Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス)

Assistant Professor of Japanese History at @pacificu. Working on a monograph about the gendering of the Shinto priesthood in postwar Japan. 現代女子神職を研究している。

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@MimusubiShinto I don't know if you've seen the religious attitudes of college students surveys that Kokugakuin runs (helps run?), but this reminds me a little bit of that! Would be interesting to compare them.

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

The dissertation is on ProQuest for anyone who is interested (although...the typos plague me...and will be corrected in the monograph version, I promise).

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Extremely honored to be a finalist for the 2024 MJHA dissertation prize! What a lovely surprise.

[Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist]

We are thrilled to announce the three finalists for the 2024 MJHA Dissertation Prize (given to a dissertation filed in 2022).

The winner will be announced next week, so stay tuned!

@utkhistory

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Spirited Away was what originally got me interested in Japanese Studies, so, as I tell my students, if you care too much about anime sometimes you wind up with a PhD. Hopefully I can save my audience from the PhD but still impart some knowledge about Japanese religion!

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

For folks in the Portland area, I'll be doing an introductory lecture for Spirited Away as part of @OMSI's Studio Ghibli Film Festival on January 31! Details and tickets over here: https://t.co/kEHLM0ym8i

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@Matthew55Mc @dryamagishi5 Oh, awesome! I will definitely pass this onto him!

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

I have a student doing a capstone on Japanese healthcare who is looking for scholarship on the history of healthcare in Japan and/or contemporary healthcare. I have a couple of thoughts, but I figured I would 募集 folks with more expertise. He CAN read Japanese. Suggestions?

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@pare_desu Yes, that was my first thought as well! Also have Colonizing Sex on the list (although I think that might be a bit further afield than he's looking). You probably know the medical anthro lit. for Japan better than I do--is there anything there he should be looking at?

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Oh hey, this is me! (Very delighted to have my research featured--and hopefully more widely accessible research forthcoming.)

[Mimusubi @MimusubiShinto]

Thanks to an article in Jinja Shinpō, I discovered someone doing very interesting research on female priests in English.

https://t.co/f7SbQFzB3o

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@MimusubiShinto Oh wow! I'm asking some priest friends if they happen to have a copy they can scan, so hopefully I'll be able to see it in the not-too-distant future. :)

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

『神社新報』での登場。
I was mentioned in Jinja Shinpō (Jinja Honcho's newspaper)! And also appeared in the tiniest image possible.
https://t.co/MgQqtFh1zn

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@Bec_Edo That's so interesting--I know it from Nagoya-ben! So it must be pretty widespread...
(My actual favorite bit of 方言 is 蚊に食われた and I will use it all the time; it's visceral in a way that 刺された just is not.)

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Really loved this interview! Will almost certainly be sharing it with some of my students, since a lot of these topics have come up in office hours before.

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

I also tend to share this guide with my students re: gendered Japanese: https://t.co/g5ffR426e0
(Caveat: I currently teach content, not language--but usually have a couple of students enrolled in my classes who are taking Japanese language concurrently.)

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

I have absolutely used えらい wrong in Tokyo and been dunked on for it. 😅(~とる instead of ~ている and ~とらん instead of ~ていらない are the others that tend to slip into my speech when I'm not paying attention.)

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

@ata225 @ErnilsL Ooh, extremely excited to read this!!

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

*女子神職... やはり感動しすぎて、ミスがありましたね　笑

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

昨日、全国女子神職協議会教養研修会で講師として発表させていただきました。ずっと私の研究を研究対象である女神神職さんに伝えたいという気持ちはありましたので、その機会があって、本当に嬉しいです。皆さんのご感想、貴重な話も聞かせていただいて、感動しました。

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

報告は少し遅いですが、来週の月曜日（7月10日）に女子神職教養研修会で講師として発表させていただきます。全国女子神職協議会の皆さん、よろしくお願い致します。

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Does this make up for the fact that I spent several hours today manually sorting muddy coins that we pulled out of the offertory boxes because all the banks are now charging for the use of their coin sorting machines? Well...I guess that's just how fieldwork is sometimes.

[Dana Mirsalis (デイナ・マサリス) @danamirsalis]

Apparently the shrine kept the 草履 with my name on them...😭