Greg Dvorak

Greg Dvorak is a professor of history and culture in the Pacific and Asia based at Waseda University in Tokyo. Born in Philadelphia in 1973 and having spent his childhood in Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, later growing up in both the United States and Japan, he has resided in Tokyo for most of his adult life. Having done his MA at the University of Hawaiʻi and his PhD at the Australian National University, his work traverses these contradictory spaces of Japan, America, and Oceania and explores popular culture, gender, art, environment, and identity between these diverse contexts. He maintains a deep link with the Pacific Islands and collaborates with contemporary artists and scholars throughout Oceania as part of his grassroots initiative, PROJECT35 (read Project Sango), which uses the metaphor of coral to build respectful and equal creative networks to support decolonization, demilitarization, and climate change activism throughout the region. As part of this, he has advised the curatorial process of the Honolulu Biennial, the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo on Pacific history and contemporary culture.