Sabine Frühstück 

Sabine Frühstück is Distinguished Professor and the Koichi Takashima Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an affiliate faculty in History, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, and Global Studies.

Frühstück studies modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relations to other parts of the world. She enjoys building synergies, rethinking the conventions of scholarly work, and probing and transgressing national, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Frühstück mostly uses historical and ethnographic methodologies, takes visual culture seriously, and agrees with Martin Luther King, Jr. that “nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”