Satsuki Kawano
Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
About
Dr. Satsuki Kawano is a Japan anthropologist. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (U.S.), she held positions at Harvard University (Senior fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions) and the University of Notre Dame (Assistant Professor) before joining the University of Guelph in 2004.
Most recently, Kawano is conducting fieldwork for her SSHRC-funded project (2016-2020) on academic accommodations for students with developmental disabilities in Japanese schools.
Research Interests
Learning disabilities, child rearing, personhood, family and kinship, death, ritual, religion, morality, space and place, body, emplacement, gender, identity, aging, and Japan.