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
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
Hana Shams Ahmed
Hana Shams Ahmed
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Indigenous Peoples; postcolonial state; governmentality; articulation
Photograph of Ali Al-Zaidi
Sayyid-Ali Al-Zaidi
Doctoral student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Buddhist art from the Kushan Dynasty and its influences on Persian Art; Seljuk, Ilkhanate, and Timurid art and architecture; Chinese art and archaeology; and Islamic history
R. Patrick Alcedo
R. Patrick Alcedo
Professor
Department of Dance, York University
Research keywords: Philippine dance; dance ethnography; documentary filmmaking; Filipino culture; Filipino diasporic identity
Joddi Alden
Joddi Alden
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Global labour migration; transnational trajectories of careworkers
Areej Alshammiry
Areej Alshammiry Alshammiry
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Nation-state; citizenship; (im)migration; statelessness; Arab Gulf; Canada
Lalaie Ameeriar
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
Kaede Ashizawa
Kaede Ashizawa
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
Research keywords: Asian diaspora; transgenerational inheritance, dissipation or transformation; diasporic youth; identity politics; modern media
Monique Attrux
Monique Attrux
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Chinese Canadian literature; Asian Canadian literary theory; diasporic theory; postcolonialism; multilingualism; Hakka literature; Canada; China
Preet Aulakh
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
Umme Hani Huzefa Bagdadi
Umme Hani Huzefa Bagdadi
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture
Research keywords: Globalization and commodification of Indigenous art; India; pre-colonial and colonial Indian art and history; global contemporary art
Arpita Bajpeyi
Arpita Bajpeyi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Research keywords: South Asia; India; kathak; dance; gender; caste; performance; ethnography; research creation; nationalism; decolonizing methodologies; embodied histories
Christopher Balcom
Christopher Balcom
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
Research keywords: Marxist political theory; intellectual history
Sanjukta Banerjee
Sanjukta Banerjee
Research keywords: Translation; multilingualism; travel writing; mobility; knowledge production
Himani Bannerji
Himani Bannerji
Senior Scholar
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; patriarchy and class formation; nationalism; cultural identity and politics; India; Canada
Ranu Basu
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
Shahab S. Bayani
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Aerospace and identity; mobility and humanism; technology dominance; masculinity in aviation; subaltern; hegemony
Russell Belk
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
Julia G. Bentley
Julia G. Bentley
Research keywords: International relations; foreign policy; governance and civil society; China’s global influence, particularly in Southeast Asia
Jenna Blower
Jenna Blower
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Transnational migration; mobility; Filipina nurses and their transnational families; Canada; Philippines
Margaret Boittin
Assistant Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Research keywords: Law; society; state; mainland China; Hong Kong; Nepal
Boyuan Han Bridge
Boyuan Han Bridge
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Production, York University
Research keywords: Social identities; inter-cultural processes; filmed space; hybrid cinema; biographical storytelling
Jessica Caporusso
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology; science studies; expertise in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts; Mauritius
Kenneth Cardenas
Kenneth Cardenas
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: New geographies of class power; Filipino conglomerates; neoliberalism; globalization; urbanization; Philippines
Kabita Chakraborty
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
Chan Arun-Pina
Arun-Pina Chan
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Queer urban geographies; Trans theory; student housing; home; art-based research
Sabina Chatterjee
Sabina Chatterjee
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization
Shraddha Chatterjee
Shraddha Chatterjee
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Queer sexuality; India; citizenship; nationalism; subjectivity
Soma Chatterjee
Associate Professor
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Migration; mobility; border scholarship
Seemil Chaudhry
Seemil Chaudhry
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Production and performance of identity; role of cultural workers and social movements; socio-political formation of communal identity in colonial contexts
Aadita Chaudhury
Aadita Chaudhury
PhD student
Science and Technology Studies, York University
Research keywords: Cultural, material and environmental meaning-making; combustion; fire management; fire ecology; wildfire management; racial capitalism; colonialization; Indigeneity; urban areas; India
Claudia Chaufan
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
Natasha Amjad Chawdhury
Natasha Amjad Chawdhury
