
Anna Agathangelou
Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: International relations; governance; international feminist political economy; science and technology studies; feminist/postcolonial/decolonial thought; time and temporality in world politics; poetics of decolonization; reconstruction Post-Conflict; financial crisis; contemporary critical security studies; race and racism; EU and peripheral regional powers

Farah Ahmad
Professor
School of Health Policy and Management, York University
Research keywords: Health and care; immigration/refugee status, gender and race; South Asian diaspora; primary care; mental health; partner violence; neurodiversity; community-engaged mixed method research

R. Patrick Alcedo
Professor
Department of Dance, York University
Research keywords: Philippine dance; dance ethnography; documentary filmmaking; Filipino culture; Filipino diasporic identity

Lalaie Ameeriar
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Race; racism and racialization; globalization; diaspora; affect and embodiment; labour studies; feminist studies; transnational Muslim cultures

Preet S. Aulakh
Professor of Strategy and International Business; Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business
Schulich School of Business, York University
Research keywords: Asian business systems; comparative state capitalism; emerging markets; Asian business groups

Ranu Basu
Professor of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Urban social and political geography; anti-imperialism and postcolonial geographies; critical geographies of education; urban geographies of migration and displacement; theories of collective action and community organization; spatial methodologies including phronesis and critical Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Canada, Cuba, India

Russell W. Belk
Professor of Marketing; Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing
Schulich School of Business, York University
Research keywords: Meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, sharing and materialism; Asia

Margaret Boittin
Assistant Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Research keywords: Law; society; state; mainland China; Hong Kong; Nepal

Kabita Chakraborty
Associate Professor
Children, Childhood and Youth program, Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Children and youth; culture and cultural studies; South Asia; Southeast Asia; children’s studies

Soma Chatterjee
Associate Professor
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Migration; mobility; border scholarship

Claudia Chaufan
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Global Health, Faculty of Health, York University
Research keywords: Comparative health policy; geopolitics of global health; medicalization and social control; student engagement and critical pedagogy in higher education

Lily Cho
Associate Professor
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: Cultural studies; postcolonial literature and theory; Asian North American and Canadian literature

Boyd Cothran
Associate Professor
Deaprtment of History, York University
Research keywords: Global history; American West; historical memory; Indigenous Peoples; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Okinawan diaspora

Nga Dao
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Science, York University
Research keywords: River ecologies; gender; youth roles in livelihood changes; Mekong and Red River deltas; Vietnam

Tania Das Gupta
Professor
School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: South Asian diaspora and transnationalism; race and racism; anti-racism; migration; state policies; women; work and families; community activism; racism in the labour movement

Raju J. Das
Professor of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Relations between politics and economics; India; class relations; nature of capitalism; the state; poverty; uneven economic development; neoliberal agriculture and industrialization; fascistic tendencies; progressive social movements

Lisa M Davidson
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Urban anthropology; multicultural Christian communities; multiracial and multiethnic hospitality; Protestant congregations; Filipino Diaspora

Shital Desai
Assistant Professor
Department of Design, York University
Research keywords: Interaction design; ageing and technology; dementia; healthcare; assistive technologies; co-creation and co-design methods; humanity-centred design; systems design; global health

Enakshi Dua
Professor
School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Feminist theory; anti-racist feminist theory; postcolonial studies; development studies; globalization

Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: Middle Eastern diasporic literature; war on terror

Joshua A. Fogel
Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Cultural and intellectual relations between China and Japan

Pietro Giordan
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Modern and contemporary Chinese fiction, drama, cinema, and comparative literature and culture

Theodore Goossen
Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Translation; Japan

Jay Goulding
Associate Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Classical and modern Chinese; Japanese philosophy, religion and culture; hermeneutic phenomenology

Shubhra Gururani
Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Critical political ecologies; space and place; urban transformation; agrarian change; postcolonial development; histories of science and nature

Laam Hae
Associate Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Radical urban politics and social movements in North America and South Korea; urban political economy; neoliberal urbanization; gentrification; decolonial thoughts; socialist feminism; critical geographic thoughts

Eve Haque
York Research Chair in Linguistic Diversity and Community Vitality
York University
Research keywords: Race; immigration; Islamaphobia; white settler multicultural nationalism

