Yukiko Koga (born 1969) is an anthropologist teaching at Yale University.[1] She previously taught at CUNY's Hunter College.[2] She specializes in legal anthropology, urban space, post-colonial & post-imperial relations, history & memory, and transnational East Asia (China and Japan).
Yukiko Koga | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in the Cities of Former 'Manchuria' (2008) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropologist |
Institutions |
Education
editKoga was a postdoctoral scholar in East Asian Studies at Brown University, specializing in colonial and post-colonial culture of occupied regions like Manchuria and other parts of Mainland China directly after World War II.[3] She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to complete this work.[4]
Koga is the author of the book, Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016).[5][6] In 2017, Koga won the American Anthropological Association’s Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes.[7][8]
She currently serves on the editorial collective of the Rice University journal positions: asia critique.[9]
Awards
edit- 2018–2019 Princeton University Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Scholar[10]
- 2018 Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence[11]
- 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize[12]
- 2017 Anthony Leeds Book Prize[8]
References
edit- ^ "Yukiko Koga". Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "Yukiko Koga". Hunter College. Archived from the original on 2018-07-31.
- ^ "Accounting for silence: Inheritance, debt, and the moral economy of legal redress in China and Japan | American Ethnological Society". American Ethnological Society. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ "NEH grant products: Accounting for Silence: Narration, Nation, and the Politics of Redress in China and Japan". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ "Yukiko Koga — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Yukiko Koga". weai.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Yukiko Koga's book has received the AAA's 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes". academy.wcfia.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "Professor Yukiko Koga Awarded the American Anthropological Association's 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes". Hunter College. 22 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "Editorial Board | positions". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "W&M law professor selected as LAPA Fellow | William & Mary". www.wm.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ "Professors Yukiko Koga and Michael Steiper Receive 2018 Presidential Awards for Excellence — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ "Past SEAA Awards". Society for East Asian Anthropology. Retrieved 2018-10-24.