Dr. Christena Turner

Biography

Christena Turner received a B.A. from the University of Redlands and both an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she serves as the director of UCSD's Program in Japanese Studies and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her research and teaching areas encompass Chinese and Japanese Studies, culture, consciousness, labor relations, workplace cultures, everyday life, religion, and ethnography. She published 'Japanese Workers Protest: Ethnography Consciousness Experience' through University of California Press in 1995. Currently, her research includes globalization's impacts on workplace practices and cultures, class practices related to footbinding in China, and the imagery of Japan in the American imagination.

Research Interests