People
Akiko Hashimoto, PhD
Yale University, 1984
Title: Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2419 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7109
E-mail: ahash@pitt.edu
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Yale University, Sociology, 1984
M.Phil. Yale University, Sociology, 1981
M.A. Yale University, Sociology, 1980
B.Sc. (Honours). London School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Sociology, 1975
Zwischenprüfung. Universität Hamburg, Philosophische Fakultät, English & German Philology, 1972
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, (Affiliated with the University Center for International Studies, Asian Studies Center, West European Studies Center, and Global Studies Program)
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1989-1994
Programme Officer / Project Coordinator / Research Associate, United Nations University, Development Studies Division, and World Institute for Development Economics Research, Tokyo, 1984-89
Project Coordinator, Sony Corporation, Project Development Division, Tokyo 1977-79
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Culture and Power (graduate)
- Global and Comparative Sociology (graduate)
- National Identity in the Global World (graduate)
- Collective Memory (graduate)
- Comparative Research (graduate)
- Qualitative Methods (graduate)
- Research Design (graduate)
- Introduction to Global & Comparative Sociology
- Cultural Sociology (capstone research practicum)
- Sociology of Aging
- Popular Culture in Japan
- Japan-U.S.A. Relations
- Japanese Society
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATON
- Global and Comparative Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methods
- Cultural Identity, National Memory, Family, Aging, Education, Media, and Policy
- Japan, East Asia, Western Europe, North America
LANGUAGES
- Japanese, English, German
BOOKS
Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan. Edited with John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61683
The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. New York: Cambridge University Press,1996 http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521555205
Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience. Edited with Hal Kendig and Larry Coppard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Lao nien jen te chia t'ing chih ch'ih. Chinese language edition of Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience. Edited with Hal Kendig and Larry Coppard. Translated by Chang Yue-hsia. Taipei: Wu Nan Publishing, 1997
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND ESSAYS
“The Aftermath of Global Conflicts: War Memories in Japan” in Heritage, Memory, Identity (Cultures and Globalization Series Vol.4), edited by Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Sage Publications, in progress.
“Blondie, Sazae, and their storied successors: Japanese families in newspaper comics,” in Imagined Families, Lived Families, edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008, pp.15-32.
“The Changing Japanese Family” with John Traphagan in Imagined Families, Lived Families, edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008, pp.1-12.
“National and Cultural Identity,” ”Family and Aging,” “War Memory,” and “Popular Culture and Manga,” in Japan:Places, Images, Times, and Transformations, edited by J. Thomas Rimer and L. Keith Brown. Multimedia web/DVD project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), forthcoming.
“Filial Piety in Changing Asian Societies” with Charlotte Ikels, in Cambridge Handbook on Age and Ageing edited by Malcolm Johnson, Vern Bengtson, Peter Coleman, and Tom Kirkwood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 437–442.
"Remembering the 'Just War': World War II in the American Memory," with Ellis Krauss, in Japan and North America, Volume I: First Contacts to the Pacific War, edited by Ellis Krauss and Ben Nyblade, London: Routledge, 2004. pp. 368–385.
“Power to the Imagination.” Asia Program Special Report No. 121, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2004, pp.9-12. http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/asiarpt121.pdf
“Manga ni miru nihon no kazoku [Family Relations in Japanese Manga]” with John Traphagan, in Gendai no Esupuri [L’esprit D’aujourd’hui], 2004, 444:213-219
"Culture, Power and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences" in Filial Piety: Practice and Discourse in Contemporary East Asia edited by Charlotte Ikels, Stanford University Press, 2004, pp.182-97
"The Cultural Meanings of 'Security' in Aging Policies." Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the United States: Practices and Policies, edited by Susan O. Long. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 19-27
"Japanese and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War Memories in Defeated Nations." Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies 1999, No. 1999-01, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/pdfs/hashimoto.pdf
"Designing Family Values: Cultural Assumptions of an Aging Society." Japan Quarterly, 1997, 44 (4): 59-65
"Lao jen yen chiu te kuo chi kuan," with Hal Kendig, in Lao nien jen te chia t'ing chih ch'ih, Taipei: Wu Nan Publishing, 1997, pp.3-17. Chinese language version of "Aging in International Perspective," in Family Support for the Elderly. Translated by Chang Yue-hsia.
