Updated on 2026/05/09

写真a

 
LEE, Rika
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Human Sciences, School of Human Sciences
Job title
Professor
Degree
MA in Sociology ( 2000.03 Hitotsubashi University )
Ph.D. in Sociology ( 2011.03 Hitotsubashi University )
Profile
Ph.D. in Sociology Specialized in Historical Sociology, Migration Studies, Transpacific Area Studies, Korean Diaspora Studies

Research Experience

  • 2026.04
    -
    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Human Sciences   Professor

  • 2022.04
    -
    2026.03

    Chuo University   Faculty of Policy Studies   Professor

  • 2025.01
    -
    2025.03

    Sciences PO   Centre de Recherches Internationales   Visiting Professor, Academic Year 2025

  • 2022.04
    -
    2023.03

    The University of Tokyo   College of Arts and Sciences   Part time lecturer

  • 2023.04
    -
    2024.03

    Musashi University   Faculty of Sociology Department of Socio-Media Studies   Part-time Lecturer

  • 2022.04
    -
    2024.03

    The University of Tokyo   PEAK, International Program on Japan in East Asia   Part-time Lecturer

  • 2019.04
    -
    2022.03

    Chuo University   Faculty of Policy Studies   Associate Professor

  • 2016.04
    -
    2019.03

    多摩美術大学共通教育 准教授

  • 2012.04
    -
    2016.03

    多摩美術大学共通教育 専任講師

  • 2012.04
    -
    2014.03

    東京経済大学21世紀教養プログラム 非常勤講師

  • 2011.04
    -
    2013.03

    中央大学法学部 非常勤講師

  • 2011.04
    -
    2013.03

    国士館大学政治学部 非常勤講師

  • 2005.04
    -
    2011.03

    LEC東京リーガルマインド大学総合キャリア学部 講師

  • 2005.04
    -
    2011.03

    茨城キリスト教大学文学部文化交流学科 非常勤講師

  • 2008.09
    -
    2009.03

    韓国高麗大学アジア問題研究所グローバル・コリアン・コミュニティ・センター 客員研究員

  • 2003.08
    -
    2004.07

    米国ハワイ大学アジア太平洋研究コリアン研究センター 客員研究員

  • 2002.08
    -
    2003.07

    米国ハワイ大学社会学部 ティーチング・アシスタント

▼display all

Education Background

  • 2000.04
    -
    2011.03

    Hitotsubashi University   社会学研究科  

  • 2002.08
    -
    2003.07

    米国ハワイ大学   社会学研究科  

  • 1998.04
    -
    2000.03

    Hitotsubashi University   社会学研究科  

  • 1993.04
    -
    1997.03

    Chuo University   総合政策学部   国際政策文化学科  

  • 1996.06
    -
    1997.02

    米国サンフランシスコ州立大学   政治学部  

  • 1990.04
    -
    1993.03

    東京都立国際高等学校国際科  

  • 1991.08
    -
    1992.06

    米国マサチューセッツ州チェルムスフォードハイスクール  

▼display all

Committee Memberships

  • 2025.07
    -
    Now

    The Japanese Association for American Studies  Program Committee Member, Council Member

  • 2024.09
    -
    Now

    The Japanese Association for American History  Editorial Board

  • 2022.06
    -
    2024.06

    The Japanese Association for Migration Studies  Vice President

  • 2017.12
    -
    2024.06

    日本移民学会  理事

  • 2020.06
    -
    2022.06

    The Japanese Association for Migration Studies  Secretary General

  • 2019.09
    -
    2021.09

    日本アメリカ史学会  運営委員

  • 2016.06
    -
    2020.05

    日本移民学会  企画委員

  • 2018.06
    -
    2019.06

    日本移民学会  大会企画委員長

▼display all

Professional Memberships

  • 　
    　
    　

    日本移民学会

  • 　
    　
    　

    アメリカ学会

  • 　
    　
    　

    日本アメリカ史学会

  • 　
    　
    　

    歴史学会

Research Areas

  • Historical studies in general   日米のマイノリティ・移民の歴史 / Area studies   Area studies / Sociology   ethnicity, racism, gender, nationalism, transnationalsim

Research Interests

  • Historical Sociology

  • Migration Studies

  • Race and Ethnicity

  • Transpacific Studies

  • Historical Studies on the images of Korean woman and "Foreign" women in Japan

  • Korean diaspora Studies

  • Stateless

▼display all

 

Papers

▼display all

Books and Other Publications

  • 交差する文化と境界（日韓スタディーズ②「日韓」を超える）

    ( Part： Edit, はじめに、第6章（「元祖韓流スター」裴亀子歌舞劇団 戦前の日本における大衆文化と朝鮮人女性のイメージ）、あとがき)

