日米次世代パブリック・インテレクチュアル・ネットワーク・プログラム第4期プログラム（2016-2018）フェロー一覧

Amy Catalinac is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University starting fall 2016. After earning her PhD in Government at Harvard University in 2011, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard (2011-12); an Assistant Professor at Australian National University (2012-14); and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard (2014-15). Her research uses the case of Japan to address core questions in international relations and comparative politics. Her book, Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy was published with Cambridge University Press in 2016. Earlier work was published in The Journal of Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Politics and Policy, Japan Forum, and Political Science. Professor Catalinac has spent close to five years in Japan, where she observed the election campaigns of numerous politicians, conducted interviews with political actors at all levels of the Japanese government, and interned for the Liberal Democratic Party. She teaches courses on international relations, comparative politics, Japanese security policy, and Japanese politics.

Yulia Frumer is an Associate Professor in the department of History of Science and Technology, at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the history of technology in Japan, and she teaches broadly about the history of science and technology in East Asia. She received her PhD from Princeton University and spent a year on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In the course of her research in Japan Yulia Frumer was affiliated with the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) and Tokyo University and held fellowships from the Japanese Government (Monbukagaskusho) and the Japan Foundation. Her first book manuscript, titled “A Matter of Time: Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan,” is currently under review with the University of Chicago Press. In her current project she focuses on the history of humanoid robots in Japan.

Robert Hoppens received a PhD in Modern Japanese History from the University of Washington and is Associate Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where he teaches Japanese, Chinese, East Asian and world history. His research interests focus on the history of Sino-Japanese relations, Cold War history and issues of national identity in East Asia. He is the author of The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations, published by Bloomsbury Press as part of the series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.

Noriyuki Katagiri is an associate professor of political science at St. Louis University, where he teaches international relations, security studies, and East Asia. He is writing a book on Japan’s military power after he published his first, titled Adapting to Win: How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Before joining St. Louis University, he taught international security at Air War College, a joint military graduate school for senior officers and officials of the U.S. government and foreign nations. Between 2016 and 2018, he serves as a visiting research fellow at the Air Staff College, Meguro Base, of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force. He received his BA in international studies from the University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Adam P. Liff is Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he is also the founding director of its 21st Century Japan Politics & Society Initiative. His research focuses on international security and the Asia-Pacific—with particular emphasis on Japanese and Chinese security policy; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy; the U.S.-Japan alliance; and the rise of China. Beyond IU, Dr. Liff is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He holds a PhD and MA in Politics from Princeton University, and a BA from Stanford University.

Ko Maeda (PhD, Michigan State University, 2005) is an associate professor of political science at the University of North Texas, specializing in elections, party competition, and political institutions. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Reo Matsuzaki is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and history of East Asia, with a focus on state-building and colonialism. His current book project, through a comparison of Japanese colonization of Taiwan (1895-1945) and the U.S. colonization of the Philippines (1898- 1942), explores the dynamic of state-building at the intersection of state and society, and the role societal intermediaries play in the process of constructing modern state institutions. He received his PhD from MIT and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law before joining the Trinity faculty in 2013. He is an Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and at Yale University’s Council of East Asian Studies.

Matthew Poggi is a deputy director in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of International Banking and Securities Markets, overseeing coverage of Asian financial systems and specializing in financial stability, shadow banking, and macroprudential policy issues. He is a member of several Financial Stability Board working groups covering these issues. He has also worked in the Office of East Asia covering Japan and Korea, and the Office of Global Economics conducting cross-country analysis. Prior to joining Treasury in 2006, he worked as an economist at Lehman Brothers in Tokyo for eight years and worked in the International Department at the Bank of Japan between 2003 and 2005. He participated in the Mansfield Fellowship Program from 2009-11, during which he served in placements in Japan’s Ministry of Finance, Financial Services Agency, Bank of Japan, and in the office of a member of the Diet. He holds a BSc in finance and economics from Boston College, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and an MPP from Columbia University.

Michael Orlando Sharpe is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at York College of the City University of New York. He holds a PhD and Master of Philosophy in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Additionally, Dr. Sharpe holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a Graduate Diploma in International Law and Organization for Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College / Rutgers University. Prior to coming to York College/CUNY, Dr. Sharpe was a senior research associate at the Howard Samuels Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. Before these more recent experiences, Dr. Sharpe was employed as a political analyst for the Consulate General of Japan in New York and earlier in Tokyo as a project coordinator for the United Nations affiliated non-governmental organization the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) of which he is now serves as a member of its board of directors. Dr. Sharpe’s areas of expertise are comparative politics and international relations and his research interests concern looking comparatively at the politics of migration, immigrant political incorporation, and political transnationalism in the Netherlands, Japan, and around the world. He recently published his first book, entitled Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: The Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization. Some of his recent work has appeared in the scholarly peer reviewed journals Japanese Journal of Political Science, Policy and Society, Dialectical Anthropology, encyclopedias, and popular media. Dr. Sharpe has given guest lectures and presentations about his work at several venues including Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Amsterdam, the Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University, Sophia University, University of Tsukuba, Villanova University, Japan Local Government Center (CLAIR), University of Manchester, Southern Methodist University, Stanford University, University of Aruba, and regularly presents at professional meetings. He has been interviewed about his work on Dutch radio and given presentations about it to Japanese government officials.

Jolyon Baraka Thomas is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research covers Japan and the United States in four main topics of inquiry: religion and media; religious freedom; religion and education; and religion and capitalism. His academic articles on these subjects have appeared in journals such as the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Material Religion, and Nova Religio, and he regularly publishes related essays in public-facing venues. Dr. Thomas’s most recent monograph, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2019. His first book, Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan, appeared from University of Hawai`i Press in 2012. He is now working on a third book, tentatively titled Difficult Subjects: Religion and the Politics of Public Schooling in Japan and the United States. He is also co-editing The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, an MA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and a BA from Grinnell College.

Kristin Vekasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine. Her research interests focus on international political economy, and the dynamics of political conflict, foreign direct investment, and nationalism. She specializes in Northeast Asia and has spent years conducting research in both Japan and China. Her current research looks at how Japanese multinational corporations mitigate political risk in China. Professor Vekasi received her PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2014. Prior to joining the faculty at University of Maine, she taught at New College of Florida, was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo, and a Fulbright Fellow at Tohoku University.

Joshua W. Walker became President & CEO of Japan Society on December 2, 2019. Previously, he worked at Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk analysis firm, where he served as global head of strategic initiatives and Japan in the Office of the President. He has actively expanded global events and new business offerings, including leading the company’s first ever “GZERO” geopolitical summit in Japan. He has worked with clients worldwide with a focus on Japan and in a variety of sectors to evaluate global geopolitical risks. Dr. Walker has more than two decades of experience in international business and diplomacy. Prior to Eurasia Group, he was CEO and president of the USA Pavilion of the 2017 World Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan; founding dean of the APCO Institute; and senior vice president of global programs at APCO Worldwide, a leading global strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the private sector, he worked in numerous roles at various U.S. government agencies, including the State Department and the Defense Department. He is a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and professor of Leadership and the American presidency at George Mason University and the Reagan Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a doctorate from Princeton University.