Yukiko Koga | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
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Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in the Cities of Former 'Manchuria' (2008) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropologist |
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Yukiko Koga (born 1969) is an anthropologist teaching at Yale University. [1] She previously taught at CUNY's Hunter College. [2] She specializes in legal anthropology, urban space, post-colonial & post-imperial relations, history & memory, and transnational East Asia (China and Japan).
Koga was a postdoctoral scholar in East Asian Studies at Brown University, specializing in colonial and post-colonial culture of occupied regions like Manchuria and other parts of Mainland China directly after World War II. [3] She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to complete this work. [4]
Koga is the author of the book, Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016). [5] [6] In 2017, Koga won the American Anthropological Association’s Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes. [7] [8]
She currently serves on the editorial collective of the Rice University journal positions: asia critique. [9]
Yukiko Koga | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in the Cities of Former 'Manchuria' (2008) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropologist |
Institutions |
Yukiko Koga (born 1969) is an anthropologist teaching at Yale University. [1] She previously taught at CUNY's Hunter College. [2] She specializes in legal anthropology, urban space, post-colonial & post-imperial relations, history & memory, and transnational East Asia (China and Japan).
Koga was a postdoctoral scholar in East Asian Studies at Brown University, specializing in colonial and post-colonial culture of occupied regions like Manchuria and other parts of Mainland China directly after World War II. [3] She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to complete this work. [4]
Koga is the author of the book, Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016). [5] [6] In 2017, Koga won the American Anthropological Association’s Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes. [7] [8]
She currently serves on the editorial collective of the Rice University journal positions: asia critique. [9]