Fellows

Hiro Lee is currently Professor of Economics at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. He has worked extensively in quantitative analysis of international trade and development, and is currently working on “Quantitative Assessments of Japan’s agricultural policy reforms and its participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership” using a dynamic applied general equilibrium model. His studies have been published in a variety of books and journals, including Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, World Scientific, the Journal of Development Economics, and The World Economy.

Catherine Lewis has pioneered use of Lesson Study (jugyou kenkyuu) in US schools. Lesson Study is a collaborative, practice-based form of professional learning that allows Japanese educators to continuously improve their instruction. With funding from the US Department of Education and NSF, she has developed and tested a series of resource kits to support lesson study in the US, including key resources translated from the Japanese elementary mathematics curriculum. Her randomized controlled trial of lesson study with mathematical content resources was identified by a What Works Clearinghouse-criteria review as one of only two professional learning programs (of 643 reviewed) to meet

Elizabeth Lillehoj is a Professor of Japanese Art History at DePaul University, Chicago where she teaches courses on the arts of Asia. Her book, Art and Palace Politics in Japan, 1580s–1680s, was published by Brill in the Japanese Visual Culture Series in 2011. She was also the editor of Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600–1700 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004), Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan (Floating World Editions, 2007), and Archaism and Antiquarianism in Korean and Japanese Art (Art Media Resources and Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, 2013).

Yuji Murayama is a professor of spatial information science, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is a Member of the Science Council of Japan and Director of the Tokyo Geographical Society, Japan. His research interests are geographical information science, spatial analysis, and urban/transport geography. He served as President of the GIS Association (2006–2008), Editor-in-Chief of the Theory and Applications of GIS (2004–2006), Editor-in-Chief of the Geographical Review of Japan, Ser.B (2006–2008), and Steering Committee Member of the IGU Urban Commission (2000–2008). Professor Murayama is now Editor-in-Chief of Tsukuba Geoenvironmental Sciences (2013–Present), Editor of Urban Studies Research (2010–Present), Editorial Manager of AJG