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Joshua Archer recently completed the Asian Studies Honours program at the University of Sydney. Having a keen interest in Asian history and in Japanese martial arts, Joshua has chosen to specialise in samurai history throughout his academic studies thus far. Joshua is enrolled to study graduate law at the University of Wollongong in 2009.
(December 2008)

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January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)

Swati Arora is a PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her prime interests pertain to Japan’s foreign policy and environmental conservation, and her PhD dissertation is about ”Japan’s Environmental Aid Effectiveness: A Study of Select Asian Countries, 1997-2017.” Swati is a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Research Fellow (2019-2020) at Waseda University. She has also been a recipient of the Mitsubishi Cooperation International Scholarship (2014-2015) and Yasuda Foundation Scholarship (2015) in recognition of her Japanese language excellence. She developed her current research thesis while on a study trip to Japan organised by Okita Memorial Scholarship (2016-17), awarded for academic excellence.

(September 2021)

Maria Cynthia Barriga finished her PhD in International Studies at Waseda University in 2020, and is an assistant professor at its Global Education Center. Her research focuses on the history of Japanese locals who lived in areas that were under the US in the early 20th century, invaded by Japan in December 1941, and then returned to the US after Japan’s defeat in 1945—specifically, the Philippines and Guam. Approaching the study of Japanese diaspora from the postcolonial perspectives of the Philippines and Guam, she is interested in the value of cross-area studies conversations. Her experiences and insights as a Filipino scholar studying in Japan will be published in New Voices in Japanese Studies. Through the journal’s New Voices Scholar Program, she will present these insights at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2021 Conference.

(September 2021)

Luke Beattie completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Film and Screen Production and Theatre Studies (2016) followed by an Honours Degree (2017). His Honours dissertation focused on the application of Jacques Derrida’s concept of Hauntology to the Japanese anime series Another (2012). Luke is currently undertaking a PhD at The University of Notre Dame.

(August 2020)

Adam Broinowski has been a member of Gekidan Kaitaisha, researcher at the University of Tokyo, and is presently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne/VCA. He has worked in theatre for more than ten years, beginning with Noh, followed by circus, physical theatre, naturalism and experimental theatre.
(December 2006)

Editor’s note: We were pleased to welcome Dr Adam Broinowski back to NVJS in 2016 as Guest Editor of Volume 8.

See more recent news about Adam Broinowski:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Alexander Brown is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow based at Japan Women’s University and an Honorary Associate at University of Technology Sydney. Alexander has taught at several universities in the Sydney region over the past six years. His research focuses on social movements, particularly the anti-nuclear movement in Japan which is the subject of his monograph, Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo (Routledge, 2018). He is currently looking at the ways in which transnational social movements connect Japan with the broader Asia-Pacific region. Alexander is also passionate about translating Japanese social science research for English-speaking audiences, most recently Shimizu Hiromu’s Grassroots Globalization (Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, 2019). Alexander is the Guest Editor of NVJS 12 and has contributed a review of Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connections to the volume, in addition to the introductory essay.

(August 2020)

See more about Alexander Brown:
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)
November 21, 2019: Guest Editor News (news post)

A. K. Byron graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours for her thesis on cultural responses to Japan’s student protest culture of the 1960s. Byron’s recent research looks at the intersections of language, spirituality and the environment in the Japanese literary context. Her ongoing projects include a study on the use of constructed languages such as Esperanto by twentieth-century Japanese writers. Byron now works as a translator and researcher with interests in fields including poetry, folklore and children’s literature.
(June 2017)

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January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
October 12, 2018: The New Academy Prize: Haruki Murakami Reading List (news post)

Yuan Cai has a Masters degree in Oriental Studies from St Anthony’s College, Oxford University. He is currently doing a PhD on the history of Pan-Asianist movement at the University of Adelaide. His research interests encompass the history of Pan-Asianism and the Japanese peace movement.
(December 2008)

Rikki Campbell holds a Master of Applied Japanese Linguistics from Monash University, Melbourne. Currently, she is a Doctoral candidate and is continuing to explore the relationship between study abroad and Japanese learners’ social networks at Monash, where she also teaches part-time in the Japanese program.
(December 2011)

Geraldine Carney is a PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)/Law from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Japanese Interpreting and Translation from Monash University. Her research interests include family law, international relations and human rights in relation to the issue of parental abduction. She lives in Melbourne where she works as a lawyer.

