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Asato Ikeda is an Associate Professor of Art History at Fordham University, where she teaches courses on Japanese modern art, war, fascism, and Asian visual culture. Her research focuses on modern Japanese art, particularly during the Second World War, and the intersections of art, imperialism, gender, and transnational exchange.
Education:
- B.A., University of Victoria, 2006
- M.A., Carleton University, 2008
- Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2012
Her research explores themes such as fascism, war, museums, colonialism, and gender in Japanese art. She is the author of The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War (2018) and is currently writing Japan in Canada: The Art and Visual Culture of Transpacific Crossings. She co-edited Art and War in Japan and its Empire, 1931–1960 (2012), the first English-language anthology on Japanese war art.
Her recent publications span topics from the Tokyo Olympics to nuclear art, queer representation in Edo prints, and official war artists. The articles demonstrate a consistent engagement with political and social dimensions of art, memory, and identity in Japan. Her work combines rigorous archival research with critical theory, particularly in gender and postcolonial studies.
Scientific Awards and Recognition:
- No explicit awards listed, but her work has been widely reviewed in top journals including CAA Reviews, Monumenta Nipponica, and Cross-Currents.
Ikeda has curated exhibitions such as A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints (2016–2017), which brought critical attention to non-binary gender in Japanese art. She has also translated Japanese scholarship and contributed to public discourse through The Asia-Pacific Journal. She advises students and is active in the academic community through peer-reviewed publications and editorial work.
Labs and Research Teams: While no formal lab is mentioned, she collaborates with scholars like Ming Tiampo and Joshua Mostow, and has worked with institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum and Japan Society.
