Dr Chigusa Yamaura

Chigusa Yamaura is an Associate Professor in Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies and a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College. She is currently serving as the course director of the MPhil in Global and Area Studies programme. Prior to this, she taught in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Contemporary China Studies Programme. She was also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2015 to 2022. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University. 

Dr Yamaura’s research covers a wide range of subjects, including gender, cross-border marriage, life course expectations, motherhood, reproduction, childcare and fertility, as well as transnational migration, colonial memory, nationalism and transnationalism in East Asia.

She is the author of Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China (Cornell University Press, 2020) as well multiple journal articles. Her current project examines narratives of demographic crisis in contemporary Japan, exploring how such narratives manifest in various aspects of people’s lives, including women’s reproductive health, childcare provision and paternity leave policies.