Curriculum Vitae

KUROSU Satomi  (•{—¢”ü)

 

Address


Reitaku University

              2-1-1 Hikarigaoka, Kashiwa,

Chiba 277-8686, Japan

              Tel:         +81-4-7173-3477

              Fax:       +81-4-7173-3403

              E-mail: skurosu@reitaku-u.ac.jp

 

Education

 

B.A. in English Literature, Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Japan, March 1984

M.A. in Sociology, University of Washington, March 1987 

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Washington, June 1990   

              Dissertation title: Determinants of the contemporary Japanese extended family.

 

Positions

 

Professor, Reitaku University, April 2006-present.

Director of the Population and Family History Project at Reitaku, August 2006-present.

Associate Professor, Reitaku University, April 1999-March 2006.

Visiting Scholar, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, September 2003-August 2004.

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, April 1999-March 2001.

Visiting Scholar, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, November 1998-March 1999.

Lecturer, Graduate School, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature, Kyoto University, Kyoto, April 1997-March 1998.

Coordinator of the "EurAsia Project on Population and Family History," Grant-in-Aid for Creative Basic Research, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, June 1995-March 2000.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, August 1994-May 1995.

Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, August 1993-July 1994.

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Bukkyo University, Kyoto, April 1992-March 1993.

Research Associate/Assistant Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, July 1990-March 1999.

 

Grants, Awards, Fellowships

Grants in Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 4/1/2007-3/31/2011.

             gEmpirical studies on life course and social network: a historical perspectiveh

Research Grants in the Humanities, The Mitsubishi Foundation, 9/1/2007-8/31/2010

             gPopulation and life course in early modern Nihonmatsuh

Research Grants, Reitaku Institute of Political Economics and Social Studies, 8/1/2006-3/31/2010

             gPopulation, family, and society: A long-term perspectiveh

Grants in Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 4/1/2002-3/31/2005.

             gFamily and regional variation in early modern Japan: life course and social network of peasantsh

Grant for Research Abroad, Reitaku University, 9/1/03-8/31/2004.

Grant for Research Abroad, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, 11/1/1998-3/15/1999.           

Grant for Research Abroad, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, 8/1/1993-5/31/1995.            

 

Research

Family sociology and demography of historical and contemporary Japan

Life course, family organization, and social network

Comparative historical sociology and demography

 

Teaching

              Introductory Sociology, Family Sociology

              Academic Skills

              Family and Society in Comparative Perspective (Seminar)

              Comparative Sociology (Graduate course)

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2006

Let the Data Speak: Population, Family and Society in Japan. Population and Family History Project Series No.1, Reitaku Institute of Political Economics and Social Studies.

 

Kurosu, Satomi, Akira Hayami and Aoi Okada 2005

         Family and Regional Variation in Early Modern Japan: Life Course and Social Network of Peasants. Research Report for Grants in Aid for Scientific Research (C) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

 

Breschi, Marco, Satomi Kurosu and Michel Oris 2003

The Own-Children Method of Fertility Estimation: Applications in Historical Demography. Italy: Forum.

 

Articles

 

Kurosu, Satomi Forthcoming.

gMarriage, Divorce and Remarriage in a Stem Family System: Women in Two Northeastern Japanese Villages, 1716-1870h in Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette et al. (eds) House and the Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective.  Bern: Peter Lang.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2008

gFilling Gaps in Japanese Historical Demography: Marriage, Fertility, and Households in Nineteenth-Century Rural Japan.h Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies: l8(1):43-7.

 

Kurosu, Satomi  2007 

gRemarriage Risks in Comparative Perspective: Introduction.h Continuity and Change 22(3): 367-372.

 

Kurosu, Satomi  2007 

gRemarriage in a Stem Family System in Early Modern Japan.h Continuity and Change 22(3): 429-458.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. And Satomi Kurosu 2005 

gDemographic Responses to Short-term Economic Stress in 18th and 19th century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages,h pp. 427-460 in Allen, Robert, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe (eds), Living Standards in the Past: New Perspective on Well-Being in Asia and Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2004

gWho Leaves Home and Why: Daughters and Sons in Two Northeastern Villages 1716-1870,h pp. 243-271 in Franz van Poppel, Michel Oris, and James Lee (eds) The Road to Independence: Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies, 16th-20th Centuries. Bern: Peter Lang.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu 2004

gMortality and Household in Two Ou Villages, 1716-1870,h pp.253-292 in Bengtsson, Tommy and Cameron Campbell and James Lee et al (eds.) Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standard in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. MIT Press.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2002

gStudies on Historical Demography and Family in Early Modern Japan.h Early Modern Japan--An Interdisciplinary Journal X(1): 3-21.

         gBibliography Historical Demography and Family in Early Modern Japan.h Early Modern Japan--An Interdisciplinary Journal X(1): 66-71.