"Chia t'ing tui lao nien jen chao ku te kuo chi kuan," with Hal Kendig and Larry Coppard, in Lao nien jen te chia t'ing chih ch'ih, Taipei: Wu Nan Publishing, 1997, pp. 373-393. Chinese language version of "Family Support to the Elderly in International Perspective," in Family Support for the Elderly. Translated by Chang Yue-hsia
"'Seigi no senso': Amerika ni okeru dainiji sekaitaisen no kioku [Remembering the 'Just War': World War II in American Memory]” with Ellis Krauss. Hoso Kenkyu to Chosa [Broadcasting Research] 1996, 46(12): 34-47
"Remembering the 'Just War': World War II in the American Memory," with Ellis Krauss, in Memories of the War: Media's Responsibility: World Television Coverage of the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II, NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Tokyo, 1996, pp.1-19.
"Family Relations in Later Life: A Cross-Cultural Perspective." Generations 1993, 17(4)
"Aging in International Perspective," with Hal Kendig, in Family Support for the Elderly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 3-14
"Family Support to the Elderly in International Perspective," with Hal Kendig and Larry Coppard, in Family Support for the Elderly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 293-308
"Ageing in Japan." Ageing in East and Southeast Asia edited by D. R. Phillips. London: Edward Arnold, 1992, pp. 36-44
"Living Arrangements of the Aged in 7 Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 1991, 6 (4): 359-381
"Urbanization and Changes in Living Arrangements of the Elderly," in Ageing and Urbanization edited by the United Nations. New York: United Nations, 1991
"Social Support for the Urban and Rural Aged," in Aging China: Family, Economics and Government Policies in Transition edited by James Schulz and Deborah Davis-Friedmann. Washington D.C.: Gerontological Society of America, 1987
"Jinko no koreika to koyo no joseika [Social Dilemmas in Contemporary Japan: Population Aging and Feminization of Labor Force],” in Shinka suru toshi [Cities in Transition] edited by Japan Association of Social Planning. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1986
"Comments on E. Howe's Contingent Analysis of Social Development Programs in Seven Countries." Regional Development Dialogue, 1986, 7(1)
"Rojin kea no nichibei hikaku" [Support for the Elderly in Japan and the United States]. Socio-Legal Studies on Family Issues 1985, 1
BOOK IN PROGRESS
Japan in the Shadow of War Memory: The Moral Recovery of A Defeated Nation
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility by Jeffrey K. Olick. Social Forces, 2008, 87(1):603-04
Review of Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan by D.R. Ambaras. American Journal of Sociology, January 2007, 112 (4):1267-68
Review of Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood by L. L. Thang. Journal of Japanese Studies, 2003, 29(1):117-120
Review of States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State by T. B. Hansen and F. Stepputat. Contemporary Sociology, 2003, (32)1: 91-92
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
“Shifting Cultural Landscape: Globalization of Japanese Popular Culture” Toshiba International Foundation, 2007-08 (with K. McDonald and G. Lukacs)
“Cultural Transformations in A Global Age” Faculty Research Scholarship, School of Arts & Sciences, 2005-06 (with C. Chan and C. Green)
“Culture and Society in Contemporary Japan” Toshiba International Foundation, 2005-06 (with K. McDonald, H. Nara and T. Rimer)
Curriculum Development Grant, National Resource Center-U.S. Department of Education/Asian Studies Center, UCIS, 1991-92, 2005-06, 2006-07
UCIS Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2004-05
“The Vitality of the Japanese Culture in the Contemporary World” Toshiba International Foundation, 2003-04 (with K. McDonald, T. Rimer and M. Smethurst)
“Japanese Families in A Global Age: Conflict and Change” Faculty Research Scholarship, School of Arts & Sciences, 2003-04
Symposium Development Grant for “Japanese Families in A Global Age: Conflict and Change,” Japan Council and Asian Studies Center/National Resource Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2002-04
Student’s Choice Award for Teaching Excellence, College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Nominee, Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Curriculum Development Grant, Freeman Foundation/ASC, 2002-03
Japan Iron & Steel Foundation Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Faculty Research Fellowship, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, 1999-00
Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, and Japan Foundation-Center for Global Partnership, 1996-97
Curriculum Development Grant, National Resource Center-U.S. Department of Education/Asian Studies Program, UCIS, 1995-96
Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1995
