TOKYO, JAPAN

SEMESTER/YEAR study abroad PROGRAM

Administration & Faculty

Administration

Academic and administrative responsibility for Temple University, Japan Campus rests with the dean of TUJ, senior administration and an advisory board made up of Japanese and non-Japanese government, business and education leaders. The TUJ administration coordinates closely with the Education Abroad office at Temple University Main Campus, and is under the authority of academic administration including the provost and the president of Temple University. Listed below are administration and staff that work closely with study abroad at TUJ.

Dr. Bruce Stronach, Dean of TUJ, has a long career in Japanese and U.S. higher education, where he has held both faculty and administrative positions. Prior to being named dean of TUJ, Dr. Stronach was president of Yokohama City University in Japan. He is a respected authority on Japanese popular culture and politics, and author of several books including Beyond the Rising Sun: Nationalism in Contemporary Japan. Dr. Stronach earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in international relations through graduate studies at both The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and Harvard University.

Dr. Brian Swanland, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, came to TUJ in February, 2012 after retiring from the Air Force Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel. Prior to his recall to active duty, Dr. Swanland served as the Director of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Shiga Prefecture and later a Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Northern Arizona University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Asian Studies at the University of Arizona.

Chie Kato | Associate Dean, Enrollment Management

Office of Student Services (OSS)
Nicole Despres | Manager
Arisa Iijima | Visa Coordinator
Nahomi Miura | Activities Coordinator
Paul Gaspari | Student Services Coordinator
Hiroaki Kudo | Dorm Manager at Ontakesan Dorm & OSS Housing Advisor
Ayako Ohkubo | Homestay Coordinator
Keiko Suzuki | Financial Aid Coordinator

Study Abroad Advisor
Dr. Kyle Cleveland | Professor of Sociology

Career Services and Internships
Kentaro Sawa | Manager
Erica Adams | Career Advisor

Academic Advising Center
Norihisa Shimada | Director

TUJ Faculty

TUJ provides access to approximately 180 full-time and adjunct faculty throughout the year. The faculty includes full-time professors based in Japan, part-time faculty who are practicing professionals in specialized fields, as well as Main Campus faculty on temporary assignment.

Kyle Cleveland, Sociology. PhD, Temple University.
Dr. Cleveland advises study abroad students and teaches courses on Japanese popular culture, ethnicity and contemporary Japanese social issues. Through The Wakai Project, a component of the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies, he produces multimedia events and develops programs focusing on contemporary Japanese youth culture and globalization.

Tina Burrett, Political Science. PhD, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Burrett is an expert on the politics of the former Soviet Bloc, with special reference to Russian domestic politics. She also works on comparative politics and transition theory. At TUJ, she teaches courses on post-communism, global political economy, and comparative government and politics.

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

Irene Herrera, Communications. MA, Nihon University.

Irene Herrera brings expertise in both the theory and practice of filmmaking and photography to her courses, with a primary focus on documentaries, visual anthropology and ethnography. She teaches courses related to film theory, filmmaking, and the history of documentary films and other visual media.

Sachiko Horiguchi, Anthropology. PhD, University of Oxford.

Dr. Horiguchi is an assistant professor in anthropology at Temple University, Japan Campus. She is a socio-cultural and medical anthropologist whose geographical focus has been on Japan and currently specializes in youth mental health issues as well as foreign language education in contemporary Japan.

Hady Kahy, Economics and Political Economy. MPhil, University of Tsukuba. MBA, Notre Dame University, Lebanon.

Assistant professor Kahy is an expert in international economics and international political economy. His interests include currency crises that are connected to political uncertainty stemming from unclear outcomes of elections and the behavior of the government in such conditions, and the effects of financial flows to developing countries.

Jeff Kingston, History. PhD, Columbia University.
Dr. Kingston is the university's director of Asian studies and 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.

Matthew Linley, Political Science and International Relations. LLM, Nagoya University. MA, University of Victoria.

Assistant Professor Linley is political scientist with interests in international relations, comparative politics, and public opinion. He currently researches the impact of media coverage of international crises on Japanese public opinion about foreign nations.

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.

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 TUJ.

Kaoru Sakurai, Art. MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Mr. Sakurai's work explores drawing and site-specific installations through a variety of media. He has exhibited in Japan and the U.S. Mr. Sakurai has also worked as a professional exhibition engineer for contemporary artists, museums and galleries in Japan. He teaches foundation art courses and advanced-level drawing at TUJ.

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.

William J. Swinton, Business. MBA, Temple University.

Mr. Swinton is responsible for undergraduate business programs and special management 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 and PBS TV).

Shinya Watanabe, Art. MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Mr. Watanabe is an assistant professor and director of special programs at
TUJ 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.

Asako Yamaguchi, Japanese. MA, The Ohio State University. MA, Central Michigan University.

Ms. Yamaguchi's expertise includes teaching Japanese language at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels; Japanese pedagogy; and Japanese culture and society (Nihon Jijoo).

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.