DPhil Student
St Cross College
Dennis-Hajime Hatsushikano（初鹿野 孟）is a DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. His research examines housing, wellbeing, and welfare in Japan, engaging broader questions in architectural anthropology, infrastructure and the built environment, as well as the sensory and embodied dimensions of everyday domestic life.
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic experience with Japanese communities in Japan, the United States, and Brazil, he will undertake doctoral fieldwork in Nayoro, Hokkaido, northern Japan (2026–2027). The project is developed through a collaborative framework involving residents of public housing complexes, the Nayoro municipal government, and Nayoro City University, including its Community Care Education and Research Center.
Thesis title: Housing, wellbeing and welfare in Japan
Research interests: anthropology of housing; domestic life; intimacy; infrastructure and the built environment; sensory anthropology; embodiment; food and sushi; autism; Japan.
Email: dennishajime.hatsushikano@stx.ox.ac.uk
