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