Kunisuke Hirano - My portal - researchmap

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
: Affiliate, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Languages and Cultures(Aug, 2021, University of Michigan)
Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology(May, 2013, Boston University)
Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology(Mar, 2009, The University of Tokyo)
Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Language and Literature(Mar, 2007, The University of Tokyo)

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0765-7895
J-GLOBAL ID: 202201006487713146
researchmap Member ID: R000032700

Major Research Interests

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Research Areas

4

Research History

10

Apr, 2025 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2025

Senior Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Apr, 2022 - Apr, 2023

Special Lecturer, Tokyo Keizai University
Sep, 2021 - Present

Affiliate, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Faculty of Humanities, Musashi University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022

Chuo University
Jan, 2014 - May, 2014

Part-time Instructor in Japanese, Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies, Boston College
Jan, 2014 - Apr, 2014

Part-time Instructor in Japanese, Northeastern University
Sep, 2011 - Dec, 2013

Part-time Instructor in Japanese, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University
Oct, 2009 - Jun, 2011

Japan Center for Examination Research

Education

5

Sep, 2015 - Aug, 2021

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Sep, 2011 - May, 2013

Department of Anthropology, Boston University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2009

Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007

Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2005

College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Awards

1

Mar, 2021

Best Teacher Prize by Students, Musashi University

Papers

6

性的指向とエイジングのインターセクショナリティ中高年ゲイ男性を対象とした互助組織の事例から

平野邦輔

日本の科学者, 60(4) 197-203, Mar, 2025 Peer-reviewedInvited
序—Introduction—特集狭間に生きる : 現代日本を民族誌する上での困難と可能性

平野邦輔

文化人類学 = Japanese journal of cultural anthropology / 日本文化人類学会編, 88(4) 660-672, Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewed
The (Im)possibility of ideal education: Hope, uncertainty, and being safe in a Korean international school in Japan

Kunisuke Hirano

Contemporary Japan, 1-20, Aug 30, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Alternative Education as a Safe Space: Narratives on School Life and Participation among Students, Teachers, and Parents

Hirano, Kunisuke

The Journal of Child Study, 29 207-223, Jun, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Educated to Participate: Interaction and Imagination in Three Alternative High Schools in Contemporary Japan

Kunisuke Hirano

Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Aug, 2021 Peer-reviewed
The Shifting Boundary of Minority Identities : The Japanese American Citizens League and Same-Sex Marriage(<SPECIAL FEATURE 2>CREATING OUR HISTORIES, WRITING OUR HISTORIES)

HIRANO Kunisuke

Japan oral history review, 7 89-109, Sep 10, 2011 Peer-reviewedInvited

Misc.

2

21

インターセクショナリティ ──可視化の序列をめぐる文脈と政治性──

理論と動態, (17) 168-171, Mar, 2025 Invited
How Japanese Americans saw Japan: The case from Issei to Sansei in Mainland U.S.

Nov, 2007 Invited

Books and Other Publications

3

日本のオルタナティブ教育の視点からOOSCYを考える（乾美紀編著 ASEAN諸国の学校に行けない子どもたち）

(Role: Contributor, 170-174)

東信堂, Mar, 2023 (ISBN: 9784798918495)
ボディ・スタディーズ : 性、人種、階級、エイジング、健康/病の身体学への招待

DeMello, Margo, 田中, 洋美, 兼子, 歩, 齋藤, 圭介(社会学), 竹崎, 一真, 平野, 邦輔 (Role: Sole translator)

晃洋書房, May, 2017 (ISBN: 9784771027978)
In search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese gay men on migration to The United States (in Queering migrations towards, from, and beyond Asia)

Quero, Hugo Córdova, Goh, Joseph N., Campos, Michael Sepidoza (Role: Contributor)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (ISBN: 9781137447722)

Teaching Experience

16

Apr, 2025 - Present

社会人類学A, B (明治大学政治経済学部)
Apr, 2025 - Present

自由研究ゼミナール英語で読む日本のサラリーマン (慶應義塾大学経済学部)
Sep, 2023 - Present

English Writing (Keio University, Correspondence Courses)
Apr, 2023 - Present

English Seminar （All Levels) (Department of Economics, Keio University)
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2025

Translation and Interpretation Studies I, II (Musashi University)
Sep, 2023 - Dec, 2023

Japanese Studies 2 (Musashi University)
Aug, 2023 - Aug, 2023

Special Lecture on International Relationships (Anthropology and Sociology Summer Course) (The University of Kitakyushu)
Apr, 2023 - Jul, 2023

Anthropology Frontiers (Toyo University)
Apr, 2023 - Jul, 2023

Study Skills (Department of Economics, Keio University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

English Communication (retaking)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Advanced English (Tokyo Keizai University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

General English I (Tokyo Keizai University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

English Communication I (Tokyo Keizai University)
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022

SDGs English Reading Focus (Chuo University)
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022

SDGs English Performance Focus (Chuo University)
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022

Cross-cultural Communication (Musashi University)

Professional Memberships

2

Apr, 2023 - Present

日本文化人類学会
Sep, 2012 - Present

American Anthropological Association

Research Projects

1

居場所の人類学：現象学と場所論で捉えるジェンダー・格差・トランジションの交差性

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2029

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