Projects and Professional Activities

Frühstück is the chief editor of New Interventions in Japanese Studies, a University of California Press open access book series, and the co-editor of The Journal of Japanese Studies, the most influential journal publishing research on Japan available in the English language. Frühstück has also been the PI on a three-year Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Grant for 2019-22 (Ref. No. 10121178), and a five-year Korea Foundation Grant (Ref. No. KF 1022000-3726) for the Establishment of a Tenure-track Professorship in Korean Studies for 2022–2026. She has served on the American Advisory Committee for Japanese Studies of the Japan Foundation; an ACLS Fellowship Committee; the North East Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; the Executive Board of the Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung; the Board of Trustees of the Society for Japanese Studies; the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources; NetIAS—Network of European Institutes of Advanced Studies, the editorial/advisory boards of book series on “Transnational Asian Masculinities” (Hong Kong University Press) and “Children, Youth and War” (University of Georgia Press) and Japan Forum, Critical Military Studies, Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, Asia Pacific Journal–Japan Focus, and the editorial committee of the University of California Press. 

She is a member of the Eisenhower Research Project at the Watson Institute of International Studies of Brown University, and has been the chair of the Executive Board of the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, the director of the East Asia Center, the interim director of the Center for Taiwan Studies, and the vice chair of the Academic Senate at UCSB. Frühstück was a Japan Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tokyo (1998-99, 2001), a University of California President’s fellow at UC Berkeley (2001-2002), an external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2005-2006), a visiting research professor at Kyoto University (2003), a senior fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna (2010), a visiting professor at the German Institute of Japanese Studies–DIJ, Tokyo, a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University (2015-2016), and the 2019 Shinhan Distinguished Faculty in the Underwood International College of Yonsei University, Seoul. She serves on the scientific advisory councils of the University of Vienna and of the German Institute of Japanese Studies—DIJ, Tokyo.