Akiko
Hashimoto
is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of
Pittsburgh, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology. She
was educated at the University of Hamburg, London School of Economics, and Yale
University. Prior to her appointment at the University of Pittsburgh, she was
Research Associate at the United Nations University in Tokyo. Her publications
include The Gift of Generations: Japanese
and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Cambridge
University Press, 1996), and Family
Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (Oxford University
Press, 1992). An Abe Fellow in 1996-97, she is currently at work on a
book-length study of cultural identity and national memory in post-World War II
Japan, Germany, and the United States.
Selected
recent publications:
"The
Cultural Meanings of 'Security' in Aging Policies"
in
Susan O. Long (ed.) Caring for the
Elderly in Japan and the United States: Practices and
Policies.
2000.
London: Routledge, pp. 19-27
"Japanese
and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War
Memories in
Defeated
Nations." 1999. Reischauer
Institute of Japanese Studies Occasional Papers in Japanese
Studies
No.
1999-01, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Designing
Family Values: Cultural Assumptions of an Aging Society."
1997
Japan Quarterly, Vol 44 (4), pp.59-65
The
Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on
Aging and the Social
Contract.
1996. New York: Cambridge University
Press
"'Seigi
no sensō': Amerika ni okeru dainiji sekaitaisen no kioku." 1996. Hōsō Kenkyū to
Chōsa,
Vol
46 (12), pp. 34-47 (with Ellis Krauss)
"Memories
of the War: Media's Responsibility," in World Television Coverage of the 50th
Anniversary of
the
End of World War II,
1996. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Tokyo (with Ellis
Krauss)
"Family
Relations in Later Life: A Cross-Cultural Perspective."
1993.
Generations Vol 17
(4)
Contact
Address:
2419
Posvar Hall, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
15260
tel: (412) 648-7109 fax: (412) 648-2799
E-mail
Address:
ahash@pitt.edu
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