curriculum vitae (pdf)
University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2009; M.A. in Anthropology, 2004
Dissertation: “Working through Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan”
Supervisors: Susan Gal, Norma Field, Elizabeth Povinelli, Danilyn Rutherford
M.A. Thesis: “History and Victimization: The Semiotics of the Past in the Present”
Readers: James Ketelaar, Stefan Palmie, Elizabeth Povinelli, Danilyn Rutherford
Rice University
B.A., magna cum laude, in Asian Studies, English, and Mathematics, 1999
Political economy, globalization, exchange
Neoliberal labor, factory organization
Multiculturalism, social movements, NGOs, international human rights, public sphere
Japan, Japanese social movements
Semiotics, materiality, circulation, translation
Systems of value, stigma, social classification
Research and teaching Interests
Education
2012 Hellman Junior Faculty Research Fellowship
2011 Hellman Junior Faculty Research Fellowship
2011 UCSD Faculty Career Development Program Award
2010 University of Chicago Richard Saller Prize for Best Dissertation in Social Sciences
2008 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2007 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2005 Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship
2002 National Science Foundation Ph.D. Research Fellowship
fellowships, Grants, and honors
2009-present Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
2012-present Faculty Affiliate, Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD
2011-present Faculty Affiliate, Center for New Racial Studies, University of California
2009-present Faculty Affiliate, Critical Gender Studies, UCSD
2009-present Faculty Affiliate, Human Rights Program, UCSD
2009-present Faculty Affiliate, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD
academic positions
publications
in preparation “Wounded Futures: Prospects of International Solidarity”
under review “Publics of Coercion: Multiculturalism and the Cultivation of Attention”
under review The Labor of Multiculturalism: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Book manuscript.
under review “An Ecology of Sensibility: The Politics of Scent and Stigma in Japan”
in press Sound, Space, and Sociality in Japan. eds. J. Hankins and C. Stevens.
Volume introduction, co-written with C. Stevens.
Chapter: “Sound and the Tactics of Publicity in the Buraku Liberation Movement.”
London: Routledge
2012 “The Semiotics of Organizations: Solidarity between Social Movements in Japan
and India”
A Companion to Organizational Anthropology
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
2012 “Maneuvers of Multiculturalism: International Representations of Minority Politics in
Japan.” Japanese Studies. 32:1, 1-19.
2008 “The Stakes of Japanese Multiculturalism”
Published in English and Japanese in Journal of Buraku Liberation Studies, 200811.
2003 “Kyōiku, Keihatsu no Kadai toshite no Buraku Imēji”
“Changing the Buraku Image: A Challenge to Human Rights Education”
Co-written with Kurosaka, A. and Y. Fukuoka.
Journal of Japanese and Asian Studies, 200400331:105-118.
Joseph Doyle Hankins
Department of Anthropology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0532
La Jolla, CA 92093
