Profile

June holds a BA from Temple University Japan Campus in international relations and political science and a MA from McGill University in political science. Her doctoral work at PAIS focuses on institutional identity formation and change within the Japanese Self-Defense Forces as it relates to Japan's shifting security identity and ongoing remilitarization. In addition to Japanese security, June is also interested in topics related to US military identity, interservice rivalry, service parochialism, wargames, serious games, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, militarization of humanitarian aid, international humanitarian law, and humanitarian intervention.

June is currently a visiting research fellow at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo (January - June 2024).

Research

International peace and security, International Relations, Japanese security, East Asian security, military sociology, institutional identity

Publications

McCabe, Kathleen. Service Parochialism and the Defense Planning Process: A Case Study of the Title 10 Wargames.2016. McGill University, Master's Thesis.

McCabe, Kathleen. “Aid in Afghanistan: Shrinking Space Theory and the Paradigms of Humanitarian Space.” McGill Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume XV 2013-2014.

Awards

Politics & International Studies Departmental PhD Scholarship, University of Warwick (2022 -2026)

Research Grant for Fieldwork, Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (2024)

Travel and Research Grant for Fieldwork, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2024)

Toshizo Watanabe Foundation Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (2016-2017)