My former PhD advisee, Dr. Mark Bookman, passed away on 16 December 2022.
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I’ve recently been appointed to the Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC; a US federal agency overseeing bilateral ties between the two nations), with simultaneous appointment to the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON). I’m pleased to contribute to the lasting ties between the two nations in this new position.
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I was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Penn.
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Faking Liberties has won a book award for excellence in the study of religion from the American Academy of Religion.
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Back in November during the AAR (the halcyon days when we could actually do conferences in person!), I sat down with Brett Esaki to talk about Faking Liberties for the Religious Studies Podcast. The episode dropped last week, and to my pleasant surprise it garnered responses from two scholars I deeply respect.
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After one publishes a book, there is always a weird moment of waiting to see what reviewers will have to say. Happily, all of the reviews of Faking Liberties that I’ve seen so far have been really positive and their critiques have been generally deserved and fair. Reviewers have also challenged some of my claims and taken issue with some of my rhetorical choices.
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I had the pleasure of talking with Nathan Hopson about Faking Liberties recently.
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I was interviewed by Penn’s campus newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, about my Fall 2019 course “The Religion of Anime.”
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