Kyle Cleveland
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Temple University
Japan
Biography
Associate Professor Cleveland's expertise ranges from political and theoretical sociology to race and ethnicity, popular culture and ideology.
Research Interest
Associate Professor Cleveland's research interests focus on Japanese popular culture and ethnic identity in relation to globalization and social changes in contemporary Japan. Associate Professor Cleveland supervises both American based university students on short-term study abroad, and locally enrolled students with long-term visa sponsorship who study at TUJ. As the founding Director of TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, he has supervised special programmes in Japanese popular culture and visual media studies, organized a lecture series, and produced events and symposia related to contemporary political issues. Through the Wakai Project, he organizes a series of events in which students from various universities, scholars, activists, and media collaborate to address how globalization is affecting youth culture in Japan.
Publications
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Cleveland, Kyle. Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty (Updated and Revised May 18, 2014). The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 11 (2011): 2014.
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Cleveland, Kyle. "SIGNIFICANT BREAKING WORSE" The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis as a Moral Panic. Critical Asian Studies 46.3 (2014): 509-539.
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Cleveland, Kyle. 16 Hiding in plain sight. Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2013): 213.
