Mentor Record

Karen Nakamura

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Yale University
51 Hillhouse Ave. P.O. box 208277 • New Haven, CT 06520-8277

<karen.nakamura@yale.edu> • Web page: http://www.disabilitystudies.jp/nakamura

Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph.D Anthropology Yale 2001
Mphil Anthropology Yale 1999
BA College Scholar Cornell 1993

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Sociocultural, Linguistic, Visual

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

  • Minority identity and social/political movements
  • Non-normative gender and sexualities

Regions of Specialization and Languages:

Japan/US; Japanese, Japanese Sign Language (JSL)

Major Publications

“Female masculinity and fantasy spaces: transcending genders in the Takarazuka theatre.” With Hisako Matsuo (co-author). In Men and Masculinities in Modern Japan: Beyond the Urban Salaryman Model. Edited by James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki. New York: Routledge, 2002.

“Resistance and Co-optation: The Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power.” Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 5, No. 1 (April), pp 17-35. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2002.

“U-Turns, ‘Deaf Shock,’ and the Hard-Of-Hearing: Japanese Deaf Identities at the Borderlands.” In Many Ways to be Deaf: International Linguistic and Sociocultural Variation. Ed. Leila Monaghan, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham Turner. Washington, DC: Gallaudet Univ. Press, forthcoming.

Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):

  • Deaf Identity and Social movements in Japan
  • Female genders and sexualities in Japan

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