WATARU KUSAKA, PH.D.
Wataru Kusaka is an ethnographer, interpretive political scientist, and anthropologist-wannabe studying the Philippines.
Professor,
Graduate School of Global Studies,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Mail: kusaka [at] tufs.ac.jp
EDUCATION
– 1997-2001: Bachelor Student, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
– 2001-2003: Master Student, Graduate School of the Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
– 2002-2003: Special Student, College of Social Science and Philosophy, University of the Philippines
– 2004-2008: Doctoral Student, Graduate School of the Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
ACADEMIC DEGREE
– 2002: Bachelor Political Science, Waseda University
– 2004: MA. Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
– 2012: Ph.D. Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
WORK EXPERIENCE
– 2008-2009: Researcher, Global Center of Excellence Program, Department of Letters, Kyoto University
– 2009-2013: Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
– 2013-present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
FELLOWSHIPS
– 2007: Visiting Research Fellow, Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman
– 2014: Visiting Lecturer, International Studies, De La Salle University
– 2019-2020: Visiting Fellow, Holy Name University
AWARDS
– 2007: 6th The Most Excellent Paper by the Japan Association for Asian Studies (Given to the “Agency and Dilemma of the Urban Poor: Struggle for Order Making with the Issue of Street Vendors in Metro Manila,” Asian Studies 53(4): 20-36, 2007.)
– 2014: 30th Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Award (Given to the Anti-Civic Politics: Morality and Inequality in the Philippine Democracy, 2013, Hosei University Press.)
– 2014: 35th Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries (Given to the Anti-Civic Politics: Morality and Inequality in the Philippine Democracy, 2013, Hosei University Press.)
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION
– Japan Association of Asian Studies
– Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies
– Japanese Political Science Association
– Japan Association for Comparative Politics
– Philippine Political Science Association