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Biography


Shoichiro Iwakiri, President

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Education

1983 Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo with a B.A. (area of specialization: French Language and Literature)
1988 Received an M.A. in French Language and Literature from the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo
1991 Completed the coursework requirements for his doctoral program in French Language and Literature at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo
1993 L' Université Paris 7, Science de Textes et Documents, troisième cycle (Completed Third cycle and received DEA from the Department of Science of Texts and Documents, Paris Diderot University [Paris 7])

Teaching Positions Held

1996 Assistant Professor, the College of Liberal Arts, ICU
2007 Professor, the College of Liberal Arts, ICU
2011 Director of the Admissions Center, ICU
2019 Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, ICU

Awards:

2008 The 15th Yuasa Yoshiko Prize (section of drama translation)


Administrator Profiles

Vice President for Academic Affairs

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Robert Eskildsen

Dr. Robert Eskildsen completed his M.A. in Comparative Culture at International Christian University (ICU) Graduate School and then completed his Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History at Stanford University. After serving as Lecturer at Smith College from 1996 and later as Assistant Professor, he was appointed Associate Professor at College of Arts and Sciences, J. F. Oberlin University in 2008. Following positions as Senior Associate Professor (2014-2019) and Professor (2019-2020), he was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs of ICU in April 2020. He specializes in Modern Japanese History, with his interest centered on the early Meiji Era and how nationalism and imperialism had affected the lives of people in Japan and East Asia.

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Vice President for International Academic Exchange

Mark Williams

Dr.Williams took his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was on the faculty of the University of Leeds from 1988-2017, but between 2011 and 2014, he was seconded to Akita International University, Japan, where he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs. He served as President of the British Association for Japanese Studies between 2008-11. His research has focused on the writings of a series of post-war Japanese Christian authors, most notably those of Endō Shūsaku.

Email: williams[@]icu.ac.jp

Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

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Natsumi Ikoma

Professor Ikoma received Ph.D. from Durham University in 2002. She has served as Director of the Center for Gender Studies at ICU and Chair, Dept. of Literary Studies, International Christian University. She specializes in Gender, European Literature, Literature in general, Japanese Literature, and history of thought.

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Dean of the Graduate School

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Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi

Dr. Mizoguchi graduated from the College of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba and completed his Ph.D. in Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba. He joined RIKEN in 1997 as a full-time researcher. After serving as associate professor at University of Tsukuba since 2007, he joined ICU as a Professor in 2012. He has served as Director of Center for Research Planning and Support, Chair of Department of Natural Sciences and Chair of Department of Life Science to date. In AY2017, he concurrently served as Senior Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Cabinet Office of Government of Japan. He specializes in chronobiology; mainly molecular genetics, molecular biology and physiological research related to seasonal responsiveness of living organisms.

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Dean of Students

KIBE, Takashi

Dr. Kibe received his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1995. He joined ICU in 2000, and served as Director, Peace Research Institute from 2011 to 2014 and from 2021 to 2022. He specializes in political science, mainly on egalitarianism, multiculturalism, the history of political thought in the early modern period, social justice theory, and the methodology of the social sciences.

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Director, University Secretariat

MURAKOSHI, Kiyomi

Ms. Murakoshi received a B.A. in Humanities from Tamagawa University and an M.A. in Education from Tamagawa University Graduate School of Humanities in 2006.After serving as the Director of Academic Affairs Division since 2015, she was appointed to the Director of Administrative Affairs (currently the Director of General Affairs Division) in 2019. She assumes the position of the Director of the University Secretariat from April 2022.

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