Toru Yamada
Assistant Professor
International Student Center
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Link: in Japanese)
University of Tsukuba
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International Student Center
University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-8577 Japan
Education
Experience
Awards
Memberships
Fieldwork
EDUCATION
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
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
University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, JAPAN)
International Student Center, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Assistant Professor, 2013 - present
Hosei University (Tokyo, JAPAN)
Research Center for International Japanese Studies
- Visiting Academic Researcher, 2012 - 2013
University of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
Home Institution: Leeward Community College
- Lecturer, Fall 2012
ANTH 151: Emerging Humanity, ANTH 200: Cultural Anthropology
Cornell Law School (Ithaca, NY)
- 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, USA)
Department of Anthropology
- Lecturer, 2007, 2010 (ANTH 483: Japanese Culture and Behavior)
- Graduate Assistant, 2006, 2011
Hawai'i Tokai International College (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
- 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
AWARDS
- Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Travel Awards, 2010
- Law and Society Association 2009 Graduate Student Workshop Participant
- Takie Sugiyama Lebra Anthropology Scholarship, 2009-2010
- American Ethnological Society Graduate Student Travel Grants, 2009
- UH-Peking University Exchange Program, 2008-2009 (awarded by Peking University and University of Hawai'i)
- Dai Ho Chun Scholarship for International Students, 2007-2008 (awarded by Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity [SEED], University of Hawai'i)
- Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Awards, 2006 (awarded by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai'i)
- Japan Society for the Promotion Science (Doctoral Course 2) 2006 (one of 180 selected from approximately 1,000 applicants in Japan)
- Hayano Sasaki Scholarship, 2005-2006 (1) (awarded by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai'i)
- Student Affiliate, East-West Center, 2005-2007
- Pacific Asian Scholarship, 2005-2006 (awarded by Graduate Division, University of Hawai'i)
- Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship, 2003-2005 (2) (One of two selected from Japan, nationwide).
- Mitsubishi Trust Bank Yamamuro Memorial Scholarship, 1997-2000 (3) (one of two selected from 9,000 students in Ritsumeikan University)
MEMBERSHIPS
- American Anthropological Association (2002 -)
- Association of American Geographers (2008 -)
- Law and Society Association (2007 -)
- 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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