Administration & Faculty

Academic and administrative responsibility for Temple University, Japan Campus, rests with the Dean of TUJ, senior administration and an advisory board comprised of Japanese and non-Japanese government, business, and education leaders. The TUJ administration coordinates closely with the International Programs office at Temple University's main campus, and is under the authority of academic administration including the Provost, Vice-President of International Programs and the President of Temple University.

The Temple University Japan Campus faculty numbers 180 and includes Temple faculty from Philadelphia who teach at Temple Japan or one to three years, full-time TUJ faculty permanently located in Japan, and part-time faculty who are practicing professionals in specialized fields. The following people are among the faculty at Temple University, Japan Campus.

Matthew J. Wilson, Temple University Beasley School of Law Associate Dean and General Counsel of Temple University, Japan Campus.
Matthew Wilson is a resident law professor and associate dean overseeing the law program, undergraduate programs and other professional programs at TUJ.
He also serves as TUJ’s general counsel. Professor Wilson teaches courses on
Japanese and comparative law, international litigation and transnational dispute
resolution, civil procedure, corporate law, and electronic commerce law. He is an
advisor to the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (Nichibenren) regarding proposed judicial reforms and the implementation of jury trials in Japan in 2009.

Phil Deans, Politics and East Asian Studies. PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Assistant Dean and Director of the Undergraduate Program, Director of Research.

Dr. Deans is an authority on the politics of China and Taiwan and is currently researching changing nationalist dynamics in northeast Asia. He is the former director of the Contemporary China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is the author of Virtual Diplomacy: Japan-Taiwan Relations since 1972 and co-author of State Strategies in the Global Political Economy.

Kyle Cleveland, Sociology. PhD, Temple University. Manager of the
Office of International Students (OIS) and Inaugural Director, Institute for Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS).
As manager of the OIS, Dr. Cleveland organizes special events and activities for study abroad students, introducing them to various aspects of Japanese society. At TUJ he teaches courses on Japanese popular culture, ethnicity, and contemporary
Japanese social issues. Through The Wakai Project, a component of the ICJS, he produces multi-media events and develops programs focusing on contemporary Japanese youth culture and globalization.

Steven Berkowitz, Photography. MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Associate Professor of Photography and area head of the Main Campus/TUCC Photo Area.
Mr. Berkowitz’s own work involves compound images in multiple media (including
photography, installation, performance, sound, and video). He teaches in the Tyler School of Art Summer Workshop at TUJ.

Chet Borucki, Business. PhD, University of Michigan.
Dr. Borucki is a professor and the academic coordinator of management education programs at TUJ. His expertise includes the analysis of organizations, business model development, fundamentals of change management, culture and psychological climate in organizations, and high-performance work systems. Dr. Borucki teaches courses in corporate strategy, international business management, leadership, and human resources management at the MBA level, and organization, management, and strategy courses at the undergraduate level.

Roger Buckley, Political Science. PhD, London School of Economics.
Dr. Buckley is an internationally known expert on contemporary Asia-Pacific international relations. His books include US-Japan Alliance Diplomacy, 1945-1990
(1992) and Japan Today (1999). Dr. Buckley teaches courses on Japanese politics and modern Japanese history.

Ron Carr, Film and Media Arts. MFA, University of California at Los Angeles.
Assistant Professor at Temple University, Japan Campus.
His areas of instruction include videography, broadcast production, and narrative studies. Mr. Carr’s background includes professional broadcasting experience as a writer and producer, and documentary
filmmaking.

Claire Jacqmin, Intellectual Heritage. Diploma of Advanced Studies, University of Caen, Normandy.
Professor Jacqmin specializes in several aspects of European history with particular emphasis on the ancient times (Greece). She is working on a PhD thesis on Greek history entitled "Women and Political Power in Greek Cities," which covers the period from the archaic to the classical, including the representation of women in Homer. Her master's thesis examined the position of women under a tyrannical regime. Jacqmin currently teaches an intellectual heritage course and is a recipient of the university’s Teacher of the Year award.

Jeff Kingston, History. PhD, Columbia University.
Dr. Kingston is the university’s director of Asian studies, and he teaches courses
dealing with modern Asian history, including Indonesia (where he was a Fulbright
Scholar) and Vietnam. An authority on contemporary Japanese political economy, he
is the author of Japan’s Quiet Transformation, and is a frequent media commentator and consultant on contemporary social and political issues in Japan.

Nobuko Koyama, Japanese and Linguistics. PhD, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
After immersing herself in Taiwanese culture for five years, Dr. Koyama joined TUJ in 2006. While in Taiwan, she taught Japanese, sociolinguistics, and contrastive linguistics. At TUJ, she is the coordinator of the Japanese Program and Critical Languages, and is developing a new approach to Japanese pedagogy to meet the needs of multicultural students. Dr. Koyama's research interests range from Japanese language learners' narrative production to discourse analysis of Banana Yoshimoto's literary works. Most recently, she has been exploring the linguistic manifestations of iyashi (healing) in Yoshimoto's writings.

Nobuko Koyama, Japanese and Linguistics. PhD, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
After immersing herself in Taiwanese culture for five years, Dr. Koyama joined TUJ in 2006. While in Taiwan, she taught Japanese, sociolinguistics, and contrastive linguistics. At TUJ, she is the coordinator of the Japanese Program and Critical Languages, and is developing a new approach to Japanese pedagogy to meet the needs of multicultural students. Dr. Koyama's research interests range from Japanese language learners' narrative production to discourse analysis of Banana Yoshimoto's literary works. Most recently, she has been exploring the linguistic manifestations of iyashi (healing) in Yoshimoto's writings.

