CURRICULUM VITAE
LEONARD
J. SCHOPPA, JR.
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Box 400787 / Gibson 185, The University of
Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787
tel (434) 924-3192; fax (434) 924-3359
e-mail: schoppa@virginia.edu
EDUCATION
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D. Phil in Politics - Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom (January 1989) --
Dissertation: "The Limits of Change in Japanese Policymaking: the Case of
Education Reform, 1967-1987."
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BS - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (May 1984) -- School of
Foreign Service. Major: International Economics. Certificate in Asian Studies.
ACADEMIC CAREER
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The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1990 - present)
–Professor of Politics, beginning 2006; Associate Professor, 1996-2006;
Assistant Professor, 1990-96.
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University of Tokyo and International Christian University,
Tokyo, Japan (2000-2001) -- Visiting Fulbright Research Fellow at the
University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science and the ICU Institute of Asian
Cultural Studies.
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Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (1993 - 1994) -- Visiting
Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Policy Management.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
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University of Virginia College of Arts and
Sciences – Associate Dean for Social Sciences (2012-present) –
I assist the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in overseeing the
personnel and budgetary affairs of social science departments and several other
programs and centers.
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UVA Department of Politics, Associate Chair (2010-2012) – I assisted the department
chair in a variety of departmental administrative tasks, including scheduling,
oversight of the summer session, and hiring adjuncts.
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Semester at Sea (a UVa
Study Abroad Program) – Academic Dean (Summer 2011 Voyage) – I hired 30 faculty
members, approved 60 syllabi, and supervised the planning of about 100 field
trips ahead of our departure, and then headed up the academic program on a
66-day voyage across the Atlantic and around the Mediterranean.
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The University of Virginia – Undergraduate
Director (2006-2010) – I oversaw programs for students majoring in
ÒGovernmentÓ and ÒForeign AffairsÓ, which graduated over 400 students a year
during this period.
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Semester at Sea – Academic Dean (Fall 2008 Voyage) – I hired 29 faculty
members, approved 80 syllabi, and monitored the planning for about 150 field
trips ahead of departure and then supervised these faculty members and oversaw
the academic program during the 108-day voyage around the world.
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The University of Virginia - Director of the East
Asia Center (1997 - 2000) – I oversaw an interdisciplinary unit with an
annual other than personnel budget of over $30,000, managed an MA program in
Asian Studies, ran a speakers series, and did limited fund-raising.
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The University of Virginia - Director of the
Department of Politics Midcareer Executive Program (1999 - 2000) – I managed a program that
offered mid-career public servants the opportunity to take graduate courses in
politics and public policy. The position involved supervision of one
part-time staff assistant and budget responsibility.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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The Evolution of JapanÕs Party System: Politics and
Policy in an Era of Institutional Change (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2011)
– Leonard Schoppa, ed.
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of JapanÕs System of
Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
The first chapter is available on-line by clicking here. Also available in Japanese
translation. This book was nominated for the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best book in Comparative Politics
and for the John K. Fairbanks Prize in East Asian History.
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Social Contracts
Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of
the Century (New York: Russell Sage, 2002)—co-edited
with Olivier Zunz and Nobuhiro
Hiwatari.
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Bargaining with
Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
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Education Reform
in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics (London: Routledge,
1991). Also available in Japanese
translation.
Articles
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ÒResidential Mobility and Local Civic
Engagement in Japan and the United States: Divergent Paths to School,Ó Comparative
Political Studies 46:9 (September 2013), forthcoming (the pdf file is for the unedited version; please see the
journal for the published version, when it is available there).
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ÒPath Dependence and the Evolution of JapanÕs Party System Since
1993,Ó in Leonard Schoppa, ed., The Evolution of JapanÕs Party System: Politics and
Policy in an Era of Institutional Change (Toronto: Toronto
University Press, 2011).
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ÒPolicies for an Aging / Low Fertility Society,Ó in Alisa Gaunder, ed., Routledge
Handbook of Japanese Politics (London: Routledge,
2011), pp. 201-211.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Family Policy in Japan:
Limited Changes Despite Broad Recognition of the Declining Fertility Problem,Ó Journal
of European Social Policy 20: 5 (December 2010), pp. 422-432.