    2025.07

  • 53 Chapters to Learn About Asian American - Introductory book on Asian American

    Rika Lee( Part： Edit, Introduction, Chapter 10 Korean Immigrants & Korean Americans)

    Akashi  2024.10 ISBN: 9784750358345

  • What is Chosenseki? From Transnational Perspective

    ( Part： Edit)

    Somyong Publishing Co.  2023.12

  • Stateless "Chosenseki" Zainichi Koreans in Japan: From Transnational Perspective

    Rika Lee( Part： Edit, Introduction, Column 4, Chapter 7,)

    Akashi  2021.01 ISBN: 9784750350790

  • Immigrating and Studying Abroad to US for Korean Women in the Early Modern Era

    Rika Lee( Part： Contributor, 김효남 역（金孝男訳）「하와이 한인 이민 여성의 근대화와 문화 （ハワイにおける韓国人移民女性の近代化と文化）」119～146頁)

    Academy of Korean Studies  2019

  • Stateless Diasporas: Nationalism and Identity of Koreans in prewar Hawai'i

    Rika Lee( Part： Sole author)

    Kanyo Shuppan  2015.08

  • Identity Representations in Multicultural Hawai'i

    Rika Lee( Part： Contributor, What it means to represent "tradition": History of Korean dance in Hawai'i)

    2015.03

  • The Vital Realities of Multicultural Hawai'i: Contention, Conciliation, Construction

    Rika Lee( Part： Contributor, What it means to be Korean in Multicultural Hawai'i: Ethnic Representation and Cultural Production)

    Ochanomizu Shobo  2011

▼display all

Presentations

  • Reclaiming the Margins：Zainichi Korean Women’s Fashion Activism & The Politics of Visibility in Multicultural Japan

    Rika Lee

    Asian Studies Association (AAS), Annual Conference 

    Presentation date： 2026.03

    Event date：
    2026.03
    　
    　

  • Reinventing Korean Dress: Zainichi Korean Women Confronting Ethnoracism and Symbolic Inclusion in Japan

    Rika Lee

    14th Korean Studies Association of Australia Conference 

    Presentation date： 2025.11

    Event date：
    2025.11
    　
    　

  • Discussant

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Japanese Association for American Studies, Annual Conference, 【Session C Education, History, and Ethnicity】 

    Presentation date： 2025.05

    Event date：
    2025.05
    -
    2025.06

  • Resisting Racism, Sexism, and Colonialism: the Experiences of Korean Minority Women in Japan

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Workshop "Ways to Inhabit a New City: Women Migrants' Everyday Lives in Cosmopolitan Cities", Sciences Po, CERI 

    Presentation date： 2025.02

    Event date：
    2025.02
    　
    　

  • Erasing Gender and Colonialism in Racism: The Historical Trajectory of Korean Women in Japan

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Colonial Legacies, Racist Discrimination: Belgo-Japanese dialogues 

    Presentation date： 2025.01

    Event date：
    2025.01
    　
    　

  • Between Resistance and Diversity - Korean Women and Intersectional Discrimination in Japan

    Rika Lee

    The Japan Society for the Compartive Studies of Civilizations 

    Presentation date： 2024.12

    Event date：
    2024.12
    　
    　

  • Rethinking "Colonialism": Historical Image of Korean Women in Japan

    Rika Lee

    Postcolonialsim in East Asia 

    Presentation date： 2024.11

  • Rethinking ‘Post-Colonialism: Historical Continuity and Discontinuity of Gendered Racism of Korean women in Japan

    Rika Rihwa Lee  [Invited]

    Hallym University 

    Presentation date： 2024.10

    Event date：
    2024.10
    　
    　

  • Historial Image of Korean Women in Japan

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Waneibunkasha 

    Presentation date： 2024.09

  • Korean Dress as a Symbol of Resistance: Intersectionality and Transnationality

    Rika Lee

    AAS-in-Asia (Association for Asian Studies in Asia) 

    Presentation date： 2024.07

    Event date：
    2024.07
    　
    　

  • The Historical Images of Korean Traditional Dress in Japan - Race, Gender and Colonialism

    Rika Lee

    Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) 

    Presentation date： 2024.07

    Event date：
    2024.07
    　
    　

  • Minority Studies Today: From Zainichi Korean Studies

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Japanese Association for American Studies 

    Presentation date： 2024.06

    Event date：
    2024.06
    　
    　

  • History of "Multiple form or Discrimination” in Japan: Rethinking from Zainichi Korean women

