Daena A. Funahashi CV1 Education Cornell University, Department of Anthropology Concentration: Cultural Anthropology Ph.D., August 2011 M.A., May 2006 University of Hawai i at Manoa Department of Anthropology Concentration: Medical Anthropology M.A. 2002 Cornell University Department of Philosophy Concentration: Bioethics B.A. 1996 Daena A. Funahashi daena.funahashi@gmail.com Postdoctoral Fellow Yale-NUS College & NUS Select Awards Tuition Scholarship for Thai Language ($1,500) Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute University of Madison, Wisconsin Summer 2010 Michele Sicca Research Grant ($2,500) Institute for European Studies Cornell University Summer 2009 Brett de Bary Interdisciplinary Mellon Writing Group Grant ($6,000) Writing Group Theme: Uncertainty, Anxiety, and the Network Grant application author (co-author Andrew Johnson) Faculty Advisors: Chris Monroe, Magnus Fiskesjö Academic year 2009-2010 Institute of Comparative Modernities Graduate Reading Group, Cornell University Faculty Sponsor: Iftikhar Dadi Academic year 2009-2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant ($16,284) Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for Finland Research period 2006-2007
Daena A. Funahashi CV2 IIE-Fulbright Award ($11,939) U.S. State Department Field: Anthropology, Finland Research period 2006-2007 Einaudi Center for International Studies Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant Cornell University Field: Anthropology, Finland Summer of 2006 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (FLAS) Swedish Cornell Institute of European Studies Academic year 2005-2006, Summer 2005 (declined) Summer FLAS (Swedish) Accepted but declined Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (FLAS) Khmer (Cambodian) Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University Academic Year 2004-2005 Einaudi Center for International Studies Summer Travel Grant Siem Reap, Cambodia Summer of 2004 East-West Center Associate East-West Center, HI Academic Year 2001-2002 Employment and Professional Service Postdoctoral Fellow Yale-NUS College and the Tembusu College, National University of Singapore (NUS) January 2015 Adjunct Research Fellow Yale-NUS College, Singapore June 2013 December 2014 Project Advisor to the Third-Year Experience (Field research training for seniors) Tembusu College, National University of Singapore August 2013 June 2014 Visiting Scholar Department of Anthropology, Columbia University August 2012 July 2014
Daena A. Funahashi CV3 Visiting Affiliate Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore Science and Technology Cluster September 2011 August 2012 Sections Instructor for Anthropology of Food and Cuisine Department of Anthropology, Cornell University January 2010 May 2010 Primary Instructor John S. Knight Writing Institute, Cornell University First-Year-Writing Seminar, Department of Anthropology Course Title: Medicine, Magic and Healing August 2009 - December 2009 Primary Instructor John S. Knight Writing Institute, Cornell University First-Year-Writing Seminar, Department of Anthropology Course Title: Of Magic and Medicine August 2008 - December 2008 Teaching Intern for the John S. Knight Writing Institute, Cornell University Teaching Training for First-Year-Writing Seminars Course Title: Teaching Writing & Seminar on Writing and Teaching July 2008 December 2008 External Reviewer Research Program: New, Subtle Form of Leadership and Control in Organizations School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, May 2007 June 2008 Graduate Student Representative Africanist Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University Academic Year 2006-2007 Assistant Centre for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia July 2004 August 2004 Intern Health Development Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Bangkok, Thailand May 2004 July 2004
Daena A. Funahashi CV4 Principal Interviewer Anthropological Research: Uses of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Oncology Ward Principal Investigator: Nina Etkin, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai i at Manoa July 2000 June 2001 Casualty Facultative Reinsurance Underwriter, International Division General and Cologne Reinsurance Corporation Cologne, Germany and New York, New York June 1997 June 1998 Presentations & Publications Book Manuscript In preparation Order of Disorder: Burnout and the New Economy in Finland. 2011 Order of Disorder: Burnout and the New Finnish Economy. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University. Journal Articles 2013 Wrapped in Plastic: Transformation and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy. Cultural Anthropology, 28 (1): 1-21. Under Review by Cultural Anthropology (accepted pending revisions 2015) Rule by Good People : Health Politics and the Violence of Moral Authority in Thailand. (under preparation) Stress at the Workplace: Homo Faber and Shifting Image of the Good Worker in Finland, to be sent to Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. Chapter in Edited Volume 2008 Identity Politics in Europe: Anxiety and Pleasure in the Spaces in Between. In The European Mind: Narratives and Identity, Volume II. Henry Frendo (Ed). Pp. 760 765. Malta University Press. Selected Presentations Politics of Mental Immunity. Paper to be presented at the Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Boston, Massachusetts. April 2015. Unhomely Origins: A rehabilitative quest to locate what moves me. Paper presenter and
