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SMITH Nathaniel Michael

Department / Course College of International Relations Department of International Relations

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of International Relations

Academic background
1.	2011 Degree Acquisition	PhD, Anthropology (Yale University)
2.	2006 Degree Acquisition	MPhil, Anthropology (Yale University)
3.	2004 Degree Acquisition	MA, East Asian Studies (Yale University)
4.	2003 Degree Acquisition	MA, International Relations (Waseda University)
5.	2000 Degree Acquisition	BA, Foreign Language (Japanese and Spanish) (University of California, Riverside)
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Business career
1.	2021/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of International Relations Department of International Relations │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019 ～ 2021	Visiting Scholar │ Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies │ Waseda University
3.	2013 ～ 2021	Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology │ Department of East Asian Studies │ University of Arizona
4.	2011 ～ 2013	Japan Foundation Faculty Fellow in the Anthropology of Japan │ Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies │ University of California, Santa Barbara
5.	2007 ～ 2008	│ Institute of Social Science │ The University of Tokyo

Research activities
1.	2004 ～	American Anthropological Association
2.	2004 ～	Association for Asian Studies

Present specialized field
Cultural anthropology and folklore, Japanese history, Politics, Tourism studies, Area studies (Keyword：cultural anthropology,far right political activism,nationalism,social movements,civil society,urban studies,ethnicity,subculture,sound studies and visual culture,US-Japan relations)

Papers
1.	2020/01/02	Vigilante video: digital populism and anxious anonymity among Japan’s new netizens │ Critical Asian Studies │ 52 (1),pp.67-86 (Sole-authored)
2.	2018/12	Review (invited) of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima by Noriko Manabe New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 464 pp. │ American Anthropologist │ 120 (4),pp.863-864 (Sole-authored)
3.	2018/08/22	Fights on the Right: Social Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Postwar Cohorts of the Japanese Activist Right │ Social Science Japan Journal │ 21 (2),pp.235-257 (Sole-authored)
4.	2015/08	Review (invited) of Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. By Shawn Bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). │ The Journal of Asian Studies │ 74 (3),pp.749-750 (Sole-authored)
5.	2013/12/04	Facing the nation: Sound, fury, and public oratory among Japanese right-wing groups. In Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan (pp. 37-56). │ ,pp.37-56 (Sole-authored)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/09/09	Political Extremism in Japan (YCAPS Getting to Know Japan Webinar)
2.	2021/03	Kabukicho Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Online but previously scheduled for Seattle, WA.)
3.	2021/03	Panel organizer and chair: Managing Migration in Japan: Short-term Labor, Tourists, and International Students (Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. Online but previously scheduled for Seattle, WA.)
4.	2020/11	Constraint and Fulfillment for the Heisei Right (Webinar series, 'Reaction and Transformation.' Manchester University. Manchester, UK. (via Zoom))
5.	2020/08	Panel organizer and chair: The City Remade, the City Evaded: Transformations of Life in and Away from Urban Japan (Association for Asian Studies, AAS in Asia summer conference. Online but previously scheduled for Kobe, Japan.)
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2019/08 ～ 2020/07	Kabukicho Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Japan Foundation Japan Studies Long-term Research Fellowship

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0001-7238-0418