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    Satsuki Kawano

    Satsuki Kawano

    Professor

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

    skawano@uoguelph.ca

    Research Areas

    • Health and well-being

    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.