Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Curator, Asia, Museum of Anthropology
fuyubi.nakamura@ubc.ca
Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist and obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2006. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and also works as Curator, Asia at Museum of Anthropology. Dr. Nakamura specializes in the anthropology of art, museum studies and material and visual culture studies. She taught in these fields at the Australian National University and University of Tokyo, and curated exhibitions internationally prior to joining UBC in 2014.
She regularly facilitates research and class visits to study MOA’s Asian collections including a significant Cantonese opera collection. In 2024, she worked on the “Digitizing Cantonese Opera Materials (1970s to 1990s) at the Museum of Anthropology” project with an international student to document and digitize the recently acquired archival materials about Cantonese opera, which will be available online later.
Her exhibitions at MOA include A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake (2021), a recipient of the 2022 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology, the most prestigious award in this field in the English speaking world and Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia (2017), a recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award in the art research from the Canadian Museums Association. Her publications include Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation across Borders (2013), a recipient of the 2014 best anthology prize from the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand and “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and Beyond” in Critical Asian Studies (2019).
Full profile:
https://asia.ubc.ca/profile/fuyubi-nakamura/