2014 Cohort III Participants
Please note that the position and affiliation of each individual are from the time of application.
Liv Coleman is
assistant professor of government and world affairs at the University of Tampa,
where she teaches East Asian comparative politics and international relations.
Her research interests include Japanese gender politics and family policy
responses to the declining birthrate, as well as Internet governance and
processes of change in international organization. She conducted doctoral
dissertation research as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo’s
Institute of Social Science. She was also an advanced research fellow in the
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University.
Dr. Coleman received her Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her B.A. from Smith College.
Shinju Fujihira is the Executive Director of the Program
on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs (WCFIA), at Harvard University. He has worked at the
Program since 2004 and was an Advanced Research Fellow during the 2002-03
academic year. At the WCFIA, he was also a National Security Fellow at the John
M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. His research examined the financial
origins of great power rivalry, and Japanese politics and foreign policy. He is
the author of “Legacies of the Abe Administration” and “Can Japanese Democracy
Cope with China’s Rise?” (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars),
and his interview on Japan’s partisan conflict and foreign policy has appeared
in the Asahi Shimbun. His responsibilities include supporting faculty,
students, and Associates on their research projects; planning seminars and
study groups; liaison with ministries, business, media, and foundations; and
developing new internship opportunities for Harvard College students. Prior to
his current position, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Tufts University.
Dr. Fujihira received his Ph.D. in Politics from
Princeton University and his B.A. in Government from Cornell University.
Benjamin Goldberg is a Japan analyst at the State
Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where he focuses on issues
such as Japan’s internal political situation, Japanese foreign policy, and
regional economic and diplomatic activities. His last visit to Japan was in
October 2011. Previously, Mr. Goldberg served as a Foreign Media Analyst
in the Media Reaction branch of the Office of Research in the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research. In this position, he served as the primary editor
and drafter of the Early Report, a daily analysis of global media reaction to
major international events. Before joining the State Department, he worked as
Analytical Director for an independent consulting company, Intellibridge
Corp., as well as a junior reporter for the Washington bureau of Japan’s
second-largest newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun.
Mr. Goldberg earned a B.A. in east Asian Studies from
Haverford College.
Shihoko Goto is the Northeast
Asia associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program, where she is
responsible for research, programming, and publications on Japan, South Korea,
and Taiwan, focusing on economic issues in particular. Prior to joining the
Wilson Center, she spent over ten years as a journalist writing about the
international political economy with an emphasis on Asian markets. As a
correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based
in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the
global financial system as well as international trade. Ms. Goto
is currently a contributing editor to The Globalist, and she provides analysis
for a number of media organizations including the Wall Street Journal, New York
Times, and the Washington Times. She received the Freeman Foundation’s
Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center and the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global
Seminar.
Ms. Goto has an M.A. in international political
theory from Waseda University’s School of Political
Science, and a B.A. in modern history from the University of Oxford.
Tobias Harris is an analyst of Japanese politics
and economics at Teneo Intelligence, a political risk
advisory firm. Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Harris was
an independent analyst of Japanese politics and creator of the blog
“Observing Japan.” In this capacity, he provided running
commentary on the Japanese political situation and its effect on foreign and
economic policy. He has written articles on Japanese politics for publications
like the Wall Street Journal Asia, Foreign Policy, and the Far Eastern Economic
Review and provided on-air analysis for CNBC, Bloomberg, NHK, and Al Jazeera
International. He has also been an invited speaker at events hosted by the
Economist, Morgan Stanley, the Naval War College, and the Japan Society of New
York. In 2011-2012, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Institute for Social
Science at the University of Tokyo, where he conducted research on the Japanese
bureaucracy.Before working as an analyst, in
2006-2007 Mr. Harris worked on the staff of Keiichiro Asao, at that time a
member of the upper house of the Japanese Diet and shadow foreign minister for
the Democratic Party of Japan, for whom Mr. Harris conducted research on
foreign policy and Japan’s relations with the United States.
Mr. Harris holds an M. Phil in International Relations from the University of
Cambridge and his B.A. from Brandeis University.
Levi McLaughlin is Assistant Professor at the
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State
University. He has worked as a research assistant at Kokugakuin
University in Tokyo, taught previously at Wofford College, and was a visiting
research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of
Iowa. Dr. McLaughlin’s research focuses primarily on religion in modern and
contemporary Japan and considers what Japanese religions tell us about how
religious institutions, doctrines, practices, and dispositions take shape in
the contexts of politics, education, and other spheres. He has spent over a
decade as a non-member participant observer of Sokka
Gakkai, Japan’s largest new religious movement, and his publications and
presentations to date have centered on grassroots-level experiences of Sokka Gakkai members in Japan and how this organization
challenges widely accepted parameters of “religion.” His most recent
scholarship expands beyond Sokka Gakkai and new
religious movements to investigate religious responses to the compound
disasters in Japan of March 11, 2011. Articles and book chapters by Dr.
McLaughlin appear in English and Japanese in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan
Focus, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Religion Compass, Sekai, the Social Science Japan Journal, and other
publications. He has co-authored and co-edited “Komeito:
Politics and Religion in Japan” (forthcoming in 2014 from the Institute of
East Asian Studies Japan Research Monograph Series); is co-authoring and
co-editing a special issue titled “Salvage and Salvation: Religion,
Disaster Relief, and Reconstruction in Asia”; and is completing a book
manuscript titled “Sokka Gakkai: Buddhism and
Romantic Heroism in Modern Japan.”
