Mark Winchester's writing in Japanese has been published in Shiso (Iwanami), Gendai Shiso (Seidosha), Impaction (Impact Publishers), and elsewhere. In English, at Japan Focus (The Asia-Pacific Journal) and in Japan Forum (Routledge). He is the translator of the Japanese edition of Richard Siddle's Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan, co-editor of Ainu minzoku hiteiron ni kō suru (Against Theories of Ainu Ethnic/National Denial), Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2015. He is co-author of Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Bridging Social Division, (Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata, Joel Matthews eds., Routledge: CRC Press) and Idō to iu keiken: Nihon ni okeru 'imin' kenkyū no kadai (Experiences in Motion: New Agendas for 'Migration Studies' in Japan), Tokyo: Yūshindō, 2013. 


Having studied at the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS), The University of Sheffield, he completed masters and doctoral degrees in the Global Issues Program at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. He has 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, and is currently Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology. His research concerns modern and contemporary Ainu intellectual history.