The Program awards several Advanced Research Fellowships for the duration of one academic year to applicants with excellent research credentials.

2006-2007 Advanced Research Fellows

• Daniel ALDRICH
• Ian CONDRY
• Hans Martin KRÄMER

Daniel ALDRICH
Tulane University

61 Kirkland Street, Room 203
617-495-2626
daldrich@wcfia.harvard.edu
Research project: Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Professor Aldrich earned his B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. His publications include “Controversial Facility Siting: State Policy Instruments and Flexibility” in The Journal of Comparative Politics. While at Harvard, he will complete his book manuscript, Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in Advanced Industrial Democracies.

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Ian CONDRY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

61 Kirkland Street, Room 301
617-495-5998
icondry@wcfia.harvard.edu
Research project: Global Anime: The Making of Japan's Transitional Popular Culture

Ian Condry is Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.A. in Government from Harvard and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Yale. His first book, Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, will be published by Duke University Press in November 2006. He is now working on his second book, Global Anime: The Making of Japan’s Transnational Popular Culture, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork in anime studios in Tokyo and explores anime globalization in terms of content industries, digital technology, copyright/piracy, and soft power. His website is at: http://iancondry.com.

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Hans Martin KRÄMER
Ruhr University Bochum

61 Kirkland Street, Room 301
617-495-5998
hkramer@wcfia.harvard.edu
Research project: The Development of Welfare States in Twentieth-Century Japan and Germany

Dr. Krämer is a Research Associate at Ruhr University Bochum. He completed his undergraduate studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Sophia University, and earned his M.A. in Japanese history and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Ruhr University Bochum. His publications include Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität, 1919–1952 (A New Start Under U.S. American Occupation? Higher Education Reform in Japan Between Continuity and Discontinuity, 1919–1952). In 2005, his article in the Social Science Japan Journal won the Oxford University Press/Institute of Social Science Prize for best paper published in that journal. At Harvard, he will examine the development of welfare states in twentieth-century Japan and Germany.

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