Caitlin Meagher

Contact Information

  • cmeagher@unca.edu
  • 250-3868
  • 219 Zageir Hall

Office Hours

  • Monday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Wednesday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Note: And by appointment.
Dr. Caitlin Meagher is a social and cultural anthropologist whose research interests include gender, family, and social change in contemporary Japan. She is the author of Inside a Japanese Sharehouse: dreams and realities (Routledge 2020). Dr. Meagher holds a D.Phil. and M.Phil. from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford and an M.Sc. from the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies. She loves teaching curious students and welcomes you to stop by her office in Zageir 213.

Courses

ANTH 100.001 DI: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 100.002 DI: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 374.002 ST: Women in East Asia

Education

University of Oxford
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy, 2018
University of Oxford
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Master of Philosophy, June 2011
University of Oxford
Nissan Institute for Modern Japan Studies
Master of Science, October 2009
New York University
Bachelor of Arts, Politics
May 2000

Selected Publications

Review of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train by Jessamyn R. Abel. [Forthcoming in 2022]. Journal of Asian Studies.
‘Single and Unready to Mingle: the Insecure Lifeworlds of Never-Married Singles’ (co-authored with Akiko Yoshida) [Forthcoming in 2023]. In Gender, Safety, Inequality: Key Issues for Japan, Kimiko Tanaka and Helaine Selin (eds.) Cham, CH: Springer Nature.
‘The Price of Belonging in a Japanese Sharehouse’ [forthcoming]. In The Price of
Belonging in Asia, Joanna Pfaf-Czarnecka and Éva Rosalia (eds.).
Inside a Japanese Sharehouse: dreams and realites 2020. London: Routledge.
‘Coding and Theorizing’. 2020. In Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs,
Fieldwork and Methods, Nora Kotmann and Cornelia Reiher (eds.). Baden-Baden:
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaf
Make yourself at home: dreams and realites in a Japanese sharehouse [PhD thesis].
University of Oxford. 2018.
‘Constructing an Interior Public: uchi and soto in the Japanese sharehouse’, Home
Cultures 15, October 12, 2017, pp. 113-136. Published online: February 15, 2018.