Mizutani Yuka

ミズタニユカ | Mizutani Yuka

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Other affiliations (1)：

Sophia University Graduate School of Global Studies Master's Program in international Cooperation Studies Professor

Homepage URL (2)： https://researchmap.jp/yukamizutani , https://researchmap.jp/yukamizutani?lang=en

Research field (3)： Cultural anthropology and folklore , Local studies , Local studies

Research keywords (18)： Community , Representation , Exhibition , Museum , History , Culture , Collaboration , Area Studies , Minority , Ethnicity , Cultural Anthropology , Area , Environment , Boundary , Indigenous peoples , Latin America , Indigenous , United States of America

Research theme for competitive and other funds (14)：

2023 - 2027 米国領内の先住民コミュニティによるアクセスが困難な場の文化や記憶の表象と継承
2023 - 2026 Collaborative Research Project of Iberoamerican Institute of Sophia University, "Reconsidering Independence of Latin American Countries"
2022 - 2025 上智大学 2022年度海外大学とのオンライン交流授業(COIL導入科目)支援金
2019 - 2025 Socio-cultural interaction in the U.S.-Mexico border region including the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
2014 - 2023 Collaborative Research Project of Iberoamerican Institute of Sophia University, "Trans-border Latin American Studies" 1-3

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Papers (9)：

Yuka Mizutani. Promotion of Gastronomic Traditions in the Sonoran Desert and Changes in the Representation of the US-Mexico Borderlands. The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 2022. 33. 87-108
Yuka Mizutani. (in Japanese) Borderlands between the Ocean and the Land in Hawai‘i : Analysis through Issues of Natural Environment, Surfing, and Homelessness in Waikīkī. Japan Border Review. 2021. 11. 19-42
Yuka Mizutani. (in Japanese) Geographical Boundaries and Exhibition: Presenting the Environment and Culture at the Waikīkī Aquarium. Japan Border Review. 2020. 10. 23-43
MIZUTANI Yuka. Native American Underrepresentation in International Education. The Journal of American and Canadian Studies. 2019. 36. 63-86
MIZUTANI Yuka. Issues on Latin American Migrants to the U.S.: Public Opinions and Policies in the U.S. (in Japanese). Información Latinoamericana. 2018. 1424. 4-7

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MISC (24)：

MIZUTANI Yuka. (Book Review) Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska by Chie Sakakibara. The Journal of American and Canadian Studies. 2022. 39. 65-68
MIZUTANI Yuka. (Book Review) Sledge, John S., The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2019), 243p. Iberoamericana. 2021. 42. 1. 61-65
MIZUTANI Yuka. (Other article) What is COIL?. FD News, Faculty Development Committee, Sophia University. 2019. 2. 2
MIZUTANI Yuka. (Report) Rethinking Native American Food Sovereignty: A Multidisciplinary Research about Cases in Southern Arizona (in Japanese). Report of granted research and activities 2017, The Mitsubishi Foundation. 2018. 82-83
MIZUTANI Yuka. (Book review) Reconsidering the Establishment of American Indian "Tribes" in the U.S. (Book review of "California Indian History: From the Invisible to Federally Recognized Tribe" by Kumiko Noguchi). The Journal of American and Canadian Studies. 2017. 34. 65-69

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Books (17)：

Migration in Latin America: Its Causes, Characteristics, and Impacts (Latin America Monograph Series No. 31)
Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University 2024 ISBN:9784904704264
Practicing Global Education: Approaches from Various Disciplines
Sophia University Press 2023 ISBN:9784324112663
(In Japanese) Jinrui gakusha ha ibunka wo dou taiken shitaka: 16 no field kara ([tentative translation] How anthropologists experienced the foreign cultures: from 16 fields)
Minerva Shobo 2021 ISBN:9784623091621
(In Japanese) Gendai chiseigaku jiten (The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics)
Maruzen Publishing co. 2020 ISBN:9784621304631
(In Japanese) Hokubei kenkyu nyumon 2: "Nashionaru" to mukiau (Introduction to North American Studies 2: A Critical Re-examination of “National”)
Sophia University Press 2019 ISBN:9784324107171

