| JENNIFER MCGUIRE |  |
| The Institute for the Liberal Arts | |
| Associate Professor |
Last Updated :2024/05/23
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Jennifer M. McGuire completed her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her research and teaching interests include deaf education, sign language acquisition, disability media studies, and the academic and social inclusion of children/youth with disabilities. Currently, she is working on a project that examines Sign language interpreter training in Japan.
Research Interests
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Qualitative methods/Ethnography
- Special needs education
- Sign language studies
- Deaf education
- Anthropology of Education
- Deaf Studies
Research Areas
- Other / Other / Deaf anthropology
- Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore
- Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics
- Life sciences / Applied anthropology
- Humanities & social sciences / Special needs education
Education
- University of Oxford, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, Anthropology, - 2018/03
- University of Oxford, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, Social Anthropology, - 2011/10
Degree
Association Memberships
- American Anthropological Association (AA)
- Japan Society for Disability Studies
- European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)
- Oxford University Anthropological Society (OUAS)
- Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)
- Society for Disablity Studies (SDS)
Committee Memberships
- Editorial Committee, 2019/06 - Today, Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Newsletter, Society
- Preparatory Committee, 2019/12 - 2022/09, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) 14, Others
Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award
Sep. 2021, Doshisha University, Institute for the Liberal Arts - British Association of Japanese Studies Postgraduate Studentship
2011 - Wellcome Trust Doctoral Fellowship
2011
Published Papers
- Sign Bilingual Co-Enrollment Programs as Pathways to Ibasho
Jennifer M. McGuire
Educational Studies in Japanese, 15, Apr. 2021, Scientific journal - Co-constructing Belonging: ‘Voluntary Separation’ in Deaf and Immigrant Education in Japan
Jennifer M. McGuire; Tomoko Tokunaga
Japanese Studies, Informa UK Limited, 40(3) 291 - 311, 29 Dec. 2020, Scientific journal - Conducting “Deaf-friendly” Research with Children
Jennifer M. McGuire
NEOS, 12(1), Apr. 2020, Scientific journal
Books etc
- Applying Intersectionality to Teaching Social Inequalities in Japan
McGuire, Jennifer M
Amsterdam University Press, 2023, Single work, Chapter in Edited Volume - Deaf in Hearing Spaces: Performative linguistic hearing spaces shaped by audism, phonocentrism, and linguistic ideologies
McGuire, Jennifer M
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, Single work, Chapter in Edited Volume - Performative Linguistic Space: Ethnographies of Spatial Politics and Dynamic Linguistic Practices
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, Joint editor
Presentations
- Training professionals in a "helping" profession: Sign language interpreter education in Japan
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), 19 Aug. 2023 - "Equal Study" and Sign Bilingualism in Japan
University of Munich (LMU), 16 Dec. 2021, Invited oral presentation - “Why is it only me?”: The Integration and Inclusion of Deaf Japanese
Hokkaido University, Modern Japanese Studies Program, 10 Dec. 2021, Invited oral presentation - Language, Embodiment and the Emergence of Ethical Perspectives among Deaf Japanese
American Association of Anthropology (AAA) Annual Meeting, 18 Nov. 2021 - The Relationship between Sign Language and Human Rights in Educational Settings
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Osaka University, Sign Language Linguistics Research Section (SiLLR), 05 Dec. 2019 - Difference and Intimacy at Home: ‘Dis/ability’ in Contemporary Japanese Families
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) Conference in Japan, 14 Sep. 2019, Oral presentation - Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools
MCGUIRE, Jennifer M
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), 10 Jul. 2019, Invited oral presentation - 'I'm a Grey Zone Human': Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Japanese Youth and the Search for Belonging
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, 23 Mar. 2019 - 'Self-searching' among Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Japanese Youth
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Fall Meeting, 09 Dec. 2017 - Beyond Integration or Inclusion: Reimagining the Role of Support Classes for Minority Students in Japanese Schools”
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, 17 Mar. 2017 - Integrated Education and Integrating Worlds: Deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth and the creation of Ibasho
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) Japan Conference, 24 Sep. 2016 - Accessible Information in Higher Education: A Paradigm for Empowerment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Japan
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), 03 Jul. 2016 - From Integration to Inclusion: Educating Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Keio University, Minorities in Japanese Education Course (Guest Speaker), 31 May 2016 - Japanese deaf and hard-of-hearing youth and Integration
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
National University Corporation of Tsukuba University of Technology (Guest Speaker), 16 Feb. 2015 - Integration and ‘Encounters’ with Sign Language
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
34th Annual Meeting of Deaf and Hard of Hearing University Students (Guest Speaker), 22 Aug. 2014 - The Development of ‘Deaf identity’ within Educational Settings in Japan
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
International Association of Japanese Studies (IAJS) Annual Convention, 07 Dec. 2013 - Signing with the World: Deaf Japanese and transnational community making
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Fall Meeting, 09 Nov. 2013 - ‘Disabling’ Deaf Japanese: Barriers to educational achievement and full personhood
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
8th European Association of Japanese Studies PhD Workshop, 31 May 2012 - Deaf Education in Japan: The Meiji Period, 1868-1912 and today
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Interdisciplinary History of Japan Seminar, 21 Feb. 2012
Research Projects
- Toward an Understanding of Sign Language Interpreter Education in Japan
MCGUIRE, Jennifer M
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 2020/04 -2024/03, Principal investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Doshisha University - Toward a New View of Human Language Based on Comparison of Signed and Spoken Languages
PI: Ritsuko Kikusawa
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Project Member, 2013/04 -2016/03, Competitive research funding - Including 'Difference': Deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the mainstream Japanese education system
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Short-term Fellowship, 2015/01 -2016/01, Competitive research funding - Sign language acquisition and peer socialization among mainstreamed deaf and hard-of-hearing youth in Japan
MCGUIRE Jennifer M
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Visiting Researcher, 2012/12 -2014/12, Competitive research funding
Teaching Experience
- Japanese Society and Culture, Social Inequalities in Japan, Introduction to Anthropology (What Makes Humans Human?); Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods; Introductory Seminar; Intermediate Seminar; Advanced Seminar, Honors Thesis
The Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University - Research in Special Issues of Sociology Ⅲ
Graduate School of Social Studies, Doshisha University - Contemporary Japanese Culture and Society
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Doshisha University - First Year Seminar; Principles of Sociology; Seminars I, II, III in Sociology; Graduation Thesis
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Doshisha University