Yukiko Koga
Yukiko Koga is an anthropologist teaching at the City University of New York Hunter College. She specializes in legal anthropology, urban space, post-colonial & post-imperial relations, history & memory, and transnational East Asia.Education
Koga was a postdoctoral scholar in East Asian Studies at Brown University, specializing in colonial and post-colonial culture of occupied regions like Manchuria and other parts of Mainland China directly after World War II. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to complete this work.
Koga is the author of the book, Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire. In 2017, Koga won the American Anthropological Association’s Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes.
She currently serves on the editorial collective of the Rice University journal positions: asia critiqueAwards
