Sawa Kurotani Ph.D.
Professor
Sociology & Anthropology
Education
- Ph.D., anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
- M.A., anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago
- B.A., English, Linfield College, Oregon
Publications
- Kurotani, Sawa. "Death of a Salary Man: Heisei Fukyo and Erosion of the Middle Class in Contemporary Japan." In Death and Dying in Japan, edited by Hikaru Suzuki. London: Routledge, 2007.
- Kurotani, Sawa. "Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility." In Going First Class?: New Approaches Towards Privileged Movement and Travel, edited by Vered Amit. London: Berghahn, 2007.
- Kurotani, Sawa. "The South Meets the East: Global Aspirations and Regional Imaginations in North Carolina Research Triangle." In The American South in a Global World, edited by James Peacock, Harry Watson, and Carrie Matthews. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Kurotani, Sawa. "Working against the 'Field': Multi-Sited Transnational Ethnography and the Shifting Construction of Fieldwork." In Anthropologists in the Field, edited by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Awards and Service
- National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1996–1997
- National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Workshop Grant, 2005–2006