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Christena Turner

Associate Professor

Christena Turner received her B.A. from the University of Redlands and both an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She is director of UCSD's Program in Japanese Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her areas of research and teaching include Chinese and Japanese Studies, culture, consciousness, labor relations and workplace cultures, everyday life, religion, and ethnography. She has published Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience from the University of California Press (1995). Her current research includes work on globalization and transformations in workplace practices and cultures, class and the practices of footbinding in China, and images of Japan in the American imagination.
Turner, Christena: Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.