Dr. Satsuki Kawano

Biography

Satsuki Kawano is a Japanese anthropologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. She has held significant academic positions, including as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Since joining the University of Guelph in 2004, Kawano has conducted fieldwork for a SSHRC-funded project focused on academic accommodations for students with developmental disabilities in Japanese schools. Her research spans various themes, including learning disabilities, child rearing, personhood, family kinship, death, ritual, religion, morality, space and place, body and emplacement, gender, identity, and aging, particularly within Japanese contexts.

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