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Satsuki Kawano

Satsuki Kawano

Professor

College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Email:skawano@uoguelph.ca

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.