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Professor Saburo Horikawa was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Tokyo since he was two. At Deapartment of Sociology, Hosei University, he offers courses in "Environmental Sociology," "Social Research," and "Sociology of Historic Preservation." He was a Research Associate of sociology at University of Chiba before joining Hosei. Professor Horikawa's research interests include historic environment preservation, urban communities, Minamata disease, and the historical development of Japanese social research. Currently, his research focuses on uses and meanings of townscape, and rise of grassroots movements to preserve them.

He has taught at the University of Tokyo as Visiting Associate Professor (2001-2003; as a lecturer, 2012-2013), Keio University (1999-2000, 2008-2012), and University of Yamanashi (2002). He has also taught at Department of History, Harvard University as an invited lecturer (2004). He has also given an invited talk at the sociology department of State University of New York at Stony Brook (2006).

His recent work includes: An Environmental Chronology: Japan and the World (co-edited and co-authored with Funabashi et al., 2010); "Place, Space and Sociology: The Meaning of an Urban Preservation Movement in the Twenty-First Century" in Japanese Sociological Review (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2010); Townscape Preservation in Urban Renewal Process: A Sociological Study (Saburo Horikawa [ed.], 2009); "Urban Life and Environmental Change: Local Spatial Control Systems Revisited" in Fujita and Urano (eds.) Urban Society and the Risk (2005); "Who Owns the Landscape?" in Torigoe (ed.) Natural Environment and Culture of Environment (2001); "Is Tourism Development the Answer?" in Katagiri (ed.) Sociology of Historic Environment (2000); and "Historic Environment Preservation against City Planning: Placeness, Lived Community, and Interchangeable Space" in Funabashi and Iijima (eds.) The Environment ("Sociology in Japan" series, Vol. 12, 1998).

He currently serves in the editorial board of the academic quarterly Research in Environmental Disruption, and the Journal of Environmental Sociology, an official journal of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology.

• 1991-1994: Graduate School of Sociology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (environmental sociology)
• 1988-1990: Graduate School of Political Science, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (M.A. in political/urban sociology)
• 1983-1987: Department of Sociology, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan (B.A. in urban sociology, summa cum laude)

• 2012-present: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2011-present: Member of the Editorial Board, the Journal of Environmental Sociology, Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology
• 2010-2012: Vice Chair, Graduate School of Sociology, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2009-2011: Chair, International Relations Committee, Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology
• 2007-present: Professor of Sociology, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2007-2009: Secretary-general, Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology
• 2005-2006: Affiliate of Senior Common Room, Eliot House, Harvard College (Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.)
• 2004-2006: Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.)
• 2001-2007: Associate Professor of Sociology, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2001-2003: Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
• 1997-2001: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
• 1995-1997: Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Chiba (Chiba, Japan)
• 1994-1995: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, Japan)

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