Setsu Shigematsu

Professor and Acting Chair

Corona, California, United States · 1 connection

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About

As an activist and feminist, my intellectual and scholarly concerns include the relationship of U.S. and Japanese imperialisms and gendered state violence, transnational liberation movements, comparative feminist theory, and cultural studies. I am the author of Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan, and the director of Visions of Abolition, a documentary film about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement. I am also the co-editor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific, with Keith Camacho (UCLA). Currently, I am working with trans theorist and filmmaker, Eric Stanley, to make new films on detention and deportation and queer and trans-abolitionist organization in San Francisco. I am also working on a new project about Fusako and Mei (May) Shigenobu. Find out more on my new website: setsushigematsu.com

Experience

Postdoctoral FellowStanford University
Jun 2005 to Jun 2006

University of California President's Postdoctoral FellowUC San Diego
Sep 2005 to Feb 2006

LecturerUC Irvine
Apr 2005 to Jun 2005

Associate ProfessorUniversity of California, Riverside
Jul 2013

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, Riverside
Jul 2006 to Jun 2013

LecturerUniversity of California, Riverside
Sep 2003 to Jun 2004

Research FellowThe University of Tokyo
Apr 2001 to May 2003

Doctoral FellowThe University of Tokyo
Oct 1999 to Dec 2000

Education

Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Asian/Japan Studies/Asian American Studies/Gender Studies
1996 to 2003

Cornell University
Master of Arts - MA, Asian Studies
1993 to 1995

McGill University
Bachelor of Science - BS, East Asian Studies