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Editorial Board
The editorial board the Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (SEJJIR) consists of seven highly-qualified academics that specialize in some aspect of international relations or Islamic studies. The members of the board are as follows: Editor-in-Chief
Selcuk Esenbel Selcuk Esenbel grew up in Turkey, the United States, and Japan. She lived in Japan from 1963 to 1967 when her father was Turkish ambassador in Tokyo. She holds BAs from International Christian University in Mitaka and George Washington University. Her MS in Japanese Linguistics was earned at Georgetown University. Finally, she gained a PhD in Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University in 1981. Dr. Esenbel has been teaching in Bogazici University since 1982, and was Chair of the History Department between 1994 and 2003. She founded the Japanese Language and Chinese Language programs, as well as the Japanese Studies minor. Her major publications include Even the Gods Rebel: Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising, AAS monographs, 1998; The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent: New Perspectives on Japanese-Turkish Relations, Bogazici University Press, 2002 (with Chiharu Inaba); and “Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900-1945,” American Historical Review, October 2004. Editorial Board
Christopher Len Christopher Len is Assistant Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly. He is also Coordinator for the Energy and Cooperation Project at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program, a joint research and policy center affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and the Department of Eurasian Studies of Uppsala University in Sweden. He researches on Central and East Asia security issues. In 2000, he co-founded a community project in Kosovo for the local ethnic Roma minority focusing on post-conflict ethnic reconciliation between the Roma and the Albanian communities.
Michael Penn Mr. Penn is a native of Los Angeles who has been living in Japan since June 1997. Since that time, the bulk of his research has been on the topic of Japanese-Islamic relations. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Shingetsu Institute. He has published more than a dozen academic articles in several countries, and is beginning to contribute opinion articles to various national media outlets. His biography has been listed in the annual “Marquis Who’s Who in the World” since 2004, and his name was listed in the most recent “Morse Target: Washington’s Movers and Shakers on Japan.”
John Edward Philips John Edward Philips is a Professor in the Department of International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University, Japan. He holds a PhD in history from the University of California Los Angeles. His writings on various aspects of African and American history have appeared in several edited volumes, as well as in The Journal of African History, African Studies Review, the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, and other journals, including several in Japan. Most recently he edited and co-authored Writing African History (Rochester, 2005), an introduction to historical literature about Africa.
Keiko Sakai Professor Sakai is one of the best-known scholars of the Arab world in Japan. She joined the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo in 1982 as researcher on Iraq. From 1986 to 1989, she took up the post of research attache at the Japanese Embassy in Iraq. Her many publications include award-winning books such as Iraq and America in Japanese, and her edited volume, Social Protests and Nation Building in the Middle East and Central Asia in English. She is an Executive Member of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies. In 2005 she was selected as a member of the Science Council of Japan, the chief representative body of Japan’s scientific community. Mark
Selden Mark Selden is Senior Fellow, East Asia Program, Cornell University. His research centers on modern and contemporary China and Japan and Asia, war and peace, the political economy of development, social movements, revolutionary change, regional formation, agrarian studies, and historical memory. He is the editor of book series at Rowman and Littlefield, Routledge, and M.E. Sharpe publishers. He is also the very busy Coordinator of Japan Focus, an electronic journal and archive on Japan and the Asia-Pacific.
Keiko T. Tamura Dr. Tamura is a very active scholar in the field of Southeast Asian studies. Her main countries of specialization are Singapore and Malaysia, but she also deals with the international relations of ASEAN as a whole. In her writings, she often deals with themes like nationalism, gender, ethnicity, democratization, and NGO activities. She has authored three books and co-edited another three. She has also written numerous academic articles. Dr. Tamura is active in academic societies. For several years she chaired the Southeast Asian studies section of the Japan Association of International Relations.
Shintaro Yoshimura Dr. Yoshimura is an active researcher whose primary field is modern Iranian history. However, not only is he a Japanese historian of 20th century Iran, but he also has written more widely on topics like so-called terrorism and fundamentalism, the Kurdish issue, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In all, he has published a book and dozens of articles for both scholarly audiences and the general public. After the September 11 attacks, Dr. Yoshimura helped to establish the Hiroshima Middle East Network to try to educate the public about Islamic cultures, ethno-religious problems, and the Palestine issue.
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