 

Kurosu, Satomi and Emiko Ochiai 2002

         gJinkogakuteki seiyaku to yoshi: bakumatsuishinki Tama noson niokeru keishosenryaku (Demographic constraints and adoption: Heirship strategy in early modern Tama),h pp.127-160 in Hayami, Akira (ed.) Kindaika-ikoki no jinnko to kazoaku (Population and Family in early modern Japan). Tokyo: Minerva.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu 2002

         gThe Mortality Effects of Adult Male Death on Women and Children in Agrarian Household in Early Modern Japan,h pp.261-299 in Derosas, Renzo and Michel Oris (eds), When Dad Died: Individuals and Families Coping with Family Stress in Past Societies. Bern: Petern Lang.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2001 

gMeiji koseki no bunseki to rekishi-jinkogaku: tamakoseki karamiru rika pataan to kazoku shisutemu (An analysis of Meiji household register and historical demography: Patterns of leaving home and family system, Tama household register),h pp.245-266 in Hayami Akira, Tomobe Kenfichi, and Kito Hiroshi (eds.) Rekishi-jinkogaku no furontia (Frontier of historical demography).  Tokyo: Toyo Keizai.

 

Hayami, Akira and Satomi Kurosu 2001

         gRegional Diversity in Demographic and Family Patterns in Preindustrial Japan.h Journal of Japanese Studies, 27(2): 295-321.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu 2000

gMortality Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress and Household Context in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Rural Japan,h pp.421-455 in Bengtsson, Tommy and Osamu Saito (eds) Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth. England: Oxford University Press.

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu 2000

         gEconomic and Household Covariates of First Marriage in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages, 1716-1870,h pp.131-157 in Catharine Caplone and Muriel Neven (eds), Family Structure, Demography and Population: A Comparison of Societies in Asia and Europe.  Liege: Laboratoire de Demographie de lfUniversite de Liege.

 

Kurosu, Satomi, Noriko O. Tsuya and Kiyoshi Hamano 1999

     gRegional Differentials in the Patterns of First Marriage in the Latter Half of Tokugawa Japan.h Keio Economic Studies 36(1): 13-38.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1998

gLong Way to Headship, Short Way to Retirement: Adopted Sons in a Northeastern Village in Pre-Industrial Japan.h The History of the Family: An International Quarterly 3 (4): 393-410.

 

Okada, Aoi and Satomi Kurosu 1998

        gSuccession and the Death of the Household Head in Early Modern Japan: A Case from a Northeastern Village, 1720-1870.h Continuity and Change 13 (1): 143-166.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1998

         gKarei to setai keisei (Ageing and household formation),h pp.113-130 in Iwai, Hachiro (ed.) Gender and the Life Course 1995 SSM Survey Series 13.  Osaka: SSM Survey Group.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1998

         gRekishi jinkogaku kara miru raifu sutairu (Life-style: a historical demographic perspective),h pp.161-190 in Kawai, Hayao and Shuntaro Tanikawa (eds) Life-Style. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1997

gA Change in the Focus of Productivity of the Elderly in Japan: An Overview of the Elderly and the Family in the Twentieth Century,h pp.177-186 in Vera Gathy and Masanori Yamaji (eds) A New Dialogue between Central Europe and Japan. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1997

        gAdoption as an Heirship Strategy? A Case from a Northeastern Village in Pre-Industrial Japan.h Japan Review 9: 171-189.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1996

gLeaving Home in a Stem Family System: Departures of Heirs and Non-Heirs.h The History of the Family: An International Quarterly 1(3): 329-352.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1996

gLeaving Home in a Stem Family System: Patterns of Children's Migration in the Late-Nineteenth Century South-Tama.h Japan Review 7: 3-22.

 

Kurosu, Satomi and Emiko Ochiai 1995

gAdoption as an Heirship Strategy under Demographic Constraints: A Case from 19th Century Japan.h Journal of Family History 20 (3): 261-287.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1994

gSex Ratio and the Years of the Fire Horse: Cultural and Regional Experiences in Japan,h pp. 77-90 in Socio-economic Consequences of Sex-ratios in Historical Perspective, Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Soelvi Sogner (eds) Milan: University of Bocconi.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1994

gWho Lives in the Extended Family and Why?  The Case of Japan,h pp.179-198 in Lee J. Cho and Motoo Yada (eds) Tradition and Change in the Asian Family. Hawaii: East-West Center. 

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1992

gEcology of the Extended Family in Japan.h Japan Review 3: 75-97. 

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1992

gKoka san nen hinoeuma: Bunka to jinko no chiikisei ('Hinoeuma' in koka 3 (1846): Regional variations of culture and population).h Nihon Kenkyu 6: 35-55.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1992

gSuicide in Rural Areas: The Case of Japan 1960-1980.h Rural Sociology 56(4): 603-618.

