Experience

Oxford Brookes University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reader of Anthropology

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Chair, Healthy Ageing & Care Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange networkMember of the Europe-Japan Research Centre, Centre for Environment and Society, and the Centre for Medical HumanitiesReaders are leaders. I lead innovative and externally recognized research and knowledge exchange activity; lead interdisciplinary/collaborative national and international peer reviewed funding bids; and take leadership of department research and knowledge exchange strategy. Readers serve. I teach undergraduates, advise post-graduate MA and PhD students, mentor junior staff and support professional development in international professional associations. It is a privilege to lead and serve, but ironically, it also means I have less time to actually 'read'.

• Senior Lecturer

  • Sep 2014 - Present



Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course

• President

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2018



Association for Anthropology and Gerontology

• Editor in Chief

  • Sep 2011 - Nov 2015

  Editor in Chief, Anthropology & Aging, open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly digital journal http://anthro-age.pitt.edu Editor in Chief, Anthropology & Aging, open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly digital journal http://anthro-age.pitt.edu



Kyoto University

• Japan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto UniversityResearch fellowship to conduct ethnographic investigation of cultural aspects of family caregiver stress and resilience Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto UniversityResearch fellowship to conduct ethnographic investigation of cultural aspects of family caregiver stress and resilience



Rhode Island College

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2014

  Department of Anthropology Department of Anthropology



University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-Doctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2008 - Apr 2011

  Collaborated on projects at the Center on Age & Community focused on using the arts to creatively engage with the older adults in the community; continued transcription, coding and analysis of qualitative data gathered during fieldwork in Japan; presented work at academic conference and guest lectures; Collaborated on projects at the Center on Age & Community focused on using the arts to creatively engage with the older adults in the community; continued transcription, coding and analysis of qualitative data gathered during fieldwork in Japan; presented work at academic conference and guest lectures;



UC San Diego

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer/ teaching assistant

  • Sep 2002 - Aug 2008

  Designed and taught "Introduction to Culture"; attended regular seminars on pedagogy and professional skills Designed and taught "Introduction to Culture"; attended regular seminars on pedagogy and professional skills



Antioch University Seattle

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Education Abroad Adjunct/Program Assistant

  • Sep 2007 - Jan 2008



California State University, Long Beach

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Feb 2007 - May 2007

  Taught upper division/post-graduate seminar in Department of Anthropology, "Culture and Aging" Taught upper division/post-graduate seminar in Department of Anthropology, "Culture and Aging"