Yukiko Koga

Koga 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]

• 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]