Portuguese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Philosophy, Political Science, Political Science, Public policy, Political philosophy, Sociology, Social philosophy, Library & Museum Studies, Social psychology, Theology/Religion, History, Comparative Law, Literature, General Law, Anthropology, Museology

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Canada

D.Phil. Social and Cultural Anthropology from University of Oxford, UK (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Visiting Research Student in Cultural Anthropology from University of Tokyo, Japan.

M.Sc. in Social Anthropology (awarded with Distinction) from University of Oxford, UK (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology).

Honors Bachelor of Arts in Social Cultural Anthropology (awarded with High Distinction) from University of Toronto, Canada (University College).

Honors Thesis: Refugees from Democracy: East European Roma in Toronto.

Freelance Translator with immense knowledge and experience in the field of social sciences, more specific to the sociology.

He has worked as an Independent contractor translating documents in the fields of archival sciences, psychology, philosophy, and social sciences for multiple institutes into -

- Public relations
- Marketing and sales
- Consumer research
- Human resources (personnel management)
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Training
- Entrepreneurship
- Media

Translated Japanese to English and prepared educational materials for native English teachers, the local International Friendship Association and municipal Chamber of Commerce.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscript are as follows

- Anthropology and consumer research: qualitative insights into green consumer behavior
- Toward a medical anthropology of sensations: Definitions and research agenda
- Fielding climate change in cultural anthropology
- Photography in anthropology: A report on two experiments
- Raw histories: photographs, anthropology and museums
- Visual contexts: A photographic research method in anthropology
- Doing health anthropology: Research methods for community assessment and change
- Frameworks for comparative research: Structural anthropology and the theory of action
- Visual anthropology: Photography as a research method
- Decolonizing anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology for liberation
- Anthropology and psychiatry: The role of culture in cross-cultural research on illness
- Optimal foraging strategies and hunter-gatherer research in anthropology: Theory and models
- At the crossroads of human rights and anthropology: Toward a critically engaged activist research
- Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity
- Moving past public anthropology and doing collaborative research
- Collaborative anthropology as twenty-first-century ethical anthropology
- Chronicling cultures: Long-term field research in anthropology
- A social anthropology of logistics research: exploring productivity and collaboration in an emerging science
- Culture history and African anthropology: A century of research in Germany and Austria
- The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research: Reporting on environmental degradation and warfare
- Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in Canada
- Global forensic anthropology in the 21st century
- Aboriginal skeletal collections and research in physical anthropology: An historical perspective
- Environments and environmentalisms in anthropological research: facing a new millennium
- Indians and anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the critique of anthropology
- Participant observation, anthropology methodology and design anthropology research inquiry
- Anthropology and the angry earth: An overview

Sanko English School, Nagano, Japan English Instructor

- Instructed high school students, focusing variously on exam preparation for upper level English proficiency testing, preparation for international exchange programs and conversational English.
- Translated (J>E) and prepared educational materials for native English teachers, the local International Friendship Association and municipal Chamber of Commerce.
- Assisted Japanese teachers with activities for elementary and junior high school students
- Instructed adult English conversation classes both at the school and in connection with the local municipal cultural center.

- Dymaxium Interactive Tools, Inc., Toronto, Canada

- Responsible for departmental management including personnel scheduling, performance reviews and project load metrics at a multimedia software firm.
- Authored training documentation for the PM department on standard project process, as well as high-level templates for software design specifications.
- Interfaced on an ongoing basis with internationally-based clients in senior management positions at major pharmaceutical companies, communicating project design details and development status during the project cycle, managing change control processes to ensure that specification change requests from the client were adequately reflected in timeline and budget forecasts.
- Worked with both clients and development personnel to design software user interface solutions within the clients budgetary constraints, with a focus on product educational materials.

Library Service Bureau, Inc., Toronto Assistant Legal Librarian

- Served in a consulting role as a contract librarian for Toronto legal and banking institutions.
- Catalogued and shelved new books as purchased by the firms and performed general maintenance operations for firm libraries, including loose-leaf filing for subscription-based legal texts.

Publications-
Consociationalism in Northern Ireland: the contribution of ethnographic study. Garm Lu, a Canadian Celtic Arts Journal.
Conference and Seminar presentations
Anthropologists of Japan in Japan Spring Meeting, Osaka Gakuin University.
American Anthropological Association 2011 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Association of Asian Studies 2011 Conference, Honlulu, Hawii.
American Anthropological Association 2010 Conference, New Orleans, USA.
ISCA Work in Progress Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
Nissan Institute Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
St. Cross College Colloquium, University of Oxford, UK.
Japanese Studies Association of Canada 2009 Meeting, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Writing Up Bursary
Japan Association of Student Services, Ministry of Education Research Scholarship
Oxford University Sasakawa Scholarship
University of Oxford Overseas Student Award, British Government

