East Asian Studies Center

Associates-in-Research

EASC invites Associates-in-Research to the University of Southern California to pursue their scholarly objectives. Associates-in-Research have access to all libraries on campus and other research resources, as well as the opportunity to participate in all programs and events open to the general university community. This year, EASC welcomes associates Dr. Morgan Pitelka and Dr. Janet Goodwin.

Associates-in-Research

Dr. Morgan Pitelka

Institution:             Occidental College
Appointment:        05/30/08-05/30/10
E-mail:                  mpitelka (at) oxy.edu

Professor Morgan Pitelka comes to USC from Occidental College, where he is Associate Professor of Asian Studies. He teaches courses on Japanese and Korean culture including: "Reading and Writing Histories of Japan," "Modern Japan," "Medieval and Early Modern Japan," "Korean History and Culture," and "Japanophilia: Orientalism, Nationalism, Transnationalism."

Dr. Morgan Pitelka sole-authored a book entitled Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practioners in Japan, published numerous essays on Japanese tea ceremonies and ceramics, and edited two books on Japanese tea culture. He has given a plethora of lectures on material culture in Japan and Korea and plans to continue his research on East Asian history, art history, and archaeology at USC.

Dr. Janet Goodwin

Institution:             University of California Los Angeles
Appointment:        03/24/08-03/24/10
E-mail:                  gjan (at) usc.edu

Professor Janet Goodwin comes to USC from University of California Los Angeles, where she is a visiting professor of history and Asian Languages and Cultures. Her specialty is on pre-modern Japan with focuses on Japanese history and civilization, the history of Japanese women, the history of outcasts, vagabonds and other marginals in Japanese society.

Dr. Goodwin is the author of Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan and Alams and Vagabonds: Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan. She has also published various articles on achaelogical findings and digital preservation of Japanese artifacts. Her current projects include a translation and analysis of selected documents and archaelogical findings from Obe estate and an investigation of outcasts, vagrants, prostitutes, lower-class entertainers and mendicant religious figures in the Muromachi period.