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Liliana Morais

College of Sociology, Rikkyo University, Japan

Liliana Morais holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan). Her research focuses on exploring craft through the lens of mobility, migration, and rural revitalization, with a focus on Japan from a transnational, transcultural, transdisciplinary perspective. She curated the exhibition "From Japan to Brazil: The Journey of Oriental Ceramics", held at Caixa Cultural Salvador, Brazil (2012), and was a collaborator at the Cunha Ceramics Cultural Institute, where she published the book "Cunha Ceramics: 40 years of Noborigama kiln in Brazil" (ICCC, 2016, in Portuguese). She has published articles in various journals in her field, such as “Spicing Up a 150-Year-Old Porcelain Factory: Art, Localism and Transnationalism in Arita's Happy Lucky Kiln” (Japanese Journal of Sociology, 2020) and "Material and Spiritual Entanglements with Ceramics: Looking at the case of contemporary Western practitioners in Japan" (ArtisObservatio, 2023). Her scholarly work is based on qualitative research methods such as ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, and interviews. She is also a contributing writer for Garland Magazine and a board member for the Knowledge House for Craft.

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