Yukiko Koga

Yukiko Koga
Born	1969 (age 55–56)
Academic background
Alma mater	Keio University (LL.B.) Syracuse University (MA) Columbia University (PhD)
Thesis	The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in the Cities of Former 'Manchuria' (2008)
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropologist
Institutions	Hunter College Yale University

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).

Education

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]

Awards

• 2018–2019 Princeton University Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Scholar[10]
• 2018 Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence[11]
• 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize[12]
• 2017 Anthony Leeds Book Prize[8]

References

1. "Yukiko Koga". Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
2. "Yukiko Koga". Hunter College. Archived from the original on 2018-07-31.
3. "Accounting for silence: Inheritance, debt, and the moral economy of legal redress in China and Japan | American Ethnological Society". American Ethnological Society. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
4. "NEH grant products: Accounting for Silence: Narration, Nation, and the Politics of Redress in China and Japan". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
5. "Yukiko Koga — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
6. "Yukiko Koga". weai.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
7. "Yukiko Koga's book has received the AAA's 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes". academy.wcfia.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
8. "Professor Yukiko Koga Awarded the American Anthropological Association's 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes". Hunter College. 22 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
9. "Editorial Board | positions". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
10. "W&M law professor selected as LAPA Fellow | William & Mary". www.wm.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
11. "Professors Yukiko Koga and Michael Steiper Receive 2018 Presidential Awards for Excellence — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
12. "Past SEAA Awards". Society for East Asian Anthropology. Retrieved 2018-10-24.