Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (610) 690-2062
email: aezawa1@swarthmore.edu
Office Hours: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Kohlberg 238

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2003-2003
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
MSc., Sociology, University of London, 1995
B.A., Japanese Studies-Modern Society, Sophia University, 1994

Selected Publications and Activities:

Ezawa, Aya. "How Japanese Single Mothers Work." Japanstudien vol. 28, 2006.

“Lone Mothers and Welfare-to-Work Policies in Japan and the United States: Toward an Alternative Perspective” (with Chisa Fujiwara) in Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 32 (4), 2005

Abe Fellowship for project entitled: “From Welfare to Work: Lone Mothers and Welfare Reform in Japan and the United States,” 2004

Teaching and Research Interests:

Social Inequality, Japanese Society, Reproduction, Social and Political Theory.

Courses and Seminars Taught

Nations and National Identity (SOAN 03B)

Japan and Globalization (SOAN 03C)

The Politics of Family and Reproduction (SOAN 13C)

Japanese Society and Culture  (SOAN 33B)

Gender in Contemporary East Asia (SOAN 43C)

Reinventing Japan (SOAN 133)