Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

Ellen H. Hammond, curator of the East Asia Library, lived in Japan for 16 years. She will bring that expertise to her new posts on the U.S. Panel of the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.

In new posts, Yale librarian Hammond will work to promote U.S.-Japan cultural exchanges

Ellen H. Hammond, curator of the East Asia Library, has been appointed a member of the U.S. Panel of the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) and a commissioner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.

CULCON is an advisory panel to the governments of Japan and the United States that is dedicated to furthering the cultural and educational aspects of the bi-national relationship. The U.S. Panel consists of 12 government officials and members from the private sector who meet with their Japan Panel counterparts every two years for the purpose of making recommendations to their respective governments.

The Friendship Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for administering a government trust fund, income from which is used for the promotion of scholarly and cultural activities between Japan and the United States.

Hammond did her graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, obtaining an M.A. in library science (1979) and in Japanese history (1982). She was a research scholar in Japanese history at Hosei University in Tokyo as a Japanese Ministry of Education Fellow in 1982-1983, and lived and worked in Japan for 16 years before returning to the United States as adjunct associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature and Japanese studies librarian at the University of Iowa.

She has been at Yale since 2002, heading a 15-member department that is responsible for the Yale Library's collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials, and the support of East Asian studies at Yale.

Hammond is active in the Council on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, serving on the executive board (2004-2007) and as chair of numerous committees. She is also involved in the activities of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources and has headed committees dealing with digital resources and electronic resources licensing, among other responsibilities. She has received training fellowship and collection development grants from the Japan Foundation. She is the author of numerous articles, focusing primarily on the development of the infrastructure for electronic information in East Asia and issues of identity in contemporary Japan, and serves on the editorial board of Critical Asian Studies.

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