2009 Cohort I Participants
Please note that the position and affiliation of each individual are from the time of application.
Daniel P.
Aldrich is
an assistant professor of political science at Purdue University. Aldrich has
focused on the ways in which state agencies interact with contentious civil
society over the siting of controversial facilities such as nuclear power
plants, airports, and dams through his critically acclaimed book Site Fights
(Cornell University Press 2008 and 2010). His current research investigates how
neighborhoods and communities recover from disasters. He has published a number
of peer-reviewed articles along with research for general audiences. His
research has been funded by grants from the Abe Foundation, IIE Fulbright
Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Reischauer Institute at
Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and
Harvard’s Center for European Studies. Aldrich has been a visiting scholar at
the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Institute for Social Science at Tokyo
University, Harvard University, the Tata Institute for Social Science in Mumbai
and the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He has spent more
than three years conducting fieldwork in Japan, India and France. Aldrich
received his PhD and MA in political science from Harvard University, an MA
from the University of California at Berkeley, and his BA from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James Gannon is executive director of the Japan Center for International
Exchange (JCIE/USA), the American affiliate of one of the leading
nongovernmental institutions in the field of international affairs in Japan.
JCIE brings together key figures from around the world for programs of
exchange, research, and dialogue designed to build international cooperation on
pressing regional and global challenges. Before joining JCIE in 2001, Gannon
conducted macroeconomic and political research with the New York office of the
Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the Japanese government’s overseas
economic assistance agency. He has also worked with the Donald Keene Center for
Japanese Culture and taught English in rural Japanese middle schools for two
years as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme. Gannon graduated
from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in government, conducted graduate
research on postwar Japanese economic history at Ehime University in Japan, and
received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International
and Public Affairs, where he focused on U.S.-Asia relations. He has written
about international affairs for American and Japanese publications.
Mary Alice Haddad is an assistant professor of government at
Wesleyan University, where she teaches government and East Asian studies.
She has received awards from numerous institutions including the Harvard
Academy, Mellon Foundation, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities,
East Asia Institute, and Japan Foundation. Her publications include a
book, Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge
2007), and articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies,
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Journal of Asian Studies.
She is currently completing a manuscript on Japanese democratization.
Haddad received her PhD and MA in political
science from the University of Washington and her BA from Amherst
College.
Kenneth Haig is presently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Program
on U.S.-Japan Relations and will join the faculty at Bard College as an
assistant professor in political studies beginning in August 2010. He
received his AB in history from Harvard and his MA and PhD in political science
from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been affiliated
with Keio University, Hokkaido University, and the Otaru University of Commerce
during previous years of fieldwork in Japan under Fulbright (IIE),
Fulbright-Hays, and JSPS research fellowships. Haig is currently revising
his dissertation on the comparative politics of immigrant integration in Japan
and East Asia as a book manuscript, and has begun work
on a new research project comparing East Asian democracies’ varied policy
responses to the political challenges posed by aging and shrinking
populations. His recent publications include a chapter on Japanese
immigration policy in Routledge’s forthcoming Handbook of Japanese Politics
(Alisa Gaunder ed., 2010).
Llewelyn Hughes is assistant professor of political science and international
affairs at George Washington University (GWU). His research focuses on
international and comparative political economy, including the exploration of
how governments and firms behave in resource markets and the political economy
of climate change. He also publishes on the topic of international relations of
Northeast Asia and Japanese politics. Prior to joining the faculty at GWU,
Hughes was research fellow in the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Before entering
academia, Hughes was employed in the public and private sectors in Tokyo,
Japan. From 1997-2001 he acted as international aide and interpreter to Ichiro
Ozawa, Secretary General of Japan’s governing Democratic Party of Japan. In the
private sector he advised firms operating in the energy, telecommunications,
retail and aerospace sectors in Japan on the management of government and
public relations. Hughes has a Master’s degree from
the University of Tokyo and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of
Melbourne, Australia. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Kathryn Ibata-Arens, is an associate professor in the department of
political science at DePaul University in Chicago. Ibata-Arens specializes in
international and comparative political economy, entrepreneurship policy, high
technology policy and Japanese political economy. Her dissertation research was
conducted at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at
the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow. Ibata-Arens’ current
research examines emerging life science (biotechnology and medical devices)
regions in Japan and the United States. Her findings are presented in the book
manuscript, Clustering to Win: Firm, Regional and National
Strategies in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Ibata-Arens was a JSPS
post-doctoral fellow (2002-2003) at the Center for Advanced Economic
Engineering (AEE), University of Tokyo and was a fellow in the Alfred P.
