PhD Social Anthropology, SOAS: University of London

MSc. Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

BSc. Archaeology, University of Liverpool

Health and Illness

Anthropology of Food

Medical Anthropology

Gender and Sexuality

Intimacy

Affect, Emotion, Feeling and Senses

Humanities & Social Sciences, Sociology of science, history of science and technology, Medical Anthropology

Life Science, Applied anthropology, Anthropology of Japan

Humanities & Social Sciences, Family and consumer sciences, and culture and living

Humanities & Social Sciences, Gender studies, Masculinities

Master's degree program, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

2022, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
‘Technologies of Care: Food Allergy Treatments in Japan and the UK’

2016, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
When Food is Risky: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK
Emma Cook

2010, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Emma Cook

2008, Meiji Jingu, Japanese Studies Research Scholarship
Emma Cook

2007, Federation for Women Graduates (FfWG), Main Foundation Grant
Emma Cook

2006, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship
Emma Cook

Serious Play and the Facilitation of Feeling in Food Allergy Advocacy in Japan
Emma E. Cook
Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Anthropological Uncovering, 132, 156, University of Toronto Press, Jan. 2026, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book

Motivation and Map
Daniel White; Emma E. Cook; Andrea De Antoni
Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Ethnographic Uncovering, 3, 9, University of Toronto Press, Jan. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］
English, In book

From the Field: Socialisation and the Production of Personhood through Food Sharing in Japan
Hendry Joy; Emma E. Cook
Understanding Japanese Society, 74, 75, Routledge, 18 Aug. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book

Healthcare and ageing (in Japan)
Emma E. Cook; Hendry Joy
Understanding Japanese Society, 6th edition, 152, 170, Routledge, 18 Aug. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], ［Internationally co-authored］
English, In book

Towards a common approach for managing food allergy and serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) at school. GA²LEN and EFA consensus statement
Antoine Deschildre; Montserrat Alvaro‐Lozano; Antonella Muraro; Marcia Podesta; Debra de Silva; Mattia Giovannini; Simona Barni; Timothy E. Dribin; Mónica Sandoval‐Ruballos; Aikaterini Anagnostou; Alessandro Fiocchi; Alice Toniolo; Andrew Bird; Angel Sánchez Sanz; Anna Asarnoj; Anna Nowak‐Wegrzyn; Berber Vlieg‐Boerstra; Brian P. Vickery; Carina Venter; Caroline Nilsson; Cecilia Parente; Céline Demoulin; David M. Fleischer; Diola Bijlhout; Edward F. Knol; Eleanor Garrow; Emma E. Cook; Fallon Schultz; Francesca Lazzarotto; Francesca Mori; Gary Wong; Gideon Lack; Graham Roberts; Gustavo Andres Marino; H. N. G. Oude Elberink; Helen A. Brough; Hugh A. Sampson; Jay Lieberman; Jennifer Gerdts; Jing Zhao; Josefine Gradman; Julia E. M. Upton; Julie Wang; Kati Palosuo; Kirsi M. Järvinen; Kirsten Beyer; Kunling Shen; Laura Polloni; Lianne Mandelbaum; Luciana Kase Tanno; Lucy A. Bilaver; Marcus S. Shaker; Margitta Worm; Maria Said; Mary Kelly; Mary Jane Marchisotto; Michael Makris; Mikaela Odemyr; Montserrat Fernandez‐Rivas; Motohiro Ebisawa; Nandinee Patel; Pablo Rodríguez del Río; Pakit Vichyanond; Paul Turner; Pete Smith; Pilar Morón Gaspar; R. Sharon Chinthrajah; Rima Rachid; Roberta Bonaguro; Ruchi Gupta; Sabine Schnadt; Sakura Sato; Stefania Arasi; Stephanie Leonard; Sung Poblete; Susanne Halken; Thuy‐My Le; Guillaume Pouessel; Tracey Dunn; Victoria Cardona; Torsten Zuberbier
Clinical and Translational Allergy, 15, 1, Wiley, Jan. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract

GA²LEN and EFA propose minimum specifications for all industrialised countries/regions to work towards to support students with food allergies in educational settings. We reviewed research and legislation and gained feedback from over 100 patient and professional groups. We built shared expectations around: 1. training all school staff about what food allergy is, the symptoms of allergic reactions, what to do in an emergency, and when and how to use and store devices that laypeople can use to administer adrenaline (epinephrine). 2. preventing allergic reactions by using clear labelling on school menus and prepacked and non‐prepacked foods and regular cleaning where students eat. 3. preparing for serious allergic reactions, with written emergency action plans for every student with food allergies, legislation allowing schools to store adrenaline for anyone who needs it in an emergency (not just those prescribed it), and training and legal safeguards for staff administering adrenaline. 4. including affected students by discussing food allergy in the curriculum, raising awareness among all students and caregivers and reviewing school processes regularly. It is time for national and international action at the policy level. Patient groups, education networks and professional societies all play a role in campaigning for shared next steps.

10 practical priorities to prevent and manage serious allergic reactions: GA2LEN ANACare and EFA Anaphylaxis Manifesto
Antonella Muraro; Debra de Silva; Marcia Podesta; Aikaterini Anagnostou; Victoria Cardona; Susanne Halken; Pete Smith; Luciana Kase Tanno; Paul Turner; Margitta Worm; Montserrat Alvaro-Lozano; Stefania Arasi; Anna Asarnoj; Simona Barni; Kirsten Beyer; Lucy A. Bilaver; Andrew Bird; Roberta Bonaguro; Helen A. Brough; R. Sharon Chinthrajah; Emma E. Cook; Céline Demoulin; Antoine Deschildre; Timothy E. Dribin; Motohiro Ebisawa; Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas; Alessandro Fiocchi; David M. Fleischer; Eleanor Garrow; Jennifer Gerdts; Mattia Giovannini; Kirsi M. Järvinen; Mary Kelly, Edward; F. Knol; Gideon Lack; Francesca Lazzarotto; Thuy-My Le; Stephanie Leonard; Jay Lieberman; Michael Makris; Lianne Mandelbaum; Mary Jane Marchisotto; Gustavo Andres Marino; Francesca Mori; Caroline Nilsson; Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn; Mikaela Odemyr; H. N.; G. Oude Elberink; Kati Palosuo; Nandinee Patel; Jennifer Pier; Sung Poblete; Rima Rachid; Pablo Rodríguez; del Río; Maria Said; Hugh A. Sampson; Angel Sánchez Sanz; Sabine Schnad; Fallon Schultz; Alice Toniolo; Julia E. M. Upton; Carina Venter; Brian P. Vickery; Berber Vlieg-Boerstra; Julie Wang; Graham Roberts; Torsten Zuberbier
Nov. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal

COFAITH and COMFA: A Collective Roadmap for Past and Future Food Allergy Clinical Trials and Observational Research on Interventions
Jennifer L. P. Protudjer; Daniel Munblit; Christian Apfelbacher; Mary Jane Marchisotto; Emma E. Cook; India Capper; Pablo Rodríguez Del Río; Pasquale Comberiati
Clinical & Experimental Allergy, Wiley, Sep. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal

Core Outcome Set for IgE-mediated food allergy clinical trials and observational studies of interventions: International Delphi consensus study ‘COMFA’
Anastasia Demidova; Karl Philipp Drewitz; Parisut Kimkool; Nikolina Banjanin; Vladyslava Barzylovich; Erna Botjes; India Capper; Mary Anne R. Castor; Pasquale Comberiati; Emma E. Cook; Joana Costa; Derek K. Chu; Michelle M. Epstein; Audrey Dunn Galvin; Mattia Giovannini; Frédéric Girard; Michael A. Golding; Matthew Greenhawt; Despo Ierodiakonou; Christina J. Jones; Ekaterina Khaleva; Rebecca C. Knibb; Melahat Sedanur Macit‐Çelebi; Douglas P. Mack; Isabel Mafra; Mary Jane Marchisotto; Dragan Mijakoski; Nikita Nekliudov; Cevdet Özdemir; Nandinee Patel; Ekaterina Pazukhina; Jennifer L. P. Protudjer; Pablo Rodríguez del Rio; Jelena Roomet; Patrick Sammut; Ann‐Marie Malby Schoos; Anita Fossaluzza Schopfer; Fallon Schultz; Nina Seylanova; Isabel Skypala; Martin Sørensen; Sasho Stoleski; Eva Stylianou; Julia Upton; Willem van de Veen; Jon Genuneit; Robert J. Boyle; Christian Apfelbacher; Daniel Munblit
Allergy, Wiley, 03 Mar. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］
English, Scientific journal, Abstract

Background

IgE‐mediated food allergy (FA) is a global health concern with substantial individual and societal implications. While diverse intervention strategies have been researched, inconsistencies in reported outcomes limit evaluations of FA treatments. To streamline evaluations and promote consistent reporting, the Core Outcome Measures for Food Allergy (COMFA) initiative aimed to establish a Core Outcome Set (COS) for FA clinical trials and observational studies of interventions.

Methods

The project involved a review of published clinical trials, trial protocols and qualitative literature. Outcomes found as a result of review were categorized and classified, informing a two‐round online‐modified Delphi process followed by hybrid consensus meeting to finalize the COS.

Results

The literature review, taxonomy mapping and iterative discussions with diverse COMFA group yielded an initial list of 39 outcomes. The iterative online and in‐person meetings reduced the list to 13 outcomes for voting in the formal Delphi process. One more outcome was added based on participant suggestions after the first Delphi round. A total of 778 participants from 52 countries participated, with 442 participating in both Delphi rounds. No outcome met a priori criteria for inclusion, and one was excluded as a result of the Delphi. Thirteen outcomes were brought to the hybrid consensus meeting as a result of Delphi and two outcomes, ‘allergic symptoms’ and ‘quality of life’ achieved consensus for inclusion as ‘core’ outcomes.

Conclusion

In addition to the mandatory reporting of adverse events for FA clinical trials or observational studies of interventions, allergic symptoms and quality of life should be measured as core outcomes. Future work by COMFA will define how best to measure these core outcomes.

Anthropological and sociological perspectives on food allergy
Emma E. Cook
Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 53, 10, 989, 1003, Wiley, 31 Aug. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract

This review explores the anthropological and sociological literature on food allergy and identifies four primary areas of research to date. The first explores the relationality and management of risk, uncertainty and stigma among parents and sufferers of food allergies. The second analyses the influence of intersectionality, specifically the effects of class, gender, race/ethnicity and disability on experiences of food allergy. The third discusses diagnostic difficulties and the impact these have on legitimacy and believability, both in the context of clinician–patient relations and in managing food allergies in public spaces. The fourth explores the ethics and uncertainties in food allergy treatments and how scientific knowledge of emerging treatments is constructed. This body of research illustrates that although an individual disease, food allergy experiences are significantly affected by socio‐cultural structures, institutions, ideologies and discourses. The review concludes with four primary recommendations. First, there should be more incorporation of anthropological or sociological methodologies and perspectives into studies of food allergy. Second, studies are needed from more countries exploring lived experience of food allergy. Third, research on food allergy needs to incorporate an analysis of intersectional factors such as gender, class and race/ethnicity, and should explore the experiences of minority populations. Fourth, more research is needed on the interactions between biomedicine and local systems of knowledge, as well as the factors that shape what treatments become available, for whom it becomes available, experiences of treatment and aspects (including biases) that influence patient–clinician interactions.

