Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Human Development and Consciousness
• Social Psychology
• Theories of Personality
• Stuctural Inequality and Diversity

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Narrative therapy and medicine
• Cultural sensitivity and competence
• Ethnic diversity
• Multicultural counseling and coaching
• Multiracial and transnational identities
• Japanese and Asian American studies

Professional Memberships:

• Fulbright Senior Research Grant
• Harvard University, Frederick Sheldon Fellow
• American Psychological Association
• Minority Fellow in Psychology
• Association of Asian American Studies
• Society for the Arts in Healthcare

Honors and Awards:

• Harvard University, Frederick Sheldon Fellow
• American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
• Matsushita International Research Grant
• Fulbright Senior Research Grant
• Japan Foundation Grant
• American Psychological Association, Dalmas A. Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award Nomination
  

Publications:

• Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2012). “Half” is Whole: Identities Crossing Borders of Race, Sex, and Nation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
• Katz, R. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2012). Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment: Insights From Cultural Diversity. Calgary, AB: Detselig
• Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity (Ed. with D. B. Willis) (2008). Routledge, London
• Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity (Ed. with D. B. Willis) (2007). Routledge, London
• Whose Responsibility? Therapists and Clients in a Multicultural World (2006). Japanese Journal of Family Therapy, Vol 22 No 3, pp. 224-227
• Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age (with J. A. Banks et al.) (2005). Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, Seattle
• Expanding the Borders of the Nation: Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Japan, (2004). In J. A. Banks (Ed.) Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, pp. 303-332). Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
• Ethnic diversity, identity, and citizenship in Japan, Harvard Asia Quarterly, (2004) Vol. VIII(1), 51-57
• Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan (with A. Onishi) (2003). Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13: 224-239
• Multicultural Encounters: Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice (2002). Teachers College Press, New York
• Amerasian Children: An Unknown Minority Problem (2002). Shueisha, Tokyo, Japan
• Multicultural Encounters: Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice (2002). Teachers College Press, New York
• Family Psychology and Family Therapy in Japan (2001). American Psychologist, January, Vol. 56, No 1, 65-70
• Cultural Psychiatry and Minority Identities: A Constructivist Narrative Approach to Therapy. (2000). Psychiatry, Vol. 63(4), 371-384
  

• Going Through the Wood in Asian America. Amerasia Journal, Special issue on Illness and Disabilities in Asian America.
• Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being “Half” in Japan, Review of book by Laurel Kamada. (Forthcoming, 2012). Social Science Japan Journal
• Asian American Student Stress: The Other Side of Achievement. With S., Sein, K., Wakimoto, P. & Wang, M. (Forthcoming, 2012). In Eunai Shrake and Edith Wen-Chu Chen (Eds.) Critical Issues and Debates in Asian American Studies, Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers.
• Balancing Worldviews and Identities in Becoming a Culturally Diverse Healer. In Katz, R. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) (Forthcoming, 2012). Synergy, Healing and Empowerment: Insights From Cultural Diversity: Calgary, AB: Detselig
• A Narrative Approach to Transformational Education: Cultural Training for Health Care Providers. In Katz, R. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) (Forthcoming, 2012). Synergy, Healing and Empowerment
• Synergy in Self-help Groups. With R. Katz. In Katz, R. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) (Forthcoming, 2012). Synergy, Healing and Empowerment
• The Experience of Vulnerability: A Key to the Education of Health Professionals. With R. Katz. (Forthcoming, 2012). In Katz, R. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) Synergy, Healing and Empowerment
• “Grandma, what do YOU want to do?” (Forthcoming, 2012). In Hough, L. (Ed.) The Challenges and Joys of Grandparenting. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books
• Multiracial Identities. (2011). In Juergensmeyer, M. & Anheier, H. (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
• Worlds Apart in Explanatory Models of Illness and Health. With M. Grainger-Monsen. (2011). In Colt, H. Friedman, L. & Quadrelli, S. (Eds.) The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press
• The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education, Review of book edited by James A. Banks. (2011). Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Volume 5, No 1, 67-69
• Understanding Self, Understanding Other. (2010). BMJ (British Medical Journal), 340: c2252
• Respect and Empathy in Teaching and Learning Cultural Medicine, (2010). Journal of General Internal Medicine, Special Issue on Health Disparities Education, Volume 25, Issue 2, 194-95
• The Impact of Film in Teaching Medicine. (2010). Family Medicine, Volume 42 , Number 3, 169-171
• Microaggressions by Supervisors of Color. (2010). Training and Education in Professional Psychology, Volume 4, Issue 1, 16-18
• Teaching Cross-cultural Competence Through Narrative. (2009). Family Medicine October, Volume 41, Issue 9, 622-4
• We are Not Our Bodies. (2009). Academic Medicine. August, Volume 84, Issue 8, 981
• Blessed Messy Work. (2009). American Journal of Nursing. February, Volume 109, Issue 2, 88
• Challenges of Japan’s New Diversity. (2008). With D. B. Willis. In F. Coulmas, H. Conrad, A. Schad-Seifert, G. Vogt (Eds.) The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan. pp. 293—315. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
• Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation in Japan. (2008). In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity. pp. 282—304. London: Routledge
• Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural Borderlands and Beyond. (2008). With D. B. Willis. In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.). Transcultural Japan. pp. 3—44. London: Routledge
• Ethnoscapes and the Other in 21st Century Japan. (2008). With D. B. Willis. In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) Transcultural Japan. pp. 305—324. London: Routledge
• Dilemmas of Human Relations of Korean International Students in Japan. (2006). In Lee. S., Murphy-Shigematsu, S. & Befu, H., (Eds.) Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Education. pp. 213—232. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
• Diverse Forms of Minority National Identities in Japan. (2006). In Lee. S., Murphy-Shigematsu, S. & Befu, H., (Eds.). Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Education. pp. 75—99. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
• Whose Responsibility? Therapists and Clients in a Multicultural World (2006). Japanese Journal of Family Therapy, Vol 22 No 3, pp. 224-227
• Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age (with J. A. Banks et al.) (2005). Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, Seattle
• Expanding the Borders of the Nation: Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Japan, (2004). In J. A. Banks (Ed.) Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, pp. 303-332). Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
• Ethnic diversity, identity, and citizenship in Japan, Harvard Asia Quarterly, (2004) Vol. VIII(1), 51-57
• Ethnic Diversity, Citizenship, and Education in Japan. (2004). In J. A. Banks (Ed.) Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, pp. 303—332. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/ Wiley.
• Multiethnic Identities in Japan. (2003). In M. Douglass and G. S. Roberts (Eds.), Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society, pp. 196—216. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
• Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan (with A. Onishi) (2003). Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13: 224-239
• Multicultural Counseling, (2002). In H. Shimoyama, and G. Tanno, (Eds.) Studies in Clinical Psychology, Volume 6: Society and Culture, University of Tokyo Press, pp. 309—332, (In Japanese).
• Multiethnic Lives and Monoethnic Myths: American-Japanese Amerasians in Japan. (2002). In T. K. Williams-Leon and C. Nakashima (Eds.), The Sum of Our Parts: Multiracial Asian Americans, Temple University Press, pp. 207—216
• Family Psychology and Family Therapy in Japan (2001). American Psychologist, January, Vol. 56, No 1, 65-70
• Multiethnic Identities in Japan, (2000). In M. Douglass and G. S. Roberts (Eds.), Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society, London: Routledge, pp. 196—216
• Cultural Psychiatry and Minority Identities: A Constructivist Narrative Approach to Therapy. (2000). Psychiatry, Vol. 63(4), 371-384

