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Millie Creighton

University of British Columbia, Canada

Millie Creighton is an anthropologist, Japan specialist and Asianist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She was one of the founders of the Centre for Japanese Research at UBC and continues to work with it and on the Executive Board of the Centre for Korean Research. She has done extensive research in Japan on department stores, consumerism, tourism, popular culture, gender, minorities, work, leisure, and identity. She was awarded the Canon Prize for work on Japanese department stores showing how department store marketing reflected nostalgia and the search for community, tradition and cultural identity. Her research on the Seto Inland Sea art festival circuit explores domestic and international tourism within Japan, showing how tourism highlights art, architecture, nature, the environment, and sustainability, while being an attempt at sustaining rural communities amidst rural depopulation. She has been a long term researcher of the Korean Wave (aka Hallyu) involving Korean popular culture transnational flows, and was the President for Canada of WAHS, the World Association of Hallyu Studies. She has worked on mask traditions of Japan and Korea, and comparisons of these with Indigenous mask arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

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