Message to Prospective Students

I am a sociologist, specializing in social movements, political sociology, and historical sociology with a focus on Japanese history and society. Sociology is a field that tells us what kind of society we live in and how it is changing. It gives you insightful intellectual tools with which to see the world around us. I hope you’ll make your own exciting discoveries by learning sociology with us!

Research Interests and Teaching Areas

Political Sociology, Social Movements, Historical Sociology

Selected Works

• Hiroe Saruya. 2021. The 60 Anpo Protests, Intellectuals, Students, and Workers: The Historical Sociology of Social Movements. (In Japanese)Tokyo: Shinyosha.
• Hiroe Saruya. 2016“A Field Approach to Social Movements: The Case of the 1960 Anpo Protests.” (In Japanese) Soshioroji 60 (3): 21–38.
• Hiroe Saruya. 2015. “Imagining ‘World Peace’: The Anti-Nuclear Bomb Movement in Postwar Japan.” In Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration and Social Movement, edited by Pedro D. Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi, Pp. 187–210, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hiroe Saruya. 2015. “Trends and Critiques in the Study of Democracy: Historical Sociology and Related Research Fields.” (In Japanese) Sophia University Sociological Studies 39: 25–39.

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