Associate Professor of Sociology Ryoko Yamamoto has been selected to receive the Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council’s Abe Fellowship Program and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. She is among 10 researchers from the United States and Japan to receive the fellowship for the 2016 competition year.
The title of Yamamoto’s research is “Global Talents on the Local Job Markets: Academic Globalization and Post-Graduation Decision-Makings among International Students in Japan and the United States.” With the support of Abe Fellowship, Yamamoto will conduct her ethnographic research in Tokyo in the 2017-2018 academic year. During this period, she will be affiliated with the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of Waseda University as a Visiting Scholar.
“This recent fellowship selection demonstrates the breadth of knowledge and talent among our faculty at Old Westbury, and we’re excited that was recognized by the Abe Fellowship Committee – congratulations to Dr. Yamamoto,” said Provost and Senior Vice President Patrick O’Sullivan.
In its 25th year, the Abe Fellowship Program fosters the development of a new generation of U.S.- and Japan-based researchers who are singularly committed to policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving.
The Abe Fellowship Program is funded through the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and is named after the late Shintaro Abe, former Japanese minister of foreign affairs.
Yamamoto, a resident of Port Washington, earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Among her teaching roles at Old Westbury including Global Sociology, Research Methods, and Senior Seminar, Yamamoto serves as vice-chair of the Teaching and Learning Resources Committee.