Anindo Hazra
Contract Faculty
York University
Research keywords: Gender; sexuality; queer Indian subjectivities; queer cultures; visual arts

Susan J. Henders
Associate Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Non-state diplomacies; minority territorial autonomy arrangements; territorial politics; human rights; Canada-Asia relations; China; Hong Kong

Zulfikar Hirji
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Muslim societies; Indian Ocean

Jennifer Hyndman
Professor of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Forced migration in South Asia and East Africa; humanitarian responses to war and displacement; refugee inclusion in North America

Mihyon Jeon
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Sociolinguistics; language policy; globalization and language; heritage language; language maintenance; Korean language education pedagogy

Joan Judge
Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Modern China; print culture; women’s history

Hong Kal
Associate Professor
Department of Visual Art and Art History, York University
Research keywords: Visual representations of historical and social injustices; transformative potential of images

Ilan Kapoor
Professor
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory/politics; ideology critique; South Asia

Philip F Kelly
Professor of Geography and Associate Dean
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Migration; labour; class; economic lives and landscapes

Nazilla Khanlou
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, York University
Research keywords: Community-based mental health promotion; youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

Ann H Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Migration studies; race and ethnicity; urban sociology

Janice C H Kim
Associate Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Modern Korea; gender; labour; war; migration; twentieth century

Thomas Klassen
Professor
School of Public Policy and Administration, York University
Research keywords: International education; labour market policy; income security policy; welfare state; South Korea; North Korea; East Asia

Abidin Kusno
Professor
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Urban cultural studies; history; architectural design; geography

Vanessa Lamb
Associate Professor
Department of Social Science, York University
Research keywords: Social and environmental justice; social economy; borders and migration; water governance; participatory research methods; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia

Robert E Latham
Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Politics and government; economics; communications; political theory; International Relations

Yam K Lau
Associate Professor
Department of Visual Art and Art History, York University
Research keywords: Space; time; image; video and computer-generated animation

David Kyongwon Lee
Contract Faculty
Department of Economics, York University
Research keywords: Economic development; economics education; exchange rates and economic stability; South Korea

Jack Hang Tat Leong
Senior Librarian
York University Libraries
Research keywords: International and community engagement; access to resources; science fiction; Chinese Canadian studies; intercultural studie

Jessica Tsui-Yan Li
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature; Chinese Canadian and American literature, film and drama; translation studies; gender studies; Hong Kong studies

Muyang Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Media; cultural sociology; political sociology; digital sociology; computational text analysis; mixed methods

Zhixiang (Steven) Liang
Assistant Professor
School of Administrative Studies, York University
Research keywords: Comparative corporate governance; business groups; market entry; foreign direct investment

Bernard Lightman
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Huamnities, York University
Research keywords: Cultural history of Victorian science

Jia Ma
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Modern Chinese literature; Chinese history; Chinese North American diasporic literature

Sadia M. Malik
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, York University
Research keywords: Comparative international development; health economics; South Asia

Guida C. Man
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Im/migration and transnationalisms; families; gender and work; racism and racialization in the context of neoliberalism and global economic restructuring

Nancy Mandell
Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Family; intimacy and care work; aging and immigrants; gender and schooling; qualitative methods; community-academic research partnerships

Atsuko Matsuoka
Professor
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Social work; elderly; abuse of older adults; animals and social work; ethnicity and intersectionality

Casey Mecija
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies, York University
Research keywords: Sound studies; queer diaspora studies; Filipinx studies

Radhika Mongia
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Migration; citizenship; state form

Jean Michel Montsion
Associate Professor
Canadian Studies, Glendon College, York University
Research keywords: Mobility; Canada’s relations with various Asian societies and communities

Yuka Nakamura
Associate Professor
School of Kinesiology & Health Science, York University
Research keywords: Unequal power relations; social inequity; sport and physical activity; race, gender and class

Chandan Narayan
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Speech; language; speech perception; acoustic phonetics; historical sound change

Taien Ng-Chan
Assistant Professor
Department of Cinema and Media Arts, York University
Research keywords: Experimental processes; urban mapping; sound art; futurist imaginings of everyday life in the Asian Diaspora; immersive cinema

Michael Nijhawan
Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Transnational migration; religion; violence; trauma; health; medicine

