CV

Work Experience

Associate Professor
Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan (2020 - Present)

Assistant Professor
Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan (2017 - 2020)

Visiting and Affiliated Positions

Visiting Researcher
The Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan (2025 - 2026)

Education

Ph.D.
The University of Tokyo (2014)
Dissertation: “The Conceptual History of Civil Society in Postwar Japan: The Problématique of ‘Modernity’”

M.S.
The University of Tokyo (2007)

B.S.
Keio University (2005)

Research Interests

• Jane Addams and pragmatist feminism
• Progressive Era social reform movements
• Hull House and settlement house movement
• Mary Parker Follett and organizational theory

Publications

Book

• Onodera, K. (2015) The History of Social Thought in Postwar Japan, Ibunsha.

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• Onodera, K. (forthcoming) “The Intellectual Formation of Jane Addams’s Peace Theory: Spencer, Mazzini, and the Gendered Discourse of War and Peace,” American Political Thought.
• Onodera, K. (2025) “Addams’s Early Peace Thought: Evolutionary Theory and Democracy in Turn-of-the-Century America,” Japanese Journal of Political Thought, 25, 260-290.
• Onodera, K. (2023) “The Scientific and Political Nature of Feminist Social Science based on an Integral Understanding of Feminist Epistemology,” Journal of Gender Studies, 26, 49-67.
  DOI: 10.24567/0002003769
• Onodera, K. (2017) “Realism for Social-Democratic Reform: The Political Theories of Keiichi Matsushita and Younosuke Nagai Concerning Mass Society,” Annals of The Society for The History of Social Thought, 41, 134-152.
  DOI: 10.69192/shst.41.0_134
• Onodera, K. (2010) “The Thought of Yoshihiko Uchida on Civil Society,” Komaba Studies in Society, 19, 2-17.
• Onodera, K. (2010) “The Creation of Theories of Civil Society in Japan: The Acceptance of Adam Smith between Wartime and Postwar era and its Philosophical Possibilities,” Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 34, 198-215.
  DOI: 10.69192/shst.34.0_198

Other Academic Publications

• Onodera, K. (2021) “Social Critics and Gender,” Annals of The Society for The History of Social Thought, 45, 31-50.
  DOI: 10.69192/shst.45.0_31
• Onodera, K. (2018) “Pitfalls of Keiichi Matsushita’s Thoughts on Civic Politics,” Bulletin of Studies of Yoshino Sakuzo, 14, 77-89.
• Onodera, K. (2016) “‘Who?’ and ‘How?’: A Problem Area on ‘The Political’,” Komaba Studies in Society, 25, 87-92.
  DOI: 10.15083/00017679

Work in Progress

• Onodera, K. (in progress) Ethical Democracy.
  Book manuscript on Hull-House and Jane Addams’s philosophy of social democracy.

Presentations

Invited Talks

• “The Relationship between Care and Democracy in the Thought of Jane Addams: Analyzing Democracy and Social Ethics through the Lens of the Feminist Ethic of Care.” Re-reading Jane Addams’ Peace Thought during the Global Crisis, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, November 2024.
  Handout (PDF)

Grants and Funding

• KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  Project: “A Study of American First-Wave Feminist Political Thought from the Perspective of the Ethics of Care”
  Grant Number: JP25K15727
  Period: 2025 - 2027