Daena A. Funahashi CV5 Panel Co-Organizer. American Anthropological Association Meeting, December 2014, Washington, D.C. Mental Immunity and the Double Bind: Public Health and Politics in Thailand. Annual Conference for the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia, March 27-30, 2014. Speaking for Nature: Mental Immunity against Moral Uncertainty in Thailand. Organizer and co-author of panel Dark Influence : Doubt, Uncertainty and the Public. American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago, 2013. Stewards of Happiness: Encounters between the Political and the Sacred in Thai Mental Health. Society for Medical Anthropology Conference. Tarragona, Spain. June 12-14, 2013. Economic Authoritarianism or Neoliberalism. Authoritarianism and Beyond: Lessons from Postsocialist Societies. SOYUZ Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, 21 st Annual Symposium. Harriman Institute at Columbia University. March 22-23, 2013. Beyond the Name: Burnout and the Contemporary as a Space of Despair. Invited lecture. Université de Montréal, March 12, 2013. Neoliberalism and the Politics of Mental Health: A case study of burnout in Finland Rethinking the Global: An INTERACT Lecture Series, Columbia University. March 6, 2013 Belonging Out of Time: Doubt, Burnout and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy. American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, November 2012 The symptoms of naming: Emergent disorders and symptoms of emergence. Organizer and coauthor of panel Rethinking Naming: A critical look at designation and displacement. American Anthropological Association Meeting, Montréal, Canada, November 2011. Diagnosing the Present: Naming the symptoms of temporal emergence. Conference on the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilisation. University College Cork, Ireland, September 2011 Ambivalent Resistance: Civil society in the arms of the state. International Symposium on Designing Governance for Civil Society, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, February 2011 Specters in the Everyday: Competitive Economy and Workplace Burnout in Finland American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 2010 Rethinking Resistance: Burnout and the New Economy in Finland Cornell Anthropology Department Colloquium Series, Cornell University, April 2010 Metaphors of Time and Nation: Burnout in Finland Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, Yale University, September 2009
Daena A. Funahashi CV6 Re-imagining the Self in the Workplace: The Uncanny and Loss in Finland American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, November 2008 Well-being for Whom?: Workplace Well-being Promotion and Burnout in Finland Council for European Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2008 Problems of Risk and of Control American Voices Seminar, University of Turku, Finland, October 2006 European Studies and Anthropology: the View from Cornell University of Malta, Malta International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference, July 2006 Identity Politics in Europe: Anxiety and Pleasure in the Spaces in Between, International conference on European Studies: Between Globalization and Regionalism, Šiauliai University, Lithuania, May 2006 Translation and the Production of Knowledge in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Program Graduate Students Symposium, Cornell University, April 2005 Professional Affiliations American Anthropological Association Association for Asian Studies Anthropology Graduate Students Association (AGSA, Cornell University) Council for European Studies Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Society for Asian American Graduate Affairs (SAAGA, Cornell University) Society for Cultural Anthropology Society for Medical Anthropology Society for Psychological Anthropology Languages English (native) Japanese (native) Finnish (proficient in reading, writing and speaking) Thai (intermediate in reading, writing, and speaking) French (fluent in reading, proficient in writing and speaking) Cambodian (beginning in reading, writing and speaking) Swedish (beginning in reading, writing and speaking)