Published on Apr 30, 2021
Recent anthropology graduate student Hiroko Kumaki wins the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize, awarded to the most outstanding dissertations in a year in the Social Sciences Division. Hiroko Kumaki’s dissertation, "Reasonably Exposed: Politics and Ethics of Living Fukushima," is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Japan in 2017 during reconstruction from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal communities and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Congratulations to Hiroko!