平野 邦輔
KUNISUKE HIRANO
Senior Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Keio University, Japan
www.92suke.com
hiranok@umich.edu
Raiōsha Building,4-chōme-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku Ward,
Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan

DEGREES
2021

Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Educated to Participate: Interaction and Imagination in Three
Alternative High schools in Contemporary Japan2013

M.A. in Applied Anthropology, Boston University
Thesis: In Search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese Gay Men on Migration toThe United States

2009

M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, University of TokyoThesis: The Shifting Boundary of Minority Identities: The Japanese American
Citizens League and Same-sex Marriage

2007

B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Tokyo
Thesis: (In Japanese) Toson Shimazaki’s The Broken Commandment: When A NonBuraku Author Represents Buraku Voices [島崎藤村「破戒」論：当事者でないものが当事者を描くということ]

PUBLICATIONS
2023

The (Im)possibility of Ideal education: Hope, Uncertainty, and being Safe in a
Korean International School in Japan. Contemporary Japan.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2247738

2023(In Japanese) Alternative Education as Safe Space: Students Narratives onParticipation in Everyday School Lives [セーフ・スペースとしてのオルタナテ
ィブ教育――学校生活への参加をめぐる語りに着目して]Kodomo ShakaiKenkyu. Vol. 29: 207-223.

2023(In Japanese) OOSCY Through the Lens of Japanese Alternative Education [日本のオルタナティブ教育の視点から OOSCY を考える] in Miki Inui ed, Children in
ASEAN Countries Who cannot Go to School. Tokyo: Tōshindo. Pp: 170-174.

2017

ボディ・スタディーズ―性、人種、階級、エイジング、健康-病の身体学への招待 (晃洋書房) Translated from Margo DeMello 2014, Body Studies: AnIntroduction. Routledge. Co-translated with Hiromi Tanaka, Ayumu Kaneko,Kensuke Saito, and Kazuma Takezaki.

2014

In Search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese Gay Men on Migration to theUnited States in Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia,Kunisuke Hirano
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Edited by Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos.
Pp: 77-98. Palgrave Macmillan.
2011

The Shifting Boundary of Minority Identities: The Japanese American Citizens
League and Same-Sex Marriage. 日本オーラルヒストリー研究 [Japanese OralHistory Research]. vol. 7: 89-110.

2007

How Japanese Americans saw Japan: The case from Issei to Sansei in Mainland
U.S. Contributed to the website Discover Nikkei as a member of the Associationfor Immigration Studies, 2007. http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/ja/node/1970(In English and Japanese).

TEACHING & WORK EXPERIENCE
2023 – Present Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, Japan
2023

Intensive Summer Course, Special Lecture in International Relationships,
Department of Foreign Language Studies. University of Kitakyushu, Japan

2022 - 2023

Special Lecturer of English, Center for General Education, Tokyo Keizai University,
Japan

2021 - Present Affiliate Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
2021 - 2022

Part-time Instructor, Cross-Cultural Communication and English, Musashi
University and Chuo University, Japan

2016 - 2020

Graduate Student Instructor, WS240: Introduction to Women’s Studies (Winter2020), ASIAN 201: Contemporary Japanese Society and Culture (Fall 2016),
ASIAN 248: Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and its Consequences in Asia (Winter2017), ASIAN 235 Introduction to Asian Studies (Fall 2017), ASIAN 325: Zen:
History, Culture, and Critique (Winter 2018), University of Michigan

2019

Instructor, Intermediate English, Korea International School, Japan

2015

Grader, ANTH 2660: The Internet is Another Country, University of Virginia

2014

Teaching Assistant, ANTH 2370: Japanese Culture, University of Virginia

20142011 - 2013

Instructor, SL 06401 Intermediate Japanese II, Boston CollegeInstructor, SL 16801 Third-year Japanese II, Boston CollegeInstructor, JPNS 1101 Elementary Japanese 1, Northeastern University
Instructor, JPNS 1102 Elementary Japanese 2, Northeastern University
Instructor, CAS LJ111, 112 Beginning Japanese, Boston University

2009 - 2011

Full-time Researcher, Japan Center for Examination Research, Shinjuku, Japan

2007

Teaching Assistant, English I, University of Tokyo
Teaching Assistant, Ethnography I, University of Tokyo

ACADEMIC AWARDS
2023

Ushioda Fellewship, Keio University
Awarded 275,000 yen for attending international conference

2023

Research Funding, Keio University
Awarded 200,000 yen for individual research

2020

Karl C. K. Ma Scholarship, University of Michigan
Awarded candidacy tuition, student and registration fees plus a stipend of $22,138

2020

Center for Japanese Studies Academic Year Fellowship, University of Michigan

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Awarded candidacy tuition, student and registration fees plus a stipend of $7,500
2018

Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan
Awarded candidacy tuition, student and registration fees plus a stipend of $1,0542

2018

Korea Foundation Language FellowshipAwarded $1,100 per month to study Korean at Yonsei University Korean Language
Institute with tuition exempted for 6 months

2018

SeAH Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship, Nam Center for Korean Studies,
University of Michigan
Awarded $3,000 fellowship for conducting fieldwork in Japan

