Teruko Mitsuhara

Lecturer

Office: 351B Haines Hall

Research Interests

Utopia; intentional communities; religious migration; multilingualism; children's peer-group socialization; language contact; Russian, Bengali, and Spanish in West Bengal; Guru English; religious code and language enchantment; conversion; Gaudiya Vaishnavism; Hare Krishnas; India and U.S.

Awards & Grants

Awards

2018 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
2018 American Association of University Women — Dissertation Writing Fellowship (declined)2016 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2016 Wenner Gren Dissertation Research Fellowship
2015 Alice Belkin Memorial Scholarship
2015 Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowship and UCLA Asia Institute
2015 Dr. Penny Anawalt Grant
2015 UCLA CLIC Field Equipment Award
2015 Department of Education Critical Language Scholarship – Bengali
2014 UCLA Anthropology Department Research and Conference Grant
2014-2015 Graduate Research Mentorship
2014 Laurie Duthie Fellowship
2013 UCLA Anthropology Research Grant
2013 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2013 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
2013 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention)
2012 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2011 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship

Degrees

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, 2019: Moving Toward Utopia: Language, Empathy, and Chastity among Mobile Mothers and Children in Mayapur, West Bengal

Teruko Mitsuhara