“I’m Not a Real Freeter: Aspiration and Irregular Labour in Japan,”
Emma E. Cook
Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work, Jul. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book, 11359774

“Undoing, Doing, Redoing” Commentary on “We are not Ikumen, We are Self-Reliant Househusbands: Crafting a Stay-At-Home-Father Identity in Japan.”
Emma E Cook
Current Anthropology, 63, 5, 555, 556, University of Chicago Press, Sep. 2022, [Invited], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal

Embodied Memory, Affective Imagination, and Vigilance: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan
Emma E. Cook
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 45, 4, 544, 564, Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}, 25 Dec. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

‘Participant-Observation and Interviews: Going with the flow and dipping in and out’
Emma E. Cook
Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods., Dec. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book, 11359771;11359774

Masculinity Studies in Japan
Emma E. Cook
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, 50, 59, 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, In book

‘Food Allergies, Illness and Personhood in Japan’
Emma E. Cook
Understanding Japanese Society, Jul. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

‘Microbial Management’
Emma E. Cook
Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights (Cultural Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, Theorizing the Contemporary: Fieldsights, Apr. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

Feeling (with) Japan: affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field
De Antoni, A.; Cook, E.E.
Asian Anthropology, 18, 3, 139, 153, EAJS Bulletin 88: 55-57., 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

'Reflections on Fieldwork: Exploring Intimacy’
Emma E. Cook
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
Allison Alexy; Emma E. Cook
University of Hawai’i Press., Oct. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], ［Internationally co-authored］
English

Power, Intimacy and Irregular Employment in Japan
Emma E. Cook
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Oct. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book, 11359774;11359775

Exploring Masculinities and Labour through Intimacy
Emma E. Cook
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Oct. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, In book, 11359774;11359775

Human-Microbe Entanglements: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK
Emma E. Cook
More-than-Human Worlds: A NatureCulture Blog Series, More-than-Human Worlds: A NatureCulture Blog Series (peer-reviewed), Jul. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

Book Review: Affective states: entanglements, suspensions, suspicions, edited by Mateusz Laszczkowski & Madeleine Reeves.
Emma E. Cook
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(1), 2018

Risk and Affective Co-ordination: Food Allergy Experiences in the UK
Emma E. Cook
Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology (JRCA) 18(1): 129-142., 18, 1, 129, 142, Dec. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Domestic magazines]
English, Scientific journal, 11359771

Aspirational Labour, Performativity and Masculinities in the Making
Emma E. Cook
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 41., 41, Dec. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

(Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan
Emma E. Cook
Japanese Studies, 36, 2, 155, 172, Routledge, 03 May 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Reconstructing adult masculinities: Part-time work in contemporary Japan
Cook, E.E.
Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-Time Work in Contemporary Japan, Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-Time Work in Contemporary Japan, 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English

Adulthood as Action Changing Meanings of Adulthood for Male Part-Time Workers in Contemporary Japan
Emma E. Cook
Asian Journal of Social Science, 44, 3, 317, 337, 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Intimate Expectations and Practices: Freeter Relationships and Marriage in Contemporary Japan
Emma E. Cook
Asian Anthropology, 13, 1, 36, 51, 2014, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Expectations of failure: Maturity and masculinity for freeters in contemporary Japan
Emma E. Cook
Social Science Japan Journal, 16, 1, 29, 43, Feb. 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Still a child?: Liminality and the construction of youthful masculinities in Japan
Cook, E.E.
Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures, 9780815651697, 58, 81, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 11359774;11359775

Freeters' Search for a Fulfilling Lifestyle
Emma E. Cook
'Kamizono' Journal of the Meiji Jingu Research Institute, 22年, 3, 94, 101, 明治神宮国際神道文化研究所, May 2010, [Invited], [Lead author], [Domestic magazines]
Japanese, Research institution, 11359774;11359775

‘Jyuujitsu shita ikikata wo suru tame ni furiitaa ga motomeru mono’ in Kamizono Dai San Gou Heisei 22 Nen 5 Gatsu, Meiji Jingu Kokusai Shinto Bunka Kenkyuujou. [“Freeters' Search for a Fulfilling Lifestyle” (Translated by Ito Moriyasu)
Emma E. Cook
Kamizono' Journal of the Meiji Jingu Research Institute (No 3 May 2010)], 2010

