Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Gregory E. Dvorak Current Details Filmmaker/Writer/Producer Seehorse Productions, Tokyo Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow • Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies • Gender Relations Centre Advisor/Interpreter Marshall Islands Area War-Bereaved Families Association of Japan Education Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research (History/Anthropology/Political Science) The Australian National University (ANU Scholar; JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo) Research School of Pacific/Asian Studies • Research School of Humanities July 2008 Master of Arts (M.A.) Pacific Islands Studies/Graduate Certificate in International Cultural Studies The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (East-West Center Degree Fellow) August 2004 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) East Asian Languages and Area Studies (Minor in Psychology; Certificate in Japanese, Waseda University) Rutgers University May 1996 (Graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar) Languages Proficient in written/spoken Japanese (near-native fluency), passed Japanese Proficiency Test Level 1 (highest level), Feb. 1996; intermediate proficiency in spoken/written French; basic proficiency in spoken Marshallese, Mandarin Chinese. Interests Postcolonial histories of the Pacific Islands and Japan/East Asia; narrative studies/storytelling; historiography; cultural studies; gender/sexuality studies; diaspora/migration studies; filmmaking (and visual culture studies); military histories; cross-cultural ethnography/anthropology; contemporary Japanese literature. Recent Research Principal Investigator 2004-2007—The Australian National University “Seeds from Afar, Flowers from the Reef: Re-membering the Coral and Concrete of Kwajalein” This study was a multi-sited dissertation and documentary film project researched and filmed between four atolls of the Marshall Islands, Japan, and Australia. By integrating the many-layered histories of Kwajalein Atoll as an example of the complexity of the postcolonial Pacific, it uses ethnographic/historical methodologies and feminist theory to empower contemporary Islander voices and recover the memory of the Japanese era in Micronesia. It explores the narratives of Marshallese landowners, American residents, and Japanese/Korean war dead and their relatives, in light of the untold stories of countless others. Co-Supervisors: Professors Margaret Jolly, Greg Dening, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki Advisers: Paul D’Arcy, Gary Kildea, Yoshimi Shunya (University of Tokyo Adviser) Visiting Fellow/Principal Investigator 2005-2006 —University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Studies The Japan-based component of the avove doctoral project entailed extensive archival work to uncover rare documents pertaining to Japan’s colonial regime in the Pacific. It also involved ethnographic work with Japanese families who had ties to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia through migration, war, and tuna fisheries. Other Professional Experience Liaison Japan Marshall Islands War-Bereaved Families Association and US Army Kwajalein Atoll 2006—present Selected to represent the families of Japanese war dead in the Marshall Islands on behalf of the main national bereavement group (Māsharu Hōmen Izokukai). Led bereavement/remembrance tours to Kwajalein Atoll, facilitated/translated communications with the U.S. Army, and organized groups of Marshallese and Americans for reconciliation ceremonies. Creative Producer/Branding Consultant Brand-Vision/WolffOlins Agency, Tokyo, Japan. 2000—2002 Developed and designed competitive brand identities and marketing strategies for major Japanese clients (Kirin Beer, Nestlé Japan, Mitsubishi Motors, Panasonic); coordinated between London and Tokyo agencies in English and Japanese. Media and Diplomatic Liaison; PALM 2000 Marshall Islands Delegation Liaison Japanese Government, G8 Summit Kyushu-Okinawa 2000, Miyazaki Secretariat. 1999—2000 Liased between Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Miyazaki Prefectural Government, G8 nations’ diplomatic missions in Japan, press corps. Served as liaison to Marshall Islands delegation during Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister; coordinated Japanese government mission to the Marshall Islands, August 2000. Coordinator for International Relations Japanese Government, Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) 1996—1999 Promoted international relations and internationalization efforts in the planning division of Nango, a small Kyushu town of 13,000; created an outreach program to combat xenophobia against Indonesian and Filipino laborers in fishing industry; taught courses in international awareness. Researched, reported, and presented a fortnightly 6-minute live television segment in Japanese on NHK News (local and national) about the status of internationalization and non-Japanese, broadcast throughout the Kyushu region. Continued to appear as a commentator about the G8 Summit. Grants/Awards 2009-2010 University of Tokyo Special Researcher, Japan Foundation and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2008-2009 Fieldwork Fellowship (for work in the Marshall Islands and Southern Japan), Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (New York) 2007 Japan Studies Association of Australia, Best Postgraduate Paper Prize 2004-2007 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Short-Term Fellowship (Tokyo University) 2004-2007 ANU/International Postgraduate Research Scholarships, Australian Government 2004-2007 Oceanic Encounters Grant, Australian Research Council (ARC) 2004 Meller Award for Outstanding Pacific Research, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa 2002-2004 U.S. Congressional Degree Fellowship, East-West Center, Hawai’i 1995-1996 Henry Rutgers Honors