University.
1997 Sakai Junko Narrating Our Cultures in the Floating World: Working Lives in Japanese Banks in the City of London since the 1970s. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Essex.
1997 Suzuki Hikaru Marketing Postmortem Services: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1997 Leng Leng Thang Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1997 John W. Traphagan In the Shadow of Obasuteyama: Old Age and the Disembodiment of Social Values in a Japanese Town. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1997 Tsuda Takeyuki Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: The Migration, Ethnic Identity, and Psychosocial Adaptation of Japan's New Immigrant Minority. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1997 Eldred Leslie Williams, Jr. Earth, Boundaries, and the Foundations of Folk Shinto. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
1997 G. Peter Witteveen Local History and the Politics of Renewing a Regional Japanese Town. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1998 Kaye Broadbent Shortchanged? Part-Time Workers in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. School of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University.
1998 Peter Cave Schooling, Selfhood, and Educational Reform in Japan: An Ethnographic Study of Upper Primary and Lower Secondary Education. D. Phil. dissertation. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
1998 Katarzyna J. Cwiertka The Making of Modern Culinary Tradition in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Leiden University.
1998 Laura Tracy Ginsberg Fitness and Femininity: Discipline and Display of the Female Body in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1998 Kutsuzawa Kiyomi Gender, Work, and the Politics of Identity: Work Collectives and Social Activism among Middle-Class Housewives in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University Of Connecticut.
1998 Lynne Yukie Nakano Civic Volunteers in a Japanese Neighborhood: Negotiating Status in a Marginal Place. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1998 Katherine Heather Rupp Gifts in Japan: Ritual Constitution of Personal Identities, Social Relationships, and Cosmic Values through the Presentation of Objects. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1998 Christopher Scott Thompson Anytime, Anyplace, Anybody: Lifelong Learning in a Tohoku Town. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
1999 Aoyagi Hiroshi Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Pop-Idol Performances and the Field of Symbolic Production. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
1999 Sawa Kurotani Becker Transnational Home-Making and the Construction of Gender and Cultural Identities among Expatriate Japanese Wives in the United States. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder.
1999 Joshua Abraham Breslau Learning to Locate the Heart: An Apprenticeship in Japanese Psychiatry. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1999 Eric Walton Clemons Transcending National Identity: Foreign Employees and Organizational Management in Corporate Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
1999 Ian Condry Japanese Rap Music: An Ethnography of Globalization in Popular Culture. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1999 Joseph Raymond Hawkins Invisible People: An Ethnography of Same-Sexuality in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California.
1999 Jeffry Thomas Hester Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in a Mixed Korean/Japanese Locale of Osaka, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
1999 Masamichi Sebastian Inoue U.S. Military Base Problems in Okinawa, Japan: Identity, Place, and Social Movement in the Age of Globalization. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Duke University.
1999 Thomas David Looser The Celebration of Eternity: Space-Times of the State and Gestures of History in the Early Modern Noh Theater of Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1999 Ogasawara Haruno Living with Natural Disasters: Narratives of the Great Kanto and Great Hanshin Earthquakes. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University.
1999 Joshua Hotaka Roth Defining Communities: The Nation, the Firm, the Neighborhood, and Japanese Brazilian Migrants to Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
1999 Maya Todeschini Bittersweet Crossroads: Women of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
1999 Watanabe Buichiro "Attaining Enlightenment with This Body": Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York-Stony Brook.
1999 Linda Elisabeth White Feminism within and Beyond Japan: Women's Movements in Tokyo in 1995. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University Of Colorado at Boulder.
2000 Rosemarie Bernard The Image World of Jingu: Media Representation and the Performance of Rites of Renewal at the Grand Shrines of Ise, 1869-1996. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
2000 Elizabeth Naomi MacLachlan National Television News in Japan: A Production Study. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
2000 Leila Madge The Making of The "Wise Mother": Gender, Education and Civic Activism in Modern Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
2000 Debra Jane Occhi Namida, Sake, and Love: Emotional Expressions and Japanese Enka Music. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Davis.
2000 Tanaka Sakurako The Ainu of Tsugaru: The Indigenous History and Shamanism of Northern Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. University of British Columbia.
2000 Ma Angels Trias i Valls Wrapped Gifts: Ritual Prestations and Social Obligations in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Queen's University-Belfast.
2000 Yamamoto Yuji The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2001 Linda Irene Angst In a Dark Time: Community, Memory, and the Making of Ethnic Selves in Okinawan Women's Narratives. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
2001 Ashikari Mikiko Urban Middle-Class Japanese Women and Their White Faces: Gender, Ideology and Representation. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University.
2001 Jennifer Marie Callans Seeing 'Japaneseness:' the Visual in Everyday Life. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
2001 Inge Maria Daniels The Fame of Miyajima: Spirituality, Commodification, and the Tourist Trade of Souvenirs in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University College, London.
