Title
Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and Professor

Department
Dept of Anthropology


Faculty URL
http://www.disability.jp/nakamura

Research Group
https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/disabilitystudies

Email
knak@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology

Research Description
Professor Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist at the University of California Berkeley. Her first book was titled?Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity?(2006). Her next project resulted in two ethnographic films and a monograph titled,?A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan?(2014). She is currently working on the intersections of transsexuality and disability politics in postwar Japan as well as a project on disability, technology, and access especially in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML).?