Toru Yamada
Associate Professor
School of Arts and Letters
Meiji University
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School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University
1-9-1 Eifuku, Suginami, Tokyo 168-8555 Japan
Education
Experience
Memberships
Fieldwork
EDUCATION
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii)
PhD [Anthropology] 2011
Committee Chair: Dr. Andrew Arno
Dissertation Title: Translating Power: The Fuzzy Path of Law from International Convention to Local Politics in Japan
Focus: cultural anthropology; linguistic anthropology; legal anthropology; human geography
University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan)
MA, 2002
Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan)
BA, 2000
Qinghai Normal University (Xining, China)
Visiting Research Fellow, 2009 - 2010
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Visiting Student, 1997-1998
EXPERIENCE
Meiji University (Tokyo, JAPAN)
School of Arts and Letters
- Associate Professor, 2018 - present
University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, JAPAN)
Global Commons/Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Assistant Professor, 2013 - 2018
Hosei University (Tokyo, JAPAN)
Research Center for International Japanese Studies
- Visiting Academic Researcher, 2012 - 2013
University of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Home Institution: Leeward Community College
- Lecturer, Fall 2012
ANTH 151: Emerging Humanity, ANTH 200: Cultural Anthropology
Cornell Law School (Ithaca, New York)
- Postdoctoral Associate, 2011 - 2012
Ethnic Power Relations Project [ETH Zurich and UCLA]
- Researcher, 2011
Municipal Government of Goto (Nagasaki, Japan)
- Researcher (Cultural Landscape), 2010 - 2011
Peking University (Peking, China)
- Visiting Scholar, 2008 - 2009
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Department of Anthropology
- Lecturer, 2007, 2010 (ANTH 483: Japanese Culture and Behavior)
- Graduate Assistant, 2006, 2011
Hawai'i Tokai International College (Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Adjunct Instructor, 2007, 2010 (GEOG 102: World Regional Geography)
University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan)
- Lecturer, 2007 - 2009 (Cultural Anthropology, Legal Anthropology)
- Graduate Assistant, 2002-2004
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES) 2002 (Tokyo, Japan)
- Computer System Assistant Manager
MEMBERSHIPS
- American Anthropological Association (2002 -)
- Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (2002 -)
- Japanese Association for Canadian Studies (2002 -)
FIELDWORK
- Goto, Nagasaki, Japan (2007 - 2008, 2010 - continuing)
- Xining, Qinghai Province, and Beijing, China (2008 - 2009, 2009 - 2010)
- Honolulu, Hawai'i (2003 - 2011)
- Northern British Columbia, Canada (2000 - 2002)
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