Fellows

Albert L. Park is the Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies in the Department of History at Claremont McKenna College. As a historian of modern Korea and East Asia, his current research project focuses on the roots of environmentalism in modern Korean history and its relationship to locality and local autonomy. This book project is tentatively titled Imagining Nature and the Creation of Environmental Movements in Modern Korea. He is the author of Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea and is the co-editor of Encountering Modernity: Christianity and East Asia. …

Koki Oikawa is a professor of economics at the School of Social Sciences, Waseda University. He received a MA in Economics from University of Tokyo and a PhD in Economics from New York University. Prior to joining Waseda University in 2013, he was an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Tohoku University. His research interests focus on macroeconomics, economic growth, technological change, and firm dynamics. His research has been published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letters, etc.

Elizabeth R. DeSombre is the Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College.  She works on international environmental politics and law, with a focus on issues of the global commons. Recent books include Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things (Oxford University Press, 2018), Saving Global Fisheries (MIT Press, 2013, co-authored with J. Samuel Barkin), and Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea (MIT Press, 2006). Current projects include efforts to understand what determines sustainability decision by seaports and what the effects of those decision are. She is also a folk singer-songwriter with 4

Dr. Sumie Nakaya currently covers Sudan/South Sudan as political affairs officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations Headquarters. Her portfolios within the United Nations have also included strategic planning and crisis management in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, research and analysis relating to the Security Council in the Department of Political Affairs, and policy and program development on women, peace and security in the UN Women. Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Nakaya worked with the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council in New York to provide expert briefings on

Dr. Noriko Endo is an expert in energy policy and risk governance, specializing in nuclear energy liability. She is currently project professor at Keio University, and lectures on environment and energy theory. She also has lectures at Nuclear Law Association India regularly.  The Japanese government appointed her as a member of the Industrial Structure Council in July 2013, Fiscal System Council in March 2014, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy in May 2014, Special Committee on New Clear Compensation Scheme in April 2015, Space Policy Committee in July 2016, and Steering Committee of Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation