Global and International Studies Building, 2056
Research Interests
- Japanese Society
- Inequality
- Work and Organizations
- Gender
- Race and Ethnicity
- Immigration
Bio
Hilary J. Holbrow is Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society. A sociologist by training, her scholarship examines social and economic inequality, work and organizations, immigration, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity. She is an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo, an Associate in Research at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute, and a member of the US-Japan Network for the Future.
Her book, The Future is Foreign: Women and Immigrants in Corporate Japan, is available from Cornell University Press. She is currently conducting survey, survey-experimental, and interview research to understand the sources of persistent gender inequality in Japan’s white-collar workplaces, the experiences of professional Asian migrants to Japan, and the effects of Japan’s trainee system on migrant outcomes. Her previous research has been published in Social Forces, the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, International Migration Review, Work and Occupations, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others.