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5期プログラム（2019-2022）フェロー一覧

John F. Bradford is a Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Immediately prior to coming to RSIS, he was a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow placed in Tokyo at the National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). As an adjunct fellow at Temple University’s Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, he maintains an active research agenda focused on regional security with special attention given to maritime issues and cooperative affairs. His written work can be found in journals such as Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asia Policy, Asian Security, Asian Survey, Naval War College Review, and Naval Institute Proceedings. CDR Bradford received his BA in Asian Studies and Government from Cornell University. During his undergraduate experience, he also earned a Diploma of Indonesian Studies from Malang State University in Indonesia and trained onboard a Royal Malaysian Navy frigate. As an Olmsted Scholar, he studied Political Science at Indonesia’s Gadjah Mada University and completed an MSc from Singapore’s Rajaratnam School of International Studies where earned the UOB Gold Medal as the top student in Strategic Studies. More recently, he completed the Regular Course at Japan’s National Institute of Defense Studies.

Naomi Gingold is a journalist who has reported across Asia with NPR and PRI. Her extensive coverage of Japan has spanned from gender issues and sexuality to politics, religion, and pop culture/the arts; her work has frequently brought an unexpected human face to big picture issues and policy—from investigative reporting on sexism at the country’s most elite universities to reporting on the aftermath of the 3/11 triple disaster several years on. Her work has also been featured in outlets such as The Economist and Slate. She is the executive producer and co-host of a new long-form storytelling and news podcast on Asia and does ethnographic research on the evolution of media, technology, and politics in Burma. She earned a BA from Brown University in International Relations, studied music production and engineering at Berklee College of Music, and conducted master’s research at Georgetown University.

Kathryn Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Colorado – Boulder. Her research explores how social inclusion and exclusion shape holistic well-being and embodied experience. She brings together three domains—kinship, medical anthropology, and semiotics—to examine how past and present social relationships are experienced in visceral, embodied terms. In Japan, her research focuses on the stakes of disconnection from family networks. She conducts ethnographic research at child welfare institutions, with foster and adoptive families, and with networks of youth who grew up in state care. She has also conducted research on infertility treatment and the ways “blood ties” are understood in Japan. She examines how kinship ideologies articulate with discourses of Japanese national and cultural identity. She is developing a new, transnational project exploring how psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, and former state wards in Japan and North America theorize attachment and childhood interpersonal trauma. She has been a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. She holds a BA in English and Anthropology from Rice University and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Kristi Govella is Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Antony’s College. She specializes in the intersection of economics, security, and governance, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region and Japan. Her research has examined topics such as economic statecraft, government-business relations, regional institutional architecture, military alliances, and the governance of the global commons. She also serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center and Pacific Forum and as Editor of the journal Asia Policy. Dr. Govella previously held positions at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Harvard University, and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Scott W. Harold is a Senior Political Scientist and the Associate Director of the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at The RAND Corporation. He specializes in the foreign and defense policies of China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Taiwan, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In addition to his work at RAND, Dr. Harold is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he has taught since 2006; an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and an Adjust Professor at The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Prior to joining RAND in August 2008, Dr. Harold was a Senior Research Analyst for the John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution. He holds a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and a PhD and MA in Political Science from Columbia University.

Jordan Heiber is Vice President, International Digital Economy Policy, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He previously served as Deputy Representative with the Washington, DC office of MUFG Bank, Ltd. from 2014 – 2020. In this capacity, he managed a team of analysts focused on assessing political risk in the United States, and the impacts of U.S. foreign policy on the bank’s global strategy, including in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia. Prior to joining MUFG, he served as Director for Japan Affairs in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he was involved in key aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. He also spent seven years at the U.S. Department of State’s Offices of Korean Affairs and Japanese Affairs. He was a Mansfield Fellow from 2009-2011, with placements in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; the Japanese Diet; and the private sector. He previously worked as a staff reporter for the Asahi Shimbun’s Washington bureau, and spent several years as an English teacher in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture. He received a BA in Communications from Northwestern University and an MA in Asian Studies from George Washington University.

Hilary J. Holbrow is Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. A sociologist by training, her scholarship examines social and economic inequality, work and organizations, immigration, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity. She is an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo and an associate in research at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute. She has also worked at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC and has lived in Kyoto, Osaka, Okinawa, Yokohama, and Tokyo. Her work on the Japanese labor market has appeared in International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Work and Occupations. Her book manuscript on gender and ethnic inequality in Japanese white-collar workplaces explores how status hierarchies evolve in response to changing and economic and social conditions, and specifically whether Japanese women and immigrants will be able to achieve greater parity with Japanese men as Japan’s population declines. She is currently conducting survey, survey-experimental, and interview research to understand the sources of persistent gender inequality in Japan’s white-collar workplaces, the experiences of professional Asian migrants to Japan, and the effects of Japan’s trainee system on migrant outcomes. She holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Boston University and a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University.

