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Fumiya Uchikoshi is a Researcher and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, housed within the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He previously completed his PhD in Sociology at Princeton University in 2024, where he concurrently held positions as a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow and a Prize Fellow in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on social stratification, family demography, and sociogenomics, with a particular emphasis on East Asia, especially Japan. He examines gender inequality in higher education access, genetic and social influences on academic achievement, educational assortative mating, and Asian American family stability.
Uchikoshi received his M.A. (2017) and B.A. (2015) in Sociology from the University of Tokyo, and completed a PhD program at Princeton University’s Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research. He has been affiliated with multiple institutions, including the Global Japan Lab at Princeton, the Waseda University Modern Political and Economic Institute, and the Hitotsubashi University Economic Research Institute.
His work bridges sociology and demography, with notable contributions to understanding how changes in educational institutions and labor markets perpetuate gender disparities. He has organized student/postdoc seminars for the Research on East Asian Demography and Inequality (READI) working group and collaborated with leading scholars such as Professors James Raymo, Dalton Conley, and Yu Xie.
Uchikoshi has earned prestigious awards, including the Alan C. Kerckhoff Travel Award (2024), Best Student Paper Award (2024), and an Honorable Mention for the Student Paper Award from the ASA Sociology of Population Section (2022). His research has been published in Demography, Demographic Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
He has taught courses on contemporary Japanese society, sociology, and sociogenomics at Princeton University and guest-lectured at Hokkaido University and Mito Daiichi High School. He actively participates in academic associations like the American Sociological Association and Population Association of America, and advises on policy issues related to low fertility and gender inequality in Japan.
