Scott Miller - Curator Scott Miller, Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, is currently serving as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education-Honors. Professor Miller received his B.A. from BYU in comparative literature and his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton University. He was an associate professor of Japanese at Colgate University prior to joining the faculty at BYU in 1994. Professor Miller's research interests include nineteenth-century Japanese literature, oral narrative, early Japanese sound recordings and translation theory. His recent works include Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan (Palgrave, 2001) as well as Prolegomenon to the Intercultural Study of Self, a Japanese audio CD entitled "'Oppekepe' Restored: the Kawakami Troupe at the 1900 Paris Exposition," chapters in New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan and Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, as well as articles in Monumenta Nipponica, Oral Tradition, The Dictionary of Literary Biography and Artes. Top
Lee Butler - Curator Lee Butler is an independent scholar, a cultural, social, and art historian of Japan's medieval and early modern eras. His major work is a study of Japan's imperial court (Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal, Harvard 2002). He has also published work on medieval linguistics, women's writings, and most recently, Japan's late medieval bath (Monumenta Nipponica) and architectural patronage of the 17th to 19th centuries (Early Modern Japan). In addition to his scholarly work, Butler is a woodworker. He designed and built the shoji screens and standing lanterns that appear in the exhibit space. Butler was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004-2005. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Colby College, and the University of Alabama. Top
Shaun McMurdie - Exhibit Manager Shaun McMurdie has worked as the Exhibition Services Department Manager | Designer at the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library since 2001. Before coming to BYU, he worked as head of the Conservation Division at The Ohio Sate University William Oxley Thompson Library in Columbus, Ohio, as Conservation/Restoration department supervisor at Roswell Bookbinding in Phoenix, Arizona, and as the Collections Conservator at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been involved in the design and production of more than 40 library exhibitions and displays over the past ten years. McMurdie holds a B.A. in Humanities with an emphasis in foreign literature and international relations from BYU. He and his wife, Kristie, live in Spanish Fork, Utah, and are the parents of four children. Top
Mark Pollei - Department Chair of Conservation Mark Pollei began his post-graduate studies in Rare Book Conservation at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from Brigham Young University with a BA in Art History in 1992. He has worked as a Rare Book Conservator at the Houghton Library, at Harvard University, and completed an advanced rare book conservation internship at the Library of Congress in 1996. Presently, he is the Department Chair of the Rare Book Conservation Laboratory at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Top
Web Development Team
Eddy Yujra
Eddy is the web master in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU. He is a senior in Information Systems in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University.
2005.
Kendal Hunsaker
Kendal is a web developer for L. Tom Perry Special Collections. He is currently studying Information Systems in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University.
Brett Okelberry
Brett was a member of the Special Collections Web Development Team. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the Marriott
School of Business.
Alan Shirley
Alan was the Department Graphic Designer for L. Tom Perry Special Collections and the developer for this exhibit's Virtual Tour. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree
in History.
Nicholas Barrett
Nicholas was the web team project manager for Special Collections. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Information Systems Management at the Marriott School of Business. 2005.
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