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Hisano Ai

Hisano Ai
Affiliation and department：
The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies

About The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies


Research field  (4)： History - General ,  History - Europe/America ,  History - General ,  Local studies
Research keywords  (12)： History of the Senses ,  Environmental History ,  History of Capitalism ,  文化史 ,  食文化 ,  産業史 ,  Gender ,  History of Technology ,  Business History ,  American Culture ,  American History ,  United States of America
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (15)：
  • 2024 - 2027 The Rise of Consumer Socicety and the transformation of aesthetics in the U.S.
  • 2022 - 2027 Global History of Industry Dynamics: Heterogeneity, Stability and Transformation
  • 2018 - 2022 The Development of Production and Marketing Strategies with the Five Senses
  • 2017 - Othmer Library Travel Grant
  • 2015 - 2015 Bassett-Ferguson Fellowship
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Papers (20)：
  • Ai Hisano. Working Like Goldfish: Emotional Labor and the Creation of Modern Consumer Culture in Japan, 1900s-1930s. Enterprise and Society. 2025. 1-28
  • Ai Hisano. The History of Taste and Smell: Industrialization and the Transformation of Sensory Experience. Journal of Taste and Smell Research. 2024
  • Ai Hisano, Greg de, St. Maurice. “The Food Industry: Technological, Organizational, and Locational Dynamic”. The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics. 2024
  • Ai Hisano. "Use Not Perfumery to Flavour Soup": The Science of the Senses in Aesthetic Capitalism. Capitalism and the Senses. 2023
  • Ai Hisano, Nathaniel Chapman. The ‘Wine Revolution’ in the United States, 1960-1980: Narratives and Category Creation. Business History. 2021
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Books (3)：
  • Understanding AI in society : how technology exerts power
    2023 ISBN:9784130530330
  • Shikakuka suru mikaku: Shoku wo irodoru shihonshugi [Visualizing Taste: Capitalism and a color of food]
    Iwanami Shoten 2021 ISBN:9784004319023
  • Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
    Harvard University Press 2019
Lectures and oral presentations  (38)：
  • "Design and the Senses: Creating Aesthetic Capitalism in the Mid-20th-Century United States"
    (European Business History Association 2024)
  • “Forging Aesthetic Capitalism: Sensory Alienation and the Emergence of Consumer Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States”
    (2023)
  • “‘Don’t Streamline Your Mother While I’m Gone’: Industrial Aesthetics in the Post-War United States”
    (Business History Conference, 2023)
  • "Modern Smile: Affective Labor and Japanese Department Store Restaurants, 1900s-1930s"
    (European Business History Association 2022)
  • "The Judgement of Modern Aesthetics: Creating the Science of the Senses in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States" (canceled)
    (American Historical Association 2022)
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Professional career (4)：
  • PhD (University of Delaware)
  • MA (University of Delaware)
  • MA (University of Tokyo)
  • BA (University of Tokyo)
Work history (4)：
  • 2021/04 - The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Associate Professor
  • 2017/07 - 2021/03 Kyoto University Graduate School of Economics Senior Lecturer
  • 2016/07 - 2017/06 Harvard Business School Harvard-Necomen Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2014/11 - 2015/05 Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship
Committee career (10)：
  • 2023 - 現在 Enterprise & Society Associate Editor
  • 2023 - 現在 Organization of American Historians International Committee
  • 2022 - 現在 The Japanese Association for American Studies Shimizu Hiroshi Award Selection Committee
  • 2021 - 現在 Routledge International Studies in Business History, Series Co-editor
  • 2020 - 現在 Journal of International Food Design Editorial Board
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Awards (4)：
  • 2020 - Japanese Association for American Studies Shimizu Hiroshi Prize (book award) Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
  • 2020 - Business History Conference Hagley Prize in Business History Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
  • 2017/03 - University of Delaware Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize (the best dissertation in the humanities)
  • 2017 - Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral Dissertation Award
Association Membership(s) (4)：
THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN HISTORY ,  BUSINESS HISTORY SOCIETY OF JAPAN ,  American Historical Association ,  European Business History Conference
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