Faculty Directors
David Leheny is the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies at 
Princeton University. Most of his research projects involve Japan's reaction to and adoption of international norms, or standards of behavior that have prescriptive and constitutive effects on state action. Leheny is the author of two books, Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety and The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure. He is coeditor of the manuscript “Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development,” which draws on anthropological, sociological, and political theories of development to engage recent debates about Japanese aid policy. Among its chapters is an analysis of Japanese aid to Vietnam. Leheny has begun a comparative research project on Japanese and Vietnamese images of China and the United States. Ph.D. Cornell University.
Christina Schwenkel is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology
at the University of California/Riverside. Her research focuses on the intersections of transnationalism, visual culture, and historical memory in Vietnam. Her book, The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation, looks at encounters between conflicting U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and competing attempts by diverse transnational historical actors to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth, knowledge, and objectivity. Ph.D. University of California, Irvine.
