Rachel Levine
Rachel Levine
Specialization: Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence, Sex Trafficking in East Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights
Email:rslevine@umail.ucsb.edu
Specialization: Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence, Sex Trafficking in East Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights
Email:rslevine@umail.ucsb.edu
Research Focus
- Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence
- Sex Trafficking in East Asia
- Views of Sexuality During the Tokugawa Period as Expressed Through Shunga
- Barriers to Female Workforce Participation in Japan
- Thesis: Behind the Shoji: Sex Trafficking of Japanese Citizens
- Dissertation: “Rape, Resistance, and Revision: Sexual Violence Law and Social Change
in Japan”
Academic History
- M.A Asian Studies, Florida International University
- B.A East Asian Languages and Cultures, Minors: International Relations, Psychology, University of Southern California
Publications
- “Behind the Shoji Screen: Sex Trafficking of Japanese Citizens,” Japan Studies Review XXIV, (2020): 61-83
Panel Presentations
- “Beyond the Black Box: Sexual Violence and Japanese Media” at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France, 2022
- “Beyond the Black Box: The (In)visibility of Sexual Violence in Japanese News Media” at the 8th Association of Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference, Daegu, South Korea, 2023
Teaching Experience
- Adjunct Lecturer, Florida International University, August 2019- Present: ASN 3202 Japanese Anime and Manga
- Teaching Assistant, Florida International University, August 2017- May 2019: Introduction to East Asia, Japanese Culture and Society, Graduate Intro to Modern Asia, Graduate Asian Religion Seminar, Graduate Media Seminar, Graduate Masters Seminar
Awards
- 2023-24 Fukushima-Fulbright Japan Graduate Research Fellow
- 2020 Central Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2019 Excellence in Research Award, Florida International University
- 2017 Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award, University of Southern California
- 2017 Renaissance Scholar, University of Southern California
- 2017 Order of Troy, University of Southern California