Sayaka Osanami Törngren
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

Presentation

Sayaka Osanami Törngren is an Associate Professor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. She received her B.A. from Sophia University, Tokyo, and her Ph.D. from Malmö/Linköping University (a joint program). Her dissertation, Love Ain’t Got No Color: Attitudes toward Interracial Marriage in Sweden, was awarded Malmö University’s Dissertation of the Year (2012).

Osanami Törngren’s research interests include race and racialization, racism and discrimination, and inequality. She has extensive experience in conducting and managing externally funded research (EU and national funding). Her work involves international and cross-sectoral collaboration with public and private sectors and NGOs.

She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on race, ethnicity, and identity, and supervises M.A. students (Research Internship and M.A. thesis) and Ph.D. students interested in topics of race, racism, discrimination, and racialization.

She is currently appointed as Associate Editor for the Sociology Compass Race and Ethnicity section and serves as a Board Member of Nordic Migration Research. She also co-chairs the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Race, Racism, and Discrimination.

Affiliation

• Center for Sustainability Research (CSR), Stockholm School of Economics (https://www.hhs.se/en/research/centers/csr/)

• Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University (https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ikos/remeso)

External appointments

• Associate Editor for section Race and Ethnicity for Sociology Compass (https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17519020)

• Vice-chair of Nordic Migration Research (https://nordicmigrationresearch.com/)

• Co-chair of IMISCOE Standing Commitee Race, Racism and Discrimination (https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/race-racism-and-discrimination)