Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts
Job title
Associate Professor
Degree
Bachelor of Arts(State University of New York at Albany), Master of Arts(The University of Chicago), Master of Philosophy(Columbia University), Doctor of Philosophy(Columbia University)
Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore /
Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology /
Education
Sep 1997
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May 2005
Columbia University Graduate School, Division of Humanities Anthropology
Awards
Nov 2017
Asian Wetland Symposium 2017, Best Poster Award,Corn and Cameras: Wildlife Management Issues in Restoring the Migration of Red-Crowned Cranes in Eastern Hokkaido, JapanTakehiro Watanabe Takeshi Ito
2004
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2003
Junior Japan Dissertation Fellowship, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
2001
The Itoh Foundation Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Itoh Foundation, USA
Society & Natural Resources 32(4) 400-416 Jan 2019 [Refereed]
This article examines how a community of oyster farmers in Hokkaido, Japan recovered from the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which damaged their aquaculture in Lake Akkeshi. It focuses on how, over the years, nested governance structures faci...
POSITIONS-ASIA CRITIQUE 25(3) 565-593 Aug 2017 [Refereed]
In late 1980s Japan, loan sharks surfaced as heroes in graphic novels set in the world of predatory moneylending. A genre of manga about usury gained popularity as monthlies began to run serialized stories that parody class inequality through grat...
This paper documents the role that a civic organization, “Zenpuku Frog,” that has played in advocacy, planning, and implementation of the project “Our Dream Waterway”, a waterway landscape zone in Zenpukuji Park, Tokyo. In this urban river revital...
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