Mako Miura

Mako Miura is a doctoral student in the Anthropology and Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist in training, studying the interactions among young children in multicultural and multilingual early childhood classrooms in Osaka, Japan. Her dissertation research examines what happens when two- and three-year-old children from Vietnam, China, South Korea, and the Philippines who draw on a multimodal mix of verbal and extraverbal expressions spend time with one another in Japanese classrooms with peers speaking different languages.