Fellows

Hiroshi Fukurai is Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He won the UCSC’s Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity in 2014 and the Service Recognition Award in 2015. He was nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012 and selected as the Favorite Faculty Member by Stevenson College graduating students in 2013.  He was also voted into the President-Elect of the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) in 2015.  His expertise includes citizen participation in the justice system, international law, race and inequality, East Asian law and politics, and military and justice.    He has more than …

Dr. Keiko HIRAO is a professor of sociology at Sophia University, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies in Tokyo. Her research interests include work and family, environment and sustainable lifestyle, and comparative family. She received her BA in American studies from Nanzan University, MA in international relations from Sophia University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from University of Notre Dame. She has written extensively on education, labor market, motherhood, and families in Japan, including three books for general audience. She is the author of Child Rearing War Front and chapters in Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility, Working and Mothering,

Joshua Muldavin, PhD, University of California-Berkeley. Professor of Geography and Asian Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. I am currently on sabbatical working on a book manuscript — ‘China’s Rise and Global Integration: The Environmental and Social Impacts’. Current research is on global resource acquisitions and development conflicts via China’s and Japan’s capital and aid flows to Africa, Latin America, and South/Southeast Asia. Thirty years of field research, primarily in rural China as well as the greater Himalayan Region.