Prof. dr. K.J. (Kasia) Cwiertka

Position:
  • Professor
Expertise:
  • Modern Japan Studies


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2599
E-Mail: k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan
Office Address: Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden
Room number 1.13
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​lias/​organisation/​japanese/​cwiertkakj.html


Research

Field: Material Culture and Consumption, History and Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of Colonialism and War, Globalisation
Area: Japan/Korea/East Asia

Curriculum Vitae

Download CV here.

Teaching activities

Material Culture of Modern Japan (BA2)
Modern Japan through Consumption (MA)

Publications

BOOKS

Forth. 2013 Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia (editor). Farnham: Ashgate.

Forth. 2012 Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (editor). Leiden: Brill.

Forth. 2012 Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth Century Korea. London: Reaktion Books.

2006 Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, London: Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.

2006 Kaiseki Recipes: Secrets of Japanese Cuisine (co-author with Akira Oshima), Bruges: Stichting Kunstboek (English and Dutch editions).

2003 Yamazato: The Kaiseki Cuisine, Hotel Okura Amsterdam (co-author with Patrick Faas and Akira Oshima), Brugge: Stichting Kunstboek (English and Dutch editions).

2002 Asian Food: The Global and the Local (co-edited with Boudewijn Walraven), London: RoutledgeCurzon / Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE

(see Curriculum Vitae for the full list of publications)

2007 'War, Empire and the Making of Japanese National Cuisine', Japan Focus: An Asia Pacific e-journal.

2005 ‘Militarization of nutrition in wartime Japan', IIAS Newsletter 38: 15.

2004 Daejanggeum・and the Gentrification of Korean Food Culture' Korea Foundation Newsletter 13 (1).

Last Modified: 31-01-2013