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Ph.D.

Yes　Bachelor　Master　Doctor

Anthropology、Arctic Studies

19years00months

I am a social/cultural anthropologist specializing peoples in the Arctic. I lived in Alaska, USA for 18 years in total. My Ph.D. research explored the nature and structure of Inuit/Eskimo people's aethetic forms of expression, language endangerment, relations to the environment, their traditionality, and the meanings of tradition wrought by political, exonomic, and historical events in the Arctic. After completing a postodoctral fellowship at the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College in the U.S., I went back to Alaska and became a senior social scientist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence, a state government research agency in the U.S. As a social scientist, I was a principle investigator for numerous research projects about subsistence hunting and fishing, regional sustainability, wildlife management, and indigenous cultures and tradition. I was also responsible for negotiating regulatory issues with the federal and tribal governments as a representative of the state government. My current research interest is regional sustainability and sustainable development in the Arctic.

Research Interests

• Subsistence fishing and hunting among Native peoples in Alaska, USA
  keyword : Arctic, Alaska, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Central Yup'ik, Inupiat, Subsistence hunting /fishing, wildlife management, natural resource management, sustainable development
  2011.05～2025.03.
• Indigenous Dance in Alaska
  keyword : Arctic, Alaska, Eskimo/Inuit, subsistence hunting/fishing, expressive culture, tradition, endangered language
  2000.05～2025.03.

Current and Past Project

• Research on subsistence fishing and hunting in Alaska, USA.

Academic Activities Membership in Academic Society

• American Anthropological Association
• Alaska Anthropological Association
• International Arctic Social Sciences Association
• Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Other Educational Activities

• 2016.04.