Kelly McCormick

Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies

Established in 1991, the UCLA Terasaki Center has been a platform for research on Japan. Our distinguished faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and the board of advisors have been contributing to the field of Japanese studies for over 20 years.

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Students Visitors Staff Supporters Dr. Paul I. Terasaki

The Terasaki Center sponsors a vast array of events throughout the year. With its colloquium series, the Center brings academics from diverse fields to UCLA each year. Special workshops and annual conferences bring leading scholars to discuss topics relating to Japan.

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The Center is proud to support our faculty, current and prospective students, and the local community through a variety of grants and fellowships.

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Center programs were established with strong support from the local community to promote research and instruction in Japanese studies, with a recent focus on the profound transformations unfolding in contemporary Japanese society.

UCLA Japanese Studies
Programs by Faculty and Students

Global Japan Initiative
Understanding Japan/Japanese culture within a global context.

The Terasaki Center is actively expanding support for faculty and graduate students, building relationships with other universities as well as Japan and Japanese Studies related organizations, and enhancing its role in the community.

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The Center is dedicated to connecting Japanese communities around the world with those engaged in the study of Japan and the Japanese.

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Kelly McCormick

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Kelly McCormick is a Ph.D. Candidate in modern Japanese history whose research focuses on the intersection of visual and material culture through the lens of the Japanese camera. Through analysis of the mass press, materials from corporate and government archives, and in-depth interviews with photographers and designers she is developing a picture of how discourses on gendered applications of photography, the professionalization of women, economic recovery, and environmental disaster were deeply tied to the domestic and international success of the Japanese camera. Her work has been supported by the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia and the Fulbright IIE, and she was awarded the 2018 Japan Art History Forum and Japanese Art Society of American Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize. As a part of the 2017-2018 Mellon Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms initiative, she worked with an interdisciplinary team of UCLA scholars to develop curriculum that teaches undergraduates the value of the humanities through writing. Kelly is excited to joining the History Department at the University of British Columbia in January of 2020. Before coming to UCLA she completed an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University (2012) and received her BA from UC Santa Cruz (2008) in History and Studio Art.