[1] He is also a member of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.
(1974) in religious studies-Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A.
[3][4] 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 1989-1990.
He received the Social Science Research Council's Abe Fellowship for 2005-6.
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)[5] and the Masayoshi Ōhira Memorial Prize in Japan (2001)[6][7]