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Chuo University, 30th Academic Symposium, "Co-existence: Beyond the difference" 

    Presentation date： 2024.03

  • Why Transnationalism matters: Thinking from Zainichi Korean Identities and Chosen-seki

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Hosei University, Research Center for International Japanese Studies 

    Presentation date： 2023.10

  • The Poltics on Image Making of Korean women in Japan

    Rika Rihwa Lee  [Invited]

    Dochisha Univeristy Open Seminar - Rethinking Zainichi Korean Studies 

    Presentation date： 2023.07

  • Becoming a Visible and Invisible Minority: The rise of Anti-Korean sentiments and the Zainichi Koreans in Japan since the 2000s

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    International Conference on “Newer Generation Asian Youths in North America, Oceania, and Europe: New Patterns of Assimilation, Re-ethnicization, and Ethnic Homeland” 

    Presentation date： 2023.05

    Event date：
    2023.05
    　
    　

  • The image of Hanbok and Korean women in Japan during colonial period

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Presentation date： 2023.03

  • The images of Korean women under the Japanese empire in prewar Japan

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Presentation date： 2022.12

    Event date：
    2022.12
    　
    　

  • Beyond Exotic Dancer: Zainichi Korean Dancers in Japan from 1970s to 1990s

    Rika Lee

    2022 Asia Pacific Dance Festival, An International Conference 

    Presentation date： 2022.08

  • What it means to Wear Korean Traditional Dress in Two Empires: Ethnic/Racial and Gender Politics in Japan and the U.S.

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Organization of American Historians (OAH), Conference on American History, 2022 Annual Meeting, Panel "Bodies in Diaspora and Empire: Anti-Asian Violence, Colonial Costuming and Disability" 

    Presentation date： 2022.04

    Event date：
    2022.03
    -
    2022.04

  • 朝鮮籍とはなにか―自由で平等な社会を実現して行くために

    李里花  [Invited]

    カナダ九条の会第2回オンライン講演会 

    Presentation date： 2021.08

  • Transnationalism of Zainichi Koreans today Re-ethnicization, de-nationalisation and gender

    Rika Lee

    Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12) 

    Presentation date： 2021.08

  • どこに帰属するのか―朝鮮籍と在日コリアンー

    李里花  [Invited]

    チェッコリ重版記念企画（オンライン） 

    Presentation date： 2021.04

  • トランスナショナルな視点と「朝鮮籍」

    李里花  [Invited]

    Readin' Writing' Book Storeオンライン出版記念企画 

    Presentation date： 2021.03

  • 朝鮮籍とは何か？――無国籍を強いられた人たち

    李里花  [Invited]

    シノドストークラウンジ 

    Presentation date： 2021.03

  • 「朝鮮籍：なぜトランスナショナルの視点なのか」

    李里花  [Invited]

    NPO法人無国籍ネットワーク 

    Presentation date： 2021.03

  • Is it Transnational Identity?: In-Depth Research on Chosenseki Zainichi Koreans

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    The 2nd meeting, "Idoken to Citizenship (The right to cross the border and Citizenship)"  (online)  JSPS科研費19K02053「在日コリアンの「移動権」から見た新たなシティズンシップ研究の構築」（代表：韓東賢・日本映画大学映画学部准教授）

    Presentation date： 2021.03

  • Images of Korean dance in Japan and Zainichi Koreans: From Exotic Korean Dancer to Ethnic Dancer

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Tongguk University Japan Studies 동국대학교 일본학연구소  (Online)  Tongguk University Japan Studies

    Presentation date： 2021.02

  • Re-ethinicisation of Zainichi Koreans today: Identity, Gender and Social Media

    Rika Lee

    The 10th World Congress of Korean Studies (Academy of Korean Studies) 

    Presentation date： 2020.10

  • Where do we belong?: “Stateless” Koreans in prewar Hawai’i

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Memory and Commemoration of Korean immigrants in the US and their relationship with ethnic ‘others’ (Changwon University, Korea) 

    Presentation date： 2020.01

    Event date：
    2020.01
    　
    　

  • Portrayal of Korean dance in Japan: Changes in the Paradigm

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Memory and Commemoration of Korean immigrants in the US and their relationship with ethnic ‘others’ (Changwon University, Korea) 

    Presentation date： 2020.01

  • Korean dance in Japan: Its history, re-invention, and consumption

    Rika Lee

    The 11th Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Biennial Conference 

    Presentation date： 2019.12

  • Representation of Korean dance in Japan and Hawai‘i in the postwar years Changes on “who we are” and “who they are”

