Fellows

Dennis Encarnation has devoted his professional life to the study and practice of globalization, both as a university professor and as a global consultant on six continents. As a professor, Dennis recently retired from Harvard University, having joined the faculty in 1982.  He spent the first half of his Harvard career on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, and the second half at the Harvard Kennedy School.   As a consultant, Dennis has worked with a broad range of multinational and local corporations, as well as with government agencies, multilateral institutions and nongovernmental organizations.  Dennis is currently writing a book

Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo.  He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, conducted post-doctoral research at Nuffield College and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and held positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His research interests include comparative social stratification and mobility, school-to-work transition, and social inequality over the life course.  He is the author of Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan (Stanford University Press) and the co-editor with David Slater of Social Class in Contemporary Japan (Routledge).

Machiko Osawa is a professor of economics at Japan Women’s University, and is also the director of the Research Institute for Women and Careers. She received her MA in economics from Eastern Illinois University (1977) and PhD in economics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984). She was a  researcher at the Center for Social Sciences, Columbia University (1980-84), a Hewlett Fellow at the University of Chicago (1984-86), a senior researcher, at the Japan Institute of Labor (1987-90), and associate professor of economics at Asia University (1990-96). She served on advisory boards for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology; Ministry