John Knight

John completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics on the topic of depopulation and social change in Japanese mountain villages. Before coming to Queen's, he held the posts of Junior Research Fellow in Modern Japanese Studies at Wadham College Oxford (1992-1995) and Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden (1996-1999).

He has undertaken extensive field research in rural Japan on a range of topics, including migration, forestry, farming, and tourism, on which he has published widely. His main area of research is human-animal relations, including hunting, wildlife pests, the use of animals in tourism, and human-animal interactions. His most recent field research has been on Japanese monkey parks as sites of primatology and tourism.