    Rika Lee

    Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference 

    Presentation date： 2019.08

  • Ethno-culturalism or Ethno-nationalism?: Comparing Korean dance in Hawai'i and Japan

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    "Zainichi Koreans in the 21st Century: Assimilation, Re-ethnicization, Education and Next Generation"  (The University of Auckland)  The University of Auckland, Korean Studies Center, Japan Studies Center, CUPKS Korean Studies Research Group

    Presentation date： 2018.12

  • Becoming a 'Korean' Dancer in Postwar Hawai'i: Halla Pai Huhm and Her Transpacific Routes

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    The Japanese Association for American Studies  (北九州大学) 

    Presentation date： 2018.06

  • History of Hawaii's Korean Dance in Hawai'i from Transpacific Perspective

    Rika Lee

    The Japanese Association for American History  (愛知県立大学) 

    Presentation date： 2017.09

  • Immigration Studies from Transpacific Studies: A Case Study of Narrative on Korean Dance in Hawai'i

    Rika Lee

    The Japanese Association for Migration Studies  (東京学芸大学) 

    Presentation date： 2016.12

  • On ”Coutry-less Identity of Koreans in Hawai’i"’ as a part of talking frontier of Migration Studies

    Rika Lee

    Japanese Immigration Studies 

    Presentation date： 2016.06

  • Conceptualizing Statelessness in Korean Diaspora Studies: The Linkage of Koreans in postwar Japan and Koreans in prewar Hawai'i

    Rika Lee

    AAS-in-Asia (Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia)  (同志社大学) 

    Presentation date： 2016.06

  • Country-less Identity: A Korean woman in postwar Japan and Koreans in prewar Hawai‛i

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Conference on Korean Immigrant Women in the United States 

    Presentation date： 2015.09

  • Transnationalism of Koreans in prewar Hawai'i

    Rika Lee

    Japanese American Studies Association 

    Presentation date： 2014.06

  • Beyond Two Empires?:‘Country-less’Identity of Koreans in Hawai‘i, 1930s

    Rika Lee

    Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference 

    Presentation date： 2013.04

  • Identity and Nationalism of "Enemy Alien" in the Wartime: Narratives of Koreans in Hawai'i

    Rika Lee  [Invited]

    Historical Science Society, Annual Conference 

    Presentation date： 2007.12

  • Homeland Nationalism of Koreans in prewar Hawai'i

    Rika Lee

    The Japanese Association for American History 

    Presentation date： 2007.09

  • Becoming "Enemy Alien" to "Friendly Alien": Narratives of Koreans in Hawai'i

    Rika Lee

    Japanese American Studies Association Annual Conference 

    Presentation date： 2007.06

▼display all

Research Projects

  • インドネシアにおける性的少数派とイスラームの関係：寛容的社会の構築に関する研究

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業

    Project Year :

    2021.10
    -
    2026.03
     

    加藤 久典, 李 里花, 山下 梓, 新ヶ江 章友

    　View Summary

    本年度は新型コロナウイルス感染拡大の影響で、現地調査が叶わなかったがSNSやインターネットなどを通じて情報収集を行った。また共同研究者との打ち合わせ（2022年3月）もオンラインで行った。
    オンライン形式で、インドネシアのムスリムでありトランスマン（女性として生まれたが性自任は男性）への聞き取りを行い、イスラーム社会における性的少数派の実態についての情報を得た。また、性的少数派に対するイスラームの多様な反応などの状況をも確認することができた。

  • American History in the Transpacific World: Empire, Migration, Minority and Gender

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Project Year :

    2022.04
    -
    2025.03
     

  • チマチョゴリのイメージをめぐる日韓の歴史―支配から連帯へ

    JFE 21世紀財団  アジア歴史助成

    Project Year :

    2022.01
    -
    2022.12
     

  • Reconsidering American History through Transpacific Minorities' Perspectives

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2018.04
    -
    2021.03
     

    Kaneko Ayumu

    　View Summary

    This research project has reappraised American history of Asian minorities through the lens of trans-Pacific perspective in which we conceptualized the Aisa-Pacific world as a historically multilayered structure of intersections between various Pacific-rim regions and in which we analyzed how the trans-Pacific power structures of Americas, East Asia, and Southeast Asia has shaped American minorities' historical experiences and their impacts on the mainstream American society.
    We have uncovered in this project how Asian American minorities' experiences and identities and their influence on the American society has been determined by the history of Asia-Pacific world which has been shaped by cooperations, exchanges, and conflicts among Pacific empires such as the United States and the Japanese Empire.

  • Synthetic Studies on the US Minority Issues: Rethinking Minority Studies from the Transpacific Perspective

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2015.04
    -
    2018.03
     

    LEE Rika

    　View Summary

    The goal of this research is to (1) introduce transpacific perspective into US minority studies, (2) develop dialogues among minority studies in US and Japan, and (3) present the papers at the national and international conferences.
    <BR>
    This project was able to achieve this goal from the following aspects. First, this project hosted meetings and international conference, and was able to develop the series of dialogues with the scholars of minority studies in Japan and US to discuss about the issues on minority studies and transpacific perspective. Second, the members conducted individual research and was able to provide empirical studies for the minority studies from transpacific perspective. Third, this project held a symposium in the final year to address the issue of this research agenda to the wider audience. The members also published their papers in Japanese, English and Korean and was able to provide the research result in Japan and outside of Japan.

  • Exclusion and Inclusion of Multicultural Hawai'i

    Japan Soecity for the Promotion of Science  Kaken

    Project Year :

    2011.04
    -
    2014.03
     

    Shigehiko Shiramizu

  • Ethnic relationship and Cultural Production in Multicultural Hawai'i

    Japan Soecity for the Promotion of Science  Kaken

    Project Year :

    2008.04
    -
    2012.03
     

    しらみず しげひこ

  • Inter-ethnic Negotiations and Cultural Co-creations in Multicultural Hawaii : Case Studies in Okinawan, Japanese, Chinese and Korean Communities.

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2008
    -
    2010
     

    SHIRAMIZU Shigehiko, NAKANO Katsuhiko, SHIROTA Chika, NOIRI Naomi, LEE Rika

    　View Summary

    We conducted field works in Hawaii for 3 years, especially in the ethnic festival seasons of Okinawan, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean communities. Our findings are : (1) the major ethnic groups in Hawaii had been starting up their ethnic festivals after W. W. II, (2) each festival had been gradually regarded as a part of Hawaii's local culture, (3) some strained relations had been in existence among the groups, which motivated them to start the festivals.

  • Protrayal of Korean Americans in South Korea

    Korea Foundation  Field Research Fellow

    Project Year :

    2008.08
    -
    2009.03
     

    Rika Lee

  • Collective Memory of the Ethnic Group: Celebration of Korean Centennial Immigration in Hawai'i

    The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation  Research Grant

    Project Year :

    2003.04
    -
    2004.03
     

    Rika Lee

▼display all

Other

  • Whose Voice Is Being Questioned? Confronting Historical Trauma

    2025.08
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    Essay Contribution to the Official Program Booklet for the Film “Yomigaeru Koe (The Voices of the Silenced)”
    pp. 47–49

  • disscussant, "Histocial Studies on Migration in Transpacific"

    2024.06
    -
    　

    　View Summary

    Japanese Association for Migration Studies

  • Tomisaka Christian Mission Center, Research Group Postcolonialism in East Asia, Director

    2024.04
    　
    　

  • Discussant, Symposium, Asian Immigration and Violence in the United States and Europe

    2024.02
    -
    　

    　View Summary

    Doshisha Univerisyt, Research group "Multicultural City and the Crisis of Cohabitation" under Global Mediterranean project

  • どこに帰属するのか―朝鮮籍と在日コリアンー『朝鮮籍とは何か―トランスナショナルの視点から』

    2021.04
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    重版記念イベント チェッコリ

  • トランスナショナルな視点と「朝鮮籍」

    2021.03
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    出版記念＆「聡子の部屋」スピンオフ：編者・李里花さん（社会学者）が語る（Readin’Writin’BOOKSTORE)

  • 朝鮮籍とは何か？――無国籍を強いられた人たち

    2021.03
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    シノドス・トークラウンジ

  • 「朝鮮籍：なぜトランスナショナルの視点なのか」

    2021.03
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    NPO法人無国籍ネットワーク出版記念セミナー

  • コラム「アメリカン・ドリームの背景にあるもの」

    2021.03
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    映画『ミナリ』劇場パンフレット

  • 「アジア系(Asian American)」『アメリカ文化辞典』

    2018
    -
    　

    　View Summary

    丸善出版株式会社、2018年、188-189頁

  • 2. 「書評兒玉正昭著『日本人移民ハワイ上陸拒絶事件 : 領事報告を中心に』」

    2012
    -
    　

    　View Summary

    『歴史評論』752号、2012年、95-98頁

▼display all

 

Syllabus

▼display all

 

Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of Human Sciences   Graduate School of Human Sciences

  • Faculty of Human Sciences   School of Human Sciences (Online Degree Program)