Karen Nakamura is an American

United States

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 academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University

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Early life

Nakamura was awarded a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 1993. She continued her studies at Yale University, earning an M.Phil. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology in 1998. She was awarded her Ph.D. at Yale in 2001.

Career

Nakamura is currently an associate professor at Yale in the Department of Anthropology. She has previously worked at Macalester College and Bowdoin College.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Karen Nakamura, OCLC

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 encompasses roughly 9 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 400+ library holdings.

• Deaf Identities, Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan (1868-2000) (2001)
• About American Sign Language (2006)
• Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (2006)
• Deaf Resource Library (2009)

Honors

• Association for Asian Studies
  Association for Asian Studies
  The Association for Asian Studies is a U.S. society focused on facilitating contact and information exchange among scholars of Asian fields. It is the self-proclaimed largest society of its kind. The Association consists of eminent Asianists, and is a non-profit organization...
  
  , John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies . Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize....
  
  , 2008
• Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
  Social Science Research Council
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   and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
  Japan Foundation
  The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry of Japan on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent...
  
  , 2003