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Curriculum Vitae

Professional Career  
From January 2025 Dean, School of Social Science, University of Mannheim
September 2022 – December 2024 Senior Associate Dean, Students; Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; University of British Columbia
January 2018 – August 2022 Associate Dean, Funding; Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; University of British Columbia
October 2009 – December 2024 Associate Professor and Keidranren Chair of Japanese Research; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; University of British Columbia
August 2002 – September 2009 Assistant Professor and Keidranren Chair of Japanese Research; Institute of Asian Research; University of British Columbia
May 2001 – July 2002 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Fellow; East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge
September 2001 – July 2002 Junior Research Fellow; Wolfson College; University of Cambridge
September 1998 – July 1999 Foreign Research Scholar; Institute of Social Science; University of Tokyo
September 1998 – July 1999 Dissertation Fellow; German Institute for Japanese Studies; Tokyo
Academic Career  
2003 PhD, Sociology; Princeton University
1996 MA, Sociology; Princeton University
1996 BA, Sociology (magna cum laude with University distinction in general scholarship), University of California at Berkeley
1990-91 Exchange, Sophia University