August 13, 2021 1 Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, Emory University 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: (404) 727-4467 | Fax: (404) 727-2860 | Email: [email protected] AREAS OF INTEREST Cross-cultural studies of mental well-being, subjectivity, loneliness, suicide, empathy, qualitative studies of contemplative practices, Japanese Naikan practice, religious and spiritual healing EDUCATION 2001 D. Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford Dissertation: From Religion to Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Naikan Practice in Japan 1996 M.A. in Sociology of Culture with distinction (summa cum laude) University of Essex Dissertation: Forget Turner? Questioning the Current Disputes in the Sociology of the Body 1995 B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology, cum laude Sophia University, Japan 1991 Studies in German and Philosophy Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Emory University 2003-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Emory University 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies University of Chicago 2000-2001 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Social Medicine Harvard University ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS 2021-present Core Faculty, Center for Mind, Brain and Culture Emory University 2020-present Core Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Program Emory University 2020-present Advisory Committee, Cener for Mind, Brain and Culture Emory University August 13, 2021 2 2017-present Associated Faculty, Graduate Division of Religion Emory University 2008-present Affiliated Faculty, Center for Mind, Brain and Culture Emory University 2008-present Associated Faculty, Institute of Liberal Arts Emory University 2007-present Associated Faculty, East Asian Studies Program Emory University 2006-present Faculty, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program Emory University 2005-present Affiliated Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Program Emory University 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters Keio University, Japan PUBLICATIONS Books 2021 (forthcoming in December). The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006. Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan: The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan. London: Routledge. —Nominated for the 2007 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, for a book judged to have made the most significant contribution in the previous year to the anthropology of East Asia —Paperback Edition published in 2009 Special Issue Editor 2020. Toward an Anthropology of Loneliness. Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(5). Co-edited with Michelle Parsons. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (in English) 2020. “Toward an Anthropology of Loneliness.” Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(5): 613-22. Co-authored with Michelle Parsons. 2020. “In the Eyes of Others: Loneliness and Relational Meaning of Life among Japanese College Students.” Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(5): 623-34. 2014. “Tibetan Medicine for Cancer: An Overview and Review of Case Studies.” Integrative Cancer Therapies. 13(6): 502-12. Co-author. 2014. “Mindfulness of the Kindness of Others: The Contemplative Practice of Naikan in Cultural Context.” Transcultural Psychiatry. 52(4): 524-42. August 13, 2021 3 2011. “Mind/Body Theory and Practice in Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism.” Body & Society. 17(1): 95-119. Co-authored with Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. 2010. “Shared Death: Self, Sociality and Internet Group Suicide in Japan.” Transcultural Psychiatry. 47(3): 392- 418. 2010. “Secularizing Religious Practices: A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 49(1): 147-61. Co-authored with Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. 2008. “Too Lonely To Die Alone: Internet Suicide Pacts and Existential Suffering in Japan.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 32(4): 516-55. 2007. “Demystifying Japanese Therapy: An Analysis of Naikan and the Ajase Complex Through Buddhist Thought.” Ethos. 35(4): 411-46. 2002. “Beyond the Body/Mind? Japanese Contemporary Thinkers on Alternative Sociologies of the Body.” Body & Society. 8(2): 21-38. — Ranked as the 9th most cited article in the history of Body & Society. 1996. “Japanese Indigenous Psychologies: Concepts of Mental Illness in Light of Different Cultural Epistemologies.” British Medical Anthropology Review. 3(2): 11-21. Chapters in Books Forthcoming. “Addressing Moral Injury through Contemplative Practice: The Functions of Sacred Space, Cultural Resilience, and the Re-formation of Autobiography.” In The International Handbook of Practical Theology, edited by Birgit Weyel, Wilhelm Gräb, Emmanuel Lartey, and Cas Wepener. Berlin: de Gruyter. Co-authored with Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. 