Dr. Nobuko Adachi
Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 348
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
ANT 277.001 Explorations in Language and Culture
ANT 307.001 Japanese Diasporas, Culture & Identity
ANT 407.001 Japanese Diasporas, Culture, and Identity
ANT 342.001 Sociolinguistics
ANT 442.001 Sociolinguistics
Teaching Interests & Areas
Nobuko Adachi is an anthropologist specializing in linguistics, diaspora studies, Disaster Studies and ethnohistory. Classes Taught: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology; Introduction to Asian America; Japanese Diaspora, Culture, and Identity; Principles of Ethnology; General Anthropology; Japanese Communicative Strategies; Japanese Society and Culture; The Japanese Way of Life; The Geography of Japanese Emigration
Research Interests & Areas
Disaster Studies: Cultural Sustainability and Impacts of Acute-fast disaster vs. Chronic-slow diaster, and Asian American studies; diaspora theory; transnational migrations in cultural, political, and economic contexts (especially Japanese immigration to the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Peru), Japanese and Koreans in the former USSR; race and racism, ethnic identity; minorities, justice, and injustice; sociolinguistics (language and power, language change, language death and language maintenance, language shift, pidgins, code-switching, foreigner talk, bilingualism
Post-Doc
University of Florida - Center for Latin American Studies
Gainesville, FL
Ph D Anthropology
University of Toronto
Toronto, CA
MA Anthropology
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
BA International Relations
Nihon University
Japan
Outstanding Colleage Researcher in Social Sciences
College of Art and Sciences, Illinois State University
2020
Sabbatical
Illinois State University
2019
The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Scholars and Researchers
Japan Foundation
2019
Sabbatical
2012
University Research Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2009
The Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement
College of Art and Sciences, Illinois State University
2007
Rockefeller Residential Fellowship
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville
2000
Grants and Contracts
Research Fellowship (Short-Term)
Nobuko Adachi.
Japan Foundation. June 7 2019 - August 4 2019
Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF)
Nobuko Adachi.
Research Grant Program. June 2019 - August 14 2019
Global Engagement Learning Grant
Nobuko Adachi.
Office of International Studies and Programs. February 17 2018 - February 17 2018
Harold K. Sage Fund
Nobuko Adachi.
Illinois State University. February 9 2018 - February 10 2018
Multi-Ethnic Cultural and Co-Curricular Programming Advisory Committee
Nobuko Adachi.
Dean of Students. February 9 2018 - February 10 2018
The College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant
Nobuko Adachi.
CAS. February 9 2018 - February 10 2018
Research and Teaching Grants
Nobuko Adachi.
Nihon University, Japan. - 2014
Book Review
Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020
Nobuko Adachi.
(2025), Asian American History and Culture
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas
Nobuko Adachi.
(2020), 93, Pacific Affairs
Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
(2019), 76, 193-196, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History
Book Review of Multiethnic Korea?: Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea
Nobuko Adachi.
(2016), 43, 573-576, American Ethnologist
Book Review of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia
Nobuko Adachi.
(2014), 41, 782-783, American Ethnologist
Review of "Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan" by Taku Suzuki
Nobuko Adachi.
(2012), 107, 306-7, Anthropos
Book, Authored
Turkish translation of Language, Culture, and Society, 7th ed. by James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann,
James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann.
(2023), 500, Mak Grup Medya Pro. Rek. Yay. A.S.
Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Children of Nature
Nobuko Adachi.
(2017), Lexington
Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad: Negotiating Identities in a Global World
Nobuko Adachi.
(2010)
Japanīzu Diasupora: Uzumoreta Kako, Tōsō no Genzai, Futashikana Mirai
Nobuko Adachi.
(2008), Shinsen-sha.
“I’m Married to Your Company!:” Everyday Voices of Japanese Women [Onna no Serifu 12
Masako Ito, Nobuko Adachi, James Stanlaw.
(2007), Rowman & Littlefield
Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures
Nobuko Adachi.
(2006), Routledge
Book, Chapter
Chapter 6: Linguistic Anthropology in a Globalized World
Zdenek Salzmann, James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi.
(2022), 2263-273, Readings in Cultural Anthropology in the Contemporary World
Constructing Japanese Brazilian identity: from agrarian migrants to urban white-collar workers
Nobuko Adachi.
(2006), 102-120, Routledge
Introduction: theorizing Japanese diaspor
Nobuko Adachi.
(2006), 1-22, Routledge
Brazil: A Nation Created by Transnational Migrants
Nobuko Adachi.
(2004), 19-34, Migration and Immigration: A Global View, Greenwood Press
Structural Violence and Discrimination Following the 2011 Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Migration and Justice, World Scientific Publishing
Conference Proceeding
Gender Roles, Women's Speech, and Ethnic and Community Boundaries in a Japanese-Brazilian Commun
Nobuko Adachi.
Berkeley Women and Language Group, University of California, 1-12, (1998)
Encyclopedia
Language and Diaspora
Nobuko Adachi.
Wiley-Blackwell, (2021)
The Emigrants from Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
ABC-CLIO, 77-83, (2013)
Journal Article
Social and Cultural Hazards, From the 3.11 Disaster Through Today’s Global Warming: Shifting Conceptions of the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Event in Fukushima, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Social Sciences, 13 (6), (2024), 10.3390/socsci13060302
Signi.cance of the Nomaoi Festival after 3.11 in Fukushima: Enactment and Reenactment
Nobuko Adachi.
The Japan Anthropology Workshop, (2021)
Yellow Peril Redux: Vitalizing Pre-existing Racial Conditions with a New Symbol
Nobuko Adachi.
Educational Reserach ad Development Journal, 24 (2), 29-51, (2021)
“But It’s Our Mother Tongue!”: The Japanese Language Spoken in a Japanese Brazilian Community
Nobuko Adachi.
Japanese Language and Literature, 453-483, (2015)
Japanese Brazilians: A Positive Ethnic Minority in a Racial Democracy
Nobuko Adachi.
Studies on Asia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 4 (No. 2), 31-73, (2014)
“Die Dynamik von Rasse und Ethnizität als Kategorisierungs- und Klassifizierungsprozess: Benennung. Rassenzuweisung und Ethnisierung in einer japanisch-brasilianischen Kommune"
Nobuko Adachi.
Polylog, 30, 59-74, (2013)
Ideology and the Social Structure of a Japanese Brazilian Commune
Nobuko Adachi.
Encounters, 3, 63-86, (2012)
Vantage Theory Formulations of Ethnicities: The Case of Overseas Japanese
Nobuko Adachi.
Language Science, 32, 291-314, (2010)
Racial Journeys: The Japanese-Peruvians in Peru, the United States, and Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Japan Focus, (2007)
Japonês: A Marker of Social Class or a Key Term in the Discourse of Race?
Nobuko Adachi.
Latin American Perspectives, 31 (3), 48-76, (2004)
2002 The Negotiation of Speech Style in Japanese Women’s Language: Vantage Theory as Cognitive Sociolinguistic
Nobuko Adachi.
Language Science, 24 (5/6), 575-590, (2002)
Japanese Brazilians: The Japanese Language Communities in Brazil
Nobuko Adachi.
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 31 (1), 161-178, (2001)
“Shiki ariki Nōhon-shugi (子規ありき農本主義): Reconsiderations of the Haiku Canon by Japanese- Brazilian Farm Poets”
Nobuko Adachi.
Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Lierary Studies, 1, 305-327, (2000)
Japanese Voices in the Brazilian Forest: Cultural Maintenance and Reformed Ethnic Identity in a Transplanted Community
Nobuko Adachi.
World Communication, 28 (2), 68-82, (1999)
Racial Journeys: The Japanese-Peruvians in Peru, the United States, and Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus/Cambridge University Press
Other
ISU Professor: Xenophobia Against Asian Americans Has Grown Strenger
Nobuko Adachi.
(2021)
Voices of people of Asian Diaspora Today
Nobuko Adachi.
VOICES: The ABC News website and social media, (2021)
East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in the Global World
Nobuko Adachi.
Encounters, (3), (2012)
Presentations
Wonderful, Wonder-full, Hanji-e: Omoshiroi/O-mo-shiroi (面白い／尾も白い)!
Nobuko Adachi.
Japanese traditional game workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, April 9, 2026
Disasters and Cultural Sustainability: The Role of Horses in the Soma Nomaoi Event in Fukushima, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
The 74th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 11, 2025
The Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Event in the Post-3.11 Era: The Significance of Sustainability of an Intangible Cultural Asset in Fukushima in a Period of Chronic-Disaster
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Columbus, Ohio, March, 2025
Talk
Nobuko Adachi.
