Students/Researchers

PhD completed

Rieko TANAKA Cuba (+South Korea, Japan) / Anthropology of musical practice (learning, education, performance, creation) [Researchmap]. PhD project concluded in Februrary 2019 with the dissertation, Music as ‘I live’―Daily Experience of ‘Cuban Art Music’ in Havana. My summery of this dissertation is available: (in Japanese] [Google-translated into English].

Aya UDAGAWA Argentina and Israel / Text, migration, religion, self, Jews [Researchmap] ; PhD project concluded in June 2018 with the dissertation, Life and Quest among Secular Jews in Argentina. My summery of this dissertation is available: (in Japanese] [Google-translated into English].

Ryuju SATOMI Solomon Islands (Malaita Is.) / Landscape, nature, economy, becoming, history. PhD project concluded in December 2014 with the dissertation, Our Life That Can Be Otherwise: An Ethnography of the Present-day Maritime Dwelling among the Asi or Lau in North Malaita, Solomon Islands. My summery of this dissertation is available: [in Japanese] [Google-translated into English]

Kiyomi DOI Spain, Walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela / Tourism, body, place, wandering. PhD project concluded in December 2013 with the dissertation, Life-in-between: An ethnographic study of traveling on foot to Santiago de Compostela. My summery of this dissertation is available: [in Japanese] [Google-translated into English]

Haruko INOIE Morocco / Childbirth, medical development, body image [Researchmap]

Tomoko NIWA China (Shaanxi, etc.), Sanriku Disaster Area / Paper cutting, contemporary art, expression, ethnographic film, exhibition [Researchmap]

Keiji IDETA Thailand (+Japan, U.K.) / Ballet, Thai dance, learning, (body) image

Tomohiro IKEDA Spain (Barcelona) / Social movements, economic crisis, law

Irina GRIGORE Aomori and Tokyo / Shishimai, avant-garde dance, body, ethnographic film

Zhao CHEN China / landscape design

Shu FUJITA Peru / Gastronomy, food culture, nature, art, science and technology, senses, fact

Yusuke OMURA Laos / Sexuality, queer, images

Maki KITAGAWA Japan / Environment, electricity, ethnographic film

Goro KAWAMURA Spain and Japan / Soccer, passion, affect, management

Researchers in Visit / in Collaboration (present and past)

Alberto GEROSA (Chinese University of Hong Kong）Hong Kong, Japan /social movement, dreams, filmmaking

Yuna UMEDA (Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital) Medicine, medical body image, hospital organization, illness/disease

Former Students/Collaborating Researchers

Nicolas PINET (Université Paris-Diderot) Japan, France, USA, Chile / Non-institutionalized political practices

Becca VOELCKER (Harvard University) Experimental filmmaking; Film and philosophy [ personal website ]

Yeong Ran KIM South Korea / Moving, migrating, expressive culture, image, queer