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■ Professional Background
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■ Present Specialized Fields
| English literature and literature in the English language (Key Word：American Literature and American Studies)
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■ Profile
Claire Ravenscroft is Assistant Professor of American Literature and American Studies at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. She teaches in the university’s undergraduate majors in Literature and American Studies, the General Education curriculum, as well as the graduate program in Comparative Culture. Her research specializations include the Energy Humanities, Environmental Humanities, and 20th and 21st Century Literature.
Her book project, Fossil Capitalist Realism: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Inaction, examines the body of contemporary literature called “climate fiction” to understand the socio-cultural and political-economic dimensions of climate inaction amid widespread acceptance of global warming. Based on an analysis of twenty-first century literature, with a focus on novels from the carbon-intensive Global North and the genres of realism and science fiction, this research analyzes formal developments in the stories we tell about global warming in order to understand how fossil capitalist hegemony persists amid a loss of ideological coherence.
She earned her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2020. |
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■ Main Course Titles
| AMS 101, GEH 064, LIT 104, LIT 105, LIT 231, LIT 232, LIT 233, QCAC 509, QCAC 514 |
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■ Books and Articles
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"Rachel Kushner's 'Bullshit Hagiography'" a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 40(1),pp.67-89 (Single) 2025/04 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2025/04 | | Type | Research Paper | | Peer Review | With peer review | | Title | "Rachel Kushner's 'Bullshit Hagiography'" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | a/b: Auto/Biography Studies | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 40(1),pp.67-89 | | Total page number | 23 | | Authorship | Lead author | |
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"Climate Inaction's Ugly Feelings" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment pp.1-20 (Single) 2024/10 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2024/10 | | Type | Research Paper | | Peer Review | With peer review | | Title | "Climate Inaction's Ugly Feelings" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | pp.1-20 | | Total page number | 20 | |
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"Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism" The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice (Collaboration) 2023/11 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2023/11 | | Type | Research Paper | | Peer Review | With peer review | | Title | "Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism" | | Contribution Type | Chapter Contribution | | Journal | The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Publisher | Routledge | | Author and coauthor | The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, eds. Nick T. C. Lu and Masood Raja | |
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“How to Galvanize Americans Stuck in Their Cars on Climate" The New Republic (Collaboration) 2023/09 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2023/09 | | Type | Review Article or Commentary (Other) | | Title | “How to Galvanize Americans Stuck in Their Cars on Climate" | | Contribution Type | Joint Work | | Journal | The New Republic | | Journal Type | Another Country | | International coauthorship | International coauthorship | |
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Other |
After Oil: Solarities 2022 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2022 | | Type | Other | | Title | After Oil: Solarities | | Contribution Type | Other | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Publisher | University of Minnesota Press | | International coauthorship | International coauthorship | | Author and coauthor | After Oil Collective; Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors | |
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"What Biden’s Election Means for Climate Justice in the United States" Energy Humanities (Single) 2021/02 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2021/02 | | Type | Review Article or Commentary (Other) | | Title | "What Biden’s Election Means for Climate Justice in the United States" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | Energy Humanities | | Journal Type | Another Country | |
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"Introduction: Marxism and Climate Change" Polygraph 28 (Collaboration) 2020/08 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2020/08 | | Type | Research Paper | | Peer Review | With peer review | | Title | "Introduction: Marxism and Climate Change" | | Contribution Type | Joint Work | | Journal | Polygraph | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 28 | | Total page number | 15 | | Author and coauthor | With Casey Williams | | Details | Introduction to journal special issue | |
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Other |
“‘These Rich Bastards’: An Interview with Christian Parenti" Polygraph 28 (Single) 2020/08 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2020/08 | | Type | Other | | Title | “‘These Rich Bastards’: An Interview with Christian Parenti" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | Polygraph | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 28 | | Total page number | 20 | |
