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Joseph Doyle Hankins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with faculty affiliations in Ethnic Studies, Critical Gender Studies, Human Rights Program, Japanese Studies Program, and the Center for New Racial Studies. His research investigates the forms and effects of human labor, especially in relation to social divisions such as race, caste, and class, with a regional focus on Japan and its transnational connections.
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago (2009)
- M.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago (2004)
- B.A. in Asian Studies, English, and Mathematics, Rice University (1999)
His research interests include political economy, globalization, neoliberal labor, multiculturalism, social movements, human rights, semiotics, materiality, and the anthropology of work. He employs ethnographic and theoretical approaches from linguistic anthropology, practice theory, and post-structural thought to examine how labor shapes meaning, identity, and social relations.
Hankins' recent and forthcoming publications center on the politics of stigmatized labor, sensory experience, and transnational solidarity, particularly in relation to the Buraku people of Japan. His book manuscript, The Labor of Multiculturalism: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, explores the paradox of multicultural recognition in the absence of the labor that historically defined marginalization. His other projects examine affect, ecology of sensation, and the ethical residues of pollution and disaster.
- Hellman Junior Faculty Research Fellowship (2011, 2012)
- UCSD Faculty Career Development Program Award (2011)
- Richard Saller Prize, University of Chicago (2010)
- SSRC Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2007)
- National Science Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship (2002)
Hankins has advised numerous Ph.D. candidates in Anthropology and History at UCSD and teaches courses on race, labor, publics, liberalism, and semiotics. He is also co-editor of Sound, Space, and Sociality in Modern Japan, contributing to interdisciplinary dialogues on sensory culture and public life. His work bridges ethnographic depth with theoretical innovation, contributing significantly to critical anthropology and social theory.
His current research includes Residues and Contamination, an ethnographic inquiry into the social aftermath of industrial, nuclear, and environmental disasters in Japan, which will form the basis of a future book and online archive.
