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Nara specializes in Cultural Anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork with Hui people, a Muslim minority in China, focusing on Islamic revival in the post-Mao era, practices related to autonomy, and historical change in religiosity and ethnicity. His publications include The “Islamic Movement” in Contemporary China: An Ethnography of Hui People Living in Difficulty (in Japanese, Fukyosha, 2016), and ‘Autonomy in Movement: Informal Islamic Pedagogical Activities among Hui Muslims in China’ (Déjà Lu 6: 1-51, in English, 2018). He received his Ph.D. from University of Tsukuba in 2014. Before joining Minpaku in April 2019, he worked as associate professor at Hokkaido University. He received ‘the 12th IISR Award’ from the International Institute for the Study of Religion (IISR) (18 February, 2017) and ‘the 12th JASCA Young Scholars Promotion Award’ from the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) (May 28, 2017) for his anthropological studies on a Muslim minority in China.