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ÒGaiatsu,
Learning, and JapanÕs Emerging Economic Liberalism,Ó in Masaru Kohno and
Frances Rosenbluth, eds., Japan
and the World (New Haven: Yale CEAS Occasional Publications, 2008), pp.
71-99.
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ÒDemographics and the State,Ó in Florian Coulmas, et al, eds., The Demographic
Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 639-652.
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ÒYouÕre (Not) Having My Baby: Fertility and
Feminism,Ó Current History 105: 689 (March 2006), pp. 112-120.
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ÒRace to the
Bottom? Japanese Multinational Firms and the Future of the Lifetime Employment
System,Ó Japan Focus (on-line journal), February 21, 2006.
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ÒNeoliberal Economic Policy Preferences of
the ÔNew LeftÕ: Home-Grown or Anglo-American Import?Ó in Rikki
Kersten and David Williams, eds.,
The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour
of J.A.A. Stockwin (London: Routledge,
2006), pp. 117-139.
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ÒInteraction Effects in Mixed-Member
Electoral Systems: Theory and Evidence from Germany, Japan, and Italy,Ó Comparative
Political Studies 35:10 (December 2002), pp. 1027-1053 (with Karen Cox) .
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ÒDomestic Politics,Ó in Steven K. Vogel,
ed., U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World (Washington, D.C.:
Brookings, 2002), pp. 94-124.
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ÒGlobalization and the Squeeze on the
Middle Class: Does Any Version of the Postwar Social Contract Meet the
Challenge?Ó in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds., Social Contracts Under Stress: the Middle Classes of
America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century (New York: Russell
Sage, 2002), pp. 319-344.
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ÒLocating the LDP and Koizumi in Policy
Space: A Party System Ripe for Realignment,Ó Social Science Japan 22
(December 2001), pp. 9-15.
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ÒJapan, The Reluctant Reformer,Ó Foreign
Affairs (September/October 2001), pp. 76-90.
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ÒThe Social Context in Coercive International
Bargaining," International Organization 53:2 (Spring 1999), pp.
307-342.
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ÒTwo Level Games and Bargaining Outcomes: Why Gaiatsu Succeeds in Japan in Some Cases and Not
Others,Ó International Organization 47:3 (Summer 1993), pp. 353-386.
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ÒZoku Power and L.D.P. Power: A Case Study of the Zoku Role in Education Policy,Ó Journal of
Japanese Studies 17:1 (Winter 1991), pp. 79-106.
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ÒEducation Reform in Japan: Goals and Results of
the Recent Initiative,Ó in Edward Beauchamp, ed., Windows on Japanese
Education (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. 51-75.
Reviews
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Book Review of JapanÕs Aggressive
Legalism, by Saadia Pekkanen,
in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 10:1 (January 2010), pp.
192-195.
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Book Review of Welfare and Capitalism in
Postwar Japan, by Margarita Estevez-Abe, in the Journal of Japanese
Studies 36:1 (Winter 2010), pp. 97-101.
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Book Review of One World of Welfare: Japan in
Comparative Perspective, by Gregory J. Kasza, in Japan
Forum 20:3 (2008), pp. 447-449.
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Book Review of Shirahase
Sawako, Shoshi Korei
Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility
Society) in the Social Science Japan Journal 11:1 (Summer 2008), pp.
178-180.
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Film Review of Campaign (Senkyo) in Asian Educational Media Service News
and Reviews, Winter 2008, pp. 7-8.
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Book Review of Aurelia George Mulgan, JapanÕs Interventionist State: The Role of the
MAFF in the Journal of Japanese Studies 32:2 (Summer 2006), pp.
442-445.
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Book Review of Harold Fuess,
Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000 in the Law
and Politics Book Review 14:10 (October 2004), pp. 776-779.
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Book Review of Christina Davis, Food
Fights over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural
Trade Liberalization in International Studies Review 6:3 (September
2004), pp. 457-459.
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Book Review of S. Javed
Maswood, Japan in Crisis in the Journal of
Japanese Studies 30:2 (Summer 2004), pp. 571-573.
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Book Review of Robert Aspinall,
TeachersÕ Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan in the Journal
of Japanese Studies 29:1 (2003), pp. 113-116.
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Book Review of Tachibanaki
Toshiaki, Nihon no Keizai Kakusa:
Shotoku to Shisan kara Kangaeru in Social
Science Japan Journal 4:1 (April 2001), pp. 143-146.
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Book Review of Frank Schwartz, Advice
and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan in the Journal
of Japanese Studies 26:1 (Winter 2000), pp. 279-283.
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Book Review of Gerald Curtis, The Logic
of Japanese Politics; and T.J. Pempel, Regime
Shift in the American Political Science Review 94:3
(September 2000), pp. 735-737.
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Book Review of Richard Katz, Japan: The
System That Soured in Japan Quarterly (January-March 1999), pp.
90-92.
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Book Review of Masaaki Kotabe
and Kent Wheiler, Anticompetitive Practices in
Japan in The Journal of Asian Studies 57:4 (November 1998).
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Book Review of Masaru Kohno, Japan's
Postwar Party Politics in the Canadian Journal of Political Science
(1998).
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Long Book Review of Scott Callon, Divided Sun; Brian Woodall, Japan Under
Construction; and Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade in the Journal of
Politics (August 1997).
Opinion and Analysis for a General Audience
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ÒJapanÓ entry for the Encyclopedia Britannica Books of the Year for
2010, 2011, and 2012.
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ÒA Campaign Memoir: Why Now?Ó The
Oriental Economist, September 2009, pp. 6-7.
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ÒJapanÓ entry for the Encyclopedia
Britannica 2009 Book of the Year, pp. 419-421.
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"Kono kiki o Ôriyo shiteÕ rodo shijo o kaikaku
seyo,Ó Asahi Shimbun,
April 6, 2009, p. G-6.
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"JapanÕs Declining Population: The
Perspective of Japanese Women on the ÒProblemÓ and ÒSolutions,Ó Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Program Special Report, July
2008, pp. 6-10.
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"Engaging China and India: An Economic
Agenda for Japan and the United States (A Binational
Study Group Report)—I served as primary author of this document which
grew out of a series of two conferences organized by the Chicago Council on
Global Affairs, The Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Japan
Economic Foundation, released in October 2006.
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"Testimony before the House Committee
on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific,Ó April 20,
2005.
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"Long-term Strategy Needed for
Mounting Issues: A Labor Market Big Bang," Daily Yomiuri, April 6,
2004.
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(Version of this article that appeared in
Japanese in the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 3,
2004).
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ÒCar Fixation ShouldnÕt Determine Plans,Ó Daily
Progress (Charlottesville), July 30, 2003, p. B8.
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ÒInterview/Leonard Schoppa: Economically Weak
Japan Still Has Role to Play,Ó asahi.com, April 22, 2002.
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(Version of this article that appeared in
Japanese in the Asahi Shimbun on April 4,
2002).
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ÒIgnite Japan's Service Sector,Ó Japan Times,
August 5, 2001 (with Herman Schwartz).
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ÒVoters Face Complex Choices at Polls,Ó Daily
Yomiuri, July 27, 2001.
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Ò'GI Bill' Needed for Corporate Japan,Ó Daily
Yomiuri, July 14, 2001.
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ÒOn a Collision Course With Japan,Ó Chicago
Tribune, June 2, 1995 (with Herman Schwartz).
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ÒViews from the Inside: Mansfield Fellows Evaluate Popular Commentary
on Japanese Politics,Ó Asia Perspectives 1:2 (December 1998), pp. 4-20.
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ÒTestimony Before the House Committee on International Relations,
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific,Ó October 30, 1995.
In Progress
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ÒFeminism as the New Natalism:
21st Century Prescriptions for Addressing Low
Fertility,Ó paper delivered at the Social Trends InstituteÕs Conference on
Whither the Child? Causes, Consequences, & Solutions to Low Fertility in Barcelona, March 11-13, 2010. This paper
is being edited for inclusion in Bradley Wilcox, ed., Wither the Child: The Causes,
Consequences, and Responses to Low Fertility.
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East Asia and International Relations Theory, a new jointly-authored
book project with David Kang and Ming Wan, is in the process of being revised
for submission to Columbia University Press, where it is under contract.
FELLOWSHIPS
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Center for Global Partnership Special Grant
(2011), administered by the Japan Foundation and providing support for a study
tour to Tokyo for myself and three collaborators who are interesting in
comparing the ways Japanese and American communities support the ability of
school children to walk to school.
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Center for Global Partnership Book Project Grant
(2004-2005), administered by the Japan Foundation and providing support for three
months writing time in the summer of 2004 and a conference in October on the
topic of my Race for the Exits book project.
