Thomas Paramor Gill (born 1960) is a Japan-based social anthropologist whose research has focused mainly on marginal groups in Japanese society.
A book, Men of Uncertainty: the Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan, was published by State University of New York Press in 2001.
"[2] Gill specializes in street ethnography and has spent extended periods with homeless men in Japan, the US and the UK.
His paper on the irradiated hamlet of Nagadoro is included in the collection Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of 2011 (Peter Lang 2013), which he co-edited with Brigitte Steger and David Slater.
A Japanese version has also been published, in Higashi Nihon Daishinsai no Jinruigaku (Anthropology of the Great East Japan Disaster, Jinbun Shoin, 2013).