Jeffrey Praed Broadbent (born in 1944) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota whose academic focus includes comparative sociology; environmental sociology; Japanese society; political networks; political sociology and social movements. He is also a member of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Broadbent received a B.A. (1974) in religious studies-Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. (1975) in Regional StudiesâÂÂJapan at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. (1982) in sociology at Harvard University.
From 1988 to 1989, Broadbent was a grantee of the Japan-United States Educational Commission (a Fulbright Program), and was a Fulbright-Hays scholar from 1989 to 1990. He received the Social Science Research Council's Abe Fellowship for 2005âÂÂ6. Broadbent was awarded two academic prizes for his book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest, the best book award from the Section on Environmental Sociology of the American Sociological Association (2000) and the Masayoshi à Âhira Memorial Prize in Japan (2001) The book received positive reviews.