 

 

Chapters in Textbook, Encyclopedia, Official Report

 

Tsuya, Noriko O., Satomi Kurosu and Akira Hayami 2008

         Population Changes and Their Structural Factors in Long-Term Perspective. Research Report for Grants in Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2004

gEikoku 1946-nen shussanryoku-chosa to shusseiritsu kaifuku no mekanizumu (Fertility survey in 1946 England and a mechanism of fertility recovery,h pp.20-25, 61-67 in Kono, Shigemi (ed.) Shusseiritsu kaifuku no jyoken ni kansuru jinkogakuteki-kenkyu (Demographic studies on the conditions for fertility recovery). Research Grant Report for Ministry of Health, Labour, Welfare, Japan. Reitaku Univerity.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2003

gKekkon kara paatonaashshippu he (from marriage to partnership),h Chapter 1 in Mitsuda, Hisayoshi (ed.) Gendai-shakaigaku he no sasoi (Introduction to Contemporary Sociology).  Asahishinbun-sha.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2002

gKaozkuno keisei to saiseisan: kekkon, shussan, ikuji (Family formation and reproduction: marriage, birth and child-rearing),h 15-V in Ishi et al. (eds.) Jinkodaijiten (Encyclopedia of Demography).Tokyo: Baihukan.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 2002

gJinko tenkan to gengo, shukyo (Demographic transition in relation to language and religion),h 21-IV in Nihon-jinko-gakkai (eds) Jinkodaijiten (Encyclopedia of Demography).Tokyo: Baihukan.

 

Kurosu, Satomi 1999

         gKazoku to Shakai: Kaikon-shugi kara Hi-kaikon-shugi he (Family and society: from universal marriage to non-universal marriage),h pp.16-29 in Mitsuda, Hisayoshi and Yasuhiro Aoiki (eds) Gendai-shakaigaku he no sasoi (Introduction to Contemporary Sociology).  Asahishinbun-sha.

 

 

In Progress (unpublished papers)

 

Kurosu, Satomi, Christer Lundh, et al. Similarity in Difference: Marriage in Europe and Asia 1700-1900 (provisional title). Third volume of Eurasia Project on Population and Family History.

 

Kurosu, Satomi (ed.) Rekishjinkogaku de miru kekkon rikon saikon (Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in Historical Demography) for Reitaku University Press.

 

Kurosu, Satomi and Miyuki Takahashi gMarriage and Remarriage in Northeastern Japan: Rural-Urban Comparison 1716-1870h Social Science History Association, Miami, October 21-25, 2008.

 

Kurosu, Satomi and Miyuki Takahashi gMarriage in Northeastern Japan: Rural-Urban Comparison 1708-1870h Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 15-18, 2007

 

Kurosu, Satomi, Miyuki Takahashi and Aoi Okada "Widowhood and Remarriage in Northeastern Japan: Rural-Urban Comparison 1716-1870" European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, February 26-March 1, 2008

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu "Household Socioeconomic Status and Individual Vulnerability in Early Modern Japan: Mortality at Different Stages of Life in Three Northeastern Villages" European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, February 26-March 1, 2008

 

Kurosu, Satomi gChildren and the Fate of Ever-Married Men and Women in Early Modern Japanh

Population Association of America, New York, March 29-31, 2007

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu gHousehold Socioeconomic Status and First Marriage in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Three Northeastern Villages, 1708-1870.h Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, November 2-6, 2006

 

Kurosu, Satomi gDivorce and Stem Family Household Organization in Early Modern Japan.h Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, April 1-3, 2004.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu gHousehold Life Course in Two Farming Villages in Northeastern Tokugawa Japan: Retirement, Death, and Extinction.h Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November 13-16, 2003; and at the 2004 European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March, 24-27 2004.

 

Tsuya, Noriko O. and Satomi Kurosu 

"Family, Household, and Reproduction in Two Northeastern Japanese Villages, 1716-1870.h Prepared for Chapter 7 in Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (George Alter, Noriko O. Tsuya, Wang Feng eds). MIT Press.

 

Wang Feng, Satomi Kurosu, Michel Oris and Noriko Tsuya

gHousehold Organization as the Social Context of Reproduction: a Comparison of Five Communities.h Prepared for Chapter 11 in Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (George Alter, Noriko O. Tsuya, Wang Feng eds) MIT Press.

 

Kurosu, Satomi

g'Hinoeuma (Year of Fire Horse)': Regional Variations of Culture and Fertility in the Course of Modernization in Japan.h

 

 

Service

 

Reviewer    Continuity and Change, Japanese Journal of Family Sociology

Member     International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Panel on Historical Demography, 2006-present

                   Population Association of Japan, Board of Directors, 2006-present

                   Population Association of Japan, Head of International Exchange Committee, 2008-present

 

Professional Organizations

Social Science History Association

Population Association of America

Association of Asian Studies

Japan Population Association

Family Sociology Association of Japan

American Sociological Association

Japanese Sociological Association

International Union for the Scientific Studies of Population

 

 

Language Proficiencies

Japanese (mother tongue)

English (very good)

German (fair)