Sloan/Social Science Research Council Program on the Corporation as a Social
Institution (2002). In 2005 and 2006 she was a Japan Foundation Center for
Global Partnership Abe Research Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha
University, Kyoto. In 2008, Ibata-Arens was a Japan Policy Fellow, Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C. She
recently received a Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Grant for her work on
national entrepreneurship and innovation policy. Ibata-Arens’ book Innovation
and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Politics, Organizations and High Technology
Firms (Cambridge University Press, 2005) analyzes high technology firms and
regional economies in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. Other works, on enterprise
embeddedness and entrepreneurial business networks, appear in journals
including Enterprise and Society and Journal of Asian Business and Management.
Ibata-Arens is currently a Fulbright New Century Scholar at Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto. Dr. Ibata-Arens received a PhD from Northwestern
University and a BA from Loyola University Chicago.
Jennifer Lind is assistant professor in the Department of Government, Dartmouth
College. Lind is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International
Politics, a book that examines the effect of war memory on international
reconciliation (Cornell University Press, 2008). She has also authored
scholarly articles in International Security and Security Studies,
and has written for wider audiences in The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs.
Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Department of Defense, and has lived and worked in Japan. Her current
research interests include the resilience of the North Korean regime, planning
for U.S. military missions in the event of North Korean collapse, and energy
competition and its security implications for East Asia. She received a
PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a
Master of Pacific and International Affairs degree from the University of
California, San Diego, and a BA from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Phillip Y. Lipscy is an assistant professor of political science at
Stanford University and FSI Center Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific
Research Center. His fields of research include Japanese politics,
U.S.-Japan relations, international and comparative political economy,
international security, and regional cooperation in East and South East
Asia. Lipscy is an expert on bargaining over unbalanced representation in
international organizations such as the United Nations Security Council,
International Monetary Fund, and World Bank. His most recent research
examines the domestic politics of energy efficiency and global climate
change. He has also written on a wide range of topics such as the use of
secrecy in international policy making, the effect of domestic politics on
trade, and Japanese responses to the Asian financial crisis. Lipscy obtained
his PhD in political science at Harvard University. He received his MA in
international policy studies and BA in economics and political science at
Stanford University. His previous affiliations include the Reischauer
Institute of Japanese Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
at Harvard University, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the
Institute for Global and International Studies at The George Washington
University, the RAND Corporation, and the Institute for International Policy
Studies in Tokyo.
Mark Manyin is a specialist in Asian affairs at the Congressional Research
Service (CRS), a non-partisan agency that provides information and analysis to
members of the U.S. Congress and their staff. At CRS, Manyin’s general area of
expertise is U.S. relations with East Asia, particularly Japan, the Koreas, and
Vietnam. He also has tracked the evolution of terrorism in Southeast Asia and
the environmental causes of security tensions in Asia. From 2006-2008,
Manyin served as the head of the CRS’ 11-person Asia Section, overseeing the Service’s
research on East, Southeast, and South Asia as well as Australasia and the
Pacific Islands. Prior to joining CRS in 1999, Manyin completed his PhD
in Japanese trade policy and negotiating behavior at the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. He has written academic articles on Vietnam and Korea, taught
courses in East Asian international relations, worked as a business consultant,
and lived in Japan for a total of three years.
Matthew Marr is an assistant professor of sociology for the Department of Global
and Sociocultural Studies, Asian Studies Program at Florida International
University. Marr’s research focuses on the process of exiting
homelessness in Tokyo and Los Angeles, exploring how it is shaped by contexts
operating at multiple levels of social analysis, from the global to the
individual. He plans to continue to research poverty in Japan and the U.S. from
a global, comparative perspective, looking at the effects of settings of social
service delivery, mental health policy, gentrification, and increased policing
in areas where homeless persons and services for them concentrate. Marr
began studying Japanese at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach,
California. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 with
degrees in government and Japanese studies and spent two years studying
Japanese language and culture in Nagoya. He earned an MA degree in
sociology from Howard University in 1997 and has worked with community
based organizations to address homelessness in Los Angeles and
Tokyo. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of
California, Los Angeles in 2007, with a focus on ethnographic research methods
and social stratification.
Sherry L. Martin is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the
Government Department and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at Cornell University. Martin is interested in mass participation
in politics, public opinion, electoral institutions, political socialization,
and gender and politics in Japan and the United States. Her research on
the relationship between gender, a decline in partisanship, and widespread
feelings of political alienation in contemporary Japanese politics has appeared
in the Social Science Japan Journal and the Journal of Women, Politics &
Policy. Her co-edited book, Democratic Reform in Japan: Assessing
the Impact, was published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in 2008. Martin is
currently completing a book, under contract with Cornell University Press, that
examines how institutional changes combined with new patterns of citizen
engagement to create the conditions for higher levels of electoral
participation that might be expected throughout a period of Japanese politics
led by an entrenched elite widely criticized for being unresponsive to voters.