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Lectures and oral presentations (66)：

Regaining Cultural and Historical Narratives in a Foreign Country: Rethinking Roles of Native American Crafts at Resale Markets in Japan
(Organization of American Historians, 2024 Conference on American History 2024)
Migration of Indigenous people at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(Symposium "Migration of people in Latin America" (as a part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2023) 2023)
Rethinking the Area Studies by the Analysis of the Natural Resource Development at Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii
(The 120th Lunch Time Free Talk of the Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University 2023)
The corals nurtured in the ocean connected to the environment on the land: A comparison between the cases in Ginowan and in Hawaii
(The public lecture at Ginowan City Museum 2023)
Book talk of Practicing Global Education: Approaches from Various Disciplines (Sophia University Press, 2023)
(The 59th meeting of Japan Comparative Education Society 2023)

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Works (25)：

COIL collaboration with foreign institutions
2018 - 現在
(Exhibition about research) Ecopro 2023 (as a part of Institute for Studies of the Global Environment of Sophia University)
Yuka Mizutani 2023 - 2023
(シンポジウム)COIL国際シンポジウム「人間の安全保障と多文化共生に係る課題発見型国際協働オンライン学習プログラム」総合司会
水谷裕佳 2022 -
(Interpretation) "Dr. Isabel Cobb: A Cherokee Citizen Physician In Between Indian Territory and Oklahoma Statehood" by Dr. Farina King
Speaker: Farina King, Interpreter: Yuka Mizutani 2022 -
(Symposium) Sophia University Interdisciplinary Environmental Forum, Moderator (May 10, 2019)
MIZUTANI Yuka 2019 -

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Education (5)：

2006 - 2009 University of California, Berkeley Visiting Scholar, Department of Ethnic Studies
2009 - 2009 Ph.D. in Area Studies (Sophia University)
2005 - 2008 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Graduate Program in Area Studies (Doctoral Program)
2003 - 2005 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Graduate Program in Area Studies (Master's Program)
1999 - 2003 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of Hispanic Studies

Professional career (1)：

Ph.D (Area Studies) (Sophia University)

Work history (14)：

2022/04 - 現在 Sophia University Center for Global Education and Discovery Professor
2022/04 - 現在 Sophia University Graduate School of Global Studies Master's Program in international Cooperation Studies Professor
2021/04 - 2022/03 Sophia University Graduate School of Global Studies, Program in International Cooperation Studies Associate Professor
2015/04 - 2022/03 Sophia University Center for Global Education and Discovery Associate Professor
2019/09 - 2020/03 Visiting scholar, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (Fulbright Scholar Program)

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Committee career (6)：

2021/04 - 現在 Iberoamericana by Iberoamerican Insisute, Sophia University Chief editor
2024/04 - 2026/03 The Faculty Qualification Screening Committee of Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia University Member
2023/04 - 2025/03 Sophia University, Self-Inspection and Self-Assessment Committee Member
2022/04 - 2024/03 Sophia University, Student Exchange Committee Member
2021/04 - 2023/03 Sophia University, Faculty Development Committee Member

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Awards (4)：

2016/10 - Sophia University Teaching Award for Good Practice (Spring 2016)
2012/11 - Japan Consortium for Area Studies Budding Project Integration of the Pascua Yaqui into the United States: Border Crossing and the Federal Recognition
2004/12 - Sophia University Teilhard de Chardin Scholarship Essay Award, Silver Prize
2004/11 - National Latina/o Psychological Association Student Scholarship Award

Association Membership(s) (5)：

The Japanese Association for American Studies , The Japan Association for Latin American Studies , The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology , Native American and Indigenous Studies Association , Association for Borderlands Studies

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