Dr. Teruko Vida Mitsuhara

Teruko Mitsuhara is a business and linguistic anthropologist specializing in utopias, intentional communities, and user experience research. Her current book project, “Escape to Outer Limits: An Ethnography of Women and Children Migrating to Utopia in Mayapur, India,” develops a historically informed approach to world-building movements, especially from the perspective of women and children. Alongside her research, she has worked in tech helping to design digital tools that unlock people’s creativity, and has extensive teaching experience in anthropology.

RCC Project: Escape to Outer Limits: An Ethnography of Women and Children Migrating to Utopia in Mayapur, India (PDF, 116 KB)

Selected Publications:

• with Jan David Hauck. “Nonhumans in Language Socialization.” In The Oxford Handbook Handbook of Language Socialization, edited by Benjamin Smith and Elise Berman. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Time and Temporality in a Religious Utopia: Migration to Rural Safe Haven as the World Ends.” Civilisations: Revue internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines 70 (2021): 123–41. https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.6894.
• “Anthropology in Entertainment Research: Asking and Answering Meaningful Questions amid Global Crises.” Fieldsights, 13 July 2021. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/anthropology-in-entertainment-research-asking-and-answering-meaningful-questions-amid-global-crises.