Research

I am uncomfortable with the number of professors of Japanese and Latin American history at UCLA that are white males.

That being said, I'd love to raid this guy's music and film collection:
William’s research interests in cultural and intellectual history and critical theory developed into a dissertation project on the cultural politics of avant-garde art and performance in 1960s Japan. Based at the University of Tokyo during 1996 and 1997, with grants from the Japan Foundation and the Japan Cultural Arts Foundation, he researched these evolving, interrelated forms of art, music, Butoh dance, photography, drama, and performance, and their relation to political contestation since the end of WWII in Japan.