Review (invited) of Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabriele Koch. 2020.
Emma E COOK, Social Science Japan Journal, 03 Dec. 2021, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Oxford University Press (OUP), English, Book review

Review (invited) of Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith. 2019.
Emma E. Cook, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27, 2, 439, 440, Jun. 2021, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Wiley, English, Book review

Review (invited) of Affective states: entanglements, suspensions, suspicions, edited by Mateusz Laszczkowski & Madeleine Reeves. 2018.
Emma E. Cook, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(1): 192-193., 27, 1, 192, 193, Feb. 2021, [Invited], [International Magazine]
English, Book review

Review (invited) of Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama. 2016.
Emma E. Cook, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24, 1, 197, 198, Mar. 2018, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Wiley, English, Book review

Book Review: Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Love, Sex and Labor, by Ayako Kano. 2016
Emma E. Cook, Japanese Studies 37(2):, 37, 2, 265, 266, 2017, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Japanese Studies 37(2): 265–266, English, Book review

「食物アレルギー対応が広がるには何が必要？／システムと文化の視点から」
Emma Cook, NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワーク アレルギー相談をテーマにした：第3回事例検討報告集., 2016, 71, 72, Mar. 2016, [Invited]
NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワーク アレルギー相談をテーマにした：第3回事例検討報告集. Pp. 71-72., Japanese, Report research institution

Review (invited) of Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Emma E. Cook, American Anthropologist, 118, 1, 195, 196, Mar. 2016, [Invited], [International Magazine]
English, Book review

Book Review: Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance, by Nancy Rosenberger. 2013.
Emma E. Cook, Japan Forum, 27, 4, 566, 568, 2015, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Japan Forum 27 (4): 566-568, English, Book review

Review of Disseration ‘Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives,’ by Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Emma E. Cook, Dissertation Reviews, 2014, [Invited]
Dissertation Reviews, English, Book review

Book Review: Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
Emma E. Cook, Social Science Japan Journal, 15, 1, 153, 156, 2012, [Invited], [International Magazine]
Social Science Japan Journal, English, Book review

〔Major achievements〕Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Ethnographic Uncovering
Daniel White; Emma E. Cook; Andrea De Antoni
University of Toronto Press, Jan. 2026, 9781487559793, 312, English, Scholarly book, ［Internationally co-authored］, [Peer-reviewed], [Joint editor]

〔Major achievements〕Understanding Japanese Society
Joy Hendry, Emma E. Cook
Routledge, Aug. 2025, 9781032871530, 344, 344, English, Textbook, ［Internationally co-authored］, [Peer-reviewed], [Joint work]

"Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field"
Emma E. Cook (with); Andrea De Antoni
Asian Anthropology (Special Issue), 2019, English, [Peer-reviewed], [Joint editor]

〔Major achievements〕Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
Allison Alexy, Emma E. Cook
University of Hawai’i Press, Oct. 2018, English, Scholarly book, ［Internationally co-authored］, [Peer-reviewed], [Joint editor]

〔Major achievements〕Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
Emma E. Cook
Routledge, 2016, English, Scholarly book, 11359774;11359775, [Peer-reviewed], [Single work]

Food Allergies and Gender
Cook; Emma E
Invited lecture at: NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワーク, 10 Aug. 2023, Japanese, Public discourse
11359771, [Invited]

“Reading the Air & Creating Trouble with Food Allergies in Japan.”
Cook; Emma E
Invited Lecture at: Hokkaido International Foundation. Hakodate, Japan., 14 Jul. 2023, English, Public discourse
11359771, [Invited]

“Uncertainty and Risk: Food Allergies at Work in Japan.”
Emma E. Cook
Metropolitan State University of Denver. Invited Lecture, 28 Feb. 2023, English, Invited oral presentation
11359771, [Invited]

“Disclosing Food Allergies in Japan: Reading the Air, Imagination, and Trouble.”
Emma E. Cook
University of Colorado, Boulder. Invited Lecture, 27 Feb. 2023, English, Public discourse
11359771, [Invited]

