Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a former director, and current director of graduate studies, of the Center for Japanese Studies, and a faculty associate in the Science, Society and Technology Program, among others. Robertson earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1985, where she also earned a B.A. in the History of Art in 1975. The author of several books and over seventy articles, her new book, Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Eugenics, and Posthuman Aesthetics, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. http://www.jenniferrobertson.info/