Computing Infrastructure Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1994
Conference Travel Grant, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
Japan Iron & Steel Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, Asian Studies Program, 1991-92
UCIS Research Conference Travel Grant, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, 1990
Research Project Grant, United Nations University, 1989-92
University Research Grant, Japan Ministry of Education, 1986 (co-investigator)
Council on East Asian Studies Research Travel Grant, Yale University, 1983
Social Sciences Research Grant, Toyota Foundation, 1982-83
Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Council on International and Area Studies, Yale University, 1981-82
Council on East Asian Studies Research Travel Grant, Yale University, 1981
Graduate Fellowship, Yale University, 1979-84
Undergraduate Fellowship, London School of Economics, 1973-75
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Japanese Citizenship in the Shadow of War Memory” Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity Workshop, Center for Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University May 2008
“Troubled Memories: The Culture of Defeat and Recovery in Postwar Japan” Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop, Department of Sociology, Yale University April 2008
“The Trouble with Teaching War History” CGP-SSRC Conference on Memory, Reconciliation and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Awajishima, Japan, 2006
“Memories of Defeat“ Conference on Politics of Regret: Collective Memory in East Asia Workshop, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan, 2006
“Japan in the Shadow of War Memory” Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2006
"Why Did We Fight that Unwinnable War?: Discourses of National History in Japan” Mid-West Japan Seminar, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 2005
"Granny Mischief and Her Accomplices: The Tales of Menacing Mothers-in-law in Japanese Comics.” Conference on Faces and Masks of Aging: Implications from the lives of Japanese elderly, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2005
"Blondie, Sazae, and their Storied Successors: Conflict and Change in Japanese Families through Newspaper Comics.” Symposium on Japanese Families in a Global Age: Conflict and Change, ASC, University of Pittsburgh, 2004
"Power to the Imagination.” Seminar on Japanese Creativity, Education and the Work Force, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. 2004
“Positionality, Transnationality, and the Future of Research in Asian Studies.” East Asian Studies Conference, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, 2003
“Imagining Ideal Families: Intergenerational Relations in Japanese Comics,“ with John Traphagan. Colloquium on Global Intergenerational Research, Programs, and Policy, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
“Japan’s Postwar Legacy,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, Pittsburgh Regional Site, 2003
“Japan’s Postwar Identity and the Legacy of War,” Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 2003
“Pedagogies of War and Peace: Culture, Practice,and Agency in Contemporary Japan" Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
“Legacies of Defeat in Japan and Germany” Joint seminar on “Memory, Reconciliation and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Japan-U.S. Relations,” Social Science Research Council, Center for Global Partnership, and George Washington University, 2003
“The De-racialization of Japanese Heroes in Popular Culture.” Asian Diasporas Workshop, Penn State University, College Park, PA, 2002
“War Memories in Comparative Perspective” Symposium on ‘Textbooks, History, and War Memory in Europe, Asia, and America,’ Asia Foundation and the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Tokyo (paper), 2001
“The Moral Recovery of Defeated Nations: The Japanese and German Cases" Conference on War, Defeat, and Collective Memory: The Debate on National Identity in Postwar Germany and Japan, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
“The Memory of War in Defeated Nations: The Japanese and German Cases" Seminar on Comparative Perspectives on Collective Memory: Theory and Research in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA., 2000
“Japanese and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War Memories in Defeated Nations.” East Asia Center and the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999
"Japanese and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War Memories in Defeated Nations." Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998
"War Memories: Japanese and German Perspectives." Japan Policy Research Institute, University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, and the New Mexico US-Japan Center, San Francisco, 1998.