\Eva Marikova Leeds, Economics. PhD, Princeton University.
Dr. Leeds is an associate professor at TUJ, visiting from the Department of Economics and Business at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. In 1991, she taught at the Prague School of Economics, where she held a Fulbright grant. In 1994, she worked in the Economics Ministry of the Czech Republic, where she helped develop the Czech mortgage system. She has published articles on financial economics, transition economics, and the economics of sports.

Michael A. Leeds, Economics. PhD, Princeton University.
Dr. Leeds is an associate professor of economics and assistant dean for managerial education programs at TUJ. While trained as a labor economist, he is best known for his teaching and research in sports economics. His research has appeared in such journals as Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, and the Journal of Sports Economics. Dr. Leeds is co-author of The Economics of Sports and an economics textbook. His recent research includes work on how participation in athletics affects the accumulation of human capital and on the economic value of naming rights purchases. Dr. Leeds is the former director of the honors program in the Fox School of Business.

Geeta Mehta, Architecture. PhD, Tokyo University.
Dr. Mehta teaches courses in architecture, urban planning, art history and NGO studies. She has worked on architectural and urban design projects in Japan, the US, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. She is the author of several books on architecture and is currently researching the role of urban design on economic development and social justice in Asian cities. Dr. Mehta is also the president-elect of the American Institute of Architects in Japan.

Noriko Murai, History of Art and Architecture. PhD, Harvard University.
Dr. Murai is an art historian specializing in Japanese art and teaches TUJ’s core
course in Japanese culture. She has taught at Harvard, the Massachusetts College of Art, and Keio University.

Mariko Nagai, Creative Writing and Poetry. MA, New York University.
Ms. Nagai is an accomplished novelist and poet and has received numerous awards and fellowships for her writing, including The Pushcart Prize both in poetry (1998) and fiction (2001). She divides her time teaching Japanese literature from pre-modern to modern periods and creative writing courses, and she is director of writing programs at TUJ, where she also serves as faculty advisor to the student government.

Chieko Numata, Political Science. PhD, University of Texas.
Dr. Numata is a political scientist specializing in Japanese and Asian politics. Her
current research is about Japanese elections and referenda.

Kathleen M. Pike, Psychology. PhD, Yale University.
Professor Pike is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in women's health and eating disorders. Dr. Pike's research program, funded by the National Institutes of Health and Fulbright Foundation, focuses on cultural risk factors for eating disorders. Dr. Pike also holds a faculty appointment at Columbia University where she collaborates on the development of evidence based treatments for eating disorders.

Lindsey Powell, Anthropology. PhD, Temple University.

Dr. Powell is the director of TUJ’s summer Visual Anthropology Workshop and has taught anthropology, political science, and geography and urban studies at TUJ. His research deals with public protest spectacles in Japan, including those that regularly take place at Yasukuni Shrine.

Dr. Powell is an ethnographic filmmaker whose major works deal with the social relationships surrounding art and public ritual. He is currently working with a team of scholars dealing with art and poetry production at Sugamo Prison, the site where Japanese war criminals were held during the American occupation of Japan.

Donald Richie, Film and Media Arts. BS, Columbia University.
A resident of Japan for more than 50 years, Mr. Richie is a novelist, critic, filmmaker,
and essayist who has written extensively about Japanese popular culture, aesthetics, literature, and film. A former curator of the Museum of Modern Art’s film collection, he is widely considered to be the world’s leading authority on Japanese cinema. Mr. Richie teaches courses on Japanese film at Temple University, Japan Campus.

Hiromi Saito, Multicultural Multilingual Studies (TESOL). PhD, New York University.
Dr. Saito teaches courses in academic discourse, college composition, and Japanese-English translation.

David Satterwhite, Political Science. PhD, University of Washington.
Dr. Satterwhite is the executive director of The Japan-United States Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan). He teaches courses on Korean politics and is former (interim) director of the North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea and managing director of The Economist Group-Japan.

Paul James Crozier Sutcliffe, Art History. PhD, University of the Arts London.
Professor Sutcliffe has taught Japanese pop culture and manga in Japan and England. He has lectured and participated in international symposia on Japanese manga, and is an authority on Japanese art and visual culture.

William J. Swinton, MBA Temple University.

Mr. Swinton is responsible for undergraduate business programs at TUJ; this includes cross-border alliances with business programs at other universities.  He has also served as the director of TUJ's MBA program.  Prior to joining Temple in 2003, Mr. Swinton worked in marketing and communications for both commercial (C&W Japan, Global OnLine) and not-for-profit organizations (Lincoln Center, PBS TV).  He has lived in Japan for over ten years.

Shinya Watanabe, MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Mr. Watanabe is an assistant professor and director of special programs at
Temple University, Japan Campus where he teaches photography, video, and media arts. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for NBC News and Reuters and, since 1992, has been involved in a variety of art projects, including onedotzero and Tokyo Designers Block.

Suzi Zimmerman, Psychology. PhD, University of Illinois.
Dr. Zimmerman is a social and organizational psychologist with several academic publications about group decision-making. She coordinates the TUJ Psychological Studies major.