Martin is beginning a new project that examines the relationship between
lifelong learning programs and political participation in mature
democracies. Martin earned her AB in politics from Princeton University
and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies
Program and Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in political
science from Harvard University in 2002. He has published articles on Japanese
politics in such journals as The American Political Science Review, The British
Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Asian Studies, and The Journal of
Japanese Studies, among others. His first book, Japan’s Dual Civil Society:
Members without Advocates (Stanford, 2006) won the Ohira Prize in 2008 and an
award from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association (JANPORA) in 2007.
The Japan Times also featured it as one of the “Best Asia Books” of
2006. A Japanese translation appeared in 2008. With lead editor Benjamin L.
Read, he edited a volume on local organizations published by Routledge in 2009.
His third book, Neighborhood Associations and Governance in Japan, appeared the
same year (co-authored in Japanese with Yutaka Tsujinaka and Hidehiro
Yamamoto). Pekkanen’s fourth book departs from the theme of civil society and
associational life to examine party organization and theories of institutional
change and origin through the case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party. The
Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political Parties as Institutions will be
published by Cornell University Press in 2010, co-authored with Ellis S.
Krauss. Pekkanen is currently co-PI on a major research projected funded
by the National Science Foundation to investigate parties’ nomination
strategies and legislative organization in eight countries. Pekkanen has
interviewed over 50 members of the Japanese Diet, and
shadowed several in the past few elections. He has been interviewed by media
including PBS’s “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” The Christian
Science Monitor, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), USA Today, and radio programs in the
U.S., China, Jamaica and Australia.
Kay Shimizu is assistant professor of political
science at Columbia University. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she
is on leave at Harvard University as an Advanced Research Fellow at the Program
on US-Japan Relations. Shimizu’s research examines Japanese and Chinese
political economy, with a focus on public finance and financial institutions.
She is the co-editor of Political Change in Japan (with Steven R. Reed and
Kenneth Mori McElwain, Brookings, 2009), which includes her two co-authored
chapters. She earned her BA in economics and international relations, MA
in international policy studies and PhD in political science from Stanford
University.
Mireya Solís is associate professor at the School
of International Service of American University. Her research interests include
international and comparative political economy, Japanese politics and foreign
policy, and regional integration in East Asia and North America. Solís authored
Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset
Industries (Stanford University Press, 2004), and is co-editor of
Cross-Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Fragmented Regionalism in East
Asia (Springer, 2008), and Competitive Regionalism: Explaining the Diffusion
and Implications of FTAs in the Pacific Rim (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). Solis
has been awarded a fellowship for advanced social research on Japan by the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
as well as an Abe Fellowship by the Center for Global Partnership and the
Social Science Research Council. Acting as principal investigator, Solís
received a grant from CGP for the project Competitive Regionalism: Strategic
Dynamics of FTA Negotiation in East Asia and Beyond. Solís has published
articles in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Review of
International Political Economy, The World Economy, Pacific Affairs, Business
and Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Asian Economic Policy Review,
as well as several book chapters. Solís has received numerous prizes and
academic distinctions, including the Young Scholar Award from the Association
of Japanese Business Studies, Fulbright and Ford Foundation scholarships, and
fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations
University in Tokyo, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the UCSD, and the
U.S.-Japan Relations Program at Harvard University. Solis received her BA
from El Colegio de Mexico and her PhD and MA from Harvard University.
Nicholas Szechenyi is deputy director of the Japan
Chair at CSIS, where he is also a fellow. His research focuses on U.S.-Japan
relations and U.S.–East Asia relations. Prior to joining CSIS in 2005, he was a
news producer for Fuji Television in Washington, D.C., where he covered U.S.
policy in Asia and domestic politics.
Szechenyi coauthors a quarterly review of U.S.-Japan relations in Comparative
Connections, an electronic journal on East Asian bilateral relations. Other
publications include “A Turning Point for Japan’s Self Defense Forces,”
Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2006), and “Common Values: A New Agenda for
U.S.-Japan Relations (with Michael Green), Georgetown Journal of International
Affairs (Summer/Fall 2006). Szechenyi received an MA in international economics
and Japan studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) and a BA in Asian studies from Connecticut
College. He lived in Japan for six years and speaks fluent Japanese.