Background
Kiku was born in 1947, in New York, United States.
Kiku was born in 1947, in New York, United States.
Kiku received her B.A. in Literature and Theater Arts from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. in Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Kiku Adatto is a Scholar in Residence at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center and a Lecturer on Social Studies. She has been an Assistant Professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology (where she also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies), a faculty member and Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and has served as the Director of Children’s Studies at Harvard. She has also initiated international storytelling, art, and civic education project for children in collaboration with her husband Harvard professor Michael Sandel. In 1990, Kiku Adatto published the findings of a study she conducted that compared network news coverage of the 1968 and 1988 American presidential campaigns.