Fellows
Dennis Encarnation
Dennis Encarnation has devoted his professional life to the study and practice of globalization, both as a university professor and as a global consultant on six continents. As a professor, Dennis recently retired from Harvard University, having joined the faculty in 1982. He spent the first half of his Harvard career on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, and the second half at the Harvard Kennedy School. As a consultant, Dennis has worked with a broad range of multinational and local corporations, as well as with government agencies, multilateral institutions and nongovernmental organizations. Dennis is currently writing a book …
Hiroshi Ishida
Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, conducted post-doctoral research at Nuffield College and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and held positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His research interests include comparative social stratification and mobility, school-to-work transition, and social inequality over the life course. He is the author of Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan (Stanford University Press) and the co-editor with David Slater of Social Class in Contemporary Japan (Routledge).
Machiko Osawa
Machiko Osawa is a professor of economics at Japan Women’s University, and is also the director of the Research Institute for Women and Careers. She received her MA in economics from Eastern Illinois University (1977) and PhD in economics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984). She was a researcher at the Center for Social Sciences, Columbia University (1980-84), a Hewlett Fellow at the University of Chicago (1984-86), a senior researcher, at the Japan Institute of Labor (1987-90), and associate professor of economics at Asia University (1990-96). She served on advisory boards for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology; Ministry …
Leonard Schoppa
Leonard Schoppa is Professor Politics at the University of Virginia and is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Cornell, 2006); Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (Columbia, 1997); and Education Reform in Japan (Routledge, 1991). His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, and Comparative Political Studies.
Yoshihide Soeya
Yoshihide Soeya is professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics.