Keiko Kawashima (Japanese: 川島慶子, born 1959) is a Japanese historian of science whose research has focused on women in science and gender in science. She is a professor emerita at the Nagoya Institute of Technology.

Education and career

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Kawashima was born in Kobe in 1959. After a bachelor's degree from Kyoto University in 1983, and a master's degree in 1987 from the University of Tokyo, she traveled to France for continued study at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and received a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1991.[1]

She joined the Nagoya Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1994, and was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 2014. She retired as a professor emerita in 2023.[1]

Publications

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Kawashima's writings in the history of science include works in Japanese, French, and English.[1] She is the author of a book in French, Émilie du Châtelet et Marie-Anne Lavoisier, Science et genre au XVIII siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013),[2] and of two books in Japanese. She also translated Roald Hoffmann's play Something That Belongs to You into Japanese.[1]

Her home page links several short manga outlining the lives and works of women in science.[3]

Recognition

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Kawashima was the 2006 recipient of the Women’s History 'Aoyama Nao' Award [ja] of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender of Tokyo Woman's Christian University, given for the 2005 Japanese edition of her book on Émilie du Châtelet and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier.[4] She was the 2010 recipient of the Yamazaki Award [ja].[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Home page and curriculum vitae, retrieved 2024-10-20
  2. ^ Reviews of Émilie du Châtelet et Marie-Anne Lavoisier:
  3. ^ "Keiko Kawashima", Contributors, The New Historia, retrieved 2024-10-20
  4. ^ Women's History 'Aoyama Nao' Award: Recipients List, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Tokyo Women's Christian University, 22 September 2023, retrieved 2024-10-20
  5. ^ Recipient list for the Yamazaki Awards (in Japanese), retrieved 2024-10-20