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Laura Dales is the Discipline Chair of Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her primary research interests encompass agency, sexuality, friendship, dating in Asia, singlehood, and marriage within contemporary Japan. She is currently engaged in a book project derived from her Australian Research Council DECRA initiative, focusing on friendship and familial intimacy in contemporary Japan. In 2020, she collaborated with Dr. Nora Kottman on a project concerning the intimate practices of unmarried individuals in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, funded by the German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo (DIJ). Dales has held significant academic positions including a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and has served as a lecturer in Japanese at the University of South Australia. Her research themes generally include women’s groups, gender studies, and ethnographic approaches to friendship and marriage in Asia, employing feminist ethnography as a principal method. She has received the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, highlighting her contributions to the field.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Discipline Chair of Asian Studies, focusing on research and teaching in various aspects of Asian cultural studies.
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