She has also contributed essays and a book chapter on the topics of migration and durable inequality. Her article, 'Colonial legacy of ethno-racial inequality in Japanese society' ( Theory and Society, 2010), addresses how colonialism made a lasting impact on Japan's immigration policies and its immigrants' experiences. Kiyoteru Tsutusi at the University of Michigan), 'The Impact of Global Factors on Local Social Movement Outcomes: Global Human Rights and Resident Koreans in Japan' ( Social Problems, 2008) has won the Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. One of her articles (co-authored with Dr. Her published work includes articles on the influence of globalization on social movements among Korean minority groups in Japan. She also has a professional training in comparative and historical methods, political ethnography, and basic quantitative methods. Her research focuses on the political sociology, with an emphasis on social movement race and ethnicity inter-group conflicts categorial and spatial inequality, particularly in urban settings globalization colonialism and on the history, theory and sociology of migration, citizenship, and nationalism.

Between 20, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Japan Fund fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stanford University where she researched and lectured on race and ethnic relations in modern Japan. She completed her PhD in Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, where she received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Hwaji Shin joined the Sociology Department at the University of San Francisco as a full-time Assistant Professor in 2007.

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