Paul Christensen

• BA, University of Washington, 2000
• MA, San Francisco State University, 2004
• PhD, University of Hawai͚i at Mānoa, 2010

• Teddy Amoloza Award, ASIANetwork, October 2015
• Leadership Fellow, American Anthropological Association, 2013
• Northeast Asia Council Japan Studies Grant for short-term research, 2012

• Psychoactive substance use and recovery - particularly as applied to alcoholism
• Theories of substance use and recovery - particularly as applied to the body
• Gender and masculinity
• Geographic areas: Japan, Hawaii and Brazil

Books:

• 'Alcoholism, Masculinity, and Japan: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo.' New York: Lexington Books. 2015

Peer reviewed publications:

• ‘Non-National Bodies in a National Pass Time: Japan, Baseball, and the Manufacturing of Difference.’ Under review with Japanese Studies. 2017
• ‘Scripting addiction, constraining recovery: Alcoholism and ideology in Japan.’ Accepted for publication with Japanese Studies. 2017
• ‘The Program is Perfect: Narcotics Anonymous and the Managing of the American Addict.’ Accepted for publication with Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2017
• ‘Connoisseurship and drunkenness in Tokyo.’ International Journal of Drug Policy, Volume 25, Issue 4. 2014
• ‘The Burden of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan.’ Pan Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora. Blai Gaurne and Paul Hansen ed. Special Edition, Escaping Japan: Outside, Volume 8, Issue 2. 2012
• ‘Darvish in Texas: Haafu identity and athletic celebrity,’ The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 10, Issue 44, No. 2.  http://japanfocus.org/-Paul-Christensen/3850  2012
• ‘Real Men Don’t Hold Their Liquor: The Performance of Drunkenness and Sobriety in Japan.’ Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2. 2012
• ‘Struggles with Sobriety: Alcoholics Anonymous Membership in Japan.’ Ethnology, Volume 49, Issue 1. 2010

Chapters in Books:

• ‘The Burden of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan.’ In Modern  Japan, edited by Blai Guarne and Paul Hansen. London: Routledge Japan  Anthropology Workshop Series. 2017
• ‘Darvish in Texas: Hafu Identity and Athletic Celebrity.’ In Hapa Japan:   Identities and Representations, edited by Duncan Ryuken Williams. Los Angeles:  USC Ito Center/Kaya Press. 2017

Other Publications:

• ‘Battle of Okinawa’s legacy lives on 70 years later as locals chafe against Japanese rule, US arms.’ The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/battle-of-okinawas-legacy-lives-on-70-years-later-as-locals-chafe-against-japanese-rule-us-arms-39357 2015
• ‘Surfing: Polynesian Origins of Sport.’ Area Studies Series: Hawai‘i. M. Yamamoto and T. Yamada eds. Tokyo: Akashi Publications [in Japanese]. (ポリ
• ネシア発祥のスポーツ：サーフィン」山本真鳥・山田亨編『ハワイを知る ための60章』明石書店) 2013
• ‘The Hawai‘i Student Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Study: 2007-2008 Comprehensive Report.’ Submitted to the State of Hawai‘i, Department of Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, ASO Log #09-061. Co-authored with Goebert, D. (first author), Nishimura, S., Onoye, J., Boyd, E., and Rehuher, D. 2009
• ‘Selected Identities: Ethnic Identity Construction Among the New Japanese Immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area.’ Masters Thesis, San Francisco State University. Dr. Bernard Wong, chair. 2004
• ‘Japanese Female Professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area: Gender Based Discrimination in a Globalized World.’ The Treganza Anthropology Museum Papers III, San Francisco State University. 2003

• Anthropology
• Japan studies
• Sociology