Board Member

An anthropologist of contemporary life in Japan, Anne Allison teaches at Duke University. Her research has covered pop culture, corporate capitalism, domestic labor, the nightlife, Pokémon, digital companionship, precarity, and death. Her books include Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (2006), and Precarious Japan (2013). She is currently finishing a book on new trends in Japan involving death, solo sociality, and self-management of mortuary and post-mortem arrangements.