Jennifer Matsue, assistant professor of performing arts and East Asian
Studies, and Andrew Morris, assistant professor of history, have been named John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professors, a fellowship that supports new
and promising faculty members.
Matsue is an ethnomusicologist who
specializes in Japanese popular and traditional music. She teaches courses on
Japanese popular music and culture, East Asian traditional music, world music,
gender and sexuality in music, and global popular music. She has held teaching
posts at the University of Chicago,
Sophia University
in Tokyo and Dartmouth
College. She earned her Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago
with a dissertation on underground bands in Tokyo.
She is working on a book titled Mamonaku Tokyo Desu! (Next Stop Tokyo!):
Underground Music-Making in Contemporary Tokyo.
Morris
specializes in 20th-century American political history, public policy,
welfare state and philanthropy. He earned his Ph.D.
from the University of Virginia with a dissertation titled “Charity, Therapy and Poverty:
Private Social Service in the Era of Public Welfare.” He is working on a
manuscript titled “The Limits of Voluntarism: Private Social Service and the
Expansion of the Welfare State.” Last fall, he made a presentation at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University
of Virginia titled “World War Two and the Revival of
Voluntarism.” He has authored an article, “The Voluntary Sectors' War on
Poverty,” to be published in the Journal
of Policy History.
The College
has recognized a total of 28 MacArthur Assistant Professors since 1982,
after it received a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation. Last year's recipients were Anupama Jain of English, and
Erica Ball of history.