Tomomi Yamaguchi is an associate professor of anthropology at Montana State University, specializing in feminism, popular culture, nationalism, and social movements in contemporary Japan. Her expertise is in critical cultural studies and historically grounded anthropology, with her focus being on gender and civil/human rights in Japan. During her graduate training at the University of Michigan, and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, she developed expertise in historically grounded anthropology and East Asian studies, with her focus being on gender and civil/human rights in contemporary Japan. At Montana State University, her research trajectory has led her to new areas of study such as grassroots conservative movements, historical revisionism, nationalism, racism, xenophobia, and the mass and social media. Her ethnographic and historical research on the feminist movement in Japan is longstanding, and was the topic of her dissertation research which focused on a dissolved Tokyo-based feminist group, Women's Action Group, and its members' attempt to recreate their history. She also conducted a major post-dissertation project on the backlash against feminism in Japan, and recently she has been working on ultranationalist movements in Japan, as well as the contemporary debate on wartime "comfort women" (women forced to serve sexual servitude for the Japanese military during WWII) in Japan and the United States. While her work is rooted in sociocultural anthropology, she is a scholar with a strong interdisciplinary background who works and writes bilingually in English and Japanese. As a teacher, she has taught courses in anthropology, Japan studies, women's and gender studies, and communication studies at institutions in the United States and Japan. She has also engaged in various on and off campus services and outreach projects in Japan and the United Sta,EST and has gained considerable experience organizing various scholarly and community events.