The East Asia Center (EAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara promotes interdisciplinary research, scholarly development, and cultural events on East Asia. It leverages UCSB’s incredible depth of faculty and student expertise on East Asia to promote the study of East Asia across departmental, disciplinary, and divisional boundaries. Through its programming, sponsorships, and Visiting Scholar Program, EAC fosters deep relationships between scholars and students at UCSB and those in the East Asian region as well as between the academy and the public. The EAC is housed within the Area Global Initiative (AGI) at UCSB.
East Asia Center Director Sabine Frühstück is Distinguished Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies in the Deptartment of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She is the chief editor of the University of California Press book series, New Interventions in Japanese Studies, and co-editor of the flagship journal, Journal of Japanese Studies. Frühstück studies Japan’s modern and contemporary culture and its relationship to the world. Read more about her scholarship here.
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