Setsuko Matsuzawa

Department/Affiliation: Sociology & Anthropology; Environmental Studies; East Asian Studies
Phone: 330-287-1904
Office Address: 013 Kauke
Email: smatsuzawa@wooster.edu

Degrees

• L.L.B., Sophia 1987
• M.P.P., Duke 1991
• L.L.M., Georgetown Law Center 1994
• Certificate, Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies (administered by UC-Berkeley)Tsinghua University, China, 2001
• Ph.D., California-San Diego 2007

Courses Taught 

• SOCI 100: Introduction to Sociology
• SOCI 203: Environmental Sociology
• SOCI 205: Sociology of Law
• SOCI 211: Social Movement
• SOCI 219: Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Society
• First Year Seminar: Are We Lovin' It?: McDonaldization of Global Society

Awards and Professional Memberships

• She was a Freeman Post-Doc Fellow as well as Fulbright Scholar.
• She has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright Hays and FLAS), the University of California (a Pacific Rim Research Grant, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation fellowship, and Regent Fellowship), the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (Taiwan), and the World Bank.
• American Sociological Association
• Association for Asian Studies

Publications

• Review of "Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan" in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest 11(3-4):1-3 (2012).
• "Citizen Environmental Activism in China: Legitimacy, Alliances, and Rights-based Discourses," in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 19(2): 81-91 (2012).
• "Horizontal Dynamics in Transnational Activism: The Case of Nu River Anti-dam Activism in China" in Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research 16(3): 369-87 (2011).
• Review of "Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas" by Marisa von Bülow.  Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research 16(4), 520-521 (2011).
• "The Emergence of Environmental Organizations and Women's Environmental Activism in China and Taiwan." Publication in the Journal of Asian Women's Studies (Japan), 12, pp. 7-14 (Mar. 2003) reprinted in the Journal of Chinese Studies (Japan), 45 (2004).

Conference Presentations

• "Enlisting Local Elites in the Construction of Global Knowledge Networks: The Ford Foundation in China." Session on Global and Transnational Sociology Section, 2011 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 23, 2011.
• How do Transnational Environmental Networks Work in China?: The Applicability of Boomerang Theory and Political Opportunity Structures in an Authoritarian Context."  Conference/Professional Presentation, Session on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, 2009 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 8, 2009.
• "Globalizing International Development Practice: The Introduction of the Participatory Approach in China."  Conference/Professional Presentation, Session on Transnational Culture, Local Culture: Interaction, Adaptation, Resistance, the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, June 29, 2008.

Research

Her primary research interests center on global non-state actors, such as International Organizations (IOs) and International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs), and their relationships to states and local social actors.  She explores these concerns in studying the development of environment activism in China.  She is currently interested in examining the emergence of legal rights consciousness in China with a special focus on issues of the environment.