Member of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), Arizona Association of Teachers of Japanese and Arizona Language Association. Shotokan style Karate-Do 3rd degree black belt (Japan Karate Association, Tokyo)

Robert Tuck works on 19th and 20th century Japanese literature, especially Sinitic genres of writing and Sino-Japanese cultural relations.

I am a linguistic anthropologist focused on citizenship, community, migration, and future imagining in the context of post-disaster communities with a focus on Japan and Korea.

Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Culture and Language, working on Japanese ethnographic film and visual culture.

Lauro is a historian of 19th and 20th century Japan and he is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of Asian History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.