Yuka Tomomatsu specializes in agrarian studies at the intersection of the global history of international development and cooperation, with a regional focus on inland West Africa. She earned her B.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), and her Ph.D. in Agriculture at the University of Tokyo (2015). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, Princeton University (2018-19). Her recent book, Gendered Economies of Agriculture: The Transformation of Everyday Livelihoods in Northern Ghana (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd., 2019, in Japanese), won Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research in 2019 and Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Awards in 2020.