2018

SAMI (Student Academic Multicultural Initiatives) Funding, University of Michigan
Awarded $450 travel grant for conference presentation

2017

Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan
Awarded $1,300 travel grant for conference participation

2017

Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan
Awarded $1,500 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan

2017

SeAH Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship, Nam Center for Korean Studies,
University of Michigan
Awarded $1,500 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan

2017

Center for Japanese Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan
Awarded $3,000 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan

2016

Center for Japanese Studies Short-term Travel Grant
Awarded $500 travel grant for conference participation

2016

The Philip Thomas Lincoln, Jr. Memorial Endowment FellowshipAwarded $4,000 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan2016

The Hide Shohara FellowshipAwarded $6,000 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan2015

University of Michigan Doctoral Student FellowshipAwarded $20,000 per year for five years of graduate education
With guaranteed summer funding of $5,000 for four years

2015

American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies
Awarded $1100 travel grant for conference participation

2015

Center for Japanese Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan
Awarded $5,000 fellowship for conducting preliminary fieldwork in Japan2014

American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies
Awarded $1,100 travel grant for conference participation

2014

University of Virginia Doctoral Student FellowshipAwarded $18,500 per year for five years of graduate education2011 – 2013

Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ScholarshipAwarded tuition exemption for two years, $20,000 per year

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University of Tokyo Fellowship for International Academic Activities 東京大学国際学術交流活動等奨励事業 2011 年度海外派遣奨励費 Awarded 960,000 yen(approximately US$8,000) for studying abroad

2008

America-Japan Society Research Grant
Awarded 350,000 yen (approximately US$3,000) to conduct research on
Japanese-American experiences

TEACHING AWARDS
2022

Best Teacher Prize, Selected by Students 学生が選ぶベストティーチャー賞 異文化コミュニケーション論 I Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

INVITED PRESENTATION
2020

From Failure to Refusing Mainstream: Hopes, Strategies, and Practices in Three
Unique High Schools in Contemporary Japan. Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies.
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

2016

Alternative Education in Japan. Lincoln Fellow Talk for the Department of Asian
Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2011

Sexile to the Promised Land: Japanese Gay Migration to North America. DIJ:
German Institute for Japanese Studies. Tokyo, Japan

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023

Pursuing Alternatives: Students’ Aspirations at a Progressive Japanese HighSchool, in panel Diversity and Inequality in Japan’s Schools. EAJS Conference
2023, European Association for Japanese Studies. University of Ghent, Belgium.

2021

A New Way to be Korean in Japan? Contested Imaginations and Practices in a
Newly-Built Korean “International” School in Japan. 16th International Conferenceof the European Association for Japanese Studies. Online.

2019

The (Im)Possibility of New Education? Hope, Disappointment, and Uncertainty in aNewly-Built Korean International School in Japan. Transnational Asians in the 21stCentury. Waseda University, Japan.

2018

Korean School Reconsidered: Contested Representations of Ethnicity at an
Alternative Korean School in Japan. Zainichi Koreans in the 21st Century:
Assimilation, Re-ethnicisation, Education, and Next Generation. University ofAuckland, New Zealand.

2018

A Better Survival Strategy? The Merits of Online Education Among Queer Studentsin Japan. Queertopia 2018: Queer Community, Queer Care. Northwestern
University, Evanston IL.

2018

Refusing the Mainstream: Strategizing for Uncertain Futures through Educational
Choices in Contemporary Japan. Harvard University East Asia Society Conference.
Harvard University, Cambridge MA.

2017

An Alternative Way to be Ethnic Korean? An Ethnographic Case Study at Korea
International School in Japan. 5th International Conference of Nextgen KoreanStudies Scholars. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2010

グローバルな市民社会における『自分探し』－日本人男性同性愛者の北米へ の移動を例として―於みんぱく若手研究者奨励セミナー「国境を越える市民 社会と人類学」 [In Search of “Self” in Global Civil Society: The case of Japanese gay
Migrants to The United States. Seminar for Young Researchers at the National
Museum of Ethnology. Osaka, Japan.]

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変化するマイノリティ・アイデンティティの境界：日系アメリカ人市民協会 と同性婚の事例から―於日本アメリカ史学会 [The Shifting Boundary of Minority
Identities: The Japanese American Citizens League and Same-sex Marriage. The
Japanese Association for American History. Annual Meeting of MA Thesis
Presentation. Tokyo, Japan.]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - 2022

Guest Researcher, Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Seoul National University,Korea

2017 - 2018

Conference organizing committee, 6th International Conference of Nextgen KoreanStudies Scholars. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2016 - 2018

Webmaster and board member, Graduate Rackham International, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, MI2007 - 2008

President, Graduate Student Council of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Japan

SOCIAL SERVICE
2007 - 2008

Theater Manager (Volunteer Work), Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film
FestivalARTICLE REVIEW
2013

Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anthropology of Education
Japanese Studies
Migration
GenderKorea

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Intercultural Education Society of Japan [異文化間教育学会]

Languages Spoken
Japanese (native), English (professional proficiency), Korean (TOPIK Level 4)

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