Professor Estevez-Abe earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1999. Her research interests include comparative political economy, Japan, and gender. Her book Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. The book won the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Award in 2009. In addition to publishing book chapters, she has written numerous articles in, among others, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society; Global Asia; World Politics; Asian Survey; Social Politics; and The International Studies Review. She is currently working on several book projects (edited and single authored).