Dissertation

"Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan"

Select Publications

• "Women and Japan's Political Economy," in Laura Hein ed. Japan Focus Course Packets for The Asia-Pacific Journal (November 2012).
• "Book Review of Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Resistance and Identity," in The Journal of Asian Studies 70:2 (May 2011).
  
• “’Dancing Through’ Historical Trauma: Okinawan Performance in Post-Imperial Japan,” in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Issue 24: Special Issue on Trauma (April 2010).
• "Performance in East Asia and Oceania," in Gary Xu ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures Vol. 6, East Asia and Pacific Oceania. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Series Awarded the 2008 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Sources Collection.
• "Nuchibana: Okinawans Performing Peace as Historical Protest," in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 12:3.
• "Okinawa Omnibus: A Film Review," in Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews 4:2

• "Visualizing Priestesses or Performing Prostitutes?: Iha Fuyu's Depictions of Okinawan Women (1919-1932)," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Western Michigan University, September 22, 2012.
  
• “Everyday Empire: Prostitutes, Teachers, and Reform Women in Colonial Okinawa,” Panel Session: Towards a Social History of Empire: Negotiating Norms in Imperial Japan, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2010.
• “Memory, Trauma, and Activism: Protest Artwork by Korean Survivors of Sexual Violence,” Roundtable Session: Bringing East Asian History and Culture to Life, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, October 2009.
• “The Floating World: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the Chazen Museum of Art,” Guest Co-Curator with Cortney Chaffin, Edna Carlesten Gallery, UWSP, October 26-November 25, 2009
• “Dancing Historical Trauma in Okinawa: Kodama Kiyoko’s Performative Acts of Healing,” Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering, International Conference with Curtin and Murdoch University, Perth Australia (Presented in Absentia), December 2008.
• “’We’re All Shimanchu (Island People)’: Gender Fluidity and Alternative Identities in Contemporary Okinawan Activism,” (Organizer) Panel Session: Reconfiguring Gender, Negotiating Neoliberalism in Global Japan, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2008.
• “Ethnicized Difference, Nationalized Bodies: Women and Intersectional Identities in Postwar Japan,” (Organizer) Panel Session: Forging Junctions, Forcing Ruptures: Women and Intersectional Identities in Japan, University of Wisconsin System Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Madison, April 2008.

• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)
• Midwest Japan Seminar (Link)

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