Dr. Nobuko Adachi
Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Office
Schroeder Hall - SCH SCH 382
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
400Independent Study In Anthropology
278Introduction To Asian America
294Japanese Society And Culture
Research Interests & Areas
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 Awards: ? 1) University Research Initiative Award, Illinois State University (2009) 2) The Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement, College of Art and Sciences (2007)
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
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. 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, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
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.
Book, Scholarly-New
Adachi, N. Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune: Children of Nature. Lexington (2017)
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)
Adachi, N. Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures. Routledge (2006)
Book, 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.
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.
Edited Other
Adachi, N. East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in the Global World. Encounters (2012)
Encyclopedia
Adachi, N. The Emigrants from Japan. Louis G. Perez (EDs), Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2013): 77-83.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
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.
Adachi, N. “Die Dynamik von Rasse und Ethnizität als Kategorisierungs- und Klassifizierungsprozess: Benennung. Rassenzuweisung und Ethnisierung in einer japanisch-brasilianischen Kommune". Polylog 30 (2013): 59-74.
Adachi, N. Ideology and the Social Structure of a Japanese Brazilian Commune. Encounters 3 (2012): 63-86.
Adachi, N. Vantage Theory Formulations of Ethnicities: The Case of Overseas Japanese. Language Science 32 (2010): 291-314.
Presentations
Back to the Mid-Twentieth Century Again: The Fear of DACA Children in Light of the Destroyed Lives of Japanese-Peruvians and Japanese Americans Under Times of Bad Political Decisions. American Anthropological Association. (2017)
Linguistic Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. (2017)
Migration, Media, and the Politics of Representation. American Anthropological Association. (2017)
“What did you just say?:” Gaijin, Nihon-jin, and Nihon no hito as Racial Markers in a Japanese Brazilian Commune.”. 96th Annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Soceity. Central States Anthropological Soceity. (2017)
“「でもそれ私達の母語ですが！」：日系ブラジル人コミュニティで話されている日本語 （“But It’s Our Mother Tongue!”: The Japanese Language Spoken in a Japanese Brazilian Community. To be presented at the organized session, “日系コミュニティと民族アイデンティティの変容過程の考察―日系組織、社会経済的水準、文化継承の視点から (Dynamicity of Japanese Community and Ethnic Identity: From the Issues off Nikkei Community as an Social Organization, the Socio-economic Level and Cultural Heritage)”. 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Migration Studies. (2017)
Becoming Aliens: A Case Study of Japanese Soldiers Who Were Detained in the USSR After World War II. 95th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. (2016)
Narrative of/by the Others. 95th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. (2016)
Alienated Again: Japanese Soldiers Detained in the USSR After World War II. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. the American Anthropological Association. (2015)
Nihon no hito, Nihon-jin, and Children of Nihon-jin: Metaphors used for New Ethnic Classifications in a Japanese Brazilian community. 94th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. the Central States Anthropological Society. (2015)
Why Be Children of Nature: The Location of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Global Soceity. Sociology and Anthropology Faculty talk. (2015)
Grants & Contracts
Harold K. Sage Fund. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2017)
The College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant. CAS. Illinois State University. (2017)
Research and Teaching Grants. Nihon University, Japan. Private.
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