"Collective Memories of World War II in Japan, Germany, and the United States." Abe Fellowship Program and the Social Science Research Council, Napa, CA, 1998
Panel on "Occupied Japan: An Experiment in Democracy." Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center/Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1997
"Political Cultures of Commemoration: World War II Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States." Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Pittsburgh, 1997
"The Subjective Dimension of the Social Contract." Abe Fellowship Program and the Social Science Research Council, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
"Japan and the Aging Society." Center for Japanese Studies, and Japan Policy Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1996
"Memory of World War II and Japanese Military Consciousness." Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1996
"Remembering the 'Just War': World War II in American Memory," with Ellis Krauss. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Tokyo, 1996
"The Reproduction of 'Good Citizens' in Cross-Cultural Perspective." Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo, 1996
"How Societies Remember: Collective Memories of World War II in Japan and Germany," with Albrecht Funk. History and Mentalities Seminar, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
"Reflections on the Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract." Center for East Asian Studies and Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1994
"The Social Construction of Aging in Japan." Population Institute for Research and Training, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1992
"Reflections on Social Support for the Elderly in Asia." Seminar on Social and Behavioral Research on Aging, Population Studies Center, Institute of Gerontology, and Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1992
"The Elderly in Japan." Alzheimer Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, 1992
"Japan in Transition: 1989." Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1989
"Cross-Cultural Research Design: Methodology of the United Nations University Project on Social Support Systems for the Aged." Research on Aging in Asia and the Pacific, Population Institute, East-West Center, Singapore, 1987
"Social Support for the Aged in Rural and Urban Areas in Japan." International Forum on Aging, Gerontological Society of America, Beijing, 1986
"Danjo koyo kikai kintoho no impakuto [The Impact of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law.]” Division of Social Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 1985
"Tokeiteki bunseki to jireiteki bunseki [Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis.]” Japan Council of Sociology of Family, Tokyo, 1985
"Aging in Japan." ASEAN Parliamentarians Conference, Population Institute, East-West Center, Sapporo, 1985
"Nichibei no rojin hikaku kenkyu [Aging in Comparative Perspective.]” Japan Association of Family Law. Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1984
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Symposium Steering Committee, Shaping the World: Asia’s Cultural Contributions to Globalization, Toshiba International Foundation Anniversary Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
Conference Co-organizer and Convener, Japanese Families in a Global Age: Conflict and Change, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
Editorial Board, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 2003-
Editorial Board, Journal of Intergenerational Relations, 2003-
Japan Advisory Board, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2001-05
Faculty Advisor, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Workshop for Japan Studies, 2002 & 2003
Organizer and Presider, “Filial Piety: Current Impact in Asian Cultures – Japan, China and India” International Conference on Enhancing Global Social Change through Intergenerational Initiatives. University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Editorial Steering Committee, Multimedia web project, Perspectives on Japan:Tradition and Modernity, edited by J. Thomas Rimer and L. Keith Brown. Teaching about Japan in the Undergraduate Curriculum, funded by Japan Iron and Steel Foundation & Mitsubishi Endowments, University of Pittsburgh, 2002-
Co-organizer, "War, Defeat, and Collective Memory: The Debate on National Identity in Postwar Germany and Japan," University Center for International Research, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
Organizer and Presider, "Japan and Its Imaginative Borders" Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston, 1999
Organizer and Presider, "Comparative Social Gerontology," American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1998
Organizer and Presider, "Wealth, Power, and Culture in Japan." Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 1998
Annual Meeting Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies, 1997-99
