Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Karen - Congrats - Great I have been publishing an anthropology project on nomads since early 1990ties - so far teen titles - interesting research Non as far as Japan - mostly north Africa, Middle East and as far as Tibet and Mongolia Right now I am doing the fourt volume on Afghanistan Its lovely that you have been offered a seat as assistant professor Many ethnographers and anthropologists I have woorked with have been doing some very fine field work but their photographic skills have left much to be wished - on the volume I am doing now the anthropologist was a very good photographer - he sadly passed away early january 05 - and it is very inspiring to do the lay out on a material were both the manuscript and the pictures are super! Yale University Press must be very exited to publish your work from Japan again - many congratulations Ruben ps. you are welcome to visit my english homepage www.rhodos.com and look under anthropology my titles in danish is at www.rhodos.dk Subject: [Leica] Good news -- just hired by Yale >I have good news to report! I've just been invited to join the faculty at >Yale University as an assistant professor of anthropology. I'll be teaching >courses centered around my research specialities of minorities in Japan as >well as courses on visual anthropology and field methods. > > I'm starting up in the fall. This means that my summer just got a bit more > hectic as I still have some of my research still to finish. I'm sad to be > leaving St. Paul Minnesota and it's a bit odd to join the faculty of your > alma mater as a peer. I'm looking forward to meeting the other group > members in New York, Philadelphia, etc. > > Karen Nakamura > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ > http://www.disabilitystudies.jp/ <== new! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information