| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Religious Studies |
| Graduate School | Religious Studies |
| Department | Religious Studies |
Career
| Sep. 2007 : | Doctor of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology (Religious Studies), The University of Tokyo |
| Apr. 2024 : | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Religious studies
1) Orientalism Issues Related to India, Especially in the Late 18th Century
Tomizawa focuses on the complexity and uniqueness of the Orientalism toward India, and has worked on how the British started the modern study of India in the late 18th century. She also attempts to trace the ideological genealogy before and after that time, and to link the critique to a reconsideration of contemporary Indian studies.
2) The History of the Modern Concept of Religion in India
Based on the critical argument that modern religious concepts are constructs of modern Western society, Tomizawa attempts to examine and trace how the non-Western world has played a role in constructing modernity, focusing on the usage of such English terms as “spirituality” and “secularism.”
3) Socio-cultural Significance of British Cemeteries in India in a Global Context
In British cemeteries in India, we can find quite unique funeral expressions, which cannot be found in the West of that era. Tomizawa focuses, in particular, on obelisk-shaped tombstones and attempts to examine how they appeared and developed, relating them to the issue of Orientalism and the perspective of global history.