Japan Studies Event, St. Louis, MO 63121-4400, September 26, 2024
How Might a Cultural Practice Be Sustained?: Survival Strategies in the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Festival in Fukushima, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual conference of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, September 15, 2024
Diversity Among the Victims of the 3.11 Disaster: How Secondary Hazards Are Differentially Affecting Participants in the Nomaoi Ceremony
Nobuko Adachi.
The Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, March 30, 2024
Kubo women's language
Nobuko Adachi.
Bi/Multilingualism in the Japanese at the East Asian Studies (EAS), Atlanta, Emory University, February 29, 2024
Global Perspective, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Global Perspectives, Multicultural Manners, Normal, IL, November 9, 2023
The Secondary Hazards of the 3.11 Disaster at Fukushima: Shifting the Socio-Cultural Values of the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Event
Nobuko Adachi.
Midwest Japan Seminar, Urbana-Champaign, IL, September 30, 2023
Panel discussant
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual meeting of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Urbana-Champaign, IL, September 29, 2023
Social Aftershocks and Shifting Cultural Values Following the Fukushima, Japan, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster: A Thousand-year-old Samurai Ceremony Becomes a Tourist Horse Festival
Nobuko Adachi.
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Urbana-Champaign, IL, September 29, 2023
Making Minorities: Fukushima Radiation Evacuees and a New Kind of Burakumin Caste in Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Cincinnati, OH, March 29, 2023
Visible and Invisible Racial Minorities in Response to Social and Political Contexts
Nobuko Adachi.
The Annual meeting of the Soceity for Applied Anthropology, Cincinnati., March 29, 2023
Discrimination and Rumor After the March 11, 2011, Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: Ten years of Unsettling Landscapes for the Victims
Nobuko Adachi.
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 9, 2022
A New Type of Burakumin-Minority in Japan?: The Formation and Institutionalization of a New Type of Radiation Victim from Fukushima
Nobuko Adachi.
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Lawrence, Kansas, September, 2022
presentation
Nobuko Adachi.
American Anthropological Association, Baltimore, MD, November 20, 2021
America Meets East Asia: Mayonnaise and Tabasco in the Sushi
Nobuko Adachi, James M Stanlaw.
Breaking Bread in McLean County, https://us02web.zoom.us/w/82917293113?tk=l1woZmRZR_ttexSGbfyTjiPXJxLMOp9ijI1ydj1pjc8.DQMAAAATTkF8ORZ2X0hjTjE5WFNXQ2JET2hHUEM4TzJBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=VkJFZE8rVHpLRFA2TnpaVFhiZmozUT09, October 12, 2021
Yellow Peril Redux: Re-examining Racial Assaults Toward Asians in Diaspora during the COVID Pandemic
Nobuko Adachi.
The SOA Research Series, https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/92549342050?pwd=cWo1SXdXdFhMQXd1Wm5JdHgwNmREZz09, February 19, 2021
Yellow Peril Redux: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Fostering Racial Discrimination Toward Asian Americans
Nobuko Adachi.
Racialisation and Social Boundary Making in Times of COVID-19, Amsterdam, December 3, 2020
Attitudes Toward Asians in Diaspora During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responsibility, and Truth and Consequences
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 18, 2020
Responsibility, Truth, and Humanitarianism During a Crisis: From 3.11 to COVID-19 in Soma, Fukushima, Japan
Nobuko Adachi.
Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 18, 2020
Attitudes Toward Asians in Diaspora Curing the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nobuko Adachi.
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Online, October 17, 2020
Regional Politics, Local Identity, and National Religion: The Shinto Nomaoi Cavalry Festival after the Fukushima Disaster
Nobuko Adachi.
World Quinquennial Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, https://www.iahr2020.kiwi, August 23, 2020
When minorities keep their mouths closed: The case of people of Japanese descent in various parts of the world
Nobuko Adachi.
The Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Warrensburg, Missouri, March 28, 2020
A Conflict of Regional Politics and Local Identity: The Shinto Nomaoi Cavalry Festival after the Fukushima Disaster
Nobuko Adachi.
The Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Warrensburg, Missouri, March 27, 2020