Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies

Anthropology
International and Global Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Religion. Anthropology of the body. Commodification. Psychoanalytic theory. East Asia. Japan.

Awards and Honors

Brandeis University Senior Faculty Research Fellowship (Spring 2014) (2013)

Mandel Center for the Humanities, Interdicsiplinary Teaching Award, for team taught courses (with Prof. Drick Roosevelt) (2011)

CORST Prize (Committee on Research, Scholarship and Teaching, American Psychoanalytic Association) (2010)

Slberger Fellow, Boston Psychonalytic Society and Institute (2008)

Fulbright Research Fellowship in Japan, 2003-2004 (2003 - 2004)

Mazer Grant. Brandeis University (2003)

Northeast Asia Council (Association of Asian Studies). Small grant for research in Japan (2003)

Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2002-2003 (2002)

Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Grant for Research in Japan (2002)

Courses Taught

ANTH	80a	Anthropology of Religion
ANTH	105a	Myth and Ritual
ANTH	130b	Visuality and Culture
ANTH	137b	Gender and the Sacred in Asia
ANTH	144a	The Anthropology of Gender
ANTH	154a	Culture and Mental Illness
ANTH	159a	Museums and Public Memory
ANTH	179b	Women and War
ANTH	180b	Playing Human: Persons, Objects, Imagination
ANTH	201a	History of Anthropological Thought
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

Schattschneider, Ellen. ""Clocks for Seeing”: Photographic Registrations of the Visible Invisible in Modern Japan.” Presented in the Panel “Regimes of Invisibility”, American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco (November 18)." 2013.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Adopting the Fetish: War Memory and Uncanny Kinship in Modern Japan.” The Religion and Culture Forum, University of Chicago Divinity School (April)." (2013)

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Adopting the Fetish: War Memory and Uncanny Kinship in Modern Japan.." Invited Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. February 2012.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Burying the Enemy:Transposition and Alterity in the 'War Without Mercy'." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (November 2011).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Review of Bethel: Community Schizophrenia in Northern Japan.." General Anthropology Volume 19. #1 (2012).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Fetish Goes to War: Disavowal and the Family Romance in Modern Japan." CORST Prize Lecture (Committee on Research, Scholarship and Teaching, American Psychoanalytic Association), Waldorf Astoria, New York City. January 13, 2011.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "'Ambassadors with Terrible Faces': Sacrificing Alternate Selfhoods in 1943 Japan.." Invited Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Asian Studies Lecture Series. November 4, 2010.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Re-circulating Traumatic Authenticity: Fetishism and Transitional Phenomena in Japanese World War Two Reenactments." Presented in the panel Circulation and Reenactment: Mimesis in the Play of History. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. (November 19).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "“Giving Birth to the Dead:" Fetishism and Transitional Phenomena in an Okinawan Memorial Rite” Presented in the panel, “Cultural Imaginaries: Fantasy in Culture,”." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,. Philadelphia, PA. November 2009.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "“The Fetish Goes to War: Disavowal and the Family Romance in Modern Japan.”." Invited Lecture, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. November 14, 2009.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Memory Work in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Transitional Objects and Circuits of Trauma.." Department of Anthropology Invited Seminar, Mt. Holyoke College. March 12.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Memory Work in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Transitional Objects and Circuits of Trauma.." Bi-annual meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Asilomar, CA. May 28.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Anthropology of Exile, Displacement and Dislocation: Notes on Alienation and Transitional Phenomena (Co-authored with Mark Auslander)." Society for Biblical Literature annual conference: Warfare in Ancient Israel section, Boston, MA. November 25.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine." The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Ed. Tansman, Alan. Duke University Press, 2009

Schattschneider, Ellen. "“The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine.” In The Culture of Japanese Fascism, edited by Alan Tansman. (Duke University Press)." 2009 ed., 2009

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Bloodstained Doll: Violence and the Gift in Wartime Japan." The Journal of Japanese Studies Summer (2005).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "“The Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine.” [in Japanese] in Gendai Shiso (Journal of Contemporary Thought) August." (2005).

Studying the Anthropology of Women and Religion in Japan. Schattschneider, Ellen. Japan News - Online Publication, 2004.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Book Review of Helen Hardacre: "Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan"." Journal of Asian Studies 63. 4 (2004): 1134-6.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Family Resemblaces: Memorial Images and the Face of Kinship." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30. 1-2 (2004).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Response to: Masamichi S. Inoue. "We Are Okinawans but of a Different Kind: New/Old Social Movements and the U.S. Military in Okinawa"." Current Anthropology 45. 1 (2004): 99-101.

Virtual exhibition on Akakura Mountain Shrine. Schattschneider, Ellen. On Line Publication, 2003.

Schattschneider, Ellen. Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain.. Duke University Press, 2003.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Buy me a bride: Death and exchange in northern Japanese bride doll marriage." American Ethnologist 28. 4 (2001).