Proficient Languages (other than Japanese)
Educational Background
1984 BA University of Wisconsin
1993 MA Columbia University, Teachers College
2001 PhD University of Arizona
Research Themes
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Studies
Risk and Social Theory
Education and Globalization
Courses Taught
- Cultural Anthropology
- Globalization of Education
- Global Studies
Academic Associations
- American Anthropological Association
- American Educational Research Association
- Comparative and International Education Society
- International Sociological Association
- Anthropology of Japan in Japan
Recent Publications
- Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: Migration, Language and Politics, K. Shimizu & W. S. Bradley, eds., Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014,.
- “Risk, Media and Japanese Young People,” In S. Bialostok, R.L. Whitman, and W.S. Bradley, eds., Education and the Risk Society: Theories, Discourse and Risk Identities in Education Contexts, pp. 265-278, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 2012.
- “The Critical Turn in Intercultural Communication: Critiquing Culture as Nation,” Ryukoku University Journal of Intercultural Communication, Volume 19, March 2015.