Fieldwork Experience

Major projects, 2005-201

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

Comparison of older ex-offender resettlement and community-based organizations for reducing recidivism in Japan and the United Kingdom

Research Dates: 2018-2019
Funding Source: Social Science Research Council Abe Fellowship

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

Making Care Meaningful: Coherence, Worldview, and Burnout among Family Caregivers of Older Adults in Contemporary Urban Japan

 Research Dates: 2013-2015
Funding Source: Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellowship; John Templeton Foundation Enhancing Life Early Career Award; Oxford Brookes Faculty Research Grant
 

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

(photo credit Jason Danely, do not reproduce without permission)

"No Room for the Old or the Altar"?: Aging and Spirit Memorial in Contemporary Urban Japan

Research Dates: 2005-2014

Funding Sources: IIE Fulbright Grant, UC Pacific Rim Mini-Grant, UW Milwaukee Center on Age and Community Postdoctoral Fellowship

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academic appointments

Oxford Brookes University
2014-

Reader in Anthropology of Japan

Teaching

  • Health, Culture and Ecology

  • Ritual and Society

  • Anthropology in Practice

  • Culture and Care

  • Introduction to Japanese Culture and Society

  • Reading Contemporary Ethnography

  • Personhood, Gender and the Body in Japan

  • Minorities and Marginality: class and conflict in Japan

Rhode Island College
2011-2014

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliate of Gerontology
Member of the Institutional Review Board.

Teaching

  • Cultural Anthropology

  • Medical Anthropology

  • Anthropology of Religion

  • Anthropology of Aging