During the pursuit of a Ph.D at Northwestern, Shibusawa received the Center for International and Comparative Studies Graduate Grant and a fellowship from Chicago chapter of the National Association of Japan-America Societies.
[1] After completing her Ph.D., Shibusawa received a position as an assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2000.
Shibusawa left Hawaii for Brown University in 2004, starting as an assistant professor of history.
[3] This book explores American depictions of Japan through mass media during World War II.
[5] Shibusawa is currently working on a book called Seduced by the East: The Treason Trial of John David Provoo.