Expertise

Research Areas:

  • Sociology of education; international and comparative education; Japanese education; race and ethnic relations; Japanese minority groups; Japanese popular culture.

Her specializations are the Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Language, and East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Japan.

Areas of Specialization

  • Race & Ethnicity; Sociology of Education; Applied Sociology; Japan studies.
Affiliations

East Asian Studies Center, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
current

Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University Fort Wayne (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne (past)

Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University Fort Wayne (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne (past)

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies Center, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Sociology
Degrees
PhD, Western Michigan University, Sociology, 2006
MEd, University of Victoria, Curriculum Studies, 1999
BA, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan, English Linguistics, 1990