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Hwaji Shin is a Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of San Francisco, where she has served as full-time faculty since 2007. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Japan Fund fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies (2008-2010).
Her educational background includes a PhD in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook, where she received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Shin's research centers on political sociology, focusing on social movements, race and ethnicity, inter-group conflicts, and categorical/spatial inequality in urban contexts. She investigates migration, citizenship, and nationalism through historical and theoretical lenses, emphasizing colonialism's enduring impacts and globalization's role in shaping ethno-racial dynamics, particularly in Japanese society. Her methodological approach combines comparative historical analysis, political ethnography, and quantitative techniques.
Her publications reveal consistent exploration of how global forces interact with local inequalities, especially regarding Korean minorities in Japan and colonial legacies in Japanese immigration policy. This work bridges macro-level structural analysis with micro-level community dynamics.
She has received significant recognition:
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (SUNY Stony Brook)
- Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology
Current projects include a book on Japan's nationhood history and a U.S.-Japan comparative study of housing affordability's relationship to categorical inequality. At USF, she teaches sociological theory, race/ethnicity, citizenship/nationalism, globalization, and social problems in Japanese and Northeast Asian societies.
