Fellows

Toshiaki Iizuka is Professor at Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2010, he taught at Vanderbilt University (2001-2005), Aoyama Gakuin University (2005-2009), and Keio University (2009-2010). He served as Dean of Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, between 2016 and 2018. His research interests are in the field of health economics and health policy. He has written a number of articles on incentive and information in the health care markets. His research articles have appeared in leading professional journals, including American Economic …

Heather Montgomery is a senior associate professor with International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan where she teaches Money and Banking and International Economy (International Finance and International Trade) courses in the college of liberal arts and graduate school of public administration while pursuing her research interest in financial markets and institutions in Asia. Prior to joining ICU, Dr. Montgomery worked as an economist with JP Morgan Securities in Tokyo, where she was responsible for analysis and forecasting of the Japanese macroeconomy and monetary and fiscal policy. She also has five years of experience with the Asian Development Bank Institute

Jolyon Baraka Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, an MA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a BA from Grinnell College. His research covers Japan and the United States in four main topics of inquiry: 1) religion and media; 2) religious freedom; 3) religion and education; and 4) religion and capitalism. His academic articles on these subjects have appeared in journals such as the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Material Religion, and Nova Religio, and he regularly publishes related essays in public- facing venues

Jason Danely is a senior lecturer of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is author of Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan (2014) and co-editor of Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013). He is currently finishing a monograph on compassion and care of older family members in Japan and the UK. His research has been supported by JSPS, GB Sasakawa Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation Enhancing Life Project.

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.

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