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Japan Foundation Short-term Research Grant
(2002), administered by the Japan Foundation and providing support for three
weeks of research in Tokyo.
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Fulbright Research Fellowship (2000-01), administered and funded by the Japan-U.S.
Educational Commission and the Council for International Educational Exchange
and providing full support for an academic year to allow focused work on
research and writing.
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Abe Fellowship (1993-94), administered by the Social Science Research
Council and the American Council of Learned Societies and funded by the Japan
Foundation Center for Global Partnership and providing full support for an
academic year to allow focused work on research and writing.
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Reischauer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship
(1989-90), awarded by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
University and providing full support for an academic year to allow a
concentrated post-doctoral year to work on research and writing.
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Rhodes Scholarship (1985-88), awarded by the Rhodes Trust, Oxford University,
and providing full support for three years of graduate study and travel funds
for fieldwork in Japan.
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University of Virginia Summer Research Grant
(1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006), awarded by the University of Virginia in
support of summer research projects.
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Sesquicentennial Fellowship (1994, 2000, 2007), awarded by the University of Virginia and
providing a semester off from teaching to allow focused work on research.
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Northeast Asian Council Short-term Travel Grant
(1992, 1999), awarded by the Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asian
Council.
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Weedon Foundation Travel Grant (1992, 1996, 2007), awarded by the Weedon
Fund based at the University of Virginia.
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Bankard Fund for Political Economy Grant (1999), awarded by the Bankard
Fund based at the University of Virginia.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS FOR:
International Organization, Comparative Politics, Comparative
Political Studies, Governance, International Studies Quarterly,
Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Review of
International Political Economy, Polity, Asian Survey, Journal
of Gender Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Cambridge
University Press, Princeton University Press,Cornell University Press, Columbia University Press,
Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Michigan
Press, University of Hawaii Press, Lynne Reiner, Congressional Quarterly Press,
and Routledge.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (in chronological order / since 2001)
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ÒThe Consequences of ÔSticky VotingÕ in Mixed-Member Electoral
Systems,Ó revised version of 1998 APSA paper (co-authored with Karen Cox)
presented at the University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science in February
2001.
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ÒDomestic Politics,Ó a paper presented at a book conference on
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World (looking back at the 50 years since
the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty) organized by Steve Vogel in
Berkeley, January 2001.
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ÒJapan's Response to its Declining Fertility Problem: the Role of Exit
and Voice,Ó a talk presented at the International Christian University in Mitaka and the Univeristy of
Tokyo Komaba Campus, both in May 2001, and again at
Sophia University in Tokyo in December 2002.
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ÒJapanese Trade Policy in Reaction to U.S. Pressure: the Long-term
Effects of Efforts to Deflect Bilateral Demands,Ó paper prepared for the a
symposium on ÒJapan and the Transformation of the International Order,Ó
organized by Nobuhiro Hiwatari
of the University of Tokyo in March 2001 and again at a second meeting of the
symposium group in Tokyo in December 2002.
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Speaker on a Panel on Domestic Politics at the conference in San
Francisco commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco
Peace Treaty, September 2001.
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ÒInternational Cooperation Despite Domestic Conflict: Japanese
Politics and the San Francisco Treaties,Ó paper presented at the International
Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans, March 2002.
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ÒJapanÕs Domestic Politics and Its National Identity,Ó talk presented
at a conference organized by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the
Department of State, April 2002.
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ÒJapanese Politics and Economic Reform: Why HavenÕt Politicians Taken
a Lead in Fixing Such Dire Problems,Ó talk at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington, May 2002.
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ÒTensions in the Japanese Party System: How Will They Affect Bilateral
Economic and Security Relations,Ó talk organized by the Japan Information
Access Project in Washington, May 2002.
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ÒA Tale of Two Identity Crises: Why JapanÕs Approach to International
Affairs IsnÕt Changing (While AmericaÕs Is),Ó talk at the Foreign Policy
Research Institute in Philadelphia, October 2002.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Family Policy: Explaining the Uneven Pace of
Reform,Ó talks presented at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2002, at
Columbia University in April 2003, and at the University of Michigan in
September 2003.
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ÒJapanÕs Demographic Challenge: Can It Remain a Great Power?Ó talk at
the Keizai Koho Center in
Washington, January 2003.
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ÒNeoliberal Economic Policy Preferences of the ÔNew LeftÕ: Home-Grown
or Anglo-American Import?Ó paper presented at a Festschrift book conference in
honor of Prof. Arthur Stockwin (Oxford), organized by
Rikki Kersten and David
Williams and held in Leiden, the Netherlands in June 2003.
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ÒThe Heisei Generation: Voters and Political Elites Between Ages 30
and 50,Ó talk presented at a conference organized by the Bureau of Intelligence
and Research of the Department of State, August 2003.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Family Policy: JapanÕs Efforts to Convince Women to
Work and Have Children Too,Ó talks presented at Harvard University and MIT in
October 2003 and again to the Washington and Southeast Regional Japan Seminar
in April 2004.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Economic Reform: Why We HavenÕt Seen a Concerted
Reform Movement Despite the Prolonged Period of Economic Stagnation,Ó talk at
the International Monetary Fund, October 2003.
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ÒA Long Term Strategy for Coping with an Aging Society: Calling for a
Labor Market ÔBig Bang,ÕÓ invited lecture in Tokyo as part of a symposium
organized by the Yomiuri newspaper company, March 24, 2004.
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ÒPolitical Implication of Public Debt Crisis Scenarios,Ó talk
presented at a State Department-organized conference in Washington, DC,
September 13, 2004.
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ÒJapanese Politics and Policy in an Era of Fiscal Stress,Ó talk
presented at Columbia University, October 14, 2004.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Family Policy,Ó talk presented at the University of
Illinois, March 4, 2005.
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ÒTaking Exit and Voice Seriously: Explaining the Pattern of JapanÕs
Economic and Social Policy Reforms,Ó talk presented at Cornell University,
March 8, 2005.
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ÒCan Japan Continue Expanding its Defense Role through Salami-Slice
Tactics?Ó talk presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
in Washington, DC, June 10, 2005.
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ÒExit, Voice, and WomenÕs Movements in an Era of
Low Fertility,Ó a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association in Washington, DC, on September 1-4, 2005.
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ÒThe Trajectory of Japanese Politics after the 9/11 Election,Ó
lecture delivered at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, DC, October 2005.
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ÒThe Rise of National Sentiments in Japan,Ó talk
presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington,
DC, November 3, 2005.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social Structures: Low
Fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy,Ó paper delivered at the University of
Delaware, March 6, 2006; at the University of Washington, November 13, 2006;
and again at the University of Pittsburgh, October 8, 2007.
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ÒJapanÕs Grand Strategy: Still Relying on the US After All of These
Years,Ó lecture for Seminar XXI: US National Security Policy (short course for
US government personnel), organized by Bob Art at Airlie House, VA, April
28-30, 2006.
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ÒThe Koizumi Succession in Historical Context,Ó paper presented at the
Center for Strategic and International StudiesÕ Panel on Considering a
Post-Koizumi Japan in Washington, DC, May 31, 2006.
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ÒPath Dependence and the Evolution of JapanÕs Party System Since
1993,Ó paper presented at the tri-annual meeting of the International Political
Science Association in Fukuoka, Japan, July 11, 2006.
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ÒJapan: The State Of Politics and Prospects for Economic Policy,Ó
comments prepared for a seminar at the State Department in Washington, DC, on
the incoming Abe cabinet, September 12, 2006.
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ÒRace for the Exits: The Unraveling of JapanÕs System of Social
Protection,Ó book promotion talk at Oxford University as part of the Nissan
Institute 25th Anniversary Celebration, September 22, 2006.
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ÒAfter Koizumi: Where Will Prime Minister Abe Lead Japan,Ó lecture for
the Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth in Dallas, November 17, 2006.
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ÒJapan: The Abe AdministrationÓ comments prepared for a State
Department conference on this topic, November 20, 2006.
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ÒJapanese Nationalist Resurgence or Populist Politics?Ó comments on a
panel on changes in regional political relations at the 4th Annual Meeting of the US-Asia Pacific Council,
organized by the East-West Center in Washington, DC, November 30, 2006.
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ÒThe Japanese Economy before and after the Lost Decade,Ó lecture
delivered to Robin WhiteÕs class at the State Department Foreign Service
Institute, February 15, 2007.