Dr. McLaughlin received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and he holds an M.A.and a B.A. from the Department of East Asian Studies at
the University of Toronto.
Emer O’Dwyer is
assistant professor of Japanese history in the Departments of History and East
Asian Studies at Oberlin College. She specializes in twentieth century Japanese
history with research interests in imperial, urban, and social history. Her
forthcoming book manuscript is titled, “Significant Soil: Empire,
Urbanism, and the Politics of Settler Colonialism in Japanese Manchuria,
1905-1937.” Her second book project explores Japanese experiences of
the immediate post-defeat period, 1945-1947. She was a post-doctoral fellow at
Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies during the 2010-2011
academic year, and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress between 2011 and
2012.
Dr. O’Dwyer holds a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages
as well as an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard.
Ian Rinehart is an Analyst in Asian Affairs at the
Congressional Research Service. He provides information and analysis to Members
of Congress and their staff on issues relating to Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and
Asia-Pacific regional security. He was recently a 2013 Japan Studies Visiting
Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, where he authored a short paper
on US-Japan security cooperation and collective self-defense. Mr.Rinehart has worked at the
research consultancy Washington Core, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and the Social
Science Research Council.
Mr. Rinehart received an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from the George
Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and a B.A. in
International Relations from Pomona College.
Daniel M. Smith is an assistant professor of
comparative politics in the Department of Government and faculty affiliate at
the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. His research
is focused primarily on political parties, elections, and coalition government
in contemporary Japan. He has conducted research in Japan as a Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology research scholar at Chuo
University, and as a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo.
Prior to joining the Department of Government at Harvard, he was a postdoctoral
fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.
His research has appeared in the Annual Review of Political Science, Japan
Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election (Palgrave Macmillan,
2013),”Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and
Governance” (Shorenstein APARC, 2013), and “Komeito:
Religion and Politics in Japan” (Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C.
Berkeley, forthcoming in 2014).
Dr. Smith received a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science are from the
University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. in political science and
Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nathaniel M. Smith is an assistant professor of
East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. A cultural anthropologist
specializing in Japan, Dr. Smith’s research focuses on nationalism, social
movements, and organized crime. His current manuscript is an ethnography of the
moral and social worlds of Japan’s prominent rightist activist groups that
traces their trajectory from the early post-WWII years, beyond the Cold War,
and into the contemporary terrain of post-3.11 civil society. He maintains broad
interest in the history of Japan anthropology, urban studies and inter-Asian
migration, and sound and visual studies of Japan. Prior to joining the faculty
of the University of Arizona, Dr. Smith spent two years serving as Japan
Foundation Faculty Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Smith holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and M.A. in East Asian Studies from
Yale University, an M.A. in International Relations from Waseda
University, and a B.A. in Foreign Language from the Department of Comparative
Literature and Foreign Language from the University of California, Riverside.
Michael Strausz is an
Associate Professor of political science at Texas Christian University. His
research focuses on the relationship between the state and foreign residents
and on the role of norms in international politics, and he has published
articles in journals including Pacific Affairs; the Journal of Women, Politics,
and Policy; and Foreign Policy Analysis. He also wrote a chapter in the
forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia.
Dr. Strausz earned his Ph.D. in political science
from the University of Washington (Seattle), and his B.A. in international
relations and Japanese from Michigan State University.
Hiroki Takeuchi is Associate Professor of
Political Science and Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East
Asia in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern
Methodist University. He previously taught at the University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA) as Faculty Fellow in the Political Science Department and at
Stanford University as postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Public Policy
Program. Dr. Takeuchi’s research focuses on Chinese and Japanese politics,
comparative political economy of authoritarian regimes, and political economy
and international relations in East Asia, as well as applications of game
theory on political science. His first book,”Tax
Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule”
(Cambridge University Press, 2014), examines how China maintains authoritarian
rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms, by offering a
systematic analysis of the central-local governmental relationships in rural
China while focusing on rural taxation and political participation. His recent
articles have been published in the International Relations of the
Asia-Pacific, the Journal of Contemporary China, the Journal of Chinese
Political Science, the Japanese Journal of Political Science, the Journal of
East Asian Studies, and Modern China. His second book project examines
interactions between domestic politics and international relations in the
Sino-Japanese relations. Dr. Takeuchi is a regular contributor to Foresight, an
online Japanese journal.
Dr. Takeuchi received his Ph.D. of Political Science from UCLA, his M.A. of
Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley, and his B.A. of
Economics from Keio University, Japan.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Associate Professor of Sociology and
Program Director of Human Rights Initiative at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. His research examines globalization of human rights and its impact on
local politics. His current research topics include global expansion of
corporate social responsibility and its impact on Japanese corporations, global
human rights and three minority social movements in Japan, changing discourses
about the Asia-Pacific War in Japan, transformation of minority rights
stipulations in national constitutions across the globe, and the rise of truth
and reconciliation commissions in the world. His past research has appeared in
American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces,
Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and
other sociology and political science journals. He co-edited with Alwyn Lim a
forthcoming book “Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing
World” (Cambridge University Press). He has been a recipient of the Abe
Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and is a Scott M. Johnson Fellow of
the US-Japan Leadership Program.
Dr. Tsutsui received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.