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SSRC Announces 2009 Abe Fellows

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• East Asia

The Abe Fellowship Program Committee has selected fourteen researchers and four journalists to receive the Abe Fellowship and Abe Fellowship for Journalists. Both competitions support international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. Chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants in the U.S. and Japan, the 2009 fellows represent diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of study.  The Abe Fellowship Program is funded through the generosity of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) and is administered by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).  The program is one of the central components of CGP and is named after the late Mr. Shintaro Abe, former Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Abe Fellowship will fund fellows’ research projects for a period of 3-12 months over a 1-2 year period, while the Abe Fellowship for Journalists supports six weeks of fieldwork abroad. Fellows from the U.S. will spend a significant portion of their tenure in Japan and vice versa. The research of several fellows will take them to countries such as Australia, China, Denmark, France, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. In addition, fellows are encouraged to collaborate with one another and to build a transnational network of academics studying policy-relevant topics of long-range importance.

ABE FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Bae, Sangmin, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University. “Human Security in East Asia: Japan Leading the Way?”

Furusawa, Taiji, Professor, Economics, Hitotsubashi University. “Quality of Financial Institutions and International Trade”

Haddad, Mary, Assistant Professor, Government, Wesleyan University. “Environmental Politics and Civic Participation in East Asia”

Hamada, Koichi, Tuntex Professor, Economics, Yale University. “Ignorance or Vested Interests: A Comparison of Economic Crisis Management in Japan and the United States”

Hosoda, Miwako, Research Fellow, Global Health and Population, Harvard University. “Empirical Research on Social Movements around Health Issues in the U.S. and Japan”

Ibuka, Yoko, Postdoctoral Associate, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University. “Cost-Effective Strategies for Influenza Vaccinations in the U.S. and Japan”

Ogawa, Akihiro, Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, Stockholm University; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Duisburg-Essen. “Lifelong Learning and Globalization: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan”

Oros, Andrew, Associate Professor, Political Science, Washington College. “Trilateralism in the U.S.-Japan-China Security Relationship”

Sedgwick, Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; Director, Europe Japan Research Center, Oxford Brookes University. “Organizing Globalization: Anthropologies of Cross-Cultural Relations in Japanese Corporations”

Tanaka, Tomomi, Assistant Professor, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University. “An International Comparative Study of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Incentives to Work, Save and Redistribute”

Thelen, Kathleen, Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of its Past”

Totani, Yuma, Assistant Professor, History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. “Justice in the Balance: Lessons from the Allied War Crimes Trials in the Asia-Pacific Region”

Yoshida, Honami, Research Fellow, Epidemiology, Harvard University. “Effects of Gender Disparity on Birthrate Declines and Reproductive Health Analyzed in U.S.-Japan Comparison”

Yoshihara, Mari, Professor, American Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. “Political Economy of the Arts in Japan and the United States”

ABE FELLOWSHIP FOR JOURNALISTS AWARDS

Boynton, Robert, Professor/Director of Literary Reportage, School of Journalism, New York University. “Abduction: North Korea's Kidnappings of South Korean and Japanese Citizens”

Coleman, Joseph, Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence, School of Journalism, Indiana University. “The Silver Bullet? Putting the Elderly to Work in an Aging Japan”

Friederici, Peter, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University. “Ocean Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide”

Kamiya, Setsuko, Staff Writer, The Japan Times. “Law-Related Education in the United States and the Roles of Legal Professionals and Citizens”

About the SSRC

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