Presentations:

• Borderless Identities, Keynote Speech, “Changing Boundaries and Mixing Peoples: Reconsidering Who is Japanese Citizenship.” Center for Japanese Studies, University Ateneo de Manila, Manila Philippines, January 21, 2012
• Understanding Stress in Asian American Students Through Eliciting Family Narratives, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, December 5, 2011
• Understanding Japanese American Interracial Families, Buddhist Churches of America Minister Assistant Program, Center for Buddhist Education, Berkeley, CA, October 22, 2011
• The Tiger Mom Controversy and Asian Americans, Listen to the Silence Conference, Stanford University Asian American Student Association, Stanford University, May 17, 2011
• Negotiating Mixed and Multiple Ethnic and Racial Identities, Stanford University Asian American Student Association, Stanford University, May 10, 2011
• The New Face of Japanese America, Nikkei Retirement Group, Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, April 23, 2011
• Amerasian Performance. Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2010
• Developing Diversity Skills. Office of Student Affairs, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 17, 2010
• Health and Illness Narratives in Asian Immigrants. Ethnicity and Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, May 19, 2010
• Borderless Identities, Keynote Speech, “Changing Boundaries and Mixing Peoples: Reconsidering Who is Japanese Citizenship.” Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Languages, February 21, 2010
• The Changing Meanings of Being Japanese: Citizenship and Identity in Contemporary Japan, Temple University Japan, February 25, 2010
• Interracial Dating and Multiracial Identities, 14th Annual Listen to the Silence Conference 2010, Stanford University, January 23, 2010
• Trials of Transnational Asian American Families, Keynote Speech, Asian American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 13, 2009
• Cultural Barriers to the Development of a Storytelling Performance, Association of Asian American Studies, Honolulu, April 25, 2009
• Health and Illness Narratives in Asian Immigrants. Ethnicity and Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, April 19, 2009 
  

Funded Grants/Contracts:

• Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts Grant
• Stanford School of Medicine Shenson Fund Grant
• Fielding Faculty Research Grant

Professional Experience:

• Clinical and Cultural Psychology Consultant
• University of Tokyo, Associate Professor in International Education and Clinical Psychology, 1994-2005
• Temple University Japan, Assistant Professor in Psychology, 1989-1994
  

Other Professional Activities:

• President, PI Education and Health Research Group
• Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
• Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley.
• Stanford University School of Medicine, Consulting Professor, Program in Arts,
  Humanities and Medicine
• University of Tokyo, School of Medicine, Visiting Professor, Program in Global Health Leadership
• Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Editor
• Stanford University, Lecturer, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity