Please welcome guest blogger Fuji Lozada

We Minds hope to keep this site active with fresh ideas and new perspectives. From time to time, we therefore invite anthropologists to join us for a spell as guest bloggers. To that end, please welcome our latest guest blogger, Fuji Lozada.

Eriberto P. “Fuji” Lozada Jr. is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at Davidson College, North Carolina, USA and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the School for Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in both rural and urban China, but his most recent work has been located in Shanghai. Fuji has also taught and lived in Korea and Japan. He has published on a wide array of topics on contemporary issues in Chinese society and Asian-American issues, ranging from religion and politics, popular culture and globalization, sports and society issues, and the cultural impact of science and technology. When not teaching or spending time with his anthropologist wife Rebecca Ruhlen and their two children, Fuji can usually be found either on the sidelines of a men’s lacrosse field (as head coach of the Davidson College Men’s Lacrosse team of the MCLA) or on the field as a NCAA and high school lacrosse referee.

Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has previously held teaching and/or research posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands province. His on-going research in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the traditional men's cult in the upper Asaro valley. His other interests include 'brand' as an ethnographic and analytic concept, HIV/AIDS (especially in the U.S. gay male community), and celebrity/fame.