“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.”
—Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Red Circle” in His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
My teaching interests include (1) gender and sexuality, (2) social stratification and inequality, (3) social statistics, and (4) research methods. As a social scientist, I see research and teaching as complementary. I use my research activities to inform my course materials and I use my teaching skills to make my research practical and useful to the communities that I study.
Also, I am committed to making my classes an equitable and inclusive learning environment for students from all diverse backgrounds. In particular, my teaching emphasizes the perspectives of systemically marginalized populations, who are excluded from full participation in social institutions based on various social attributes. The educational institution as a whole is always already hostile to students from systemically marginalized groups, and I hope my classes serve as a safe space, where students can develop critical thinking skills with which to challenge social inequality.
Hosei University
Below are the courses I teach as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hosei University.
- Introduction to Sociology
- Introduction to Social Research Methods
- Gender, Sexuality and Society
- Race, Class and Gender I: Concepts & Issues
- Race, Class and Gender II: Global Inequalities
- Feminist Theory
- Reading Skills II
Other Courses
I have taught a course titled, “Queer Theories,” as an instructor of record in the Graduate School of Social Sciences/Faculty of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University. I have also taught various sociology courses as a teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington.
Courses taught at the University of Washington: Survey of Sociology; Evolution and Revolution: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Social Change; Who Gets Ahead? Public Schooling in America; Foundations of Social Inquiry; Intimate Relationships; The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Guest Lectures
I’ve also delivered guest lectures at universities in the United States and Japan.
Lecture topics: LGBTQ in Japan by the numbers; measurement of sexual orientation and gender identity in quantitative research; labor market inequality by sexual/gender minority status in Japan
