Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 24, 2000Volume 28, Number 25



William W. Kelly


Joseph R. Roach


Endowed Professorships

William Kelly named to Sumitomo chair

William W. Kelly, chair of the Department of Anthropology, has been appointed the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies.

A noted authority on the social and historical anthropology and agriculture of Japan, Kelly has focused much of his research in the last two decades on regional society in Japan. His publications in this research area include "Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Research," "Deference and Defiance in 19th-Century Japan," "Tractors, T.V.s and Telephones: Reach Out and Touch Someone in a Japanese Village" and "Communication and Transportation in Modern Japan."

Since 1996, however, Kelly has been conducting field research in the Kansai area of Japan on the history and present patterns of professional baseball in the cities of Osaka and Kobe.

Kelly is now finishing a book-length historical ethnography of one of the Kansai baseball clubs, the Hanshin Tigers, titled "The Hanshin Tigers and the Practices of Professional Baseball in Modern Japan." He is also co-editing "This Sporting Life: Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan" with Atsuo Sugimoto of Kyoto University of Education and "Fanning the Flames: Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan."

An international conference titled "Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan," organized by Kelly and Sugimoto, will take place at Yale on Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1. (See related story.)

After earning a B.A. in anthropology from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Brandeis University, Kelly joined the faculty at Yale in 1980. He has served as chair for the Council on East Asian Studies and director of undergraduate studies for East Asian Studies.

Kelly is currently a member of the executive committees for the Council on East Asian Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies and Program on Agrarian Studies. He is also a member of the steering committee of Yale College and a faculty affiliate of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

His professional affiliations include membership in the American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Association for Asian Studies and the editorial board of the Journal of Japanese Studies.



Joseph Roach appointed as Dilley Professor

Joseph R. Roach, a theater scholar and noted director of the stage, has been named the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater.

Roach has joint appointments in the Department of English, where he is director of graduate studies, and in the Theater Studies and African-American Studies programs.

Roach is the author of "Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance," which received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association and the Calloway Prize for Theatre and Drama, and "The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting," which won the Barnard Hewitt Award for the History of Theatre. He is also co-editor of "Critical Theory and Performance" and is currently working on a new book "From Time to Time: The Principles of Performance History."

The director of over 40 plays and operas, Roach most recently directed the North American premiere of Brendan Kennelly's translation of "The Trojan Women." Next year, during the Yale Tercentennial, he will direct "A Short, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," a medley of scenes and songs from the Restoration plays that most annoyed Reverend Jeremey Collier, the author of
the notorious attack on the depravity of the theater.

Before coming to Yale in 1997, Roach was the chair of performing arts at Washington University in St. Louis, chair of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in theatre at Northwestern University. In addition, he taught English and theater at Tulane University, Sweet Briar College and State University of New York at Albany.

Roach earned his doctorate in theatre from Cornell University, his master's degree in Elizabethan drama from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and his bachelor's degree in English and theatre from the University of Kansas.

Roach serves on the editorial boards of Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Theatre History Studies and Cultural Studies, and was recently named to the advisory committee of the journal PMLA. He is a member of the American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Modern Language Association, American Society for Ethnohistory and Performance Studies International.


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Endowed Professorships

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Joseph Goldstein, noted for his work in family law, dies

Exhibit celebrates 30 years of women artists at Yale

'Father and Sons' exhibit features works by three family members

Visual Journals' on view in Medical Library

CONFERENCES ON CAMPUS

Census count will be held on campus April 3-6

Faculty share 'experience' with students at teas

EPH seminar to examine impact of domestic violence on individuals, community

Labor conditions in developing nations will be focus of YCIAS roundtable

Yale researchers find no relation between PCBs, breast cancer

Liman Fellow Sager to discuss her work with 'All Our Kin'

Ovarian cancer is topic of forums

Yale authors will talk about their books

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