Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

smshige@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9741 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Research Interests
Mental health, health disparities, culture, and race; transcultural, transnational identities, diversity, ethnicity, and citizenship in Japan and the United States.

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu received his doctorate from Harvard in psychology. He has been on the faculty of the University of Tokyo since 1994 and was a Fulbright scholar in Okinawa. His research focuses on Japanese and American multicultural and transnational themes. He is also cultural trainer with the U.S. Marines as well as a psychotherapist engaged in narrative forms of clinical writing.

His publications include the books Multicultural Encounters and Amerasian Children, articles in Psychiatry and American Psychologist, and papers on citizenship in Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives and in the Harvard Asia Quarterly. He also co-authored Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age. This year he will co-publish two edited volumes: Multiculturalism in Japan: Being Others in the Transnational Borderlands and Japan/s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Education.

Other affiliations
University of Tokyo