2016 - 2019 Disaster Ethnographic Study of Reconfiguration of Societies after the 2015 Nepal Gorkha Earthquake
2013 - 2016 Standard Norms in Written Languages: Historical and Comparative Studies between East and West
2012 - 2015 A comparative ethnographic sotudies on changing social dynamics on "inclusion" in Nepal in the transitional phase
2009 - 2011 A Linguistic Anthropological Study on Distribution and transformation of Political Language in transitional Nepal
2009 - 2011 International Comparative Studies of Language Policy History
2007 - 2008 An Anthropological Study of the Rise of the Maoist Movement and Its Influence over Local Communities in Nepal : Facing the Period of Polity Change
2002 - 2006 文化資源の生成と利用
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Papers (35):
Katsuo Nawa. Coping with Discourses on Minority Populations among the Rang of Far Western Nepal. International Quarterly for Asian Studies. 2023. 54. 3. 237-257
Kharel, Dipesh, Katsuo Nawa. From Temporary Shelter to Bhukampa Ghar (Earthquake Home): Building and Dwelling in Post-Earthquake Alampu, Dolakha. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 2023. 28. 1. 103-139
Katsuo Nawa. Beyond Critical Analyses of the Aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 2022. 27. 1. 213-224
Katsuo Nawa. Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology, Indexicality, and Japanese Sociocultural Anthropology. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology. 2020. 84. 4. 431-442
Katsuo Nawa. [book review] Judith Pettigrew, 2013, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES. 2015. 12. 2. 239-241
NAWA Katsuo. [Book Review] Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Gerard Toffin, eds. 2011. The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas: Local Attachments and Boundary Dynamics; Marie Lecomte-Tilouine. 2009. Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 2014. 48. 2. 296-300
Catalogue of the Japan-Nepal Society Collection owned by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo 2013 ISBN:9784903235240
Nepal, Byans oyobi Shuhenchiiki ni okeru Girei to Shakaihanchuni kansuru Minzokushiteki Kenkyu: Mouhitotuno ‘Kindai’no Fuchi (An Ethnographic Study on Rituals and Social Categories of Byans, Nepal and Adjacent Regions: Another Constellation of 'Modernity'
Sangensha 2002 ISBN:488303092X
Lectures and oral presentations (54):
Changing Imagination of Rang ‘Villages’: Geographical Knowledge, Belonging, Connectedness, and New Modes of Representation
(Workshop "Knowledge on the Move: Connectivities, Frontiers, Translations in Asia", Zoom (co-organized by TINDAS, IAGS, ASNET, DESK, EAA, the University of Tokyo; IAAW, Humboldt University Berlin; Shaping Asia project) 2021)
Coping with Discourses on Minority Populations among the Rang of Far Western Nepal: Nation, Scheduled Tribe, Janajati, and Indigeneity
(Friday colloquium, Google Meet (hosted by Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal) 2020)
Changing pattern of transnational population movement from Byans, Far Western Nepal
(Risk and Cooperation: the Fourth International Symposium on Himalayan Studies (Zoom) 2020)
Undertaking Research on Transnational, Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Issues
(Tribhuvan University International Conference "Internationalization of University Education", Hotel Himalaya, Lalitpur 2019)
Why There Has Been No U-Tokyo School of Cultural Anthropology in Post-World War II Japan: Focusing on Two 1.5 Generation U-Tokyo Anthropologists Working on Asia
(Conference "Global Asian in Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Sustainability, Security, and Governance", Nanyang Technological University 2018)
The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
, American Anthropological Association
, Royal Anthropological Institute
, Japanese Society for South Asian Studies
, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology