Otori, Yukako

Yukako Otori is a writer with research specialties in the historical development of ideas and practices concerning childhood. She is currently Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Keio University. Previously she earned her doctorate in history at Harvard University and taught at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her current book project, tentatively titled Future Citizens? Childhood and Citizenship at the US Border, illuminates the intersection of child protection and border control during the Progressive Era.