John Mock

John Mock

  • Asian Studies

    Adjunct Professor

    Programs
    • Undergraduate

Areas of Expertise

Social Change, Political economy of depopulation and regional planning.

Research

Professor Mock is intrigued with the changes in Japan over the past century or so. He started out as an urban anthropologist, looking at the social history of a neighborhood in Sapporo. He is now looking at depopulation, aging and economic change in the mountain towns of Akita.

Representative Publications

  • Mock, John. “Escaping Japan: Commentary” in Hansen, Paul and Blai Guarne (eds) Escaping Japan: Reflections on Dissent, Estrangement and Exile in Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge, 2017.
  • Co-editor, Mock, John, Naeko Naganuma and Hiroaki Kawamura, The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education: Is Japanese Education Really Changing? Sense Publishers [“Introduction” and “Smart City – Stupid Countryside: Social and Political Implications of the Urban/Rural Split in Japanese Education”] 2016.
  • Co-editor and “Preface” Ertl, John, John Mock, John McCreery, and Gregory Poole. Reframing Diversity in the Anthropology of Japan. Kanazawa: Kanazawa University Center for Cultural Resource Studies, Program for Leading Graduate Schools, 2016.
  • Mock, John. “Hidden Behind Tokyo: Japan’s Rural Periphery” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol 12, Issue 12, No. 3, March 24, 2014.
  • Mock, John. “Hidden behind Tokyo: Observations on the rest of Japan” in Kingston, Jeff (ed) Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan. New York: Routledge 2014.
  • Mock, John. “Introduction to ‘Escaping Japan’” Pan-Japan: The International Journal of Japanese Diaspora Volume 7, Spring-Fall, 2011.
  • Mock, John. Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood 1925-1988 Hanayama. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press 1999.

Education

  • PhD in East Asia Anthropology, Michigan State University
  • BA in African History, Michigan State University

Previous Appointments

  • Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan (2009 – Present)
  • Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (2007 – 2009)
  • Professor, AKITA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Akita City, Akita (2004 – 2007)
  • Associate Professor, Minnesota State University – Akita, Akita City, Akita (1993 – 2003)
  • Associate Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN (1991 – 1993)
  • Director, Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Shiga Prefecture (joint appointment, Adjunct Associate Professor, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI) (1989 – 1991)
  • Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies, Lewis-Clark State University, Lewiston, ID (1987 – 1989)
  • Coordinator of Senior Studies, Friends World College (1986 – 1987)
  • Director, North American Center, Friends World College (1982 – 1986])
  • Director, East Asian Center, Friends World College (1981-1982)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI (1980 – 1981)
  • Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Adrian College, Adrian, MI (1978 – 1979)
  • Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI (1977 – 1978)
  • Instructor, ESL and Expository Writing, Fuji Women’s College, Sapporo, Hokkaido (1975 – 1976)

Professional Associations

  • Anthropology of Japan in Japan (Vice President)
  • Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)