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Academic Anime Convention Guests
Academic guests who have made appearances at anime conventions:
- Brent Allison - Associate Professor, University of North Georgia
- Phil Anderson - Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Rev. Barrish - Senior Shinto Priest, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America
- Jeanne Beck - Japanese Instructor, University of Missouri
- Jerry Beck - Animation Historian
- Chris Berman - Author / Historian
- Dr. Christopher Bolton - Professor, Williams College
- Christopher Born - Lecturer, Pierre Laclede Honors College
- Christian Brandjes - Visual & Performing Art Professor, Daemen College
- Matt Busch - Professor of Media and Communication Arts
- Norman Caruso - Gaming Historian
- Frédéric Clément - Lecturer, Laval University
- Ian Condry - Cultural Anthropologist
- CSUN Jishin Taiko Ensemble - Taiko Drummers, California State University, Northridge
- Northrup Davis - Professor / Producer / Writer
- Zack Davisson - Translator / Writer / Scholar
- Deborah Deacon - Professor of Cross Culture Studies
- Maureen Donavan - Librarian, Ohio State University
- Patrick Drazen - Author / Lecturer, Stone Bridge Press
- Chie Matsumura Dusk - Japanese Instructor, Rowan University
- Lawrence Eng - Otaku Studies Scholar / Founder / Webmaster, Anime and Manga Research Circle
- G. D. Falksen - Author / Lecturer / Actor
- Kiira Fox - Vice President, Japanese Culture and Anime Club at Liberty University
- Daryl Frazetti, PhD - Anthropologist
- Dr. Sarah Frederick - Asst. Professor of Japanese Literature, Boston University
- Alisa Freedman - Professor, University of Oregon
- Kerry Freedman - Professor, Northern Illinois University
- Eduardo Gil de Montes - Digital Designer, Monterey Peninsula College
- Brian Hammer - Visual & Performing Art Professor, Daemen College
- Bonita Harmon - Japanese Cultural Expert, Kimono-San
- Maki Isaka Morinaga - Author / Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Theater, University of Minnesota
- Kinko Ito - Professor of Sociology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Joanne Izbicki - Professor of East Asian History, Ithaca College
- David Kalat - Historian, All Day Entertainment
- Kevin Kegler - Visual & Performing Art Professor, Daemen College
- Dr. Sharon Kinsella - Doctor of Sociology, Yale University
- Kuwai-sensei - Professor, Ohio State University
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- John LaCure - Associate Professor, University of Tennessee
- Thomas Lamarre - Professor, McGill University
- Dr. Antonia Levi - Author / Professor, Portland State University
- Dr. Frenchy Lunning - Professor of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Lee Makela - Associate Professor of East Asian History, Cleveland State University
- Miho Matsugu - Professor, DePaul University
- Trudi Miller - Assistant Professor of CIS
- Akiko Mizoguchi - Scholar / Lecturer
- Dr. Susan Napier - Professor / Author, University of Texas at Austin
- Heidi O'Hare - Costume Designer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Minoru Ohno - Professor / Producer, Shokei Gakuin University
- Kyoko Okamoto - Lecturer
- Katriel Paige - Scholar
- Peter Paik - Asst. Professor, Compariative Literature, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- Marie Aizawa Phelan - Professor
- Martin Picard - Lecturer
- Dr. Jeni Prough - Assistant Professor of Humanities and East Asian Studies, Valparaiso University
- Shelly TSivia Rabinovitch - Cultural Anthropologist
- CarrieLynn Reinhard - Slash Expert, Ohio State University
- Jeremy Robinson - Assistant Professor of Japanese, Grand Valley State University
- Anna Rosato - Japanese Cultural Expert
- RJ Schafer - Japanese Cultural Expert, Ana's Ikimaru
- Stacey Schlanger - Researcher, Ohio State University
- Lien Fan Shen - Manga Artist, Ohio State University
- Society for Creative Anachronism - Historians
- Akemi Solloway - Lecturer
- J. David Spurlock - Comics Historian / Publisher
- Marc Steinberg - Author, Concordia University
- Rachel Thorn - Cultural Anthropologist, School of Cartoon & Comic Art at Kyoto Seika University
- Dr. Masami Toku - Assistant Professor of Art and History, CSU Chico
- Maggie Weidner - Asian Languages / Art, Stanford University
- Mark West, PhD - Professor of English, University of North Carolina Charlotte
- David G. Wilson III - Anime Historian
- Theresa M. Winge - Instructor, University of Northern Iowa
- Lex Winter - Anime Anthropologist
- Dr. Wendy Suiyi Wong - Assistant Professor of Design, York University Toronto