Glenn Hoetker, CAS Resident Associate

Associate professor Glenn Hoetker (Business, Law, Institute for Genomic Biology) is the CAS Resident Associate coordinating the STIP initiative.  His research and teaching focuses on international technology strategy, with a particular focus on cooperation between firms, the diffusion of innovative knowledge, and the effect of national institutions on both.  He is particularly interested in the institutions and economy of Japan.

He earned his PhD in international business and a Masters of Applied Economics at the University of Michigan. He also holds an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in Japanese studies and mathematics from Earlham College.  His professional experience includes directing research on Japanese business practices and government policy for the law firm Dewey Ballantine, serving as international policy analyst for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, and--as Japanese information specialist for SCAN C2C, Inc.--performing research on Japanese technology and commerce for clients including General Electric, IBM and Ford Motor Company. Please see http://www.business.uiuc.edu/ghoetker for more information.

Masumi Iriye, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Study

Masumi Iriye was appointed assistant director of the Center in October 2000 and promoted to associate director in October 2001. She is responsible for overseeing the programs of the Center, including CAS community activities, the Resident Studies program, CAS interdisciplinary initiatives, the George A. Miller Programs, and the CAS John Bardeen Scholars Program.

She received her doctorate in the History of Art in 1994 (University of Michigan) and specializes in visual culture from the early modern period in France. Her dissertation research was supported by a Bourse Chateaubriand, Fulbright Travel Fellowship and Rackham Graduate Research awards (University of Michigan).

Nancy Abelmann, Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

Professor Nancy Abelmann (Anthropology, East Asian Language and Culture) is an anthropologist committed to ethnographic methods and cultural theory.  She earned her PHD in social cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her research interests include family, class, and education in Japan and South Korea.

She founded and currently co-organizes The Ethnography of the University (EOTU, www.eotu.uiuc.edu) – an initiative that sponsors undergraduate research on the university and archives it in web-accessible form.