Basic Information

写真a

Hisako OMORI


Title

Associate Professor

Nationality

JAPAN

Research Fields, Keywords

religion, Japan, ethnography, Christianity, identity
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Academic Background (Undergraduate Level) 【 display / non-display 】

  • University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Specialist in Religion

    University, 2001/11, Graduated, CANADA

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Academic Background (Graduate Level) 【 display / non-display 】

  • McMaster University, Graduate School, Division of Social Sciences, Religion and the Social Sciences

    Doctor's Course, 2011/06, Completed, CANADA

  • McMaster University, Graduate School, Division of Social Sciences, Religion and the Social Sciences

    Master's Course, 2004/11, Completed, CANADA

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Professional Career On-Campus 【 display / non-display 】

  • Akita International University Faculty of International Liberal Arts Global Studies Program (Ryoiki), Associate Professor, 2021/04 -

  • Akita International University Institute for Promotion of Applied International Liberal Arts Education Acitve Learning Center Academic Career Support Center, Coordinator, Academic Career Support Center, 2015/09 -

  • Akita International University Faculty of International Liberal Arts Basic Education Social Science, Assistant Professor, 2015/09 - 2021/03

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Field of Expertise 【 display / non-display 】

  • Cultural anthropology

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Academic Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Eating Japanese food in diaspora as identity building: The case of a Japanese Canadian church, Contemporary Japan (p.1 - 14) , 2017/07, Hisako Omori

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351024, Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

  • Review Essay, On the Margin: The Power of Mary in Lived Religious Experience, Religious Studies Review, vol.37 (4) (p.241 - 248) , 2011/12, Hisako Omori

    DOI:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01547.x, Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

  • Creating Families: Tenrikyō Foster Homes in Japan, Japanese Studies, vol.36 (2) (p.213 - 229) , 2016/08, Hisako Omori

    DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2016.1213620, Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

  • Collective Experience of Political Violence as Identity: Conversion, Citizenship, and Religious Identities among Second Generation Japanese Canadians, Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, vol.45 (2) (p.183 - 200) , 2016/04, Hisako Omori

    DOI:10.1177/0008429816631972, Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

  • Private Faith: Social Memory, Gender, and the Roman Catholic Church in Contemporary Tokyo, Culture and Religion, vol.15 (1) (p.39 - 57) , 2014/03, Hisako　Omori

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.884011, Research paper (scientific journal), Single Author, English

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • From Situated Selves to the Self: Conversion and Personhood among Roman Catholics in Tokyo, State University of New York Press, 2020/05, Hisako Omori

    Scholarly Book, Single Author, English

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting , International Conference, 2021/11, Contested "True Homes": Child Welfare, Catholic Convent, and Families in Neoliberal Japan, Oral Presentation (general)

  • Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, International Conference, 2021/03, Child Welfare Residential Institution as Heterotopia: Paradoxical Relationships between the Body and Alternative Residential Care, Oral Presentation (general)

  • Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference 2019, International Conference, 2019/04, Becoming Stronger: Personhood and Agency among Roman Catholics in Tokyo, Oral Presentation (general)

  • Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) Biennial Conference 2019 Rethinking Child and Youth Marginalities: Movements, Narratives, and Exchanges, International Conference, 2019/03, Caregiving as Labor: Reciprocity and Trust at Children's Welfare Residential Institution in Japan, Oral Presentation (general)

  • Religious Pluralism and Encounter Between Europe and Asia: Transatlantic Perspectives, International Conference, 2014/10, A Case of Religious Pluralism?: Questioning Religious Identity among Japanese Canadian Nisei, Oral Presentation (general)

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On-Campus Classes/Subjects In Charge of 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2024, Fall, ANT300-1_F, Personhood and the Self: Anthropological Perspectives

  • 2024, Fall, CPS490-5_F, Capstone Seminar: AILA IV

  • 2024, Spring, SAR390-5_S, Study Abroad Reflection: AILA III

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