Fellows

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.