2001 Fiona Graham Ideology and Practice: An Ethnographic Study of a Japanese Company in the 1990s. D.Phil. dissertation. University of Oxford.
2001 Kato Etsuko Bodies Re-Presenting the Past: Japanese Women and the Tea Ceremony after World War Ii. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
2001 Karen Nakamura Signing Deaf in Japan: Deaf Identities, Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan, 1868-2000. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
2001 Ozawa Chikako From Religion to Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Naikan Practice in Japan. D. Phil. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford.
2001 Rafael Reyes-Ruiz The Creation of Latino Culture in Japan: An Ethnography of Spanish-Speaking Latin American Immigrants in Tokyo. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research.
2001 Cindi Sturtz "Danseigo da zo!" Japanese Men's Language: Stereotypes, Realities, and Ideologies. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Davis.
2002 John Henry Davis, Jr. Challenging the State, Embracing the Nation: An Ethnographic Analysis of Human Rights in Japanese Society. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
2002 Brenda Robb Jenike From the Family to the Community: Renegotiating Responsibility for the Care of the Elderly in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
2002 Kurihara Tomoko Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space. Ph.D. dissertation. London School of Economics and Political Science.
2002 Abby Rachael Margolis Samurai beneath Blue Tarps: Doing Homelessness, Rejecting Marginality and Preserving Nation in Ueno Park. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
2002 Christopher Nelson Fanning the Spark of Hope: Culture, Practice, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa (Japan). Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
2002 Holly Anne Ogren Bending The "Rules": Strategic Language Use in Role and Status Negotiation. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin.
2002 Marvin Dale Sterling In the Shadow of the Universal Other: Performative Identifications with Jamaican Culture in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
2002 Joel Floyd Stocker The "Local" In Japanese Media Culture: Manzai Comedy, Osaka, and Entertainment Enterprise Yoshimoto Kogyo. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2002 Mukund Subramanian Travels of Possessed Women on the Brink of Memory: Embodied Faith, Nostalgia and Fear in Modern Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
2002 R. Kenji Tierney Wrestling with Tradition: Sumo, Popular Culture and Trans/Nationalism. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
2002 Wu Yongmei The Care of the Elderly in Japan. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Japanese Studies, University of Hong Kong.
2003 Shawn Morgan Bender The Nation Booms within Me: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
2003 Lieba Faier On Being Oyome-San: Filipina Brides and Their Japanese Families in Central Kiso Valley. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2003 Donald Hoon Ko The History of Japanese Anthropology from 1868 to 1970's. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Washington University.
2003 David Hunter Slater Class Culture: Pedagogy and Politics in a Japanese Working-Class High School in Tokyo. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
2003 Suzuki Taku Transnational Body: Racial Citizenship of Okinawan-Bolivians in Colonia Okinawa, Bolivia and in Yokohama, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
2004 Andrea G. Arai Recessionary Effects: The Crisis of the Child and the Culture of Reform in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
2004 Haeng-Ja Sachiko Chung Performing Sex, Selling Heart: Korean Nightclub Hostesses in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles.
2004 Joanne Cullinane A "Strange New Disease" (Atarashii Kibyo): Hiv/Aids as Media Spectacle, Medical Crisis, and Lived Experience in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
2004 Rebecca Forgash Military Transnational Marriage in Okinawa: Intimacy across Boundaries of Nation, Race, and Class. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
2004 Tamiko Ortega Noll Pragmatic Singles: Being an Unmarried Woman in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
2004 Ogawa Akihiro The Failure of Civil Society? An Ethnography of Npos and the State in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
2004 Otani Midori Intercultural Work Relationships between Japanese Language Teachers and Foreign Assistant Teachers in Japan: The Jet Program. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, American University.
2004 Satsuka Shiho Traveling Nature, Imagining the Globe: Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2004 Mitchell W. Sedgwick Organising Globalisation: Managing across Cultures at a Japanese Corporation in France. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
2004 Takato Michiyo Imagining Ethnicity and Polyphony at Margins: Nikkei Migration, School, and Everyday Life in Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
2004 Yamaguchi Tomomi Feminism Fractured: An Ethnography of the Dissolution and Textual Reinvention of a Japanese Feminist Group. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2005 Einat Bar-On Cohen Japanese Martial Arts in Israel: A Case of Traveling Culture. Ph. D. dissertation. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2005 Dawn Grimes-MacLellan Performing Self and Society: Growth and Maturity at a Japanese Junior High School. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2005 Jonathan Reed Corporate Colors, Corporate Cultures: Narratives of Selfhood and Otherness among Japanese Businesspeople and Black Professionals in Tokyo Offices. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
2005 George Kendall Vickery A Cold of the Heart: Japan Strives to Normalize Depression. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
2006 Kitanaka Junko Society in Distress: The Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Departments of Anthropology and Social Science of Medicine, McGill University.
2006 Colin Smith After Affluence: Freeters and the Limits of New Middle Class Japan. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.