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“Research Fellow” is a non-remunerated, fixed-term position for senior researchers to engage in collaborative research at ILCAA alongside the Research Staff.

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Analyzing Iran’s Policies toward Afghan Asylum Seekers through the Lens of Public Choice Theory

Iran

BAVILI Negin

2026.10.15～2026.12.15

A study on “ecology” of Northern ethnic minority languages in the written materials of the 19th and 20th centuries

Japan

FUJISHIRO Setsu

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

The Anthropology of Materiality in Afro-Amazonian Religions and the Revitalization of Amazonian Prehistoric Ceramics

Japan

FURUYA Yoshiaki

2026.06.01～2029.05.31

A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey

Japan

HAYASHI Tooru

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Studies on the “Islamic Democracy” in the modern and contemporary Sunnite Islamic Thought

Japan

IIZUKA Masato

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

Linguistic Research on Arabic Dialects and Berber Varieties in Tunisia/ A Linguistic Description of Tawjout Berber, an Endangered Language of Southern Tunisia

Japan

KUMAKIRI Taku

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

Intellectual Exchanges between Bengal and Japan during the British Raj

Bangladesh

MALEK Lopamudra

2026.06.01～2029.03.31

Reading Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the Wake of Ultra-nationalism in India and Contemporary Trends in Bangladesh-India Cultural-Political Relations

Bangladesh

MANAS KUMAR Chowdhury

2026.07.01～2029.03.31

Non-explosion and Glottalisation in the Basin of the Ubangi

Italy

MASELLI Lorenzo

2026.09.01～2029.08.31

The Anthropology of Religion and Development Assistance in the Global Context: A Case Study of an Islamic New Religious Movement and an Face-based International NGO

Japan

MINESAKI Hiroko

2026.04.01～2027.03.31

Linguistic landscape of Indonesia: The dynamism between national language and local languages

Japan

MIYAKE Yoshimi

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Investigation of language contact phenomena in Northeast Siberia /An empirical study on the historical changes in Yukaghir grammar

Japan

NAGASAKI Iku

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

Is Resistance to State Violence Effective? : The people of Myanmar resisting through political cartoons

Japan

NANG MYA KAY Khaing

2026.06.01～2029.05.31

Rethinking the anthropology of death: Exploring ‘reality’ through and anthropological approach based on affect theory

Japan

NISHII Ryoko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Grammatical description of Turkic languages and its historical elucidation: Focusing on Kyrgyz

Japan

OHSAKI Noriko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Rabindranath Tagore and the oral culture of Bengal

Japan

ONISHI Masayuki

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

The phonological properties of the Japanese r-sound: A contrastive study of Japanese dialects

Japan

SATO Kumiko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Research on the Reconstruction of Societies and Cultures of Plainls Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan Through the Cross-Sectional Use of Ethnographic Archives Provided by Academic Institutions and Researching Their Contemporary Changes Based on Fieldwork

Japan

SHIMIZU Jun

2026.07.01～2029.06.30

A study of the challenges and solutions for Muslim communities in the context of contemporary pluralism and diversity

Japan

TAKAKI Keiko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

A Study of the Formation and Transformation of Administrative Practices in Pre-Modern Egypt: Focusing on the Relationship between Historical Urban Development and the Water Infrastructure policies in Cairo

Japan

YOSHIMURA Takenori

2027.04.01～2028.03.31