Organizer and Presider, "Comparative Social Gerontology," American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1997
Organizer, "Comparative Social Gerontology," American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 1995
Chair, Research Committee on Comparative Social Gerontology, Section on Sociology of Aging, American Sociological Association, 1994-98
Board member, Research Committee on Sociology of Aging, International Sociological Association, 1986-90
Organizer and Presider, "Old Age Issues in Developing Countries," 12th World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, 1990
Organizer, "Social Support Systems in Transition," 14th Meeting of the International Association of Gerontology, Acapulco, 1989
Organizer and Presider, "Family Support of the Aged in the Third World." 6th World Conference of the International Society on Family Law, Tokyo, 1988
Conference Organizer and Convener, Intergenerational Dynamics of Social Change, United Nations University, Singapore, 1988
Conference Organizer and Convener, Poverty and Welfare Resource Allocation II: Social Support Systems in Transition," United Nations University, Sao Paulo, 1987
Conference Organizer and Convener, "Poverty and Welfare Resource Allocation I," United Nations University, Guatemala City, 1986
International Program Committee, 6th World Conference of the International Society on Family Law, Japan Association of Family Law, Tokyo, 1986-88
Forum Committee, United Nations University, 1985-88
International Program Committee, Japan Association of Social Planning, 1985-88
Research Committee on University Systems, Japan Association of Social Planning, 1985-88
Research Committee on Aging and New Information Systems, Japan Association of Social Planning, 1985-88
Editorial Board, Keikaku gyosei, 1985-86
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Departmental Liaison, Global Studies Program, 2009-
Chair, Search Committee, Politics and Culture position, Dept of Sociology, 2008
Chair, Japan Council, Asian Studies Center, 2005-2008
Tenure Council, Arts & Sciences, 2007-present
Nominating Committee, Arts & Sciences, 2007-08
Senate Committee for Elections, 2007-09
Dept mentor for junior faculty, Department of Sociology, 2008-
Graduate Program and Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 2007-08
Search Committee, Senior Islam studies position, Department of Sociology, 2007
Search Committee, Senior Social Movements positions, Dept of Sociology, 2006
Internal Advisory Board, Asian Studies Center, 2005-present
Departmental Diversity Liaison, Arts & Sciences, 2007-present
Departmental Liaison, Cultural Studies Program, 1998-99, 2003-04, 2006-07
Search Committee for Japan/Korea Postdoctoral Fellow, ASC, 2005-06
Cultural Transformations Forum, Department of Sociology, 2005-06
Graduate Program and Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 2005
Executive Committee, Cultural Studies Program, 2004-05
Mellon Fellowship Committee, School of Arts & Sciences, 2004-05
Search Committee, Global Social Movements positions, Dept of Sociology, 2003-04
Honors College Advisory Board, School of Arts & Sciences, 2003-05
Fellowship Selection Committee, Cultural Studies Program, 2003-04
Special Review Committee for junior faculty, Department of Sociology, 2003
Library Committee, Japan Council, Asian Studies Center, 2003
Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree Program Committee, ASC, 2002-03
Co-Chair, Japan Council, Asian Studies Center, 1999-2000, 2001-02
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, 2000
Faculty Research Grants Committee, Japan Council, Asian Studies Program,
1993-95, 1999-2000, 2001-02
Faculty Research Grants Oversight Committee, ASP, 1999-2000, 2001-02
Special Tenure Review Committee, Department of Sociology, 1999
Search Committee for the Chair of the Department of Sociology, 1998-99
Tenure Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1997-99
Tenure Council Selection Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences (alternate) 1997-98
Search Committee for the Director of the Asian Studies Program, UCIS, 1995
Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, 1995
Ad Hoc Committee for the appointment of the Director of Women's Studies Program, Department of Sociology, 1995
Faculty of Arts & Sciences Council, 1994-95
Faculty of Arts & Sciences Planning and Budget Committee, 1994-95
College of General Studies Council, 1992-93
General Education in the Social Sciences Committee, College of Arts & Sciences, 1990-92
Steering Committee, Department of Sociology, 1992-94
Graduate Program and Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 1992-94.
Search Committee for Gender Position, Department of Sociology, 1992-93
Japan Council, Asian Studies Program, UCIS, 1989-present
Joint Japan/China Council Priorities and Fund-raising Committee, 1991-92
Annual Admissions and Fellowship Reviews, Asian Studies Program, 1989-95
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