Scholarship, Rutgers University 1994-1995 Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholarship (Waseda University) 1992 American National Japanese Speech Contest, 3rd Prize, Japan Society, New York 1991-1992 Rotary Club Youth Exchange Scholarship, Kobayashi High School (District 2730) Selected Publications and Films Theses: Dec. 2007— Seeds from Afar, Flowers from the Reef: Re-Membering the Coral and Concrete of Kwajalein (PhD dissertation in Cross-Cultural History, The Australian National University) May 2004— Remapping Home: Touring the Betweenness of Kwajalein (M.A. thesis in Pacific Islands Studies and Cultural Studies, University of Hawai’i) May 1996— Otokorashisa: The Construction of Masculinity in Contemporary Japan (Henry Rutgers B.A. Honors thesis, Rutgers University) Refereed Books/Editorial Roles February 2009 (forthcoming) Creative editor for PacifiCurrents, E-Journal of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies, Canberra and Cairns, Australia. Forthcoming 2009 Remapping Home: Touring the Betweenness of Kwajalein. Canberra: ANU E-Press, forthcoming (accepted for publication in November 2007, based on M.A. thesis of same title.) 2003-2004. Editor-in-Chief, contributor. Impulse Journal Issues 2003 (“Taste”) and 2004 (“Silence”). East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 1998-1999 Contributing Editor, COLORS Magazine, Catena di Villorba, Italy: Benetton SA, Issues 30-31. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters 2009a. (forthcoming, manuscript submitted for publication) “Three Beaches: The Death of Greg Dening” in “Dialogues” The Contemporary Pacific, 21 (2). 2009b. (forthcoming, manuscript submitted for publication) “Pearlers in Peril: The 1883 Case of a Japanese Junk that Never Made it Home.” In Towards an Enduring Friendship: Western Australia and Japan—Past, Present, and Future. The Parliament of Western Australia, Perth. 2009c. Review of the film Morning Comes so Soon, in The Contemporary Pacific, forthcoming. 2008a. The “Martial Islands: Making Marshallese Masculinities Between Japanese and American Militarism.” In “Re-membering Oceanic Masculinities, Histories, Bodies, Sexualities,” ed. M. Jolly, The Contemporary Pacific, 18 (1) 55-86. 2008b. “Visualizing Japan’s Pacific Past” (Winner of Best Paper Prize, Japan Studies Association of Australia). 2007. “From Islands to Atolls: Finding Home Between the Coral and Concrete of Kwajalein.” Indigenous Encounters, Occasional Paper Series: 43. Katerina M. Teaiwa, ed. Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 63-84. 2005. “Man/Making Home: Breaking Through the Concrete of Kwajalein Atoll,” Australian National University Gender Relations Centre Working Paper Series, Canberra, 2005. 1998 “Back to Izumo, Back to Springtime,” in Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road. Travelers' Tales Guides, Donald W. George, and Amy G. Carlson., eds., Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Publishing, 89-95. Films 2007 “Concrete and Coral.” Documentary film in Japanese and English, 19 min., Seehorse Productions. 2006 “Atollism.” 9 min., Seehorse Productions. 2004 “Bubu’s Hands.” 6 min., Seehorse Productions. 2004 “Remapping Home Trilogy” (“Flight,” 5 min., “Kwaj Kid,” 6 min., “Suburbia”, 13 min.) Recent Conference Papers/Presentations 2007a. “Blogging in the Marshall Islands.” Keywords:Conversations Series, ANU, Canberra. 25 July. 2007b. “Visualizing Japan’s Pacific Past.” Japan Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, 2 July. 2007c. “Coral and Concrete.” Preliminary 20 min. Film Screening at the ANU, Canberra, 28 June. 2007d. “Reefing Pacific Pasts.” Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University, 28 January. 2006a. “Re-membering the Reefs of History.” A paper and 9 min. film at the Pacific History Association Conference, Otago University, 7 December. 2006b. “Re-membering Kwajalein.” A paper and 9 min. film in ‘Places, Lost and Found,’ ANU, 21 October. 2006c. “Atollism.” A paper and 9 min. film in the Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Series, Australian National University, 19 October. 2006d. “Nagareru Tane, Kanshō no Hana.” A paper and 6 min. film presented at Tokyo University Graduate School of Media and Information Studies, 26 May. 2006e. “Sango to Konkurito: Furusato no Masharu Shotō” (Coral and Concrete: Home in the Marshall Islands) Double Lecture at Tenri University Department of Archaeology, Nara, Japan, 18 January. 2005a. “Tricksters, Testing and Tuna: Man/Making the Postcolonial Marshall Islands,” at the Moving Masculinities Conference, ANU, Canberra, 30 November. 2005b. “The Marshall Islands In Japanese Times.” Marshallese Cultural Society Public Lecture, Ebeye Island, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 12 October. 2005c. “Kwajalein Before the War.” Marshallese Cultural Society Symposium/Public Lecture, Marshallese Cultural Center, Kwajalein Island, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 7 May. Recent Media Attention 2008a. “Making the Atoll Whole Again: Greg Dvorak Returns to Kwajalein,” by Jody Ragan and Greg Dvorak. Kwajaletter, Winter 2008. 2008b. “Doboruzaku-san to no Deai” (“Meeting Mr. Dvorak”), by Takabayashi Yoshio, Kanshō Honbudayori #17, 18-19. Masharu Hōmen Izokukai (Japanese War Bereaved Families Association), Tokyo, 16 January. 2007a. “A personal journey that became a PhD about Kwajalein,” 15-minute interview on ABC Radio Australia’s nationałPacific-wide program, “In the Loop,” 3 July. Archived as a podcast at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/grc/publications/podcasts/20070703.mp3 2007b. “Kwajalein no Omoide,” by Takabayashi Yoshio. Kanshō-Honbudayori #15, 1-15. Masharu Hōmen Izokukai (Japanese War Bereaved Families Association), Tokyo, 20 January. 2007c. “Japanese visitors honor relatives killed in World War II at bereavement ceremony,” by J.J. Klein. The Eagle, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, 10 January.