Karen Nakamura (born October 23, 1970) is an American academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at
University of California, Berkeley
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. Previously she was Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies and Chair of LGBT Studies at
Yale University
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.
[Yale University]
Nakamura faculty bio notes
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Work
Nakamura was awarded a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 1993. She continued her studies at Yale University, earning an M.Phil. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology in 1998. She was awarded her Ph.D. at Yale in 2001.University of California, Berkeley
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. She has previously worked at Yale University, Macalester College, and Bowdoin College as well as a brief stint working for Canon/NeXT and heading her own company, Global Mapping Systems.
Selected works
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encompasses roughly 9 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 400+ library holdings.
* "A Disability of the Soul : an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan" (2013)
* ''Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity'' (2006)
* ''Deaf Identities, Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan (1868-2000)'' (2001)
* ''About American Sign Language'' (2006)
* ''Deaf Resource Library'' (2009)
Honors
* Association for Asian Studies The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association focusing on Asia and the study of Asia. It is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
The Association provides members with an Annu ...
, John Whitney Hall Book Prize The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize.
The Hall Prize acknowledges an outstandi ...
, 2008
* Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
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and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, 2003 Abe Fellow, Karen Nakamura
, "The Reformulation and Expansion of Disability Politics in Japan and the United States," 2003
References
American Japanologists
Living people
1970 births
Yale University faculty
Visual anthropologists
American anthropologists
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