Dr. Shilla Lee
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Shilla Lee is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut für Modernes Japan, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Her work explores the intersection of contemporary craft and social change in rural Japan, with a current focus on the social and organisational aspects of collective craft co-operatives. She has recently joined a research project Traditional Craft Industries and Their Markets in 21st Century Japan – Social and Economic (Re-)Organisation led by Professor Harald Conrad, in which she will explore the social dynamics of local collective co-operatives as key to understanding the resilience of regional craft industries in Japan.
| October 2024 - September 2027 | Post-doctoral researcher, Traditional Craft Industries and Their Markets in 21st Century Japan – Social and Economic (Re-)Organisation (Prof. Dr. Harald Conrad), Modern Japanese Studies, Heinrich Heine Universität |
| September 2023 - August 2024 | Departmental Lecturer (Social Anthropology of Japan), Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) |
| September 2022 - September 2023 | Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures |
| 1 October - 31 December 2022 | Virtual fellow, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space |
| 1 October 2021 - 30 September 2022 | Associate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany |
| 1 September 2017 - 30 September 2021 | Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany |
Lee, S. (2025). Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003326540
Lee, S. (2025). Craft in an age of creativity: disengagement as a new mode of craftsmanship among traditional potters in Japan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 3(31). https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14235