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"Capitalism and Planetary Justice in the Web of Life: An Interview with Jason W. Moore" Polygraph 28 (Collaboration) 2020/08 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2020/08 | | Type | Other | | Title | "Capitalism and Planetary Justice in the Web of Life: An Interview with Jason W. Moore" | | Contribution Type | Joint Work | | Journal | Polygraph | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 28 | | Total page number | 22 | | Author and coauthor | With Michael Gaffney and Casey Williams | |
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change, and the Endless Twentieth Century (Single) 2020 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2020 | | Type | Doctoral Dissertation | | Title | Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change, and the Endless Twentieth Century | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Total page number | 398 | |
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"What Petrocaribe can teach the Green New Deal" Scalawag 14 (Single) 2019/07 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2019/07 | | Type | Review Article or Commentary (Other) | | Title | "What Petrocaribe can teach the Green New Deal" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | Scalawag | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 14 | |
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“Review: Agustín de Rojas’s A Legend of the Future" Carolina Quarterly 65(2) (Single) 2015/12 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2015/12 | | Type | Book Review, etc. | | Invitation | With invitation | | Title | “Review: Agustín de Rojas’s A Legend of the Future" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | Carolina Quarterly | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 65(2) | |
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"Review: Robert Repino’s Mort(e)" Carolina Quarterly 65(1) (Single) 2015/09 |
| Language | English | | Publication Date | 2015/09 | | Type | Book Review, etc. | | Title | "Review: Robert Repino’s Mort(e)" | | Contribution Type | Single Work | | Journal | Carolina Quarterly | | Journal Type | Another Country | | Volume, Issue, Pages | 65(1) | |
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■ Academic Conference Presentation
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■ Lectures
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2025/03 |
“Insights from Literary Studies for Interdisciplinary Conversations” (Rice University) |
| Date | 2025/03 | | Title | “Insights from Literary Studies for Interdisciplinary Conversations” | | Promoters | Environmental Studies course "Environment, Culture, Society," Rice University | | Location | Rice University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Environmental Studies course "Environment, Culture, Society," Rice University | |
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2023/03/22 |
"Climate Fiction and Climate Inaction" |
| Date | 2023/03/22 | | Title | "Climate Fiction and Climate Inaction" | | Promoters | Social Sciences research seminar "Global Society," University of Chicago | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Social Sciences research seminar "Global Society," University of Chicago | |
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2022/12/01 |
“Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism" |
| Date | 2022/12/01 | | Title | “Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism" | | Promoters | School of English Studies, Wenzhou-Kean University | | Country | China | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | |
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2020/10/10 |
“What is Racial Capitalism?” |
| Date | 2020/10/10 | | Title | “What is Racial Capitalism?” | | Promoters | Public Humanities seminar "Politics of Solidarity," Dr. Hannah Vidmar | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Public Humanities seminar Politics of Solidarity, Dr. Hannah Vidmar | |
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2018/11 |
"Is Capitalism Fossil-Fueled?” (Duke Unviersity Sanford School of Public Policy) |
| Date | 2018/11 | | Title | "Is Capitalism Fossil-Fueled?” | | Conference | Climate Change: Moving Beyond Market Solutions | | Promoters | Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy | | Country | United States | | Location | Duke Unviersity Sanford School of Public Policy | | Conference Type | Local | | Lecture Type | Panelist | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | |
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2018/04/01 |
“On Novels and Manifestos: Rachel Kushner and Leftist Energy" |
| Date | 2018/04/01 | | Title | “On Novels and Manifestos: Rachel Kushner and Leftist Energy" | | Promoters | Works in Progress Forum, English Department, Duke University | | Country | United States | | Conference Type | Domestic | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | |
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2016/11/01 |
"H. Rider Haggard’s She (1886): The eternal feminine and Victorian Egypt" |
| Date | 2016/11/01 | | Title | "H. Rider Haggard’s She (1886): The eternal feminine and Victorian Egypt" | | Promoters | English course "Victorian Literature," Duke University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the English course "Victorian Literature," Duke University | |
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2016/04/30 |
"Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ Speech (1967)” |
| Date | 2016/04/30 | | Title | "Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ Speech (1967)” | | Promoters | Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies course "Environment in Literature, Law and Science," Duke University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies course "Environment in Literature, Law and Science," Duke University | |
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2015/02/28 |
"Montage in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960)" |
| Date | 2015/02/28 | | Title | "Montage in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960)" | | Promoters | Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | |
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2015/02/14 |
