Members - GLA

American Studies, U.S. cultural history, U.S.-East Asian relations, women's/gender/sexuality studies, musical cultures

Comparative and International Education, International Higher Education, Education and International Development

Comparative and International Education, South Asian Studies, International Development

Visual Anthropology, Filmmaking, Global Migration, and Media, Society and Culture

Language education, lexicography, translation

Chemical Biology

history of architecture, landscape and urbanism

Language, Communication

History of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, global intellectual history, and historical memory

Sociology / Writing studies / ESL

I’m interested in understanding how humans manage to make sense of their environments and to deal with them (especially, issues on decision making, problem solving, causal reasoning, memory). Being a philosopher by training, I try my best to keep my research and teaching informed by both social and natural sciences.

Comparative Literature & Writing Studies

Heterogeneous catalysis

Anthropology

International avant-garde and modernist literature and art,
Practices and politics of attention,
Media and game studies

rhetoric and composition, prose style, multimodal composition, rhetorical grammar, English for Academic Purposes

Folklore and heritage studies, cultural sustainability, racial and social justice, global migration processes, food studies

Critical sociolinguistics; Discourse analysis; Language and gender; Language, education, and migration

Antarctic oceanography; climate

Food Science;
Biosphere Resource Science & Technology

Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurolinguistics

computational materials chemistry,critical discourse and writing studies

Environmental Sustainability & Human Well Being

Analytic Philosophy,
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Sociolinguistics

My research is broadly related to the efficient use of natural resources in architectural design and urban planning. I am particularly interested in the design of a sustainable and resilient built environment to provide users with comfort while respecting their cultural background and reducing their environmental impact. Currently, my research focuses on three areas in particular: The impact of energy prices on energy accessibility for low-income families, which is related to energy poverty; the dynamic interaction between humans and their thermal environment through the development of adaptive comfort models; the impact of climate change on building energy demand.

Biomedical Sciences

Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development
Decolonial and Equitable Systems Design
Social Justice & Transformative Practice

Language, Literacy, and Culture

Japanese Philosophy

Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Sciences

Biology, second language acquisition,
corpus linguistics

historical geography, legal history,
information literacy

International relations

Migration Studies, Transnationalism, Lifelong Learning, Immigrant Empowerment, Brazilian Immigrants in Japan

Intercultural Communication; Intercultural Relations; Cross-Cultural Adjustment