History, Humanities, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Social Sciences

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japan

PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, US
MPhil, Political Science, Columbia University, US
MS, Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US
BA, Spanish, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Language Specialist, Verbalink, US
Research Specialist for the International Nikkei Research Project, The Japanese American National Museum, US
The Law Office of James Nolan, JD, MBA, US
Business Promotion Assistant, The Long -Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd., US
Edited various documents in the fields of political science, history, area studies, and international relations

Kindle Direct, Praeger, The Journal of Tokyo International University, Disarmament

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Editing

Environmental Studies, History, Humanities, Literature, Media/Communication, Social Sciences, Religious Studies, Performing Arts

8

France

MA, Comparative Civilizations, Rikkyo Univeristy, Japan
BA, French Literature, Rikkto University, Japan

Clerk, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Salesperson, Bookoff France, France
Salesperson, Junkudo Book Sotre, Japan
English Teacher, Waseda Academy, Japan
Accountant, Seisei-sha Ltd., Japan
Edited academic papers in the fields of Sociology, Philosophy, Law, Finance and Economics

Gendai Shisoh, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai

English to Japanese Translation
French to Japanese Translation
English to Japanese Editing

Design, Visual Arts (Others), Fine Arts, Journalism, Film studies, Digital Art, Action painting, Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Aesthetic, Angular, Architecture, Artifice, Arts and Crafts movement, Assemblage, Automatism, Baroque, Calligraphy, Art Conservation, Art education

9

Japan

- Sophia University, Tokyo, BA, major in Journalism,
- TOEIC

9 years translation experience includes the following.
International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University

Technical Staff at Energy Analysis Division,

- Translate energy-related materials, articles, research papers (English-Japanese, Japanese-English.) International Center for Japanese Culture at Yokohama International School

Development manager

- Provided translations for all ICJC publications and printed matter.
Fukuoka City, International Economic Department, Economic Promotion Bureau

Coordinator, for International Regions Benchmarking Consortium (IRBC) Fukuoka Conference

- Translated the conference materials (Japanese-English.)
He has translated books such as -
- “Art Base Momoshima, Opening Exhibition”, an art exhibition catalogue, published by Art Base Momoshima, Japan.
- Kitazawa Jun Works, published by Jun Kitazawa Yakumo Office Interpreter/Translation
- Interpreter for researchers in Fukuoka, for food and restaurant market research.
- Artist Talk Events (5 artist talks) at Koganecho Art Management Center, Yokohama.
- Fixed-term translator at Nissan (Kitakyushu).
- Regular translation (English to Japanese) of energy-related articles and materials.

Some of his translated papers are as follows –

- Newspapers in Sierra Leone: a case study of conditions for print journalism in a post conflict society
- Prevalence and effects of rape myths in print journalism: The Kobe Bryant case
- Tabloidization'of news: A comparative analysis of Anglo-American and German press journalism
- The data journalism handbook: how journalists can use data to improve the news
- Situating peace journalism in journalism studies: A critical appraisal.
- Assessing the sustainability of Latin American investigative non-profit journalism
- Global teamwork: The rise of collaboration in investigative journalism
- Watchdog journalism in South America: News, accountability, and democracy
- Digital journalism: Emerging media and the changing horizons of journalism
- Tabloid journalism and the public sphere: A historical perspective on tabloid journalism
- Citizen journalism: Global perspectives
- Weblogs and journalism: A typology to explore the blurring boundaries
- Twittering the news: The emergence of ambient journalism
- The evolution of American investigative journalism
- Narrative form and moral force: The realization of innocence and guilt through investigative journalism
- The watchdog that didn't bark: The financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative journalism
- Investigative journalism in China: Eight cases in Chinese watchdog journalism
- Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies
- Investigative journalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Autonomy, business models, and democratic roles
- Investigative journalism in the academy—possibilities for storytelling across time and space
- Journalists as peacekeeping force Peace journalism and mass communication theory
- Is peace journalism possible Three frameworks for assessing structure and agency in news media
- Peace journalism: A tightrope walk between advocacy journalism and constructive conflict coverage
- Peace Journalism through the Lense of Conflict Theory: Analysis and Practice.
- War or peace journalism in elite US newspapers: Exploring news framing in Pakistan-India conflict
- A compromised fourth estate UK news journalism, public relations and news sources
- Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: Some trends in online journalism
- Watchdog journalism in South America: News, accountability, and democracy
- The interaction between experts and journalists in news journalism
- Financial news journalism: A post-Enron analysis of approaches towards economic and financial news production in the UK
- Rethinking journalism: Trust and participation in a transformed news landscape
- Convergence journalism: Writing and reporting across the news media
- Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The prod usage of citizen journalism
- Mediating suicide: print journalism and the categorization of queer youth suicide discourses
- Print journalism and the creative process: traditional versus digital
- The Origins of the Illiberal Party Newspaper: Print Journalism in China's Nationalist Revolution
- New technologies and print journalism practice in Zimbabwe: An ethnographic study