"Cinematography in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958)" |
| Date | 2015/02/14 | | Title | "Cinematography in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958)" | | Promoters | Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | |
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2015/01/31 |
"Mise-en-scène and neorealism in Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948)” |
| Date | 2015/01/31 | | Title | "Mise-en-scène and neorealism in Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948)” | | Promoters | Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | | Conference Type | Other | | Lecture Type | Lecturer | | Contribution Type | Individual | | Invited | Invited | | Details | Guest lecture for the Film Studies course "Hitchcock and Company," Duke University | |
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■ Academic Society Memberships
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■ Educational Achievements
| ● Practice example of education method |
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2025/06/02～2025/06/23 |
Campus exhibit: "“‘The Meaning of Japan’: Du Bois, the Color Line, and the Dream of World-Democracy" |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2025/06/02～2025/06/23 | | Item | Campus exhibit: "“‘The Meaning of Japan’: Du Bois, the Color Line, and the Dream of World-Democracy" | | Details | International Christian University | |
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2023/09/01～2023/11/13 |
Campus film series: "U.S. Society through Science Fiction" |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2023/09/01～2023/11/13 | | Item | Campus film series: "U.S. Society through Science Fiction" | |
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2020/08～2020/12 |
Pedagogy Training: "Asynchronous Instruction" |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2020/08～2020/12 | | Item | Pedagogy Training: "Asynchronous Instruction" | | Details | Southeastern Louisiana University | |
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2016/08～2017/05 |
Pedagogy Training: "Teaching Literature" |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2016/08～2017/05 | | Item | Pedagogy Training: "Teaching Literature" | | Details | English Department, Duke University | |
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2019/09～2020/03 |
Energy Mentor, International Youth Deliberation on Energy Futures |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2019/09～2020/03 | | Item | Energy Mentor, International Youth Deliberation on Energy Futures | | Details | I advised secondary students from Al-Rayan International High School (Ghana) and Asia Pacific International School (Korea) as part of a “global e-campus” that generates critical engagement and international dialogue among youth about climate justice | |
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2019/03/01～2020/03/01 |
Climate Education Leader, North Carolina Climate and Jobs Workshop Series |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2019/03/01～2020/03/01 | | Item | Climate Education Leader, North Carolina Climate and Jobs Workshop Series | | Details | I designed and team-taught a worker education program on climate justice organized by a state-wide coalition of trade unions and racial justice groups | |
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2019/05～2019/08 |
Site Coordinator & Project Advisor, “Enhancing Youth Culture and Stemming Youth Flight - Farendé and Kuwdé, Togo,” DukeEngage Service Learning, Duke University |
| Type | Practical Example of Education Technique | | Period | 2019/05～2019/08 | | Item | Site Coordinator & Project Advisor, “Enhancing Youth Culture and Stemming Youth Flight - Farendé and Kuwdé, Togo,” DukeEngage Service Learning, Duke University | | Details | - I supervised eight undergraduate students in two remote villages in Togo as part of an anthropology service learning curriculum; coordinated instruction for primary and secondary education in language and computer skills; organized special events, group excursions, team-building and reflection activities; managed program budget; communicated program policies; translated in French | |
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■ Professional Achievements
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2024 |
Peer Reviewer for the academic journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2024 | | Item | Peer Reviewer for the academic journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | |
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2024～2025 |
Recipient of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant (Japan ICU Foundation) |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2024～2025 | | Item | Recipient of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant (Japan ICU Foundation) | | Details | “‘The Meaning of Japan’: Du Bois, the color line, and the dream of world-democracy" | |
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2024 |
Submission Reviewer for the 18th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2024 | | Item | Submission Reviewer for the 18th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment | |
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2024/11 |
Chair of the panel “Provocations for change,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2024/11 | | Item | Chair of the panel “Provocations for change,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference | |
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2024/11 |
Chair of the panel “Dismantling petro-normativity,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2024/11 | | Item | Chair of the panel “Dismantling petro-normativity,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference | |
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2023～2024 |
Recipient of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant (Japan ICU Foundation) |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2023～2024 | | Item | Recipient of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant (Japan ICU Foundation) | | Details | “Society and Science Fiction: American Studies Film Series" | |
