{"id":5914,"date":"2015-06-20T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5914"},"modified":"2024-09-09T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:55:18","slug":"merry-white","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/profile\/merry-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Areas<\/strong>:\u00a0<span>Anthropology of food; Japan; urban social spaces; travel; Asian American women, travel and tourism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Merry (\u201cCorky\u201d) White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, with specialties in Japanese studies, food, and travel. A caterer prior to entering graduate school, she has written two cookbooks, one of which\u2014first published in the mid-1970s\u2014was recently reissued by Princeton University Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She currently has the following projects in the works:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t Tell the Kinder,\u201d a family history of art and rescue in the exhibition, \u201cTry All What is Possible\u201d: How Emil Singer\u2019s Art Saved Lives, 1936-1942.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor White was also recently featured in a WNPR podcast about miniaturization called<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpr.org\/post\/audacious-little-things-elevation-reduction\">\u201cAudacious Little Things: Elevation by Reduction\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Book Chapter, \u201cBody, Tool and Technique: Elements of Work in the Japanese Kitchen\u201d in Philosophies of Food, editors, Andrea Borghini and Patrik Engisch, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Journal Article, \u201cWhen Yoshu Whiskey becomes Washu Whisky\u201d in Arena (in Japanese) Fall 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Essay, \u201cAlways More to Learn: The Contemporary Coffee Scene in Japan\u201d in Standart, Winter 2019-2020.<\/li>\n<li>Journal Article, \u201cAssumptions and Distortions: Dore on Equality in Japanese Schooling\u201d in Pacific Affairs, Winter, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Review Essay, \u201cConsuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan\u201d in Social Science Japan Journal, Summer 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor White\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/merry-white\/\">Department Profile<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6528,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5914\/revisions\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}