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News Tip: Duke Experts Available to Comment on Crisis in Japan

Expertise includes culture, radiation and engineering

  • Culture 


Simon Partner
, director of the Asia Pacific Studies Institute at Duke.
Specializes in Japanese culture, especially late 19th and 20th century
history, technology and social changes; rural society.(919) 684-5464 or spartner@duke.edu
http://history.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2Fhistory&Uil=1433

Anne
Allison
, professor of cultural anthropology, women's studies. Specializes
in everyday life in contemporary Japan, including pop culture, mass culture and
gender.
(919) 681-6257 or aaa@duke.edu
http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FCA&Uil=anne.allison

Gennifer Weisenfeld,
assistant professor of art and art history. Specializes in the relationship
between art, media and disaster; recently completed a book-length study on Japan’s
Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.(919) 684-6051 or gweisen@duke.edu
https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/gweisen

  • Disaster
    Response

Namika
Sagara
, post-doctoral associate in marketing and psychology. Specializes in
how people respond to disasters.
(919) 660-4069 or namika.sagara@duke.edu

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/52/22151.full?sid=3156b8c2-6140-4b57-aa4b-8e0bf0f6e069

  • Engineering/Structures

Henri
Gavin
, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Specializes in engineering structures to resist earthquakes.
(919) 660-5201 or henri.gavin@duke.edu
http://www.cee.duke.edu/fds/pratt/cee/faculty/henri.gavin

  • Food
    prices

Marc
Bellemare,
assistant professor
of public policy and economics. Specializes in international development and
food policy. Posted this blog on Tuesday -- http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/?p=1334
 (919) 613-9382 or marc.bellemare@duke.edu https://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/faculty/marc.bellemare

  • Politics

Margaret
McKean
, associate professor of political science. Specializes in Japanese
politics, environmental and resource politics; author of "Environmental Protest
and Citizen Politics in Japan" (1981).
(919) 660-4340 or mamckean@duke.edu  http://polisci.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FPoliticalScience&Uil=mamckean

  • Radiation

Terry Yoshizumi, professor of
radiology and radiation oncology, director of the Radiation Safety Office at
Duke University and Medical Center. Specializes in radiation dosimetry and
novel radiation-detector development.
(919) 668-3188 or terry.yoshizumi@duke.edu
http://radiology.duke.edu/modules/faculty_dh/viewDetails.php?uid=0202257

  • Regulation/Risk

Jonathan
Wiener
, professor of law, environmental policy, and public policy.
Specializes in risk management and risk regulation.
(919) 613-7054 or wiener@law.duke.edu
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/wiener/

  • Religion

Richard
Jaffe
, chair of the Department of Religion. Specializes in the development
of Japanese Buddhism from the 16th century to the present. (919) 660-3502 or richard.jaffe@duke.edu
http://religiondepartment.duke.edu/people?Gurl=/aas/Religion&Uil=richard.jaffe&subpage=profile