Dr. Nobuko Adachi
Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
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SCH Schroeder Hall 348
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
485.001Advanced Study Of Asian America
287.004Independent Study In Anthropology
278.001Introduction To Asian America
294.001Japanese Society And Culture
143.001Unity And Diversity In Language
277.001Explorations in Language and Culture
342.001Sociolinguistics
442.001Sociolinguistics
308.001Voices of Global Japan
408.001Voices of Global Japan
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
Book Review
Adachi, N. Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. Pacific Affairs 93.4 (2020)
Adachi, N. Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 76.1 (2019): 193-196.
Adachi, N. Book Review of Multiethnic Korea?: Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea. American Ethnologist 43.3 (2016): 573-576.
Adachi, N. Book Review of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia. American Ethnologist 41.4 (2014): 782-783.
Adachi, N. Review of "Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan" by Taku Suzuki. Anthropos 107 (2012): 306-7.
Book, Authored
Stanlaw, J., Adachi, N., & Salzmann, Z. Turkish translation of Language, Culture, and Society, 7th ed. by James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann,. Mak Grup Medya Pro. Rek. Yay. A.S. (2023): 500.
Adachi, N. Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Children of Nature. Lexington (2017)
Adachi, N. Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad: Negotiating Identities in a Global World (2010)
Adachi, N. Japanīzu Diasupora: Uzumoreta Kako, Tōsō no Genzai, Futashikana Mirai. Shinsen-sha. (2008)
Ito, M., Adachi, N., & Stanlaw, J. “I’m Married to Your Company!:” Everyday Voices of Japanese Women [Onna no Serifu 12. Rowman & Littlefield (2007)
Book, Chapter
Adachi, N. Constructing Japanese Brazilian identity: from agrarian migrants to urban white-collar workers. Nobuko Adachi (EDs). Routledge (2006): 102-120.
Adachi, N. Introduction: theorizing Japanese diaspor. Routledge (2006): 1-22.
Adachi, N. Brazil: A Nation Created by Transnational Migrants. Maura Toro-Morn and Marixa Alicea (EDs), Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Greenwood Press (2004): 19-34.
Conference Proceeding
Adachi, N. Gender Roles, Women's Speech, and Ethnic and Community Boundaries in a Japanese-Brazilian Commun. S. Wertheim, Ashlee C. Bailey and Monica Corston-Oliver (EDs), Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women’s Language Conference. Berkeley Women and Language Group, University of California (1998): 1-12.
Encyclopedia
Adachi, N. Language and Diaspora. The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell (2021)
Adachi, N. The Emigrants from Japan. Louis G. Perez (EDs), Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2013): 77-83.
Journal Article
Adachi, N. 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. Nigel Parton and Christopher Dyer (EDs), Anthropological Reflections on Crisis and Disaster. Social Sciences 13.6 (2024)
Adachi, N. Signi.cance of the Nomaoi Festival after 3.11 in Fukushima: Enactment and Reenactment. the JAWS online series of Re/ections from Tōhoku. The Japan Anthropology Workshop (2021)
Adachi, N. Yellow Peril Redux: Vitalizing Pre-existing Racial Conditions with a New Symbol. Educational Reserach ad Development Journal 24.2 (2021): 29-51.
Adachi, N. “But It’s Our Mother Tongue!”: The Japanese Language Spoken in a Japanese Brazilian Community. Japanese Language and Literature (2015): 453-483.
Adachi, N. Japanese Brazilians: A Positive Ethnic Minority in a Racial Democracy. Studies on Asia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 4.No. 2 (2014): 31-73.
Textbook, Revised
Stanlaw, J., Adachi, N., & Salzmann, Z. Language, Culture, and Society: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 7th ed.. Westview Press (2017)
Salzmann, Z., Stanlaw, J., & Adachi, N. Language, Culture, and Society: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 6th ed.. Westview Press (2015)
Salzmann, Z., Stanlaw, J., & Adachi, N. Language, Culture, and Society, 5th ed.. Westview (2011): 448.
Presentations
Oral. Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies. (2025)
Diversity Among the Victims of the 3.11 Disaster: How Secondary Hazards Are Differentially Affecting Participants in the Nomaoi Ceremony. The Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Society for Applied Anthropology. (2024)
How Might a Cultural Practice Be Sustained?: Survival Strategies in the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Festival in Fukushima, Japan. Annual conference of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. (2024)
Kubo women's language. Bi/Multilingualism in the Japanese at the East Asian Studies (EAS). East Asian Studies (EAS), Emory University. (2024)
Talk. Japan Studies Event. University of Missouri-St. Louis. (2024)
Global Perspective, Japan. Global Perspectives, Multicultural Manners. College of Business, ISU. (2023)
Making Minorities: Fukushima Radiation Evacuees and a New Kind of Burakumin Caste in Japan. Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Society for Applied Anthropology. (2023)
Panel discussant. Annual meeting of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. (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. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. (2023)
The Secondary Hazards of the 3.11 Disaster at Fukushima: Shifting the Socio-Cultural Values of the Soma Nomaoi Cavalry Event. Midwest Japan Seminar. Midwest Japan. (2023)
Grants & Contracts
Research Fellowship (Short-Term). Japan Foundation. Other. (2019)
Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF). Research Grant Program. Illinois State University. (2019)
Global Engagement Learning Grant. Office of International Studies and Programs. Illinois State University. (2018)
Harold K. Sage Fund. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2018)
Multi-Ethnic Cultural and Co-Curricular Programming Advisory Committee. Dean of Students. Illinois State University. (2018)