My book has arrived #Japan #Anthropology #Shugendo #Buddhism #Shinto

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Working through final proofs #Japan

Happy to announce I’ll be an Assistant Professor of Anthropology with the University of Calgary from Aug. 1!

Anyone else watch “Hot Spot” ( #Japan #Netflix show)? Hilarious but very subtle!

Very grateful to everyone for getting us to 22K followers - thanks, all! We're proud to call Bluesky our new social media home. If you love what we do, share this to help us spread the word about the Japan you don't learn about in anime.

Pre-order here! #Japan

Now available for pre-order! #japan

Now available for pre-order! #japan

Coming Fall 2025 w/ @uncpress Kudos to @adriancox108 for the photograph. Excited to share this with the world #japan #visitjapan #japanstyle #japanlife #buddhism #mountains #mountain #cooljapan

Hi everyone - I’m seeking a new role beginning July 1, 2025. Budget cuts have led to the termination of my position & I would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities, please send me a message or comment below 🌎 I’m open to roles in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

Early reviews for my book, “The Secret World of Shugendo: Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan,” (UNC Press) are coming in. Written over the course of 12 years. Expected to hit the shelves Fall 2025.

I love my new stamp.

Happy Setsubun!

I’ve come to really enjoy the experience of exam invigilation. It’s a special kind of quiet in the class on exam day, a deep meditation students experience as they process everything you’ve taught them. Connecting the dots into constellations, forming a paradigm/worldview of their own.

Final revisions are in. What a rush!

Is the hardest part about writing a book letting it go?

The holidays will be spent writing…. but the glory will be great when the book arrives.

After the marathon of teaching comes the “body shutdown”: The illnesses that waited, like snakes coiled in the grass while you taught all semester, timing their attack the moment you submit final grades.

One of the final steps in editing a manuscript is to change all the “more recently” sections into a general past tense … …because a decade or more may have passed since you first wrote that line.

Amor Fati

I’m starting to really enjoy final exam season as an instructor. Some students have the most expressive faces when they are thinking!

Wrapped up my last class on Western Civ with a small reminder … You Are Here

remember the reason for the season

T’is the season:

I’ve literally had this comment in my course evals from when I taught “The Buddhist Tradition.”

I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

So it begins … I expect it is already possible to train AI with all of the texts related to religious figures of the past. Is there already an AI Buddha?

Is there a treaty related to the land where you now live? I live in Treaty 7.

Are you teaching Popular Culture? If so, what are your most popular assignments?

Hello! 👋 I’m an archaeologist who studies the last 5,000 years of human history across eastern North America! I work primarily in the American Southeast, from Southern Appalachia to the Coast, on Ancestral Muskogean, Spanish Colonial, and Gullah-Geechee #archaeology!

Some students submitted a petition protesting my effort to invigilate their assignment (to prevent AI use). The petition was itself written by AI…

The snow has fallen. 3 more weeks of teaching. The final push! I’ve been teaching “Western Civilization” this term. It’s been a trip! Students resonated well with the VR experience in the class!

Looking for your next read? Check out these new releases 📚⤵️ And don't forget you can save 30% during our holiday sale with code 01UNCP30 at checkout ❄️ uncpressblog.com/2024/11/19/n...

Not sure I've ever witnessed more anticipation for an edited volume than for this one, which is finally out as of yesterday. I suspect it'll make a splash... uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/oceani...

On the way to Chavin de Huantar in #Peru in 2007. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav%C3... #Archaeology #Christianity

The Mormon Temple in Cardston, Alberta (population: 3700)

About 1.5 hours drive from where I live is a magical place called “Waterton National Park.” It’s so beautiful. Wouldn’t it be awesome to host a conference here? 😎

Any other profs out there moonlighting as a Judo coach?

A saitōgoma ceremony led by a Shintō #yamabushi (mountain ascetic) from #Japan on a beach in Watangi Bay, New Zealand. #日本研究 #NZ #anthrosky @calebscarter.bsky.social @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social @jolyonbt.bsky.social @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social @justinbstein.bsky.social

Publishing job alert. Help our authors shine www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/405...

Job Opening: Tenured Associate Professor of Japanese Religious Culture and Thought. www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/...

I also co-edit a new book series @uncpress.bsky.social called InterConnections: The Global 20th Century with the fabulous team of @juliairwin.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social and @dgershenowitz.bsky.social uncpress.org/series/inter...

I made a Japanese Studies starter pack! Film, literature, sociology, history, cultural studies, translation, academic and academic-adjacent. Please reply if you want to be added (or removed)! go.bsky.app/AXJLiEA

Thinking about MA or PhD programs in film/media studies? Come study with us! We've got fantastic faculty, students & facilities. Do consider applying and find more info below! Here: www.concordia.ca/finearts/cin... And funding info here: www.concordia.ca/finearts/cin...

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Do you study sutra in #Buddhism? Check out my article on the politics of contemporary sutra recitation (esp. the Heart Sutra) among mountain ascetics in northeastern #Japan. pwj.shin-ibs.edu/2023/7084

Gotta love open access! Check out this book – add to your syllabi where possible.

👇 an interview on our recent edited volume, for anyone interested the book is open-access and available for download here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...