Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish

Affiliation

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Official title

Assistant Professor

Research fields

Sociology of education

Area studies

Cultural anthropology

Research keywords

conflict discourse

Sino-Tibetan borderlands

ethnicity and nationalism

preferential policies

anthropology of education

anthropology of policy

China

Career history

2013-04 -- 2015-03	Chuo University Policy Studies Visiting Assistant Professor
2015-04 -- 2016-10	National Museum of Ethnology Visiting Researcher
2016-10 -- (current)	University of Tsukuba Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor

Academic background

-- 2012-08

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Anthropology

Completed

Degree

2012-08

Ph.D (Anthropology)

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Academic societies

2013 -- (current)	Association for the Anthropology of Policy
2009 -- (current)	Council on Anthropology and Education
2009 -- (current)	Society for East Asian Anthropology
2007 -- (current)	American Anthropological Association

Articles

• Ethnographic Contributions to School-Based Research
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Indigenous Education: Pacific Nations/pp.300-309, 2009
• Systemic Culture Shock: Meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan Plateau
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands/pp.81-86, 2015
• Navigating the Sanyu: English as a Tool for Success in a Confucian Meritocratic Imaginary
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts/pp.71-84, 2016
• From Free to Fee: Neoliberalising Preferential Policy Measures for Minority Education in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences/8(3)/pp.82-99, 2015

Books

• K-12 Education in Hawai‘i
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Area Studies Series: Hawaii, pp.232-236, 2013

Conference, etc.

• Error Prediction of Japanese First-Language Spkeakers: Some Similarities Between English and Chinese
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  The Second CEGLOC Conference on Language Education/2018-12--2018-12
• Lamarck or Darwin? Reframing Concepts in the Second Language Classroom
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Tsukuba Global Science Week/2018-09--2018-09
• The Ambiguous Spaces of Ethnic Policy: Official Discourse and Lived Experiences in Qinghai
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Association for Asian Studies 2019 Annual Conference/2019-03--2019-03
• The Anthropology of Doubt
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Conflict discourse and political imagination: the anthropology of Andrew Arno/2018-03-09--2018-03-09
• Ethnographic Contributions to School-Based Research
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  International Conference on Indigenous Education/2009
• All-you-can-eat Natural and Organic Restaurants in Japan: Chic Eats, Global Movements, and Local Farms
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  American Ethnological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society Joint Conference/2009
• Aspects of Social Identity in Educational Institutions: Ethnographic Approaches
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences/2009
• One Veil and Two Notions of Tradition: the Exceptional Relic, the Inclusionary Present
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Veiled Constellations conference/2010
• A Shifting Means to a Constant End: Prep School in Western China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association/2010
• Preferential Policies in China: Discourses of Development and Neutrality in College Preparatory Classes
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars/2011
• Dialectics and Tautologies: Preferential Policies and Educational Rationale in Northwest China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Space, Place and the Production of Knowledge Conference/2011
• Education as Tautology: Institutional Discourse and Preferential Policy Measures in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association/2011
• Addressing the ‘Real Situation’ (shiji qingkuang): Preparatory Courses for Ethnic Minority Students in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  American Ethnological Society Conference/2012
• From Free to Fee: Neoliberalizing Preferential Policy Measures for Minority Education in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association/2013
• Minorities in Higher Education in China: Neoliberal Interlocutions and the Outcomes of Policy
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences/2014
• A Policy-Rule Chiasmus: Positive Policies in China and in the US for Minority Enrollment in Higher Education
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association/2014
• Moral Education Methodologies: Making Use of Exemplars in Western China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference/2016
• Benefiting the People: Differently-Understood Policy Discourses in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association/2016
• Nagasaki: Catholic Tradition and Regional Interpretation
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Philosophy Department Invited Talk, Capital Normal University/2008
• On Epistemological Foundations of Minority Preparatory Programs for Higher Education in the PRC
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Philosophy Department Invited Talk, Capital Normal University/2010
• Systemic Culture Shock: Learning to Access Information in the Field
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Post-fieldwork presentation series/2010
• Education as Tautology: Institutional Discourse and Preferential Policy Measures in China
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Cornell Anthropology Graduate Student Association Ethnography Workshop/2011
• Preferential Policies in China: Education, Discourse and Contradictions
  Yamada Naomi Charity Furnish
  Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University/2012

Teaching

2019-10 -- 2019-12	English Writing I	University of Tsukuba.
2019-10 -- 2020-02	English Writing II	University of Tsukuba.
2019-10 -- 2020-02	English Reading Skills II	University of Tsukuba.
2019-10 -- 2020-02	English Presentation II	University of Tsukuba.
2018-10 -- 2018-12	English Writing I	University of Tsukuba.
2018-10 -- 2019-02	English Presentation II	University of Tsukuba.
2018-10 -- 2019-02	English Intercultural Communication II	University of Tsukuba.
2018-10 -- 2019-02	English Integrated Skills II	University of Tsukuba.
2018-04 -- 2018-06	English Presentation I	University of Tsukuba.
2018-04 -- 2018-08	English Writing II	University of Tsukuba.

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University Management

2018-03 -- (current)

FD Committee

FD Committee member

Other activities

2019-02 -- (current)

Reviewer: Studies in Higher Education (Francis and Taylor)

(Last updated: 2019-10-17)