last modified: August 26, 2008
Junji KOIZUMI
(Professor)
*2007.04-08 Director, GLOCOL
Education
- B.A., Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, 1973
- M.A., Sociology, University of Tokyo, 1975
- M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1977
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1981
Degrees
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1981
Posts
- Izaak Walton Killam Post-Doctoral Scholar and Sessional Lecturer, University of Alberta, 1981-82
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Aichi Prefectural University, 1982-87
- Associate Professor, Niigata University, 1987-90
- Associate Professor, Osaka University, 1990-96
- Professor, Osaka University, 1996-
- Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member, School of Social Science, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1996-1997
- Dean, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2004-06
- Advisor to the President, Osaka University, 2006-07
- Director, Global Collaboration Center, Osaka University, 2007
- Trustee and Vice President, Osaka University, 2007-2011
- Director, University Library, Osaka University, 2007-2011
Professional Activities
- Facilitator, World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA), 1995-
- Associate Member, Science Council of Japan (SCJ), 1996-
- Board , National Museum of Ethnology, 2000-
- Advisory Board, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2007-
- Board of Directors, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 1992-94, 1996-98, 2002-2006, Chair of the Committee for International Relations, 2003-06
- Board of Directors, Japanese Association of Latin American Studies, 2003-2006
Field of Research
- Anthropology and Latin American Studies, interpretive approach, ethnography of Central America, social and economic transformation, transnationality, international cooperation. He is the Leader of Global COE Program, “A Research Base for Conflict Studies in the Humanities,” Osaka University (2007-)
Keywords
- Interpretive Approach, Latin America, Guatemala, Geertz
Membership of Professional Associations
- Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Latin American Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Latin American Studies Asociation, The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publications and Presentations
Publications
- 2007 “Jissenteki Kenkyu no Susume: Ningenkagaku no Reality (Becoming a Practical Researcher: Realities in the Human Sciences)” co-edited with Kokichi Shimizu
- 2007 “Transnationality Kenkyu” Transnationality Studies co-edited with Eisei Kurimoto
- 2006 “Etnicidad y Estado nacional en Huehuetenango, Guatemala: el resultado de las elecciones y el problema del nacionalismo comunal,”El mundo maya: miradas japonesas, Ochiai, K., ed., UACSHUM (Unidad Academica de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), Mexico, pp.157-177
- 2005 “Pluralizing Anthropology,” Anthropology News 46(7):9
- 2003 Dynamics of Cultures and Systems in the Pacific Rim: Anthropological Studies, Osaka University Press
- 2003 “Economic Change and Cultural Constancy: Migrant Labor, Coffee Production and Communal Identity in Huehuetenango, Guatemala,” in Dynamics of Cultures and Systems in the Pacific Rim: Anthropological Studies, Koizumi, J., ed., Osaka University Press, pp. 243-272
- 1997 “Etnicidad del campo y ciudad: Indios y ladinos de Guatemala, ” JCAS Symposium Series 2, pp.281-287
- 1984 “Religious Change and Social Transformation: A Guatemalan Case,” Annals of Latin American Studies 4: 1-25
- 1982 “Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Cultural Process: An Analysis of Religious Conversion in a Guatemalan Village,” Southwestern Anthropological Association Newsletter, Vol. XXI, No. 2, pp. 2-4 (Winner, Best Student Paper Award, the 1981 Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Santa Barbara, California.)
- 1981 Symbol and Context: A Study of Self and Action in a Guatemalan Culture, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1981.
Presentations
- 2006 9th EASA Biennial Conference 2006, European Association of Social Anthropologists, September 18-21, Bristol, U.K.
- 2005 The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Inter-Congress 2005, Pardubice, Czech Republic, August 29- September 3
- 2005 Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropologia, Rosario, Argentina, July 11-15
- 2004 The Conference, ‘World Anthropologies: Strengthening the International Organization and Effectiveness of the Profession,’June 9-14, Recife, Brazil
Awards
- Membership Award, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1996-97
- Best Student Paper Award, South-western Anthropological Association, 1981
Other
koizumi7@glocol.osaka-u.ac.jp