Fumiya Uchikoshi is an Academy Scholar (stipendiary postdoctoral fellow) at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, housed at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

He is a sociologist and demographer who studies family demography, gender inequality, and meritocracy. One area of his research focuses on documenting and understanding the causes of “lowest-low” fertility in East Asia. In another area of research, he examines how “imagined futures” shape gendered educational trajectories among students at selective high schools in Japan.

His work has been published in Demography, Demographic Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, among other outlets. One of his dissertation chapters (“Explaining Declining Trends in Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan,” published in Demography) was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Sociology of Population Section.

He received a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University with a graduate certificate in Demography. Before Princeton, he was in a PhD program in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

He is currently a PI on a grant funded by the Toyota Foundation to study the policy impacts on low fertility and depopulation in Japan.