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*JAHF 2012 Election for Secretary, Treasurer and Graduate Student Representative Please register your vote for JAHF's Secretary, Treasurer and Graduate Student Representative. Elected candidates will join John Carpenter, President and Monika Dix, Vice-President, on the JAHF board of elected officers. For details on JAHF's Board of Officers, consult the "General Information" page of the JAHF website at jahf.net. Candidates' statements follow the ballot below. Election results will be announced shortly following the voting deadline. Thank you for voting! INSTRUCTIONS BALLOT (Mark your choice of candidate by typing an "X" at one of the ____ below ): *for Secretary: ____ Tamaki Maeda (Tokyo University of the Arts) ____ (write-in candidate) *for Treasurer ____ Karen Fraser (Santa Clara University) ____ (write-in candidate) *for Graduate Student Representative ____ Frank Feltens (Columbia University) ____ (write-in candidate) CANDIDATE STATEMENTS **for SECRETARY: Tamaki Maeda (Japan Foundation Visiting Research Scholar, Tokyo University of the Arts) I specialize in Japanese and Chinese painting, both pre-modern and modern, and the visual culture of modern Japan. My research chiefly concerns the national, transnational, and transcultural vis-à-vis Japanese visual culture in later periods. At present, I am focusing on the following three topics: Sino-Japanese artistic interchanges in the 1910s-1930s; the images that link Tokugawa Confucian ideology and Meiji nationalism; and the twentieth-century historiography of Japan/East Asian art history in Japan, China, and the West. Narrativity of visual materials is another area of interest, and I am exploring new ways to interpret landscape paintings and narrative scrolls. If elected as secretary of JAHF, I would like to help connect JAHF members and scholars who work primarily in Japan, and also to help expand JAHF in the direction of inter-area studies. **for TREASURER: Karen Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Santa Clara University) My research focuses on Japanese modern art, with particular interests in Japanese photography and in artistic and cultural interactions between Japan and the West. As a JAHF member I have been pleased with recent activities to expand the website and to support graduate student participation at major conferences. As treasurer and a member of the JAHF board, I would like to see continued development in these two areas. In addition I would be interested in exploring ways to further support independent and junior scholars and investigating the possibility of establishing a fund for small publication grants. I would also like to continue to raise the JAHF's profile within CAA, AAS, and other professional organizations and conferences such as ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan) and BAJS (British Association for Japanese Studies). **for GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Frank Feltens (graduate student, Columbia University) My main research focuses on Momoyama and Edo period painting, with an emphasis on the Rinpa movement. I am especially interested in connections between practices in the consumption and interpretation of classical literature (e.g. through noh theater, digests, etc.) and aristic production. My dissertation focuses on Ogata Korin and seeks to examine inter-relationships of his life and art with the noh theater and poetics. I believe that intellectual exchange on an international level is as vital to any discipline as domestic cooperation. Among graduate students, however, the full capacities of inter-continental exchange have not been exploited yet. Therefore, as JAHF grad student representative, it is my aim to further foster academic exchange between students in all periods of Japanese art within North America and grad students located in Europe or East Asia through joint conference participation, viewings, and other means of exchange. **Thank you for voting.** | ||