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Gender-based violence; international relations; sexual violence policy; South Asia; Pakistan; critical feminism; international human rights; security conflict; intersectionality
Myla Chawla
Myla Chawla
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Women; gendered work during conflict and peace; identity; Moro conflict; Philippines
Lily Cho
Lily Cho
Associate Professor
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: Cultural studies; postcolonial literature and theory; Asian North American and Canadian literature
Melody Moon-Kyoung Cho
Moon-Kyoung Cho
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Subject and authority; visibility and invisibility; marginalization; East Asian diaspora artists; Canada
Elena Chou
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Race and racialization; social inequality; identity and representation; cultural studies and popular culture; global Asian diaspora
Nicola P. Contessi
Nicola P. Contessi
International Affairs Specialist
Research keywords: Global governance; foreign and security policy; rising powers; international transportation; Eurasia
Boyd Cothran
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
Yao Cui
Yao Cui
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Chinese instrumental ensembles and orchestras in the Greater Toronto Area
Liabin Dai
Lianbin Dai
Sessional Instructor
Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Research keywords: Cultural and social history of Ming-Qing China (1368–1911)
Nga Dao
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
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
Nivedita Das Kundu
Nivedita Das Kundu
President
Bharat Centre of Canada
Research keywords: International relations; geopolitics; foreign policy; strategic dimensions of security
Raju Das
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 Davidson
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
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
Hazel Dizon
Hazel Dizon
Researcher
Work at Sea project, York Centre for Asian Research
Research keywords: Urban and rural transformations; development
Alireza Gorgani Dorcheh
Alireza Gorgani Dorcheh
PhD student
Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Marginalization; oppression; undocumentedness/precarious status; performance ethnography; queer youth
Ena Dua
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
Ria Ducusin
Ria Jhoanna Ducusin
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Climate change; political ecology; floods; Philippines
Leanna Durdle
Leanna Durdle
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
Research keywords: MDA; multimodality; discourse; discourse analysis; autoethnography; digital media; orientalism; Thailand; postcolonialism; globalization; education; embodiment; positionality
Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: Middle Eastern diasporic literature; war on terror
Adam Faux
Adam Faux
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Liquid Composition; South Asian and Buddhist thought; Philippine Rondalla and Gangsa; Sanskrit language and Devanagari script
joshua Fogel
Joshua A. Fogel
Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Cultural and intellectual relations between China and Japan
Dominik Formanowicz
Dominik Formanowicz
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Transnational ties; Global South and North; rural-urban migrations within and outside of the Global South
B. Michael Frolic
B. Michael Frolic
Executive Director
Asian Business and Management Program
Research keywords: China; Canada; civil society
Mengzhu Fu
Mengzhu Fu
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Chinese Diaspora; transnationality; Indigenous sovereignty
Jillian Fulton-Melanson
Jillian Fulton-Melanson
Course Director
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Diasporas; Arab identities; electronic music; nostalgia; tarab; violence; indeterminacy; Morocco; cosmopolitanism
Zhipeng Gao
Zed Zhipeng Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, American University of Paris
Research keywords: Psychology in the China-globe dynamics; cultural politics; Chinese immigrants
Margo Gewurtz
Margo Gewurtz
Professor Emerita
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Sino-Western cultural relations
Pietro Giordan
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
Frederick Glover
Frederick Glover
Postdoctoral Researcher
Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE), York University
Research keywords: History of Canadian-Korean relations; history of Korean Canadian communities; modern Korean history; Korean Christianity; Korean Diaspora; Canadian-Asian relations; history of Asian Canadian communities
Ted Goossen
Theodore Goossen
Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Translation; Japan
Jay Goulding
Jay Goulding
Associate Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Classical and modern Chinese; Japanese philosophy, religion and culture; hermeneutic phenomenology
Vedanth Sachdeva Govi
Vedanth Sachdeva Govi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India
Jasmine Gui
Jasmine Gui
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Literary and media studies; digital and print cultures
Khem Guragain
Khem Guragain
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Hinduism; caste/class; subaltern; nationalist discourses; Dalit and Adivasi literatures; contemporary South Asian literature
Shubhra Gururani
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
