Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics, Japanese Politics, Media and Politics

Professor Freeman joined the department in 1996 after spending a year at Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Her current research interests concern comparative politics with an emphasis on the press and politics of Japan, and the role of the media in comparative perspective. Professor Freeman was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study the Internet and development of civil society in Japan in 2000-01, and is currently writing a book on information technology and democracy in comparative perspective.

During the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Freeman will be a Visiting Professor in International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley.

Courses Taught:

PS 105	Theories of Comparative Politics
PS 135	Government and the Politics of Japan
PS 171	Politics and Communication
PS 286	Seminar in Japanese Politics

Selected Recent Publications:
Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media, Princeton University Press, 2000.

"Media," in U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World, Stephen Vogel, ed. (Brookings Institution Press, 2002).

"Mobilizing and Demobilizing the Japanese Public Sphere: Mass Media and the Internet in the Development of Civil Society in Japan," in The State of Civil Society in Japan, Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2003).