Research Interests:

Dr. Mori has been a professor of Sociology at Cal Poly since 1986. She recently returned from one and a half years of research and teaching in China. Interests include Asian cultures, ethnic relations, women's studies, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and Japanese tea ceremony. Geographical interests are in Asia i.e. China, Korea, and Japan.

Currently, Professor Mori is researching immigrant adaptation and religious practice among members of the Central Coast India Club. In China, Korea, and Japan she is researching higher education for women. Past research has focused on the Japanese Tea Ceremony as leisure for Japanese and foreigners.

Other involvement includes Chi Delta Theta a student sorority for Asian American women, Pi Gamma Mu and Phi Beta Delta an International Honor Society.

Courses:

• SOC 105: Instroduction to Sociology course description
• SOC 311: Sociology of Gender course descriptions
• SOC 315: Race and Ethnic Relations course descriptions
• SOC 316: American Ethnic Minorities course description
• SOC 350: Sociology of Japancourse description
• SOC 351: Women of East Asia course description
• HUM 310: Japanese Culture
• HUM 310: Chinese Culture

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Publications

• "Traditional Arts as Leasure Activities for Contemporary Japanese Women" in Re-Imageing Japanese Women, UC Berkeley Press, Anne Imamura, ed. 1996.
• American Studying the Traditional Art of the Tea Ceremony Edwin Mellon Press. Japanese 1992.
• "The Tea Ceremony Ritual in Transistion" Gender and Society Vol 5 No 1 March 1991

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