I studied at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, and completed my MA and PhD in the Global Issues Program at Hitotsubashi University. I have served as a Junior Fellow at Hitotsubashi, held a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and lectured at the Research Institute for Japanese Studies, Kanda University of International Studies. I was also an Associate Fellow at the National Ainu Museum. I am currently Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).

My research examines modern and contemporary Ainu intellectual history.

​My writings in Japanese have appeared in Shiso (Iwanami), Gendai Shiso (Seidosha), and Impaction; in English at The Asia-Pacific Journal and Japan Forum. I translated Richard Siddle’s Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan (Japanese edition, Iwanami, 2021) and co-edited Ainu minzoku hiteiron ni kō suru (Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2015).