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Roslynn is an educator and scholar in the intersections of cultural anthropology, East Asian Studies, settler colonial studies and critical heritage studies. Although separated by distance and travel restrictions, she is in a long term engagement with the Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai, an intangible cultural heritage performance group that focuses on revitalizing Ainu song and dance (upopo and rimse) within their community in Northern Japan. Her research interests include performance and media, decolonizing methodology, indigeneity, representations of race and nation, and Japan’s colonial history with East Asia and the West. She is an adjunct assistant professor of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her book project, Performing Ainu Absence and Presence: Settler Gaze and Indigenous Be-ing in Japan, is an ethnography on the barriers and mediums that sustain the (in)visibility of the Ainu across the Pacific. Roslynn is currently a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) at the Center for East Asian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, and is teaching a course on "Indigenous cultures in settler colonial East Asia.”