Tenshi Kawashima
Postdoctoral Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA Columbia College; MA University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee; PhD University of Georgia
Research Websites: Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES)
Research Areas: Social Psychology; Inequality and Stratification; Gender; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Quantitative Methods
Tenshi Kawashima is a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) at NYU Abu Dhabi. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Georgia in 2025.
Her research draws on a sociological social psychological framework and uses survey and experimental methods. One line of her work examines how social factors shape perceptions of fair wages from both employees' and pay allocators’ perspectives, revealing how biased notions of fairness can reinforce societal inequalities. She also investigates how work-family conflict contributes to substance use through gendered emotional pathways and how the effectiveness of family-friendly policies varies by cultural context across 21 OECD countries.
Kawashima's research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Crime & Delinquency, and Violence Against Women. Her dissertation research has been supported by multiple grants from the University of Georgia and was recognized with the Graduate Student Investigator Award from the ASA Social Psychology Section.