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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

Research Experience

• Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Visiting Scholar, 2024/04 - 2025/03

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

• DPhil (PhD), University of Oxford, 2018
• Master of Science, University of Oxford, 2011

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

• Applying Intersectionality to Teaching Social Inequalities in Japan
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  Teaching Japan, 01 Sep. 2024
  

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• Deaf in hearing spaces: Performative linguistic spaces shaped by audism, phonocentrism, and linguistic ideologies
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  Performative Linguistic Space, 04 Sep. 2023
  

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• Introduction: Performative linguistic spaces that make utterances and signs (not) happen
  Neriko Musha Doerr; Jennifer M. McGuire
  Performative Linguistic Space, 04 Sep. 2023
  

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• Performative Linguistic Space
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  De Gruyter Mouton, 04 Sep. 2023
  

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• Sign Bilingual Co-Enrollment Programs as Pathways to Ibasho
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  Educational Studies in Japanese, 15, Apr. 2021, Scientific journal
  

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• 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
  

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• Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  Contemporary Japan, Informa UK Limited, 32(2) 197 - 217, 02 Jul. 2020, Scientific journal
  

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• Conducting “Deaf-friendly” Research with Children
  Jennifer M. McGuire
  NEOS, 12(1), Apr. 2020, Scientific journal
  

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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

• Modulated Listening: Voice and Perception in Sign Language Interpretation
  How Sounds Shape Thought: Five Experiments in Scholarly Communication, Harvard University, 28 Mar. 2025
• Social Welfare Providers or Language Professionals: The Role of Sign Language Interpreters in Japan
  Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC), 26 Oct. 2024
• Interpreting Japan: Bridging JSL and Japanese in Deaf Communities
  ASL and Deaf Culture Series, University of Virginia, 09 Oct. 2024
• “My Mind Went Blank”: Japanese Sign Language Interpreter Training and Practitioner Challenges
  Pre-Modern, Modern, Contemporary; The Bucharest University of Economic Studies Centre for Japanese Studies, 03 Sep. 2024
• 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