People
Akiko Hashimoto, PhD
Yale University, 1984
Title: Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2419 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7109
E-mail: ahash@pitt.edu
Fields
Culture and Power, Global and Comparative Sociology, Cultural Identity and National Memory, Aging, Family and Social Policy, Education, Popular Culture, Japanese Culture and Society
Teaching
Culture and Power, Collective Memory and Identity, Global and Comparative Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Japanese Culture
Selected Publications
Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan edited with John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press (2008).
"Blondie, Sazae and their storied successors: Japanese families in newspaper comics" in Imagined Families, Lived Families: Cultures and Kinship in Contemporary Japan edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan (2008).
"The Changing Japanese Family," with John Traphagan in Imagined Families, Lived Families: Cultures and Kinship in Contemporary Japan edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan (2008).
"National and Cultural Identity," "Family and Aging," and "Popular Culture and Manga," in Japan: Places, Images, Times and Transformations, edited by J. Thomas Rimer and L. Keith Brown. Multimedia web/DVD project, (forthcoming).
"Filial Piety in Changing Asian Societies," with Charlotte Ikels, in Cambridge Handbook on Age and Ageing edited by Malcolm Johnson, Vern Bengtson, Peter Coleman and Tom Kirkwood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2005).
"Remembering the 'Just War': World War II in the American Memory," with Ellis Krauss, in Japan and North America, Volume I: First Contacts to the Pacific War, edited by Ellis Krass and Ben Nyblade, London: Routledge, (2004).
"Power to the Imagination." Asia Program Special Report No. 121, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004).
"Manga ni miru nihon no kazoku [Family Relations in Japanese Manga]" with John Traphagan, in Gendai no Esupuri [L'esprit D'aujourd'hui], 444 (2004).
"Culture, Power and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences" in Filial Piety: Practice and Discourse in Contemporary East Asia edited by Charlotte Ikels, Stanford University Press (2004)
"The Cultural Meanings of 'Security' in Aging Policies." Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the United States: Practices and Policies, edited by Susan O. Long. London: Routledge (2000)
"Japanese and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War Memories in Defeated Nations." Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies No. 1999-01, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (1999)
The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience. Edited by Hal Kendig, Akiko Hashimoto and Larry Coppard (Oxford University Press, 1992)
Honors/Awards
Faculty Research Scholarship for "Cultural Transformations in a Global Age," School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (with C. Chan and C. Green), (2005-06)
Toshiba International Foundation Research Grant (with K. McDonald, G. Lukacs, H. Nara and T. Rimer), (2003-04, 2005-06, 2007-08)
Curriculum Development Grant, National Resource Center-U.S. Department of Education/Asian Studies Center, UCIS (1991-92, 2005-06)
Symposium Development Grant for “Remaking Family Identities in Japan: A Contested Terrain,” Asian Studies Center, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (2003-04)
Student’s Choice Award for Teaching Excellence, College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh (2003)
Nominee for the Bellet Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (2003)
Undergraduate Curriculum Development Grant, Freeman Foundation (2003)
Board member of Social Science Research Council, Japan Advisory Board (2001-05)
Japan Iron and Steel Foundation Research Fellowship University of Pittsburgh (2001)
UCIS Research Fellowship, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh (2000, 2004)
Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, and Japan Foundation - Center for Global Partnership (1996-97)
Annual Meeting Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies (1997-99)
Chair of Research Committee on Comparative Social Gerontology, Section on Sociology of Aging, American Sociological Association (1994-8)
Board member of Research Committee on Sociology of Aging, International Sociological Association (1986-90)
Projects
National memory of war and the making of cultural identity in postwar Japan and Germany
Pedagogies of war and peace
Heroes and villains in Asian Popular Culture
Cultural Trauma of Defeat: the Japanese Case
Globalization and Cultures: Fragmented Memories and Contested Histories in Japan
Memory and War Testimony: Remembering a Difficult Past in Postwar Japan