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MERKLEJN, Iwona

Department / Course

Aoyama Gakuin University School of Cultural and Creative Studies Department of Cultural and Creative Studies

Job Professor

Specialization and related fields
Sociology, Japanese history, Sports sciences, Gender studies, Historical studies in general

Business career
1.	1999/10 ～ 2003/09	part-time lecturer University of Warsaw Oriental Studies Institute, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies
2.	2003/10 ～ 2004/03	research fellow University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science
3.	2004/10 ～ 2005/09	part-time lecturer University of Warsaw Oriental Studies Institute, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies
4.	2005/10 ～ 2008/10	assistant professor University of Warsaw Oriental Institute, Department of Japanese Studies
5.	2007/10 ～ 2012/02	assistant professor Nicolaus Copernicus University Faculty of Languages, Japanese Language and Culture Center
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Belonging society
1.	2003/08 ～ 2007/08	European Association for Japanese Studies
2.	2006/04 ～ 2010/03	Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society
3.	2008/09 ～ 2017/12	Polish Communication Association
4.	2013/07 ～ 2019	Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies
5.	2015/04 ～	The Society of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University

Official position and committee in Univ.
1.	2022/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Associate Director, The International Center
2.	2024/04/01 ～ 2026/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Associate Director, The International Center

Book and thesis
1.	Books	The Development and Popularity of Volleyball in Japan: The Impact of the "Witches of the Orient" (Co-authored) 2024
2.	Books	Sport, media and technonationalism in the history of the Tokyo Olympics, in: Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media (Co-authored) 2018
3.	Papers	Japanese-Polish aid for refugees from Ukraine: multilevel governance, soft power and international cooperation Studia Polityczne 54 (1),pp.99-131 (Co-authored) 2026
4.	Papers	Hate Speech and the Polarization of Japanese National Newspapers Social Science Japan Journal (Co-authored) 2020
5.	Papers	The Taming of the Witch: Daimatsu Hirobumi and Coaching Discourses of Women's Volleyball in Japan Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3 (2),pp.115-129 (Sole-authored) 2014
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