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 Education

• B.A., University of Kyoto, 1980
• M.A., University of Kyoto, 1982
• Ph.D., University of Kyoto, 1985

 Posts

• 1987-1992
  Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,
• 1992-1993
  Research Fellow, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
• 1993-2000
  Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
• 2000-2003
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
• 2001-2003
  Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
• 2003-present
  Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
• 2003-2005
  Visiting Professor, Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
• 2007-present
  Director, Osaka University Global Collaboration Center

 Academic Affiliations with Institutions in Africa

• 1978-1979, 1982-1986
  Research Associate, College of Social Sciences, University of Juba
• 1985
  Part-time Lecturer, College of Social Sciences, University of Juba
• 1988-1999
  Visiting Scholar, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University
• 2002, 2004
  Visiting Scholar, Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum
• 1998-present
  Member of the Board, Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), Cape Town

 Field of Research

• Social Anthropology, African Ethnography

 Research interest

• Since 1978 I have conducted anthropological fieldwork among two Nilotic speaking ethnic groups, namely the Pari and Anywaa (Anuak), in South Sudan and western Ethiopia. I have spent about six years in North East Africa, mostly in Sudan and Ethiopia, but also in Kenya and Uganda. In recent years my major interests are: civil war, ethnic conflict and inter-ethnic relations, refugee and IDP issues, state and society. Between 2000 and 2004 I worked as leader of a research project on forced migration in North East Africa and Great Lakes region, and since 2005 I have been working as leader of a research project on post-war reconstruction and peace-building in the Sudan.

 Keywords

• Civil War, Ethnic Conflict,Inter-Ethnic Relations, Refugee and IDP Issues, State and Society

 Membership of Professional Associations

• Japan Association for African Studies, Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

 Major Publications

• 2009 ‘Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma’, Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa, Volume II: Sudan, Uganda and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands, Gunther Schlee & Elizabeth E. Watson (eds.), Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.219-233.
• 2005 ’Resurgence in the Midst of Predicaments: Studies on North East Africa by Japanese Anthropologists, 1996-2005’. Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 5: 69-103.
• 2005　‘Multidimensional Impact of Refugees and Settlers in the Gambela Region, Western Ethiopia’, In Ohta, I. and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds), Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers and Their Host Population. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. Pp. 338-358.
• 2004 “Post-Conflict Peace-Building in Africa: The Expected and Unfilled Role of Area Studies.” In Masako Ishii and Jacqueline A. Siapno (eds), Between Knowledge and Commitment: Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Reconstruction in Regional Clntexts, JCAS Symposium Series 21. Osaka: JCAS, National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 21-30.
• 2002 Wendy James, Donald L. Donham, Eisei Kurimoto and Alessandro Triulzi (eds), Remapping Ethiopia (edited with). Oxford: James Currey, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, Athens: Ohio University press.
• 2002 ‘Fear & Anger: Female Versus Male Narratives among the Anywaa’. In James, W., D. Donham, E. Kurimoto and A. Triulzi (eds), Remapping Ethiopia, Oxford: James Currey, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, Athens: Ohio University Press, pp. 219-238.
• 2001 Kurimoto Eisei (ed.), Rewriting Africa: Toward a Renaissance or Collapse? Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology.
• 2001 ‘Introduction, Rewriting Africa: Toward Renaissance or Collapse?’. In Kurimoto Eisei (ed.), Rewriting Africa: Toward a Renaissance or Collapse? Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology. Pp. 1-9.
• 2001 ‘Capturing Modernity among the Anywaa of Western Ethiopia’. In Kurimoto Eisei (ed.), Rewriting Africa: Toward a Renaissance or Collapse? Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology. Pp. 263-280.
• 2000 ‘Nation-State, Empire, and Army: the Case of Meiji Japan’ In Umesao, Tadao, T. Fujitani and Eisei Kurimoto (eds), Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XVI: Nation-State and Empire, Senri Ethnological Studies no.51. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Pp. 95-110.
• 2000 Umesao Tadao, Kurimoto Eisei and Takashi Fujitani (eds), Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XVI: Nation-State and Empire. Senri Ethnological Studies 51 Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
• 1998　Eisei Kurimoto and Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition. Oxford: James Currey
• 1998 Simonse, Simon & Eisei Kurimoto, ‘Introduction’, Kurimoto, Eisei & Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa: Age Sustem in Transition. Oxford: James Currey, Nairobi: E. A. E. P., Kampala: Fountain Publishers, Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 1-28.
• 1998 ‘Resonance of Age Systems in Southeastern Sudan’. In Kurimoto, Eisei & Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa: Age Sustem in Transition. Oxford: James Currey, Nairobi: E. A. E. P., Kampala: Fountain Publishers, Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 29-50.
• 1997 ‘Poloticisation of Ethnicity in Gambella’, Fukui, Katsuyoshi, Eisei Kurimoto & Masayoshi Shigeta (eds), Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol.2, Kyoto: Shokado Book Sellers, pp. 798-815.
• 1997 Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto and Masayoshi Shigeta (eds), Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of theXIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, 3 vols. Kyoto: Shokado Book Sellers.
• 1996 　Shun Sato and Eisei Kurimoto (eds), Essays in Northeast African Studies. Senri Ethnological Studies 43. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
• 1996 ‘People of the River: Subsistence Economy of the Anywaa (Anyak) of Western Ethiopia’, Sato, Shun & Eisei Kurimoto (eds), Essays in Northeast African Studies, Senri Ethnological Studies no.43. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp.29-57.
• 1996 ‘New Year Hunting Ritual of the Pari: Elements of Hunting Culture among the Nilotes’, Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, nos 3-4, pp.25-38.

 Others

• kurimoto@glocol.osaka-u.ac.jp

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