Associate Members

Blanca Deusdad

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, Rovira i Virgili University , Tarragona, Spain.

Ph.D., University of Barcelona

Blanca Deusdad was Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow/Generalitat of Catalonia 2003, at Boston University under the direction of Professor Liah Greenfeld. She won a Catalan Educational Prize in 2008 (Premi Batec. Lleida City Council), for her work on multicultural education. Her research interests include immigration, ethnicity, education, leadership, gender and poverty.

Yoshiro Yano

Associate Professor, (Faculty of Letters, Department of Sociology) Chuo University

Ph.D. University of Tokyo

Yoshiro Yano is a Japanese sociologist and associate professor at Chuo University. He is most interested in how ideas and values interact in society, especially with religion and intellectual debates. His areas of expertise include theoretical sociology, history of social thought (with a special focus on Max Weber), and argumentation theory. He has published several books on Weber such as Max Weber no houhouron-teki gourishugi. [Max Weber’s Methodological Rationalism.] (Tokyo: Sobunsha, 2003.), and Nihon Max Weber ronso [The “Max Weber Debate” in Japan.] (Hashimoto T. & Yano Y. Eds. Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2008).

Yoshiro is also actively engaged in promoting academic debate in high school and college classrooms throughout Japan. He was the president of the Japan Debate Association (2005-2011), and is one of the founders of the High School English Debate Association in Japan.