2018. “Stand By Me: The Fear of Solitary Death and the Need for Social Bonds in Contemporary Japan.” In Death & Afterlife, edited by Candy K. Cann, 85-95. London: Routledge. 2017. “Japanese Contemplative Practice of Naikan.” In Asian Healing Traditions in Counseling and Psychotherapy, edited by Roy Moodley, Ted Lo, and Na Zhu, 159-71. California: Sage Publisher. Co-authored with Yoshihiko Miki. 2015. “The Hidden Gaze and the Self that is Seen: Reflections of a Japanese Anthropologist.” In Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture, edited by Philip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong, 216-31. Illinois: Waveland. 2014. “Hatsumōde, the Visitation of Shinto Shrines: Religion and Culture in the Japanese Context.” In Religion as a Social Determinant of Health, edited by Ellen Idler, 71-6. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. “Seeking to Escape the Suffering of Existence: Internet Suicide in Japan.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter J. Brown and Ron Barrett, 246-58. Mountain View: Mayfield. Journal Articles in Japanese and Non Peer-Reviewed Articles 2017.「若者の自殺から見える生存的苦悩」[“Existential Suffering and Suicide among Youth”]. Clinical Psychology. 17(4): 568-9. August 13, 2021 4 2016.「文化から人を捉える：洞察力と臨機応変な判断」[“Understanding Human Beings through Culture: Insights and Flexible Case-by-Case Judgments”]. Clinical Psychology. 16(3): 327. 1999.「神経症、心身症に対する内観療法の効果と理解」[“The Efficacy of Naikan Therapy on Neurosis and Psychosomatic Illness”]. Annual Research Report of the Okamoto Foundation of Mental Health. 61-65. 1998.「肌で実感する内観」[“Understanding Naikan through the Body”]. Yasuragi. 47. 1998. “On the Possibility of a Postcolonial Anthropology: Reflections on Taussig,” Sophia International Review. 20: 11-20. Co-authored with John Clammer. Book Reviews 2015. A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan (2013 Cornell University Press) by Karen Nakamura. Ethos. 43(1): 9-11. 2002. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999 Zone Books) by Shigehisa Kuriyama. Anthropology & Medicine 9(1): 67-9. 2002. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (1997 University of California Press) by Helen Hardacre. Anthropology & Medicine. 9(1): 65-7. 2001. Social Suffering (1997 University of California Press) edited by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock. Anthropology & Medicine 8(2-3): 289-90. Book Blurbs Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism (forthcoming Cornell University Press) by Sara Lewis. Question Your Life: Naikan Self-Reflection and the Transformation of our Stories (2017 ToDo Institute) by Gregg Krech. FIELD RESEARCH AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2017-present “Effects of Higher Education and Contemplative Interventions in Incarcerated Settings” Co-Investigator 2004-present Research on Tibetan Medicine, including a month-long visit to the Tibetan Medical Institute in Dharamsala, India (June 2009) In collaboration with Dr. Pema Dorjee, Tibetan physician 2014-2015 Ethnographic research on cognitively-based compassion training Funded by the Mind & Life Institute and the Templeton Foundation 2011-2012 Ethnographic fieldwork in Japan: Resilience, meaning in life, and suicide in Japan 2003,2009,2011 Follow-up trips to Japan for research on Naikan 2009 Ethnographic fieldwork in Japan: Suicide, suicide prevention, the “worth of living” (ikigai) and notions of afterlife among Japanese youth August 13, 2021 5 2003-2007 Web-based ethnographic research project on Japanese suicide Internet sites 2001 Ethnographic research trip to Austrian Naikan centers 1997-1998 Ethnographic fieldwork on Naikan therapy in Japan GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2021-2022 URC (The University Research Committee) ($25,500) Emory Univerisity “Toward an Anthropology of Loneiness, Resilience and Happiness” 2021 CMB 2021 Summer Seed Money/Stipend ($3000) Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) CMB (Culture, Mind and Brain) Network “Intimacy and Marriage Among Women in Japan” 2021 CMB 2021 Summer Seed Money/Stipend ($3000) Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) CMB (Culture, Mind and Brain) Network “Individual Differences of Resilience and Transformation Through Practice” 2020 Media Competency/Best Practices and Curricular Development Project ($2500) Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) CMB (Culture, Mind and Brain) Network 2018 The Second Book Grant ($3000) Emory East Asian Study Program 2017 The Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund ($2500) The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence 2014 Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship ($40,000) 2013-2014 Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan ($50,400) National Endowment