Fellows

Ryoko Yamamoto is an Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Old Westbury. Her research interests focus on international migration, social stratification and the construction of deviance in contemporary Japan. More broadly, her sociological curiosity is often drawn to issues surrounding boundary-making, boundary-breaking and societal reactions to boundary-breaking. She investigated the intersection of immigration control and crime control in “Migrants as a Crime Problem: The Construction of Foreign Criminality Discourse in Contemporary Japan” (2010), “Bridging Crime and Immigration: Minority Signification in Japanese Newspaper Reports of the 2003 Fukuoka Family Murder Case” (2013), and “Convergence of Control: Immigration and Crime in Contemporary …

Pamela Machakanja is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Institute of Peace, Leadership and Governance at Africa University in Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies and an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom; as well as a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Zimbabwe. Her research interests include peace and conflict analysis, peace and security, peacebuilding, transitional justice, memory work, leadership development, and gender and development. She is also the chairperson of