Doctoral Students
Yuri Yamasaki
Program: Anthropology and Education
Degree: Ph.D.
Previous Graduate Education: M.Ed., Tohoku University;
M.Ed. and M. Phil., Teachers College
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology; Japanese descendants in
Latin America; heritage language education; youth and popular culture
Geographical Interests: Latin America
Selected Publications, Presentations, Works-in-Progress:Yamasaki,
Y. (Article under review). Attitudes toward Heritage: heritage language learning
of Returnee Adolescents from Japan
at a Nikkei School
in Lima, Peru. Under review by Critical Asian Studies, as part of a
special issue project “Heritage, Nationhood, and Language: Cases of Diasporas
with Japanese Connections.”
Yamasaki, Y. (2007, November). Attitudes towards Heritage
Language Leaning: Japanese-Peruvian-schooled Youth in the Face of Language Loss
and Growing Transnational Migration. Paper presented at the 106th
Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.
Yamasaki, Y. (2007, March). Returnee Adolescents
from Japan and Heritage
Language education at a Japanese-Peruvian
School in Lima. Paper presented at the 67th Annual
Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, FL.
Yamasaki,
Y. (2007, February). Positions and Challenges of Returnees from Japan at a Japanese-Peruvian
School in Lima. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual
Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Yamasaki, Y. (2006, January). Being Nihon-Gaeri at a Japanese-Peruvian
School in Lima:
Positioning of the Returnees from Japan
and School Culture. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of
Intercultural Education Society of Japan, Osaka,
Japan.
