Associate Professor (734) 763-0088 (Office)

kiyoteru tsutsui

Associate Professor (734) 763-0088 (office)

Department of Sociology (734) 763-6887 (fax)

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382

EMPLOYMENT

2012- Associate Professor Sociology, University of Michigan.

2007-12 Assistant Professor Sociology, University of Michigan.

2002-07 Assistant Professor Sociology, SUNY-Stony Brook.

2014- Director of Human Rights Initiative International Institute, U. of Michigan

2008-09 NEH Fellow National Endowment for the Humanities.

2005-06 Visiting Assistant Professor Sociology, Stanford University.

2004-05 SSRC/CGP Abe Fellow Social Science Research Council/CGP.

education

2002 PhD Sociology Stanford University.

1996 MA Sociology Stanford University.

1995 MA Sociology Kyoto University.

1993 BA Sociology Kyoto University.

publications

Books:

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim (eds.). 2015. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World. Cambridge University Press.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan. In progress.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Alwyn Lim and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2015. “The Social Regulation of the Economy in the Global Context.” In Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim (eds.). Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-24.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2015. “The Changing Transnational Imagery of ‘Good Nation’ and the Ainu in Japan.” InYasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal (ed.).Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region. New York: Routledge, pp.179-206.

Alwyn Lim and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (equal authorship). 2012. “Globalization and Commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility: Cross-National Analyses of Institutional and Political-Economy Effects.” American Sociological Review 77:69-98.

The 2013 Best Scholarly Article Award (Honorable Mention) from the American Sociological Association section on Global and Transnational Sociology

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Claire Whitlinger, and Alwyn Lim. 2012. “International Human Rights Law and Social Movements: States’ Resistance and Civil Society’s Insistence”. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 8:367-96.

Markus Hadler, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Lynny Chin (equal authorship). 2012. “Conflicting and Reinforcing Identities in Expanding Europe: Individual- and Country-Level Factors Shaping National and European Identities, 1995-2003.” Sociological Forum 27:392-418.

Markus Hadler, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Lynny Chin. 2012. “Simple, Dual, and No Identifications. National and European Identity Cross-Examined.” Franz Hoellinger and Markus Hadler (eds.). Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities. Campus: Frankfurt (distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press), pp.237-261.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2009. “The Trajectory of Perpetrators’ Trauma: Mnemonic Politics around the Asia-Pacific War in Japan.” Social Forces. Vol. 87, No.3:1389-1422.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Hwa-Ji Shin. 2008. “Global Norms, Local Activism and Social Movement Outcomes: Global Human Rights and Resident Koreans in Japan.” Social Problems. Vol. 55, No. 3: 391–418.

The 2010 Best Scholarly Article Award from the American Sociological Association section on Global and Transnational Sociology.

Christine Min Wotipka and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (equal authorship). 2008. “Global Human Rights and State Sovereignty: State Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties, 1965-2001.” Sociological Forum. Vol.23, No.4:724-754.

Emilie Hafner-Burton, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and John Meyer. 2008. “Even Bad States Do Good Things: International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimation.” International Sociology. Vol. 23, No. 1:115-141.

Hwa-Ji Shin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2007. “Constructing Social Movement Actorhood: Resident Koreans’ Activism in Japan since 1945.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol. 48, No. 4:317-335.

Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2007. “Justice Lost!: The Failure of International Human Rights Law.” Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 44, No. 4:407-425.

Reprinted in Essential Readings in World Politics (5th ed.). 2013. Edited by Karen A. Mingst and Jack L. Snyder. The Norton Series in World Politics. New York: Norton.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2006. “Redressing Past Human Rights Violations: Global Dimensions of Contemporary Social Movements.” Social Forces. Vol. 85, No. 1:331-354.

Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (equal authorship). 2005. “Human Rights in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 110, No. 5:1373-1411.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Christine Min Wotipka (equal authorship). 2004. “Global Civil Society and the International Human Rights Movement: Citizen Participation in Human Rights International Nongovernmental Organizations.” Social Forces. Vol. 83, No. 2:587-620.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2004. “Global Civil Society and Ethnic Social Movements in the Contemporary World.” Sociological Forum. Vol.19, No. 1:63-88.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2004. “Shame and National Identity: Collective Memories of World War II in Japan (Schuld und nationale Identitaet. Kollektive Erinnerung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Japan).” (in German) In Bernhard Giesen, Christoph Schneider (Hg.) Taetertrauma: Nationale Erinnerungen im oeffentlishen Diskurs. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.

Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Sean Everton, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (equal authorship). 2003. “The Semiconductor Community in Silicon Valley: A Network Analysis of the Semi Genealogy Chart (1947 – 1986).” International Journal of Technology Management. Vol. 25, Nos. 1/2:181-199.

Susan Olzak and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1998. “Status in the World System and Ethnic Mobilization.” Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 42, No. 6:691-720.

Tatsuhiko Yoshida, Akihiko Sato and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1995. “Changes in the Consumption of Electronic and Print Media.” (in Japanese) In Yo Takeuchi ed. Education of Kyoto University Seen in Its Alumni: Education, Occupation and Culture. Research Center for University Education, Hiroshima University.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1995. “In Search of the Origin of Nationalism: Formation of Nationalism in England.” (in Japanese) Kyoto Journal of Sociology. Vol. 2, March:115-134.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1994. “Genealogy of Ethnie and Nation: Review of Anthony D. Smith’s Ethnic Origins of Nations.” (in Japanese) Kyoto Journal of Sociology. Vol. 1, March:105-112.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1994. “Reconstruction of the Concept Nationalism.” (in Japanese) Soshioloji. Vol. 38 No. 3, February:63-81.

Other Articles:

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2012. “Ainu Indigenous Rights Movement.” David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (eds.). The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp.29-30.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2012. “International Human Rights Law.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization.George Ritzer (ed.).Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp.1130-1133.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2010. “The Power of Global Human Rights.” International Connections. Winter.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2009. “Human Rights and Democracy as Global Ideal.” Journal of the International Institute. Vol. 16 No. 2.

Papers in Progress:

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Transformation of Movement Actorhood and Local-Global Feedback Loop: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan.” American Journal of Sociology. (revise and resubmit)

teaching and research fields

Global and Transnational Sociology

Political Sociology

Comparative Historical Sociology

Social Movements

Human Rights

Japanese Society

Organizations and Economic Sociology

Quantitative Methods

honors and awards

Awards:

Best Scholarly Article Award. Honorable Mention. The American Sociological Association section on Global and Transnational Sociology. 2013.

Best Scholarly Article Award. The American Sociological Association section on Global and Transnational Sociology. 2010.

Representative. The United States-Japan Leadership Program. The United States-Japan Foundation. 2006-07.

Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop. Social Science Research Council. 2002.

Representative of Japan. Hitachi Young Leaders Initiative: Leading Dynamic Asia into the New Global Age. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. May 1999.

MacArthur Fellowship Award. Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. 1998-99.

La Pierre Award (Best Third Year Paper Award) for “Diffusion of Human Rights and Ethnic Mobilization: Internal and External Causes of Ethnic Mobilization in the Contemporary World.” Department of Sociology, Stanford University. June 1998.

Participant in the Dissertation Workshop on "Human Rights, Social Justice, and International Interventions." Sponsored by University of California at Berkeley. Sonoma, California. February 1998.

External Grants:

NSF Research Grant. “Linking Constitutional Content and Civil Society Relationships” Award No. SES 1451100. ($178,760.00) National Science Foundation. Sep. 2014-Aug. 2015.

CGP Research Grant. “Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World: Toward Effective Global CSR Frameworks.” Center for Global Partnership (Japan Foundation). ($150,392) Dec. 2009-Nov. 2012.

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (Faculty Mentor for Alwyn Lim). “Cross-National Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility.” Award No.SES-1003182. ($10,000). National Science Foundation. 2010.

CGP Intellectual Exchange Projects Grant: Conference Organizing “Financial Bubbles, Banking Bailouts, and Automotive Survival: A US-Japan Comparison.” (Co-PIs, Kenneth McElwain and Ken Ito) ($10,000). Center for Global Partnership (Japan Foundation). 2009.

NEH Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan ($50,400). National Endowment for the Humanities. 2008-09.

SSRC Abe Fellowship ($80,143). Center for Global Partnership (Japan Foundation), Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. 2004-05.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japan Studies ($169,300). Institute for International Studies. Stanford University. 2004-06. (2004-05 portion ($81,900) declined)

Matsushita International Foundation Research Grants ($5,000). Matsushita International Foundation. 2001-02.

Internal Grants:

LSA Scholarship, OVPR Small Grant, CJS Faculty Research Grant, Center for International Business Education and Research, Sociology Department. University of Michigan. “Responsible Corporate Behavior in Japan: Longitudinal Analyses of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities and Outcomes.” ($52,438) 2013-2015.

CJS Member Scholarly Leave Grant. ($50,000). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan 2014-15.

CJS Faculty Research Grant. ($10,000). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan 2012-13.

