Having studied at the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS), The University of Sheffield, I completed masters and doctoral degrees in the Global Issues Program at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. I have taught as a Junior Fellow at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi, been a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship and taught as a lecturer at the Research Institute for Japanese Studies, Kanda University of International Studies. an Associate Fellow at the National Ainu Museum. I am currently Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology. My research concerns modern and contemporary Ainu intellectual history.