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University

Technical Staff at Energy Analysis Division,

- Assist professors and researcher at Energy Analysis Division by providing research support.
- Perform administrative duties including the division’s budget management, filing/editing of research documents, business trip arrangement and workshop logistics.
International Center for Japanese Culture at Yokohama International School

Development manager

- Performed research on grants, and wrote grant applications to fund ICJC’s various community and supportive service programs.
- Assisted ICJC’s signature programs such as Yokohama International School Curriculum Enhancement Programs, Friday Night Lecture Series and Evening Community School.
- Prepared all the necessary materials (including accounting) to maintain ICJC’s status as an NPO.
- Prepared all the necessary materials to obtain an NPO status from Yokohama city.
- Planned and organized ICJC’s fund-raising events.
- Also assisted the publication of ICJC brochures, pamphlets and PR materials.

Disaster Management, Disaster Research, Diplomatic History, Disaster Nursing, History of Economics, Urban Studies, World History, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Theology, Cultural History

9

Japan

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

M.A., Middle Eastern Studies

- Thesis: How Terrorism Endures: Factors that affected the longevity of the Kurdistan workers’ party (PKK)
Brown University Providence, RI

B.A., International Relations, Global Security Languages

- Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, French.

Translation experience includes the following.

Freelance Translator with the experience of translating documents in the field of history, urban studies, and social sciences.

Translation of history and business-related documents, such as email correspondences and in-house documents, CSR-related presentations and documents, corporate brochures, etc.

Translation of books, most notable being one about a critical history of European cinema.

Translation of application guidebooks and information of schools for foreign students for various universities including Harvard University.

Some of the translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- Coping with catastrophe: A handbook of disaster management.
- Stochastic optimization of medical supply location and distribution in disaster management
- Crisis and disaster management for tourism
- Incident management systems in disaster management
- Disaster management: findings from a systematic review
- Towards a destination tourism disaster management framework: Long-term lessons from a forest fire disaster
- Advances in multi-agency disaster management: Key elements in disaster research
- The Tokyo subway sarin attack: disaster management, Part 1: Community emergency response
- Design challenges for an integrated disaster management communication and information system
- Community-based disaster management in the Philippines: Making a difference in people's lives
- Improving disaster management: the role of IT in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery
- Disaster risk management and vulnerability reduction: Protecting the poor
- Investing in disaster management capabilities versus pre-positioning inventory: A new approach to disaster preparedness
- Information technology and emergency management: preparedness and planning in US states
- Linking tourism into emergency management structures to enhance disaster risk reduction
- Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction
- Disaster management: International lessons in risk reduction, response and recovery
- Reframing coordination challenges for public-private partnerships in disaster preparedness
- Enhancing disaster management by mapping disaster proneness and preparedness
- Integrating disaster preparedness and resilience: a complex approach using System of Systems
- Community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) and providing a model for Iran
- Community based disaster preparedness: Need for a standardized training module
- Distribution and Application of Community-based Disaster Risk Information
- Mainstreaming community-based disaster risk management in local development planning
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU), Thomson Reuters Singapore, Singapore

Middle East Research Analyst

- Conducted open source intelligence research in English and Arabic to assess political risks posed by individuals and entities relating to terrorism, insurgency, and security issues in the Middle East.
- Proposed and executed research projects of interest to TIRU, including: tracking Gulf-based financiers of extremist rebel groups in Syria, assessing risk information of Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt, and mapping out the militias and tribal groups in Libya.
- Assisted in the cyber terrorism project by monitoring and profiling relevant entities and individuals.
Institute for Inclusive Security, Hunt Alternatives Fund Cambridge, MA

Spring Term Intern

- Conducted research and drafted policy brief on women’s added value in the security sector.
- Assisted with identification of and contact with women leaders from the Middle East region.
- Translated documents from Arabic to English.
INTERPOL Washington, U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC

Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Intern

- Performed intelligence and link analysis for CTD projects, working with a variety of government databases; worked extensively with i2 software, including ibase and Analyst's Notebook.
- Wrote detailed reports and briefed division members on various CTD issues, including: analysis of specific incidents, analysis of wanted individuals, analysis of terrorist networks and activity trends.
- Facilitated multi-agency counterterrorism collaboration by responding to requests for information (ROIs) from the FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and others of the military and intelligence community; conducted necessary analysis and drafted ROI responses with minimal supervision.
Oxfam, North America Headquarters Boston, MA