Geraldine was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2016.
(July 2016)

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August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)
July 13, 2016: 2016 New Voices Scholars at ASAA (news post)
June 18, 2016: Meet Our New Voices Scholars (news post)

Niamh Champ was born and raised in Queensland and has had a keen interest in second language learning and culture from a young age. At the University of Queensland, she pursued her interest in second language learning and teaching, completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Japanese and French (Honours in Japanese), and a graduate Diploma in Education (secondary). She is a registered teacher with the Queensland College of Teachers and a qualified ESL teacher who would like to further her research in the domain of SLA.
(February 2014)

Sally Chan has demonstrated a great interest in Japan and Japanese since she was young. This interest manifested as she studied Japanese throughout her secondary studies, and carried over to her tertiary studies. She is also interested in the study of psychology in relation to language, and how cognitive processes affect language construction. Integrating her language abilities of Japanese, Chinese and English, and her research knowledge acquired from her undergraduate studies in Psychology, she completed an Honours thesis with outstanding results.
(February 2014)

Hei-Lei Cheng graduated from the Australian National University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Economics/Asia-Pacific Studies (Honours). Her research interests are centred on violence against women and how attitudes around this issue are developed. In particular, she is interested in how rape prevention education is conducted, the development of safe spaces for women in the digital realm, and the representation of sexual violence across various forms of entertainment media.
(July 2016)

Originally from Auckland, Hamish Clark completed an Honours degree in History at The University of Melbourne in 2018. Since then, he has spent a year with the JET Programme teaching English in Oita City, Japan. From September, Hamish will begin studying advanced Japanese in Yokohama with the Inter-University Centre for Japanese, run by Stanford University.

(August 2020)

Laura Emily Clark completed her PhD in 2020 from the University of Queensland with a focus on gender ideals and masculinities within the works of Haruki Murakami. Laura received a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Creative Communication at the University of South Australia. She works as a tutor at UQ and the University of New England, and is also a freelance editor. She was selected as a Japan Foundation Fellow at Waseda University in 2017 and spent 2020 at Showa Women’s University as recipient of the Mariko Bando Fellowship. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese female author’s representation of normality’ and urban consumer spaces in media.
(September 2021)

See more about Laura Clark:
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
October 12, 2018: The New Academy Prize: Haruki Murakami Reading List (news post)

Rebecca Corbett is a PhD candidate in the Department of Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of Sydney. She is researching the history of women in chanoyu (tea) for her doctorate. From September 2005 to July 2006, she was based at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, supported by a Japan Foundation Fellowship.
(December 2006)

Claudia Craig graduated from University of London, Birkbeck College in 2008 with a Master of Arts, Japanese Cultural Studies, earning a distinction. She completed her undergraduate degree in Japanese language at the University of Western Australia where she also studied law. In 1991, Claudia was awarded a Japanese Government Monbusho Scholarship to undertake legal research at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her interests are now centred in Japanese society, design and literature.
(February 2014)

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December 11, 2018: Spotlight on the Meiji Era (news post)

Daniel Curtis was awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal in Japanese Studies from the University of New South Wales in 2009, after completing a degree in International Studies.
(January 2011)

Kathleen Cusack graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese and was awarded First Class Honours. In 2007, Kathleen studied as an exchange student at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
(December 2008)

Dr Christine de Matos is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong. She is currently researching a social history of Australians and Japanese during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dr De Matos was a 2004 Japan Foundation Fellow.
(December 2006)

Editor’s Note: We were pleased to welcome Dr Christine de Matos back in 2009 as Guest Editor of Volume 3. 

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November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Jared Denman was awarded First Class Honours in Japanese at The University of Queensland in 2008, after completing an Arts (Japanese)/Education dual degree. He is currently a PhD candidate with the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies and is examining the transnational experience of ageing among first-generation migrants from the local Japanese diaspora.
(December 2009)

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January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Levi Durbidge is a PhD candidate at Monash University. He has been involved in international language education for over 15 years in both Japan and Australia. His research looks at how increasing technologisation and international flows of people and information are shaping how and why people learn languages. His current project explores the multilingual study abroad experiences of Japanese adolescents and how this affects their language development and sense of self over the longer term.
(July 2019)

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August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)

Philip N. Eate graduated in 2007 with First Class Honours in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. He is currently a PhD candidate at Adelaide researching new forms of pilgrimage and spiritual quest in Japan.
(December 2008)

Adam Eldridge completed an Arts/Law degree at Monash University in 2005. Following this, he lived and worked in Japan for three years. Adam returned to Australia and Monash University in 2009 where he obtained First Class Honours. This paper is an abridged version of his 18,000 word thesis completed as a part of those studies. Adam is currently working for the Australian government as a legal officer and also manages a Japanese language school in Canberra. He is currently undertaking a Masters of Law at the Australian National University but is seeking to pursue further studies and research into Japan and international relations.
(February 2014)

Gian Marco Farese is a PhD student in Linguistics at ANU. In his research, he adopts the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantic analysis to investigate the cultural semantics of salutations, forms of address and leave-taking phrases in English and in Italian. Gian Marco’s research interests include cultural semantics, cultural linguistics, cross-cultural and intercultural communication and also Japanese language, culture and linguistics. Before coming to ANU, he received a BA in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation from the University of Naples L’Orientale (2011) and a Master in English Linguistics from University College London (2013).
(July 2016)

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January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Monica Flint graduated from The University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) (Honours) in 2017. She also studied at the University of Tokyo for two semesters (2015-16) under the Abroad in Komaba exchange program. She wrote her Honours thesis on Okinawa and the US military presence after becoming interested in the island prefecture whilst travelling there during her exchange.
(July 2018)

Monica Flint was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2020.