“Reading the Air and Creating Trouble: Food Allergy Disclosures in Japan.”
Emma E. Cook
University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies. Noon Lecture Series, 19 Jan. 2023, English, Public discourse
11359771, [Invited]

Imagined Futures: Food Allergies at Work
Emma E. Cook
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), 28 Aug. 2021, Oral presentation
11359771

Ranran Lunch! Serious Play, Food Allergies, and the Cultivation of Empathic Feeling in Japan
Emma E. Cook
ASA Conference, 01 Apr. 2021, English, Oral presentation
11359771

‘Reading the Air’ and Imagination: Food Allergy Tracking in Japan
Emma E. Cook
Skills of Feeling with the World, Fifth Workshop: Affective Technologies of Memory and Imagination, 19 Jan. 2020, Invited oral presentation
[Invited]

Activist Food Allergy Experts: Accountability and the Case of Nut Bans on Flights
Emma E. Cook
American Anthropological Association Conference, 22 Nov. 2019, Oral presentation

“Allergens in the Air: Peanuts on Airplanes”
Emma Cook
ASA Conference, University of East Anglia, 04 Sep. 2019, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

“Microbial Management and Technologies of Care”
Emma Cook
The Skills of Feeling with the World, Fourth Workshop at Ritsumeikan University., 27 Feb. 2019, English, Oral presentation
[Invited]

“Human-Microbe Symbiosis and Entanglement in Japan”
Emma Cook
American Association of Anthropology (AAA), 16 Nov. 2018, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

“Sociality and Imagination: Food Allergy Enskilment in Japan”
Emma E. Cook
ASA Conference, Oxford, 19 Sep. 2018, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

“Human-Microbe Entanglement: Food Allergies in Japan”.
Emma E. Cook
Association of Asian Studies, Washington., 23 Mar. 2018, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Experiencing Food Allergies in Contemporary Japan
Emma Cook
University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, 15 Mar. 2018, English, Invited oral presentation
[Invited]

Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Food Allergy Tracking in Japan
Emma Cook
The Skills of Feeling with the World Workshop: Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination Skills, 03 Feb. 2018, English
[Invited]

“Feeling (in) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field”
Emma Cook (with; Andrea De Antoni
European Association of Asian Studies, 02 Sep. 2017, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

Gender and Food Allergies in Japan and the UK
Emma Cook
【馬場ゼミ／考えるための道しるべ】, 2017, Japanese
[Invited]

“One Pot, One Family”: Food Sharing and Affective Entanglements in Japan
Emma Cook
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Spring Conference. Osaka Gakuin University., 2017

Food Allergies, Senses and Personhood in Japan and the UK
Emma Cook
East Asian Anthropological Association. Hokkaido University, 2016

Food Allergies & the Rituals of School Lunch in Contemporary Japan
Emma Cook
European Association of Japanese Studies. Kobe University, 2016

Food Allergies & the Production of Personhood in Japan
Emma Cook
Joint East Asian Studies Conference, SOAS, London, 2016

Can’t Get Married? Imagining Families from the Irregular Labour Market
Emma Cook
Association of Asian Studies in Asia, Kyoto: ‘Horizons of Hope’ conference, 2016

Growing Up is Giving In? Negotiating Adulthood through Intentional Action
Emma Cook
Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, 2016

Risky Eating: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan
Emma Cook
Hokkaido University-Ghent University Joint Symposium, 2016

Feelings, Senses and Risk in Food Allergy Experiences in the UK
Emma Cook
Ritsumeikan University interdisciplinary workshop titled: “The Skill of Feeling with the World”, 2016

Broken Bodies, Labour and Well being
Emma Cook
BAJS (Japan Branch) conference titled “Health and Well being in Contemporary Japan”, 2015

Aspirational Labour and Masculinities in the Making
Emma Cook
British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS) conference, SOAS, 2015