CJS Faculty Research Grant. ($23,489). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan 2010-11.

CJS Conference Grant. “Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan.” Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. ($9,740) 2010-2011.

ICOS Conference Grant. “Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World.” Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies. University of Michigan. ($3,000) 2010-11.

CICS Human Rights Fellowship. Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan. ($16,000) 2009-10.

New Initiatives/New Infrastructure Grant. LSA Instructional Technology, University of Michigan. ($6,200) 2009-10; ($5,000) 2010-11.

CJS Conference Grant: “Financial Bubbles, Banking Bailouts, and Automotive Survival: A US-Japan Comparison.” (Co-PIs, Kenneth McElwain and Ken Ito) ($8,000). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. 2009.

CJS Faculty Research Grant. ($17,750). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan 2008-09.

Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant Program ($4,000). Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan. 2008.

Japan Studies Dissertation Grant. Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 2001-02.

Social Science History Institute Dissertation Grant. Social Science History Institute, Stanford University. 2001-02.

InVITED LECTURES and Presentations

“Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan.” Regulations of Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute. Goettingen, Germany. June 2012. The Dynamics of Human Rights Diffusion, SSK Human Rights Forum. Korea University, Seoul, Korea. May 2013. Human Rights Constitutionalism, The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas, Austin. February 2014. Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, November 2014.

“Diffusion and the Feedback Loop: Global Human Rights and Minority Activism in Japan.” How to Study Diffusion: Theories, Methods, and Research Designs. Max Planck Institute. Goettingen, Germany. October 2013.

“Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World.” SSK Human Rights Workshop. Sungkyunkwan University. May 2013. SSK Human Rights Forum. Korea University. May 2014.

“Dissemination: Agents, Allies, and Adversaries of Human Rights.” Law and Human Rights in Global History, University of Michigan. March 2012.

“‘Sociological Theory’ Contra ‘Theories in Sociology’.” Conversations in Michigan Sociology, University of Michigan, March 2012.

“From a Dying Race to an Indigenous People: the Resurgence of Ainu Activism.”Multiculturalism in Japan?: Immigration, Citizenship and Nation in the Age of Globalization, Stanford University, April 2010.

“Global Human Rights and Local Politics: Cross-National Trends and Minority Social Movements in Japan.” Distinguished Human Rights Lecture, University of Michigan, December 2009.

“Remembering National Trauma: Collective Memory of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan.” The IDNet Workshop “Europeanisation, Collective Identities and Public Discourses”, University of Konstantz, Germany, December 2000; Department of Sociology, Stanford University, February 2006; Department of East Asian Studies, U.C. Davis, May 2006; Freeman and Spogli Institute for International Institute, Stanford University, June 2006. Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, March 2009.

“Globalization of Human Rights and Political Mobilization by Three Ethnic Minorities in Japan.” Abe Colloquium. Tokyo, Japan, November 2004; Department of Sociology, Korea University, Korea, September 2005; Department of Sociology, Stanford University, February 2006; Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, January 2007; Japan Society for Promotion of Science Conference. American University, Washington DC, November 2007. Political Sociology Workshop, Stanford University, March 2009; The Nation and Citizen in Transformation: Making and Unmaking of Transnationalism in East Asia, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2011.

“Cross-National Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility.” With Alwyn Lim. Scandinavian Center for Organizational Studies, Stanford University, March 2006; Economic Sociology Workshop, University of Michigan, February 2010; Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Duke University, November 2010.

“Global Human Rights and the Rise of Ethnic Social Movements in the Contermporary World.” New Rights for a New Millennium?: Conference on New Scholarship in International Human Rights, Stanford University, March 1999; Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2002; School of Law, Kobe University, Japan, June 2003.

“Contemporary Sociology in the United States.” The Suntory Foundation. Osaka, Japan, July 2004; School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan, October 2004.

CONFERENCE presentations

“Reconciling Intractable Conflict: Global Proliferation of Truth Commissions.” With Claire Whitlinger. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011.

“Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009.

“Anatomy of Political Identity: Determinants of European and National Identity, 1995-2003.” With Markus Hadler and Lynn Chin. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007 and at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

“Between the State and Civil Society: Corporate Citizenship and the UN Global Compact.” With Alwyn Lim. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 2006.

“Justice Lost!: The Failure of International Human Rights Law.” With Emilie Hafner-Burton. Presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006.

“The Impact of International Human Rights on Contemporary Social Movements: The Case of Korean Residents in Japan.” With Hwa-Ji Shin. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.

“Even Bad States Do Good Things: International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimation.” With Emilie Hafner-Burton and John W. Meyer. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.