Eiko Ikegami
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Eiko Ikegami (池上英子) is a Japanese academic, author and the Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology and History at the New School of Social Research in New York.[1] In 2006, she won the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology[2] and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award in Political Sociology both from the American Sociological Association.
Ikegami attended Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, Japan from 1972 to 1976, receiving a B.A. in Japanese Literature. She was then a full-time journalist for the Japan Economic Journal until 1980, and then a researcher for CASA, Inc.
She then attended the Graduate School of Tsukuba, finishing with an M.A. in Area Studies. She received another M.A. from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1989, both in sociology. She then joined Yale University as an assistant professor in Sociology, and then an associate professor from 1994 to 1998. In 1999, Ikegami she joined the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research as a full professor of Sociology. From 1999 to 2003, she was also the director of the Center for Studies of Social Change. Ikegami is currently the chair and Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology and History at the New School of Social Research in New York.[1]
She is associated in a Tokyo Foundation research project as a fellow of the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution (VCASI, pronounced “vee-kasi”).[3]