Akira Inayoshi is a Professor of political and diplomatic history of Japan at Niigata University. His research and teaching interest lies at local politics and bureaucracy in modern Japan, focusing on infrastructure initiatives. He is the author of Kaikou no Seiji-shi (Political History of Seaports), published in 2014 by the University of Nagoya Press, which earned the 41st Fujita Award from the Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research. He received an MA and PhD in Politics from Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Kazuyo Kato joined JCIE/USA as Executive Director in April 2021 and has nearly two decades of experience at nonprofit organizations dedicated to U.S.-Japan relations and international affairs in both the United States and Japan. Prior to JCIE/USA, she was Senior Director of Global Partnerships and Initiatives at Japan Society in New York. Before joining Japan Society, she worked for over five years at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA in Washington DC, where she last served as Director of Programs and Administration to develop delegation and outreach programs on U.S.-Japan relations and to oversee all operational aspects of the organization. Previously, she was responsible for exchange programs and research projects at Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo and the International Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and worked in consulting businesses including Armitage International and Arthur Andersen (later KMPG) in Tokyo. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Relations and an MA in International Policy Studies. She also has a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Duke University’s Continuing Studies Program.

Ryosuke Maeda is an Associate Professor of Japanese Political and Diplomatic History in the Department of Politics at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Law. His research interests include nation-state/empire building, party politics of social and economic policy, and international/imperial finance in East Asia. His first book, The Beginnings of National Politics in Modern Japan: The Meiji State Reform under the Parliamentary System, 1890-1898 (University of Tokyo Press, 2016) (in Japanese) described the dynamic process of Japan’s nation-state building in the late 19th century, focusing on why and how the Meiji authoritarian state transformed the feudal system of the Tokugawa era. This book was awarded the 39th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2017. His current book project, Finance, Empire and War: The International Monetary Politics in East Asia, 1933-1952, examines the possible diplomatic choices of prewar Japan faced with the global economic crisis. There were two contradicting paths for Japan in the 1930s: the strengthening of empire and international economic cooperation. To trace the historical roots of the Bretton Woods system in East Asia, he will shed new light on the efforts of international bankers from Japan, Britain, China, France, and the United States to avoid the war and reconstruct the regional order after Japanese aggression in Manchuria. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology.

Anna Nagamine is the Manager of Business Development Section, Technology Development and Innovation Center (TDIC) at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). TDIC fosters innovation at OIST and in Okinawa to accelerate economic growth. Anna’s work involves developing industry partnerships, supporting entrepreneurship and incubating startups in the region. She was an integral part of the team that established the first OIST startup (focused on biotechnology) in 2014. Her interests are in understanding how science and technology can impact society in solving local and global challenges and how policies, programs and ecosystems support this process. Ms. Nagamine holds a BA from Chuo University, Faculty of Policy Studies, and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she was an East-West Center Obuchi Student Scholarship recipient.

Crystal Pryor is Vice President at the Pacific Forum. She has researched U.S.-Japan outer space security cooperation, strategic trade control implementation in advanced countries, and Japan’s defense industry and arms exports. Prior to joining Pacific Forum, Dr. Pryor held a postdoctoral fellowship in the U.S.-Japan relations program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She has worked for the University of Washington as an instructor of political science and international relations, and for the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Dr. Pryor received a BA in International Relations from Brown University, master’s degrees in political science from the University of Washington and the University of Tokyo, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington.

Anand Rao is an Assistant Professor of political science and international relations at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He joined the faculty at Geneseo in 2015. Dr. Rao first went to Japan in 1996 and lived in Saga Prefecture for three years as a Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program participant. He lived in other areas of Japan for nearly seven more years after that, from 2002 to 2009, and worked at several places including the University of Tokyo and in the international department of the Japan Securities Depository Center (JASDEC). At SUNY Geneseo, he teaches courses on East Asian politics, comparative politics, terrorism and national security, and the role of democracy in international relations. Dr. Rao’s publications include an article in the Japan Studies Association Journal and a book review in International Migration Review. His research interests are wide and varied, but he is especially interested in Japanese foreign policy, Japanese party politics, and Japanese immigration politics in comparative perspective. He holds a BA in History and Political Science from Union College, an MA in Political Science from Columbia University, and a PhD in Politics from the University of Virginia.

Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna is an Associate Professor in the department of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. His book, Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in 2019. His work has also appeared in American Anthropologist and Japanese Studies. In his current project, he investigates the government’s vision to move towards “Society 5.0,” a super-smart society, focusing on the uses and prospects for artificial intelligence and sensors in Japan. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University. He received a BA in Anthropology and International Development Studies from Trent University, an MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD and AM in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.

Timothy Webster is an Associate Professor of Law at Western New England University. He writes about the intersections of international law and the domestic legal systems of China, Japan, and Korea. His scholarship on international economic law, international human rights, and international dispute resolution appears inter alia in the Columbia, Michigan, NYU, and Virginia Journals of International Law. He has testified before Congress, written for domestic and international media, and lectured in French, Japanese, and Mandarin at colloquia, conferences, and workshops throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. He was previously Professor of Transnational Law, with tenure, at Case Western Reserve University, where he directed Case’s Asian Legal Studies Program and the Joint Program in International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution with Southwest University of Political Science and Law (Chongqing, China). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, National Taiwan University (Taipei), and IÉSEG School of Management (Paris), and a visiting scholar at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China). He started his academic career as a lecturer at Yale Law School and senior fellow at its China Law Center. He practiced international litigation in Tokyo and New York and clerked for a judge in Boston. He is in the fourth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program, the Chinese analogue to the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future, run by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He holds a BA and MA in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University and a JD and LLM from Cornell Law School.