Shobna Nijhawan
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Hindi public sphere (20th century); Hindi and Urdu literature; Hindi, Urdu and English women’s periodicals; theories of gender and nationalism; Ayurveda and allopathy in Hindi fiction and Hindi medical periodicals (first half of the 20th century); and technology enhanced learning

Mona Oikawa
Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies

Joel Ong
Assistant Professor
Department of Computational Arts, York University
Research keywords: Visibility and audibility of ambient phenomena; scientific and artistic approaches to the environment

Gang Pan
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Chinese language; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; Chinese martial arts culture; Chinese cinema; Chinese theatre; sexuality in China; digital culture in China

Nalini Persram
Associate Professor
Department of Social Science, York University
Research keywords: Feminist theory; international political theory; Caribbean society and culture; postcolonialism

Sergei Plekhanov
Associate Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Russian and Eurasian politics; Afghanistan’s relations with Central and South Asia; political economy of post-communism; Russian-American relations

Jay Ramasubramanyam
Assistant Professor
Law & Society Program, York University
Research keywords: Forced migration; international refugee law; statelessness; third world approaches to international law; human rights; race and racialization; postcolonial theory; and South Asian studies

Shyam Ranganathan
Contract Faculty
Department of Philosophy, York University
Research keywords: Ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of thought, philosophy of language and translation; Asian philosophy; yoga

Sylvie Rosienski-Pellerin
Professeure agrégée
Département d’Études françaises, Glendon Campus, York University
Research keywords: la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine; la littérature du xxe siècle

Margaret Schotte
Associate Professor
Deaprtment of History, York University
Research keywords: Maritime history; trade and colonialism in Indian Ocean world; early modern history of science and technology; history of the book and information; digital humanities

Albert Schrauwers
Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Development of “corporate governmentality”; Dutch and English colonial empires

Lisa Seto Nielsen
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing, York University
Research keywords: Palliative care; home care; death and dying; vulnerable groups; racialized immigrants; health care system

Shirin Shahrokni
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Glendon College, York University
Research keywords: Sociology of race; racisms and anti-racisms; international migration; second-generation immigrants; critical race theory; racial capitalism

Khatereh Sheibani
Contract Faculty
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Iranian cinema; Persian literature and culture

Rick Sin
Contract Faculty
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Chinese diasporas; human rights advocacy; transnational social movements; critical social work; Canada; Hong Kong; China

Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Children and youth; youth, space and race; girlhood studies; transnationalism; youth belonging

Yvonne Su
Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Migration and development; refugee protection; disaster risk reduction

Kasim Tirmizey
Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Anti-colonialism; economic geography; labour geography; food; agrarian political economy; Pakistan

Ethel Tungohan
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism; Associate Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Migrant activism; temporary labour migration and immigration policies; care work; social movements

Alicia Turner
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Religion; colonialism; nationalism; Burma Myanmar

Sanober Siddiq Umar
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Muslim societies; so-called Islamic World; forced migration studies; gender and transnational women’s studies; critical race studies; postcolonial theory; decolonial frameworks; subaltern studies; diaspora studies; critical caste studies

Julie Vig
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: The Early Modern in South Asia; Punjabi and Brajbhasha literature; Comparative religion; Gender, sexuality and religion; Sikh women in the diaspora; Queer Studies

Wendy Siuyi Wong
Professor
Department of Design, York University
Research keywords: Chinese comic art history; Chinese graphic design history

Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
Professor
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Mindfulness; contemplative pedagogy; spirituality and social justice; critical social work; embodied learning and decolonization; China; Hong Kong

Patricia Wood
Professor of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Public space; everyday territorialization; citizenship and political subjectivity; activism; urban governance, processes of inclusion and exclusion; mobility and transportation

Cary Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Political sociology; migration; urban studies

Xueqing Xu
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction

Qiang Zha
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education, York University
Chinese and East Asian higher education; international academic relations; global brain circulation; internationalization of higher education; globalization and education; differentiation and diversity in higher education; theories of organizational change; and liberal arts education in China and elsewhere

Tracy Ying Zhang
Assistant Professor (CLTA)
Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University
Labour and cultural Industries; intersectional Feminisms; cultural policy studies; global politics and cultural economy; media and performance; minority cultural productions; live entertainment in transnational China; Sino-Tibetan cultural politics