Maki Fukuoka is Assistant Professor of Japanese Humanities at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, specializing in the history of photography and the visual culture of modern Japan. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2006 and will use her Fellowship to complete her book on Between Seeing and Knowing: Representing the Real in Japan, 1830-1872. She aims to synthesize elements of visual culture, intellectual history and the history of photography in order to illuminate the socio-cultural context in which photographic representation came to fruition.
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Ive Covaci received her PhD from Yale University in 2007. During her tenure she will develop her dissertation on The Ishiyamadera engi and the Representation of Dreams and Visions in Pre-Modern Japanese Art into a book manuscript. Her research considers depictions of dreams and visions in illustrated scrolls of the Kamakura period, as well as the relationship between dreaming and image making in pre-modern Japan. More broadly, she investigates the relationship between material and immaterial images, aiming to understand how this operates in the production and use of icons and narrative paintings.
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Akira Matsuda is completing his PhD in public archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His research examines the relationship between archaeology -- and more broadly cultural heritage -- and the general public from a wide range of perspectives. He recently started a new research project that aims to clarify how archaeology is related to contemporary society in East Asia, with a particular focus on Japan. During his fellowship, he will work on the Sainsbury Institute's dogu project, in particular the Jomon dogu (prehistoric figurines) exhibition.
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Andrew Cochrane obtained his PhD in Archaeology from Cardiff University in 2006. His dissertation examined imagery from Neolithic Europe. Since then, he has taught 'Human Origins' and 'British Prehistory' at Cardiff University. His current projects include collaborating with Ian Russell to explore the expression of archaeological narratives through varied media. He was Assistant Curator for the Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities exhibitions in Dublin, designer for the European Commission funded 'Transformations Project', World Art Fellow at the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, and researcher for artist Jennie Savage's Lottery Funded project. He also co-authored Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto with Russell.
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Evgeny Steiner has been affiliated with the Sainsbury Institute as a Senior Research Associate since autumn 2007. He began his professional career in the Pushkin Museum for Fine Arts, Moscow, and received his PhD from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences for a dissertation on mediaeval Japanese shigajiku and renga. Since the early 1990s he has taught and conducted research in the field of Japanese and Russian cultural studies at various universities including: the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Sophia University, Tokyo; Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama; New York University; State University of New York; the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; and University of Manchester. In 2002 he received a Higher Doctorate from the Institute for Cultural Research in Moscow, and in 2006 became a Principal Research Fellow there. While based at the London Office of the Sainsbury Institute/SOAS during the 2007-08 academic year, he worked on a catalogue of the Japanese prints in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Art (published in two volumes in 2008). His latest publication is a translation with commentary of Victory Over the Sun, a seminal Futurist text of 1913 (edited by P. Railing, 2008). The English version of his book Zen-Life: Ikkyu and Beyond is forthcoming. His latest research project concerns uncatalogued repositories of Japanese art in Europe.
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Alfred Haft earned his PhD at SOAS, University of London, in 2005, for a thesis titled, 'Patterns of Correspondence between the Floating World and the Classical Tradition: A Study of the Terms Mitate, Yatsushi, and Fūryū in the Context of Ukiyo-e'. The thesis examines how elements from the East Asian classical tradition were incorporated into popular culture during the Edo period (1615-1868), considering in particular the different interpretive strategies represented by the three terms in the title. In 2001 he assisted the National Museum Cardiff (Wales) in cataloguing their collection of Japanese prints. His recent publications include 'Harunobu and the Stylishly Informal: Fūryū Yatsushi as Aesthetic Convention' in Impressions 28 (2006-2007), and 'Immortalizing the Yoshiwara Courtesan: Mitate in a Surimono Series by Gakutei', in John T. Carpenter, ed., Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints (2008). He is preparing his doctoral thesis for publication.
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