Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere is founding Director of the Sainsbury Institute. She received her BA (Archaeology, 1986), MA (Regional Studies, 1988) and PhD (art history, 1998) from Harvard University. Her publications include: Vessels of Influence (Duckworth, forthcoming), Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan (editor; British Museum Press, 2007), Hall of the Thirty-Three Bays: Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (editor; SCVA, 1997) and Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries (editor; British Museum Press, 2002), Births and Rebirths (editor; Hotei, 2001) and Reflecting the Truth: Japanese Photography in the 19th-century (editor with Miki Hirayama; Hotei, 2004). She wrote essays and entries in Japan's Golden Age, Momoyama (Dallas Museum of Art, 1996), Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1998, and Jiki (Museo Internazionale Delle Ceramiche, 2004). Her research interests include, Japanese decoration, early modern ceramics in East Asia and trade networks, the history of exhibition and collecting in Japan and in Europe. + n.rousmaniere@sainsbury-institute.org
Simon Kaner (MA, PhD Cantab, 1986) is an archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of Japan. Before joining the Sainsbury Institute he was Senior Archaeologist at Cambridgeshire County Council and retains his interest in the management of cultural heritage. He has taught and published on many aspects of East Asian and European archaeology and has undertaken archaeological research in Japan, the UK, Denmark and France. Most recently he has established the Jomon Project, designed to realise the potential of Japanese prehistory for world archaeology. He is on the committee of the Society for East Asian Archaeology and is a regular contributor to the journal Antiquity. He has recently translated and adapted with the assistance of Oki Nakamura Jomon Reflections: Forager Life and Culture in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago by Kobayashi Tatsuo (Oxford, Oxbow Books, sponsored by the Japan Foundation). His research interests include: Japanese prehistory and the history of archaeology in Japan; Japanese cultural heritage and the international role of Japanese heritage management. + s.kaner@sainsbury-institute.org
John T. Carpenter is Reader in Japanese Art at SOAS and Adjunct Professor at Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1997. His research interests range from the history of East Asian calligraphy to early modern Japanese painting and prints. He was co-author of The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono (1995), and Jewels of Japanese Printmaking, Surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei Era 1804-1830 (2000). He helped Gian Carlo Calza edit and translate Hokusai Paintings, Selected Essays (1994) and edited a sequel volume Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan (Hotei, 2005). He is currently editing Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints (Hotei, 2008), the catalogue that will accompany an upcoming exhibition at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich. During the 2003-04 academic year he was on research leave in Japan as Visiting Associate Professor at the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. His research interests include the history of East Asian calligraphy, Edo-period surimono and other examples of word-image interrelationships in Japanese art. + jc54@soas.ac.uk
Ulrich Heinze will be the Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media at the Sainsbury Institute in September 2008. He received his PhD (Sociology, 1991) from the Free University Berlin and habilitation (Japanese Media Studies and Theories of Intercultural Communication, 2004) from University of Freiburg. He also taught at University of Tokyo and worked as a journalist at the North German Radio. He will be a member of the School of Film and Television Studies at University of East Anglia, teaching Japanese visual and mass media. The Lectureship is a collaborative post between the Institute and UEA, supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Nippon Foundation. His publications include: Hautkontakt der Schriftsysteme: Geldfluesse und Werbetexte (Japanese Globalization: Money and Advertising as Economic Communication Media, 2006) and Japanische Bruchkanten (Japanese Breaking Edges, 2006). He translated two essays by Shunya Yoshimi on the spatial and political history of Global City Tokyo. His research interests include Japanese visual media, semiotic representations of the body, attitudes towards new genetic technologies, maps and images of Tokyo, and environmental and ecological communication in Japan. + u.heinze@sainsbury-institute.org
Akira Hirano gained his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Kanazawa University, Japan, before going on to complete his Master of Research at University College, University of London in 2001. His research concerned management of bibliographic records in retrieval systems at Japanese studies libraries in the UK. He also has completed a Library Qualification Course at Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan. He was previously Japanese Art History Materials Cataloguing Assistant at the Library of SOAS. + a.hirano@sainsbury-institute.org
Hiromi Uchida received her BA in Art History from the University of Nottingham in 1998 and her MA in Art History from the University of Manchester in 1999. She worked for five years in the Tokyo bureau of McGraw-Hill as an editorial assistant for Business Week. Her research interests include Japanese and English glass production. Following from an official collaborative agreement between The British Museum and the Sainsbury Institute, Hiromi has been seconded to the Japanese section of the Museum. Hiromi works mainly in education and outreach including a new collaboration with the Embassy of Japan. + Click for Club Taishikan + h.uchida@sainsbury-institute.org
Kazuko Morohashi received her BA in Liberal Studies (Education) from California State University of Long Beach in 2000 before going on to complete her MA in Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Arts, University of London in 2003. She has been working as a freelance translator and interpreter in the UK, US and Japan since 2001 in addition to working as a research assistant at Atomi Women's University in Japan. + k.morohashi@sainsbury-institute.org
Cassy Payne received her BA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University in 1985. She worked in publishing for five years, most recently as Senior Editor at the British Psychological Society. She then moved into university administration, and has held the posts of Registrar of the British School at Rome (1991-99) and Administrator of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia (2002-2005). + c.payne@sainsbury-institute.org
Keiko Nishioka received her BA in English Language and Linguistics from Dokkyo University, Japan in 1995 and her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex in 1996. She taught Japanese for five years at the University of East Anglia (1997-2002) before taking on administrative roles at the Bell Language School, Norwich (2002-2004) and City of Norwich School (2004-2006). + k.nishioka@sainsbury-institute.org
Sue Womack has a BA in Geography from Queen Mary College, University of London. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987 and has worked in both the public sector- in Local Government and for the National Health Sevice - and in private industry'. + s.womack@sainsbury-institute.org
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