Akihiro Ogawa’s Academic Home Page
Updated on October 25, 2009
Akihiro Ogawa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (forskarassistent)
Department of Japanese Studies
Stockholm University, Sweden
February 2007 - present
Contact Information
Kräftriket, Hus 4A-237
Department of Japanese Studies
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel. + 46 (0)8 16 1421
Fax + 46 (0)8 15 5464
Email: akihiro.ogawa@orient.su.se
Other Research Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, DFG Research Training Group Risk and East Asia, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (October 2009 – present)
Research Associate, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (2009 – present)
Visiting Scholar, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan (2009 – 2011)
Visiting Scholar, Danish Pedagogical University, Copenhagen, Denmark (2009 – 2011)
Research and Teaching Interests
Civil Society, Social Movements, Public Sphere
Anthropology of Public Policy, Ethnography of the State
Lifelong Learning, Globalization, Knowledge Society
Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology
Ethnographic Research Methods, Action Research, Collaborative Ethnography
Japan, East Asia, Nordic countries, Europe
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Cornell University (2004)
M.A. in Anthropology, Cornell University (2002)
M.A. in Political Science, Columbia University (1999)
B.A. in History magna cum laude, Temple University (1993)
Former Positions
2005 – 2007
Associate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University;
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
2004 – 2005
Advanced Research Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
2003 – 2004
Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology and Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, Japan Campus
2002 – 2004
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
1999 – 2001
Research Assistant for Professors Theodore C. Bestor and J. Victor Koschmann, Cornell University
East Asia Program
1993 – 1998
Staff Reporter, Kyodo News, Japan,
World Services Section, Tokyo Headquarters(1996-1998); Maebashi Bureau (1993-1996)
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