Summary
Dr Cristina Rocha is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society and a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communications Arts, UWS. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism . Her research areas are: globalisation, religion, migration, transnationalism and cross-cultural negotiations, with a particular interest in the cultural traffic between Japan, Brazil and Australia.
Experience
- Senior Lecturer, University of Western Sydney 2011 – present
- Lecturer B, University of Western Sydney 2009 – 2010
- ARC Post doctoral fellow, University of Western Sydney 2006 – 2008
- Lecturer B, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University 2008 – 2008
- Lecturer , School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU 2005 – 2005
Education
- Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, PhD, 2004
- University of São Paulo, Brazil, M.Phil. (by dissertation), 1996
- University of São Paulo, Brazil, BSocSc. School of Social Sciences, 1986
Publications
- Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change (with Michelle Barker), Routledge 2011
- Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity, University of Hawaii Press 2006
Research Areas
- Globalisation And Culture (200206)
- Social And Cultural Anthropology (160104)
- Migration (160303)
- Religion And Society (220405)
Grants and Contracts
- Australian-Brazilian Connections: Mapping the Cultural Traffic in the Southern Hemisphere. (2006)
- Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Funding Source: ARC
Honours
2011 Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.
2000 Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Japan.
1992 Urasenke Foundation Scholarship, Japan.