Fellows

Kathryn Ibata- Arens is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, science and technology policy, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive innovation. Ibata- Arens’ recent research explores technology leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem development in biomedical industries in Asia. Her book, Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia (Stanford University Press 2019) analyz es national policy and firm level strategy in China, India, Japan, and Singapore. She served on the METIState Department Japan- US Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council (2012- 13), serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan- America Society of Chicago, and as a member of the

Apichai W. Shipper holds the Asia Regional Chair at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations before joining the faculty at the University of Southern California with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the School of International Relations. He has been a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, UCLA, University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto,

Margarita Estevez-Abe is a comparative political economist of advanced industrial societies–with a focus on gender and welfare states.  Her work includes writings on the links between electoral institutions and social policy, the effects of economic institutions on gender segregation, the transformation of the role of women in the family, and the changes in the Varieties of Capitalism.

Joseph Coleman, the former Tokyo bureau chief for Associated Press, is Professor of Practice in Journalism at the Indiana University Media School. He has reported from some two dozen countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas in 25 years as a journalist. Coleman is the author of Unfinished Work: The Struggle to Build an Aging American Workforce (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has degrees from Vassar College and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Coleman, 52, lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife Kyoko and their two children.

 Akiko Takeyama is associate professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Her research and teaching interests lie in changing gender, sexuality, and class dynamics in the context of neoliberal globalization. Her first book, Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (2016 Stanford University Press), which theorizes the commercialization of feelings, emotions, and intimate relationships in contemporary Japan’s service-centered economy, was shortlisted for 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology in American Anthropological Association. Her second book project explores the interrelation among politico-legal systems, information technology, and the global economy through the