Caitlin Meagher, Ph.D.

Lecturer in Anthropology

Contact Information

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    Caitlin Meagher holds a DPhil and MPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her work combines ethnographic depth with a critical analysis of precarity, belonging, and social transformation in post-industrial societies. Her current work concerns survivors' experiences and interpretations of natural disasters. Her previous research explores contemporary urban life, changing family structure, and alternative living arrangements in Japan. She is the author of Inside a Japanese Sharehouse: dreams and realities.

    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
    ANTH 225: Social and Critical Inquiry
    ANTH 464: Senior Seminar
    Race, Identity, Belong, and Culture in the Americas
    Feminist Theory
    Medical Anthropology
    Criminology
    First Year Seminar: Japan!
    Clothing, Culture and Society
    Women in East Asia
    Buy, Borrow, Beg, Burgle: Economic Behavior
    Constructed Identities in Modern Korea

    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.