Yuki Hoshino

Yuki Hoshino studies Japanese society, with a particular interest in life-course, family, gender, and affect. Hoshino earned his B.A. in Anthropology from Yale University in 2018 after writing his thesis on fatherhood and masculinity in contemporary urban Japan. In 2018-2019, he was a full-time research assistant at Yale under Professor Fabian Drixler, conducting research on family histories in early modern Japan. During his time at Yale, he has also partaken in various research projects including ethnographic research on changing fatherhood in Japan, a quantitative survey of parental activities and gender relations, photographing efforts of Edo-period infanticide drawings, and digitization of demographic records. This year as a member of the Digital Tokugawa Lab, he will engage in archival research trips, development of a database on feudal territories, and digitization of historical maps.