Dr. Nobuko Adachi
Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Office
Schroeder Hall - SCH SCH 382
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
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
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
Sabbatical
Illinois State University
2019
The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Scholars and Researchers
Government of Japan
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. 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, 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. 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)
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
The Japanese Language as Representation of Self: Ideology and Social, Cultural, and Economic Performativities. Asian Linguistic Anthropology. (2019)
Not Just Ethnicity, But Global Pressure: Cultural Maintenance of Japanese Transnational Migrants and their Descendants in Brazil. International Seminar Series. International Studies and Programs. (2018)
The March 11th Fukushima Evacuees and Intangible Cultural Assets: Using a 700 Year-old Cavalry Festival to Revitalize a Community and its Identity. 97th Annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Soceity. Central States Anthropological Soceity. (2018)
The Nomaoi Horse Festival After the Nuclear Accident in Fukushima, Japan: The Resistance, Adaptation, and Flexibility of Intangible Cultural Assets. American Anthropological Association. (2018)
They Came for Them, They’re Coming for Us, and Then They Will Come For You: The Fear of Today’s Transnational Migrants in the United States in Comparisons to the Experiences of Japanese Diaspora Communities in the Twentieth Century. Social, Ethnic, and Racial Boundaries on Campus and Community in the 21st Century. Ethnicity and Ethnography Laboratory and Research Center. (2018)
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)
Grants & Contracts
Research Fellowship (Short-Term). Japan Foundation. Federal. (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)
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