were accused of rape but ultimately found innocent. The backlash from the letter led to the disclosure that Allison and other Duke members of the anthropology department were reprimanded in 2003 by Provost Peter Lange for misuse of university funds in 2003 for the publication of a political ad. In 2007, during the Duke controversy, Allison offered a course entitled “Hook-Up Culture at Duke” which professed to examine what “the lacrosse scandal tell[s] us about power, difference, and raced, classed, gendered and sexed normativity in the U.S.” She was criticized for offering this course, given that facts made public in the case had already established that the lacrosse team was innocent of all charges. “For Group members,” wrote the authors of a book on the rape scandal, “pretending that a rape had occurred was apparently preferable to facing the facts.” The National Review reported that when “an engineering professor saw the syllabus” for the “Hook-Up” course and asked about it, Allison was irritated. “'The very query seemed hostile. I mean, I'm not asking him about his class,' she told The Chronicle of Higher Education.” Books Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994) Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1995) Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (2006) Precarious Japan (2013) References External links Allison's faculty page at Duke Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American anthropologists American anthropology writers Anthropology educators Psychological anthropologists American Japanologists American women anthropologists University of Illinois Chicago alumni University of Chicago alumni Duke University faculty Anime and manga critics Women orientalists American women academics 21st-century American women