Fuyubi Nakamura, Curator, Asia
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist, born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, New Zealand and the UK. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford (DPhil, 2006). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and also works as Curator, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. Fuyubi specializes in the anthropology of art, museum studies, and material and visual culture studies. She taught in these fields at the Australian National University and the University of Tokyo, and curated exhibitions internationally prior to joining UBC in 2014.
Research Interests
While her primary expertise lies in Japan, her work as a curator responsible for the Asian collection at MOA (about 40% of the entire collection) requires her to continuously expand the breadth of her knowledge of Asian cultures. Her research interests include material and visual cultures with special interest in Japan and its diasporas in Argentina and Brazil; Indigenous cultures; Asian calligraphy; contemporary art and photography; India and Tibet; and the relation between memory and objects, especially within the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She is a member of UBC’s Disaster Resilience Research Network and Transformative Memory: An International Network as well as being affiliated with the Himalaya Program and the Hong Kong Studies Initiative.