Linda Isako Angst

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

department: Sociology/Anthropology
office: 363 John R. Howard Hall
mailstop: 60
phone: 503-768-7659
e-mail: angst@lclark.edu

Linda Isako Angst's research in cultural anthropology has focused on questions of ethnicity, colonialism/postcolonialism, gender, and national identity in Japan. Her dissertation for Yale University looked at questions of Okinawan women's political subjectivity, particularly as understood through their narratives about wartime experiences and memories and postwar occupation by the U.S. military. Today she studies the effects of developing Okinawa as a tourist site for Japanese consumption. Other research includes the politics of representation in Japan's new peace museums and a collaborative comparative study of aging and diet in Okinawa and Tohoku.

Born in Yokohama, Japan of Japanese and American parentage, Professor Angst has lived much of her life in Japan (including Okinawa). Before going to Yale, she graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in politics. After 6 years of living and working in Osaka and Tokyo teaching English and working as a freelance editor and translator, she completed a master’s in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, focusing on Japanese intellectual history as well as contemporary culture in historical perspective. Professor Angst was on leave in 2002-2003 on a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.