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Early reviews for my book, “The Secret World of Shugendo: Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan,” (UNC Press) are coming in. Written over the course of 12 years. Expected to hit the shelves Fall 2025.

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I love my new stamp.

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Happy Setsubun!

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I’ve come to really enjoy the experience of exam invigilation. It’s a special kind of quiet in the class on exam day, a deep meditation students experience as they process everything you’ve taught them. Connecting the dots into constellations, forming a paradigm/worldview of their own.

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Final revisions are in. What a rush!

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Is the hardest part about writing a book letting it go?

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The holidays will be spent writing…. but the glory will be great when the book arrives.

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After the marathon of teaching comes the “body shutdown”: The illnesses that waited, like snakes coiled in the grass while you taught all semester, timing their attack the moment you submit final grades.

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One of the final steps in editing a manuscript is to change all the “more recently” sections into a general past tense … …because a decade or more may have passed since you first wrote that line.

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Amor Fati

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I’m starting to really enjoy final exam season as an instructor. Some students have the most expressive faces when they are thinking!

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Looks like my article on the lullabies that some herders in the Mongolian Gobi sing to bond orphaned lambs with new mothers is open access now #anthropology #ethnography #Mongolia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Wrapped up my last class on Western Civ with a small reminder … You Are Here

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remember the reason for the season

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T’is the season:

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I’ve literally had this comment in my course evals from when I taught “The Buddhist Tradition.”

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I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

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So it begins … I expect it is already possible to train AI with all of the texts related to religious figures of the past. Is there already an AI Buddha?

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Is there a treaty related to the land where you now live? I live in Treaty 7.

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Are you teaching Popular Culture? If so, what are your most popular assignments?

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Hello! 👋 I’m an archaeologist who studies the last 5,000 years of human history across eastern North America! I work primarily in the American Southeast, from Southern Appalachia to the Coast, on Ancestral Muskogean, Spanish Colonial, and Gullah-Geechee #archaeology!

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Some students submitted a petition protesting my effort to invigilate their assignment (to prevent AI use). The petition was itself written by AI…

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The snow has fallen. 3 more weeks of teaching. The final push! I’ve been teaching “Western Civilization” this term. It’s been a trip! Students resonated well with the VR experience in the class!

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Not sure I've ever witnessed more anticipation for an edited volume than for this one, which is finally out as of yesterday. I suspect it'll make a splash... uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/oceani...

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On the way to Chavin de Huantar in #Peru in 2007. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav%C3... #Archaeology #Christianity

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The Mormon Temple in Cardston, Alberta (population: 3700)

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About 1.5 hours drive from where I live is a magical place called “Waterton National Park.” It’s so beautiful. Wouldn’t it be awesome to host a conference here? 😎

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Any other profs out there moonlighting as a Judo coach?

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A saitōgoma ceremony led by a Shintō #yamabushi (mountain ascetic) from #Japan on a beach in Watangi Bay, New Zealand. #日本研究 #NZ #anthrosky @calebscarter.bsky.social @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social @jolyonbt.bsky.social @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social @justinbstein.bsky.social

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Publishing job alert. Help our authors shine www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/405...

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Job Opening: Tenured Associate Professor of Japanese Religious Culture and Thought. www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/...

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