Karen Nakamura
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Karen Nakamura (born October 23, 1970{{cite web|url=http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=6778128&v2=1&HC=1&SEQ=20110130102312&PID=vTjqVnWI0f_wxQYOr7OutbTVqj|title=Karen Nakamura|publisher=Library of Congress Authorities|accessdate=January 30, 2011}}) is an American academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Previously she was associate professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies and Chair of LGBT Studies at Yale University.Yale University, [http://www.disabilitystudies.jp/nakamura/ Nakamura faculty bio notes]
Work
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.
Nakamura is currently the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. She has previously worked at Yale University, Macalester College, and Bowdoin College as well as a brief stint working for Canon/NeXT and heading her own company, Global Mapping Systems.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Karen Nakamura, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 9 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 400+ library holdings.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=December 30, 2010 }}: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2006-21662 Nakamura, Karen, 1970- ]
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- "A Disability of the Soul : an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan" (2013)
- Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (2006)
- Deaf Identities, Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan (1868-2000) (2001)
- About American Sign Language (2006)
- Deaf Resource Library (2009)
Honors
- Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2008{{Cite web |url=http://www.aasianst.org/publications/book-prizes-hall.htm |title=John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list |access-date=September 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124101822/http://www.aasianst.org/publications/book-prizes-hall.htm |url-status=dead }}
- Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, 2003[http://www.ssrc.org/programs/fellows/abe-fellowship/past/50/ Abe Fellow, Karen Nakamura] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140526/http://www.ssrc.org/programs/fellows/abe-fellowship/past/50/ |date=September 27, 2011 }}, "The Reformulation and Expansion of Disability Politics in Japan and the United States," 2003
- In 2022, Nakamura was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards.{{Cite web |title=Karen Nakamura |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/karen-nakamura/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}{{Cite web |title=2022 Great Immigrants Recipient: Karen Nakamura {{!}} Letters & Science |url=https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/2022-great-immigrants-recipient-karen-nakamura |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=ls.berkeley.edu}}
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