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2018～2020 |
Co-Editor for Polygraph 28 special issue “Marxism and Climate Change" |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2018～2020 | | Item | Co-Editor for Polygraph 28 special issue “Marxism and Climate Change" | |
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2019/11 |
Co-Convener of the conference panel “Beyond Denial/Acceptance: Mapping Ethno-Nationalist Responses to Climate Change in the US” |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2019/11 | | Item | Co-Convener of the conference panel “Beyond Denial/Acceptance: Mapping Ethno-Nationalist Responses to Climate Change in the US” | | Details | Political Ecologies of the Far Right Conference, Lund University, Lund Sweden | |
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2019/02 |
Co-Organizer of the special guest lecture “Geohistory, Climate Justice, and the Crises of Capitalism" |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2019/02 | | Item | Co-Organizer of the special guest lecture “Geohistory, Climate Justice, and the Crises of Capitalism" | | Details | Duke University, Durham NC | |
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2017 |
Production Assistant for the academic journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2017 | | Item | Production Assistant for the academic journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction | |
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2017/11 |
Co-Organizer of the symposium “Money: Media, Culture, Metamorphosis" |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2017/11 | | Item | Co-Organizer of the symposium “Money: Media, Culture, Metamorphosis" | | Details | Duke University, Durham NC | |
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2016/04 |
Co-Organizer of the symposium “Narrating Nature" |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2016/04 | | Item | Co-Organizer of the symposium “Narrating Nature" | | Details | Duke University, Durham NC | |
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2016 |
Peer Reviewer for the academic journal Cultural Dynamics |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2016 | | Item | Peer Reviewer for the academic journal Cultural Dynamics | |
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2016 |
Editorial Assistant for Dr. Michaeline Crichlow, Duke University |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2016 | | Item | Editorial Assistant for Dr. Michaeline Crichlow, Duke University | |
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2016 |
Research Assistant for the Environmental Arts and Humanities Network, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Type | Special Instructions about the individual with practical experience | | Period | 2016 | | Item | Research Assistant for the Environmental Arts and Humanities Network, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill | |
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2025 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Library Committee, ICU |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2025 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Library Committee, ICU | |
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2025 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Sustainable Development Goals Promotion Office, ICU |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2025 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Sustainable Development Goals Promotion Office, ICU | |
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2025 |
Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2025 | | Item | Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College | |
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2024 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Sustainable Development Goals Promotion Office, ICU |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2024 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Sustainable Development Goals Promotion Office, ICU | | Details | ICU-SDG Office, International Christian University | |
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2024 |
Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2024 | | Item | Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College | | Details | Institutional partnership between International Christian University and Middlebury College | |
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2023 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Service Learning Committee |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2023 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Service Learning Committee | |
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2023 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Student Retreat, ICU |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2023 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Student Retreat, ICU | | Details | International Christian University | |
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2023 |
Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2023 | | Item | Campus Liaison, Projects for Peace, Middlebury College | | Details | Institutional partnership between International Christian University and Middlebury College | |
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2022 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Service Learning Committee |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2022 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Service Learning Committee | |
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2022 |
Humanities Faculty Representative, Student Retreat, ICU |
| Type | Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience | | Period | 2022 | | Item | Humanities Faculty Representative, Student Retreat, ICU | | Details | International Christian University | |
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