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I’m 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.

I’m a social demographer who studies family inequality and educational stratification. Broadly speaking, my research interests include 1) causes and consequences of demographic change and 2) the relationship between the “diversified” college expansion and social stratification. I am also working on 3) family formation among Asian Americans. I mainly focus on Japan and the United States.

My work has been published in Demography, Demographic Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, among other outlets. One of my 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.

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