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  BROWN, Bernardo Enrique

   Associate Professor (New rank system)

   Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
■ Academic Background
1. 2007/08～2013/07 Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornell University, Graduated, Ph.D.
2. 2007/08～2009/12 Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornell University, Graduated, M.A.
3. 2004/01～2006/04 International Affairs, New School for Social Engagement, New School for Social Research, Graduated, M.A.
4. 1994/08～1999/12 Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Graduated, Licenciado
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■ Professional Background
1. 2020/04～ Associate Professor (New rank system), Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
2. 2017/09～2020/03 Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
3. 2014/11～2017/08 Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
4. 2013/10～2014/09 Postdoctoral Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University
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■ Present Specialized Fields
Cultural anthropology and folklore, Anthropology of Christianity, Asian Catholicism, Transnational Migration, Cultural Assets Management, Museology, Latin America, Southeast Asia (Key Word：Cultural Anthropology)  Link
■ Profile
I am an anthropologist specialized in religion with a focus on Catholicism. My main areas of research are South Asia and Latin America.

After working for 15 years with Catholic seminarians and migrant workers in Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia, I am currently conducting a new project on Catholic cultural heritage. The project titled "Missionary Museums in Southeast Asia and Latin America" seeks to comparatively examine Catholic museums in former colonial and mission territories to understand how local communities and converted populations reflect on their religious identity through their Catholic heritage. The project emerges against the backdrop of a recent wealth of research focused on missionary collections in Europe and questions of ownership and restitution that monopolize such projects. By looking at museum collections outside Europe, this project attempts to decenter the debate away from European concerns to address what Catholics in the Global South attempt to do with these museums and exhibitions.

Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics: https://www.isac-research.org/
■ Main Course Titles
Anthropology of Religion; Global Religious Movements　in Asia; Globalization and Social Change; Field Research in Anthropology I & II; Approaches to Human Culture
■ Books and Articles
1. Article Global Circulations of Asian Catholic Clergy Doing Synodality Empirical and Intercultural Perspectives on the German Synodal Way pp.205-213 (Single) 2025/06Link
2. Article Less Virtuous Than It Seems: The Motivations Behind Priestly Vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka HAU- Journal of Ethnographic Theory 15(2) (Single) 2024/12
3. Article Global Circulations of Asian Catholic Clergy Doing Synodality Empirical and Intercultural Perspectives on the German Synodal Way, pp.205-213 (Single) 2024/03
4. Article Review of Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(1) (Single) 2021/07
5. Article Cultural Deference, Community Survival: Sri Lankan Catholicism and the Perils of Religious Nationalism Social Sciences & Missions (34),pp.288-309 (Single) 2021/08Link
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■ Academic Conference Presentation
1. 2025/11/06 From Convent to Cultural Center: Constructing a Heritage site at a Franciscan church in Salta, Argentina
2. 2025/07/05 Anthropolgies of Christianities (ICSOH Seminar Series)
3. 2023/05/19 (Shue Yan University. Sociology Department Lecture Series)
4. 2021/11/08 A View of the Vocation Crisis from South Asia (Paradox and Prophecy: Why the Study of Lived Catholicism Matters)
5. 2021/11/02 Less Virtuous than it seems (Sites and processes of ethical learning: religion and self-making in Asia)
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■ Academic Society Memberships
1. 2009～ American Anthropological Association
2. 2007～ AISLS- American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
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■ Teaching Experience
1. Anthropology of Religion（ICU）
2. Anthropology of Violence（Portland State University）
3. （ICU）
4. Area Studies in Ethnology (South Asia)（ICU）
5. Ethnographic Research Methods（ICU）
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■ Professional Achievements
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1. 2021/10/01～ Initiative for the Study of Asian CatholicsLink
2. 2023/11/01～ Series EditorLink
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■ Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1. 2019/04～2022/03  Vocation for Travel: Catholic Seminary Formation in Sri Lanka  (Key Word : Religious mobility, Asian Catholicism, religious specialists, priesthood, seminary)
2. 2017/04～2018/04  Religious Mobility in Southeast Asia  (Key Word : Religious networks)
3. 2016/11～2018/10  Religious Elites and Mobility in South Asia  (Key Word : Catholic seminaries mobility)
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■ Websites
   ISAC - Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics
■ E-Mail Addresses
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■ Works
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■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number
30814123
■ External Researcher ID
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