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ÒGaiatsu, Learning, and JapanÕs Emerging
Economic Liberalism,Ó paper presented at the Yale University Conference on
Japan and the World, March 9-10, 2007.
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Delivered prepared comments for the Yomiuri International Symposium on
ÒJapanÕs Decision: Social Security and Public FinanceÓ in Tokyo, September 14,
2007.
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ÒExit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social Structures: Low
Fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy,Ó paper delivered at the University of
Pittsburgh, October 8, 2007.
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ÒThe NationalistsÕ Dilemma,Ó paper presented at a conference on
ÒJapanÕs New Nationalism: How JapanÕs National Identity is Changing at Home and
Abroad,Ó organized by Thomas Berger and Jim Hollifield
and hosted at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, February 1, 2008.
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ÒThe Japanese Economy before and after the Lost Decade,Ó lecture
delivered to Robin WhiteÕs class at the State Department Foreign Service
Institute, March 6, 2008.
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Discussant on panel ÒWhatÕs Left? WhatÕs Right? Social
Movements and Politics in Contemporary JapanÓ at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta, April 5, 2008.
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Panelist for a Symposium on ÒJapanÕs Declining Population: Clearly a
Problem, but WhatÕs the Solution,Ó organized by the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Program, April 24, 2008.
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ÒGreener Grass and Local Civic Engagement: The Effects of Housing
Market Structures on Politics in the United States and Japan,Ó lecture
delivered at Harvard University for their Contemporary Japanese Politics Study
Group, February 6, 2009.
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ÒThe Japanese Economy before and after the Lost Decade,Ó lecture
delivered to Robin WhiteÕs class at the State Department Foreign Service
Institute, March 5, 2009—with similar presentations delivered in 2010,
2011, and 2012.
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Discussant on panel ÒThe Politics of ShoushikaÓ
at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago, March
27, 2009.
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ÒGreener Grass and Local Civic Engagement: The Effects of Housing Market
Structures on Politics in the United States and Japan,Ó paper delivered at the
UCLA Conference on JapanÕs Politics and Economy, September 11-12, 2009.
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ÒFeminism as the New Natalism: 21st Century Prescriptions for Addressing Low
Fertility,Ó paper delivered at the Social Trends InstituteÕs Conference on
Whither the Child? Causes, Consequences, & Solutions to Low Fertility in Barcelona, March 11-13, 2010.
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Discussant
on a paper and one of the UVA delegates at the Conference on ÒChinese Models of
Development: Domestic and Global Aspects,Ó at the Academia Sinica
Institute of Political Science in Taiwan, November 3-5, 2011.
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ÒThe
Greek Financial Crisis,Ó guest lecture for the Global Development Organization
at UVA, Charlottesville, VA, on February 6, 2012.
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ÒJapanÕs
Declining Population: Clearly a Problem, But WhatÕs the Solution?Ó lecture
delivered in Los Angeles, CA, at the University of Southern California, February
23, 2012.
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ÒResidential
Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States,Ó paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers for
a special series of panels convened on ÒJapanese Cities in Global NetworksÓ, in
New York City on February 25, 2012.
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ÒJapanÕs
New Party in Power: How Could the DPJ Defeat the LDP and Be So Poor at
Governing?Ó lecture delivered in Dallas, TX, for a group of students and local
residents gathered by the Tower Center of Southern Methodist University and the
Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, March 6, 2012.
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ÒJapan
Caught in the Headlights: Will it Change to Deal with Debt, Aging, and Low
Fertility? Or Will it Get Run
Over?Ó lecture delivered in Fort Worth, TX, at Texas Christian University,
March 6, 2012.
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Discussant
on Panel on ÒSocial Policy Responses in Japan and South Korea to Immigration
and Demographic ChangeÓ at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association in Chicago, IL, on April 12, 2012.
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OLLI
Seminar on ÒJapan: Culture and Foreign Policy,Ó Charlottesville, VA, on April
18, 2012.
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ÒResidential
Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States,Ó paper
presented at the Washington and Southeast Regional Japan Seminar at American
University in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2012.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee member for District 6 (Virginia
and Georgia), 2009-present.
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Japan Foundation American Advisory Committee member, 2004-2012.
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Head of the Japan Political Studies Group (2002-2007)—JPSG is a
group of approximately 300 political scientists with an interest in Japanese
politics that sponsors panels at Association for Asian Studies and American
Political Science Association Meetings and maintains JP-Central, a website with
information on Japanese politics (jpcentral.virginia.edu).
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Chair of the American Fulbright selection committee for Japan / Korea
Research Grants in Fall 2006; Served as a member of
this committee in 2004 and 2005 as well.
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Japanese Fulbright interview and selection committee, October 1993 and
December 2000.
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Faculty Mentor for the Social Science Research CouncilÕs Japanese
Studies Dissertation Workshops held over five-day periods in 2002 and 2003.
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Screener for the Social Science Research Council's International
Fieldwork Dissertation Fellowships, 1997-98, '98-99, and '99-2000.
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Nitobe Fellowship interview and selection committee,
December 1993.
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Member of the Routledge Nissan Institute
Japan Series Editorial Board (1993-2012).
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Member of the Editorial Board for the mediated e-mail discussion group
"SSJ-Forum," organized by the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science.
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Associate Dean for Social Science for the UVA College of Arts and
Sciences (2012-present)
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Associate Chair for the Department of Politics (2010-2012)
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Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Department of Politics
(2006-2010)
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Academic Dean for Semester at Sea, Fall 2008 and Summer 2011 Voyages
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Member of the UVA Faculty Senate, 2011-present
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Academic Coordinator for the Semester at Sea Program, 2011-present
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University Transportation and Parking Committee (2002-2012)
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College Committee on Study Abroad (2012)
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College Committee on Undergraduate Education (2011-2012)
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Comparative Politics Search Committee Chair (2006)
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University Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy (2002-2007;
chair from 2005-2007)
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Politics Department Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee
(2003-2006)
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University Library Committee (2001-2002)
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Asian Studies MA Program Admissions Committee Chair (1996-97; 2001-03,
2009-10)
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Director of the East Asia Center (1997-2000)
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Director of the Department of Politics Midcareer Executive Program
(1999-2000)
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Chair of the UVA Rhodes Scholarship Nominating Committee (1996-2000)
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Member of the University Commission on Internationalization (1999-2000)
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Member of the Building Committee for the Conversion of Gildersleeve into an Asian Language House (1998-1999)
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Politics Department Undergraduate Curriculum Reform Committee Chair
(1996-97)
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Politics Department Undergraduate Committee
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Politics Department Graduate Committee
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Politics Department Scheduling Committee
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Politics Department Personnel Committee
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Comparative Politics--China Search (1991-1992)
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Comparative Politics--Western Europe Search (1992-1993)
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International Relations--Diplomat in Residence Search (1997-1998)
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Politics Department Self-Study Group on Comparative Politics
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Politics Department Self-Study Group on International Relations
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Faculty Advisor for Non-Major Students
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Asian Studies Speakers' Committee Chair (1995)
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Advisor to Pi Sigma Alpha
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Stevenson Prize Committee
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PLIR 2030 International Relations of East Asia
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PLCP 1010 Introduction to Comparative Politics
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PLCP 4150 Comparative Public Policy
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PLCP 7500 Political and Economic Reform in Advanced
Industrialized Nations
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PLIR 572 Japan in World Affairs
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PLCP 490H Comparative Politics Honors Seminar
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USEM 171 Political Reform in the Mature Democracies
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PLAD 890 National and International Societies Proseminar
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PLIR 873 Japan in the Post-Hegemonic Era
COMMUNITY SERVICE
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President
of the Board, Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation
(2006-present) – ACCT is a Charlottesville local non-profit that promotes
alternative modes of transportation: biking, walking, and transit. We
help establish ÒSafe Routes to SchoolÓ programs at local schools and promote
infrastructure investments to make walking to school a safer and more popular
choice. We pressure local governments to invest in bike lanes, bike
paths, sidewalks, and transit and promote these modes through educational and
outreach activities. I have served on the board since 2001.
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Chair of
the Climate Protection Subcommittee of the Charlottesville Committee for
Environmental Sustainability (2007-2008) – We advised the mayor and city
council on steps needed to meet CharlottesvilleÕs commitments to bring carbon
emissions down to 1990 levels by 2012 under the U.S. MayorÕs Climate Protection
Agreement.
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Member of
the Charlottesville Strategic Planning Task Force (2005-2006).
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Meet
Director and Parent Leader of the City Swim Team (2002-2007).