Kazuyo Kubo

Kazuyo Kubo

  • Asian Studies

    Professor / Chair for the Division of Liberal Arts

    Programs
    • Undergraduate

Areas of Expertise

Sociology of Family, Immigration, Race and Ethnic Studies

Teaching Interests

Dr. Kubo teaches courses in sociology of family, race and ethnic relations, immigration, research methods, social stratification, visual sociology.

Research

Dr. Kubo is a sociologist specializing in sociology of family, immigration, race and ethnic relations, and visual sociology. She has published her research on interracial family formation through transnational adoption, characteristics of adoptive families, and attitudes towards immigrants. Dr. Kubo’s on-going research includes pedagogical issues surrounding visual literacy and immigration in Japan.

Representative Publications

Ishizawa, H., Kubo, K., & Stevens, G. (2018). How changes in sending countries influenced patterns of interracial families through intercountry adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 21(4), 270-287.

Kubo, K. (2018). [Review of the book Outsourced children: Orphanage care and adoption in globalizing China By L.K. Wang]. American Journal of Sociology, 123(4), 1240-1242.

Cruz, A. & Kubo, K. (2016). Post your comments below: A case study of immigrant bashing online. In T.M. Cottom, K. Gregory & J. Daniels (Eds.), Digital sociologies (pp.433-446). UK Policy Press.

Kubo, K. (2014). Producing multiculturalism: Family formation through transnational adoption. In V.B. Treitler (Eds.), Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption (pp.169-189). Palgrave Macmillan.

Kubo, K. (2010). “Desirable difference: The shadow of racial stereotypes in creating transracial families through transnational adoption, ”Sociology Compass, 4(4), 263-282.

Kubo, K. (1999). The struggle of challenging boundaries and constructing identity: A case of resident Koreans in Takatsuki City in Japan. In P. Batur-Vander Lippe & J. Feagin (Eds.), Politics and society: Race and ethnic relations from a global perspective (pp.381-394). JAI Press

Education

  • PhD Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  • MA East Asian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.
  • ​BA East Asian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.

Previous Appointments

  • Professor and Associate Chair, Social Sciences Department, Lesley University (2023-2024)
  • Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Social Sciences Department, Lesley University (2021-2023)
  • Associate Professor, Social Sciences Department, Lesley University (2017-2023)
  • Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Department, Lesley University (2013-2017)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University (2012-2013)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Racial and Ethnic Studies, University of Redlands (2008-2010)
  • Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, Dickinson College, (2007-2008)

Professional Associations

  • Eastern Sociological Society
  • International Visual Literacy Association
  • International Visual Sociology