横塚 志乃

Shino is a PhD candidate and a lecturer in the Department of Global Governance, Human Security, and Conflict Resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As of October 1, 2023, Shino started her new role as an Associate Professor at Kumamoto University.　

Shino’s research interests include religious freedom, minority rights, civil resistance, and conflict analysis. Shino is particularly interested in religious minorities and their rights. She has recently published her research, “Embracing Religious Freedom?: A Battle Over Public School Prayer in USA and Japan” in the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion by the Oxford University Press. Shino also contributed writing one of the chapters for the Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation (2022): Chapter 4 Cultural Humility in Intercultural Mediation and several other publications.