School-to-Work Transitions and the Changing Meanings of Adulthood for Male Freeters in Contemporary Japan
Emma Cook
Becoming An Adult In East Asia: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches Conference, 28 Feb. 2014, English
[Invited], [International presentation]

Precarious Masculinities: Forging Alternatives Through Part-Time Work?
Emma Cook
Joint Workshop on Contemporary Social and Cultural Change in Taiwan and Japan, 2014, English
[Invited], [International presentation]

Disconnections, Silence & Sadness: Family Negotiations among Male Freeters
Emma Cook
Association for Asian Studies, 19 Mar. 2013, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

Discursive Constructions of Masculinity, Past and Present
Emma Cook
German Institute of Japanese Studies, 28 Jul. 2011, English, Oral presentation

Employment, Masculinity, and Perceptions of Failure in Contemporary Japan
Emma Cook
The Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Jul. 2011, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation]

Navigating Dominant Discourses of Manhood in Japan
Emma Cook
Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), 26 Jun. 2011

“If I knew then what I know now...: Reflections on fieldwork”
Emma Cook
Japan Fieldwork Workshop, Sophia University, Tokyo, Feb. 2011, English
[Invited]

"Marry a Freeter?!” Perceptions of Marriage and Stability among Japanese Women’
Emma Cook
British Association of Japanese Studies, Sep. 2010, English

Trajectories and Cohorts in Japan Anthropology (Participant on roundtable)
Emma Cook
Japan Anthropology Workshop Conference, Mar. 2010, English
[International presentation]

Failing Freeters: Young Men, Masculinity and Adulthood in Japan
Emma Cook
European Japan Research Centre, Oxford-Brookes University, Feb. 2010, English
[Invited]

Japanese ‘Freeters’: Moving Beyond the Salaryman ‘Model’ of Masculinity
Emma Cook
European Association of Japanese Studies, 2009, English

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Work and Manhood in Japan
Emma Cook
Anthropology in London III Conference, 2009, English

Saviours or Slackers?: The Diverse Valuations of Freeters in Contemporary Japan
Emma Cook
Anthropology in London Conference, 2008, English

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プロジェクトスタディⅡ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

プロジェクトスタディⅢ（卒業論文）, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部

Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅲ(Society), 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部

Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅲ(Society), 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

Multiculturality in Hokkaido and Japan, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部

Multiculturality in Hokkaido and Japan, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

情報学 Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 全学教育

日本文化論Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

日本社会論Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程

特別講義, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

特別講義, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部

Technologies of Care: Food Allergy Treatments in Japan and the UK
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026
Emma Cook
This project seeks to answer: what are the social, cultural and medical factors that lead to different understandings and availability of food allergy treatments in Japan and the UK? To answer this I will explore the following questions: 1. What factors shape the different availability of OIT as a potential treatment in Japan and the UK? 2. How do cultural ideas of food, health and illness shape medical and parent/patient narratives of food allergy experiences and understandings of OIT? and 3. How do these ideas shape institutional arrangements (e.g. availability of treatments)?
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, 22K01071

When Food is Risky: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2019
Emma Cook
In this research I explored the social experiences of individuals with food allergies in Japan and the UK. Although people with food allergies often experience similar things, for example, a lack of understanding about food allergy from friends, family and the wider community food allergy, there are also differences due to different cultural ideas about food and the body mean that people with food allergies in Japan and the UK have some different social issues and different ways to try and solve them. In Japan, for example, parents of children with food allergy typically discuss food allergies as a disease. In the UK, however, parents are more likely to talk about food allergies as a condition to be managed. Whilst individuals with food allergies may share many similar experiences, socio-cultural ideas of food, bodies and health mitigate and mediate social experiences of food allergies in different countries.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, 16K03211

Japanese Freeters: Experiences of Employment, Life-course and Masculinity
Postdoctoral Researcher (Short-term)
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2011
Emma Cook
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding

Freeters in Contemporary Japan: An Ethnography of Challenged Masculinities
Japanese Studies Fellowship
Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2007
Emma Cook
Japan Foundation, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding