#  Paulina Kolata 

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

 

 

 



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 location\_on 2 Divinity Avenue 

 email <pkolata@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food, gender, and heritage-making. She works ethnographically with creative methodologies including film, photography, audio, and collaborative research practices.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## People Terms
    
     [Field of study: Japan](/people-terms/field-study-japan) [Faculty](/people-terms/faculty)