When Kazuyo Masuda, MA isn't trying to match Mexican food with a bottle of Italian wine, she does fieldwork and heads up projects. She has conducted ethnography in the US and Japan.
Kazuyo, who lives in Boston, has two, yes two, Master's degrees: one in Sociology, and one in Communications. She got her bachelors from Friends University in Mass Communication, where she also learned how to be a friend, and a good friend she has been.
Kazuyo has worked in a number of subject areas, including social welfare, gender issues, race and ethnic relations, stereotypes in mass media, retail ethnography, in-home ethnography, women’s health, clinical trials and medical research, She has contributed a sociological perspective to medical research at Dartmouth Medical School, and worked extensively in the health arena for a variety of companies and a variety of illnesses and woes: even pet health. When she is not traveling, in her spare time she teaches research methods and sociology of the family and eats really well.