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December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)

Daniel Flis recently graduated with a Bachelor of Asian Studies and a Bachelor of Arts Honours (First Class) from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. He also completed a one”‘year program studying Japanese language, culture and history at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, Daniel is completing further post-graduate studies in Perth, with plans to return to Japan in the near future. This paper is an adaptation of his Honours thesis, reflecting his interests in Japanese society, gender politics and literary analysis.
(July 2018)

Daniel was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2019.

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January 31, 2019: 2019 New Voices Scholars Announced! (news post)

Lucy Fraser graduated from The University of Queensland in 2007 with an Arts Degree in Literary and Japanese Studies. Lucy was awarded First Class Honours in Japanese Literature, as well as a University Medal. This year she will continue her research at Ochanomizu University. Lucy has also translated short fiction by Akutagawa Prize nominee Hoshino Tomoyuki.
(December 2008)

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November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Elise Foxworth has a Masters Degree in Japanese Studies from Monash University. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation: Ethnicity and Identity in the Japanese Literature of Three Korean Writers in Japan: Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong, at the University of Melbourne. She lectures in Japanese Studies.
(December 2006)

Amelia Groom was awarded First Class Honours in Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2007. She is currently a Sydney-based freelance writer, curator and researcher who edits www.biginjapan.com.au.
(January 2011)

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August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)

Matthew Grubits graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2008 with Honours in History. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Arts at the University of Tasmania, and is continuing to explore the role of aestheticism in society.
(December 2009)

Jenny Hall is a PhD candidate at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She holds a BA Honours in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University. Jenny’s research interests include Japanese textiles and design, representations of the self, cultural identity, embodied practices, and visual and sensory ethnography. Her current research comprises a sensory analysis of the design, production and consumption of contemporary Japanese apparel that has been created using heritage industry techniques. Her paper, ”The Spirit in the Machine: Mutual Affinities between Humans and Machines in Japanese Textiles” appears in MIT’s Thresholds 42: Human (Spring 2014).
(June 2015)

See more about Jenny Hall:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Catherine Hallett is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University. Her current research is on the role and significance of music in rakugo. She spent three months in Osaka in 2011 as an azukari deshi (temporary shamisen apprentice) of master storyteller Hayashiya Somemaru IV. She holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class; University Medal) from the University of New South Wales.
(January 2014)

Iori Hamada came to Australia in 2006 as a recipient of the 2006 Endeavour Japan Awards scholarship. She holds a Master of Communication at RMIT. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on Japanese culinary products and practices in Australia from cross-cultural perspectives.
(December 2011)

Evan Hamman received his PhD in law in 2017. He holds Bachelor degrees in law and commerce and a Masters in environmental science and law. He is currently employed as a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, where he researches and writes about environmental law in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has a particular research interest in the governance of Asia’s wetlands, its migratory waterbirds and its world heritage sites. Dr Hamman is currently co-authoring a book on transnational governance of migratory waterbirds in Asia (forthcoming, Routledge).

(July 2019)

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December 17, 2019: Summer Reading: Spotlight on Conservation (news post)

Rebecca Hausler is a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. Her thesis investigates fictional representations of Australian internment and prisoner of war camps which housed Japanese detainees during WWII. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) in Asian Studies and English Literature. Ms. Hausler’s broader academic interests are in Japan’s transcultural connections with Anglophone nations through popular culture, literature, and film. She has published in the interdisciplinary women’s studies journal Hecate and written articles for the academic news analysis website The Conversation. Ms. Hausler was also a 2019 recipient of the National Library of Australia’s Asia Study Grant.

(July 2019)

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August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)

Tomoko Horikawa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Her thesis examines the Japanese-Australian diplomatic confrontation over the White Australia Policy between 1894 and 1919. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the International Christian University in Tokyo, a Master’s degree in International Relations (coursework) from Bond University, a research Master’s degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Queensland and a further research Master’s degree in International Relations from Macquarie University.

(August 2020)

Machiko Ishikawa is undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Tasmania supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award. A literary study major, Machiko is currently investigating the writing of Burakumin novelist, Nakagami Kenji, using a framework of post-colonial theory and subaltern studies. Machiko recently contributed a reflective essay (in print) to the journal, Go-oh, published by the Kumano University collective, a group of scholars committed to researching Nakagami’s work. Machiko has worked as a research assistant in the UTAS School of Asian Languages and Studies.
(December 2011)

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August 4, 2020: More NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Lachlan Jackson is both a lecturer in the Faculty of Policy Science at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Lachlan is interested in issues relating to bilingualism, the transmission of intergenerational cultural identity, the discourse of Japaneseness’, and cultural and ethnic diversity in Japan.
(December 2006)

Rose-Ellen Kesselly graduated from the University of Queensland in 2006 after completing a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Japanese and Chinese, and a minor in linguistics.
(December 2008)

Rie Kido is a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide. She gained her MA at The University of Tokyo in 2003 and began teaching at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2009, specializing in educational sociology and the methodology of qualitative research. Rie is interested in interpreting the lived experiences of marginalized youth based on their narratives, and her work focuses on futōkō (school non-attendance), hikikomori and youth unemployment in Japan. Her publications include the monograph Futōkō wa Owaranai [不登校は終わらない], published in 2004.
(July 2016)