Private Sector Division Research Intern

- Provided in-depth research and analysis support for a wide range of projects, such as one that explored new business models, public-private initiatives, and market-based approaches for poverty reduction.
Rudaw Media Company Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq

Correspondent

- Wrote articles on politics and security in Iraq and Kurdistan.
- Interviewed Kurdish and Iraqi MPs, government officials, senior party officials, and activists.
Office of President William J. Clinton New York, NY

Foreign Policy Researcher

- Prepared briefing documents in support of the President’s travels and meetings with foreign dignitaries.
- Materials produced included detailed country briefings, press overviews, head of state meeting briefings, and topic-related reports submitted to the President and/or distributed internally.
Human Security Association New York, NY

Research & Events Coordinator

- Organized charity event for Vietnamese children afflict

Policy Studies, Women's studies, Diplomatic History, Disaster Nursing, World History, Urban Studies, Gender Studies/Gender Theory, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Political Behavior, Psephology

12

Australia

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
- PhD
- Research Student
School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia
- PhD Candidate
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Australia
- Advanced Japanese Course
Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1
School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1 Preparation Class
Oasis Japanese Language School, Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Advanced Japanese Language Class
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Bachelor of Arts (Science, Technology and Society) Honours 1st Class
Sydney College of Homoeopathic Medicine, NSW, Australia
- Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathic Medicine
Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 Certificate
Kokusai High School, Tokyo, Japan
- Exchange Student

Translation experience includes the following.

The Mechanisms of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy. International Journal of Japanese Studies.

Translation checking for International Journal of Japanese Sociology

Japanese-English translation, Anakizumu bunken sent

Translation and native checking of Japanese-English translations Asia-Japan Womens Research Center

Japanese-English translation of product marketing information for Oasis Language School, Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Some of the translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- A conceptual framework for understanding race, class, gender, and sexuality
- Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychologies. IN: Naples, NA (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell En-cyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- The culture of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean
- The gender/sexuality reader: culture, history, political economy
- Sexual meanings: The cultural construction of gender and sexuality
- The Bohemian body: gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture
- Context and background: Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of class, gender and sexuality
- A conceptual framework for understanding race, class, gender, and sexuality
- Sexuality, queer theory, and feminism after: Reading and rereading the sexual subject
- America on film: Representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies
- Queer theory, butch/femme identities and lesbian space
- Gender and sexuality: Critical theories, critical thinkers
- Mind the gap Masculinity studies and contemporary gender/sexuality thinking
- On the depoliticisation of intersectionality talk: Conceptualising multiple oppressions in critical sexuality studies
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people of color: Understanding cultural complexity and managing multiple oppressions.
- Multiple oppressions and their influence on collective action: the case of the AIDS movement.
- Critical research and policy debates in disability and sexuality studies

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Research Assistant to Professor Vera Mackie

AEON Shiki School Higashi, Niiza City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

English Teacher

Edmen Community Staffing Solutions Shellharbour Road, Warrawong, NSW, Australia

Disability Support Worker

Australian Register of Homoeopaths Ltd. 122 Church Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Administrative Support Officer

Self-Employed Port Kembla and Thirroul, NSW, Australia

Homoeopath

Karuna Clinic, Homoeopathic and Complementary Medicine Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Receptionist

Illawarra Area Health Service and Illawarra and South-East Sydney Area Health Service Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Administrative Assistant

- Precarious Times: The Revolutionary Potentiality of the Present. In The Revolution of Time in a Time of Revolution. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Review of Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class. Intersections 28.
- The Sydney Homoeopathic Dispensary: A Social History of Homoeopathy in Early Sydney Honours dissertation, University of Wollongong.
- Academic Papers Presented
- The Circulation of Struggle: Sources of Contemporary Japanese Protest Culture, 17th Biennial Japan Studies Association of Australia, University of Melbourne.
- May Day! May Day! Freeters Fight for Freedom and Survival, Asian Studies Conference in Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo.
- Globalization from Below: Producing the Common in Tokyos Radical Spaces, Association for Asian Studies/International Convention of Asian Scholars Joint Conference, Honolulu.
- Japan Studies as a Political Practice: Subjectivity and the Research Process, Rhizomes VI, School of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
- All Power to the Precarious: The Politics of the Freeters Union, Japanese Studies Graduate Summer School, Australian National University.
- Precarious Times: The Immanence of Precarious Struggle, From Empire to Commonwealth, University of Wollongong.

- Monbukagakusho Research Student Scholarship
- Japan Studies Association of Australia Conference Postgraduate Scholarship
- Australian Postgraduate Award for Higher Degree Research
- Dean's Merit List 1st Class Honours, University of Wollongong
- Dean's Merit List for Academic Excellence, University of Wollongong
Memberships
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Japan Foundation, Sydney
- Japanese Studies Association of Australia
- Asian Studies Association of Australia
- Association for Asian Studies