Yuka Mizutani

Profile Information

Affiliation: 上智大学グローバル教育センター准教授

Degree: Ph.D (Area Studies)(Mar, 2009 Sophia University)

Researcher number: 90568453
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901069016141532

My academic backgrounds are cultural anthropology, ethnic studies (Native American studies), and North American area studies. My research forcuses on contemporary issues surrounding indigenous people in the Americas and the Pacific, as well as impacts of geographical boundaries on lives of local communities.

Major Research History

Apr, 2015 - Present

Sophia University Center for Global Education and Discovery Associate Professor
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

Sophia University Assistant Professor, Center for Global Discovery

Research Areas

Research Interests

Major Books and Other Publications

[In Japanese] La frontera como un espacio de encutentro entre México y Estados Unidos (Monografías Latinoamericanas 28) (The US-Mexico borderland as a space for encounter, Latin American monograph series 28)

MIZUTANI Yuka ed(Role: Editor, Society of the current US-Mexico borderland pp.3-43)

Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University Mar, 2019 (ISBN: 9784904704196)
[In Japanese] Integration of the Pascua Yaqui into the United States: Border Crossing and the Federal Recognition

MIZUTANI Yuka

Hokkaido University Press ISBN: 978-4-8329-6746-5 Mar, 2012
[In Japanese] Tradición y modernización en la población indígena en la zona fronteriza entre México y Estados Unidos : el caso del pueblo indígena Pascua Yaqui

MIZUTANI Yuka

Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University Mar, 2006

Major Papers

Geographical Boundaries and Exhibition: Presenting the Environment and Culture at the Waikīkī Aquarium

Yuka Mizutani

Japan Border Review 10 23 - 43 Mar 31, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Native American Underrepresentation in International Education

MIZUTANI Yuka

The Journal of American and Canadian Studies 36 63 - 86 Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Indigenous People and Research Facilities for Space Science in the U.S.: Some ideas for Outreach, Conflict Resolution, and Prevention

MIZUTANI Yuka

Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan ists30 Po_5_1 - Po_5_6 Feb, 2016 Peer-reviewed

Major Misc.

(Book Review) Sledge, John S., The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2019), 243p.

Yuka Mizutani

Iberoamericana 42(1) 61 - 65 Jan 25, 2021
(Article) Issues on Latin American Migrants to the U.S.: Public Opinions and Policies in the U.S. (in Japanese)

MIZUTANI Yuka

Información Latinoamericana 1424 4 - 7 Oct, 2018 Invited
(Article) Indigenous People and the Border: Indigenous People on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland Today (in Japanese)

MIZUTANI Yuka

Gekkan chiri (in Japanese) Vol.739 61(12) 73 - 79 Nov, 2016 Invited

Major Presentations

Issues of globalized world surrounding the Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous people on the US-Mexico borderlands under COVID-19 pandemic

Yuka Mizutani

Lecture series of Iberoamerican Institute of Sophia University, "Learning from Indigenous people in Latin America: Creating the post pandemic world." Dec 7, 2020 Iberoamerican Institute of Sophia University Invited
Learning from Communities at the Margins of National Territories

Yuka Mizutani

Public lecture at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of American Studies Feb 20, 2020 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program and the Department of American Studies Invited
Fake News on the US Mexico Borderland and the Yaqui People from the 19th Century to the 20th Century

MIZUTANI Yuka

Association for Borderlands Studies Apr 27, 2019 Association for Borderlands Studies