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
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Research keywords: Public space; housing; safety; marginalization; resistance; social justice; cities
Masihullah Hanif
Masihullah Hanif
Master’s Student
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Great power politics; civil wars; modes of governance and government; Afghanistan
Eve Haque
Eve Haque
York Research Chair in Linguistic Diversity and Community Vitality
York University
Research keywords: Race; immigration; Islamaphobia; white settler multicultural nationalism
Anindo Hazra
Anindo Hazra
Contract Faculty
York University
Research keywords: Gender; sexuality; queer Indian subjectivities; queer cultures; visual arts
Susan Henders
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
Eric Hendriks-Kim
Eric Hendriks-Kim
Research keywords: Chinese and American education fields; Chinese global integration
Zulfikar Hirji
Zulfikar Hirji
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Muslim societies; Indian Ocean
Na Hong
Na Hong
Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages
Shandong University
Research keywords: Cross-cultural communication; comparative literature; English teaching; China
Htet Min Lwin
Htet Min Lwin
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Religion and politics; religious ideology; Buddhism; social movements; participatory democracy; decentralization/federalism; culture; Burmese political philosophy; Southeast Asia
Sheila Htoo
Sheila Htoo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology of war; armed conflicts and resources; ceasefire capitalism; peace; peacebuilding; indigenous conservation; Salween Peace Park; Karen State, Myanmar/Burma; Southeast Asia
Mustahid Husain
Mustahid Husain
Research keywords: Islam and Muslim masculinity; diaspora and integration; global political economy; social justice and governance
Salman Hussain
Salman Hussain
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Human rights and social movements; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory; political violence and terror; law and decolonization
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
Aqeel Ihsan
Aqeel Ihsan
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Migration; food history; South Asian Diaspora in Canada
Mihyon Jeon
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
Cindy Jiang
Cindy Jiang
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Critical Disability Studies, York University
Research keywords: Diaspora; health policy; disability health; health promotion; mental health; stigma; racialization
Joan Judge
Joan Judge
Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Modern China; print culture; women’s history
Hong Kal
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
Shruti Kalyanaraman
Shruti Kalyanaraman
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Motherhood; pandemic; Indigenous-immigrant relationalities
Lois Kamenitz
Lois Kamenitz
Research keywords: Gender; aging; critical feminist gerontology; feminist methods; auto/biography
KyoungKyoon Kang
KyoungKyoon Kang
Director
Youth Career Development Center, National Youth Policy Institute, Korea
Research Keywords: Career development for youth; technology education; entrepreneurship education for youth; qualitative methods.
Mi Lan Kang
Mi Lan Kang
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Colonialism; colonized history; decolonization; anti-racism; intersectionality social action; social movement; Indigenous activism; Asian Canadian; migration; Asian immigrants; dual identities; immigration; solidarity
Ilan Kapoor
Ilan Kapoor
Professor
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory/politics; ideology critique; South Asia
Amardeep Kaur
Amardeep Kaur
Sessional Lecturer
University of Toronto
Research keywords: Cosmopolitanism; worlding; religious-cultural geography; politics and poetics of resistance; decolonial theory; race and anti-racism in Canada; Sikh diaspora; transPacific movements; Hong Kong; Asian urbanisms
Philip F. Kelly
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
Laraib Khan
Laraib Khan
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Islamophobia; social justice; transnational feminism; South Asian culture
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 Kim
Ann H Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Migration studies; race and ethnicity; urban sociology
Janice Kim
Janice C H Kim
Associate Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Modern Korea; gender; labour; war; migration; twentieth century
Jihong Kim
Jihong Kim
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure; agency
Thomas Klassen
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
Abidin Kusno
Professor
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Urban cultural studies; history; architectural design; geography
Vanessa Lamb
Vanessa Lamb
Assistant 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
Robert E Latham
Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research keywords: Politics and government; economics; communications; political theory; International Relations
Yam K. Lau
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 K Lee
David Kyongwon Lee
Contract Faculty
Department of Economics, York University
Research keywords: Economic development; economics education; exchange rates and economic stability; South Korea
Esmond Lee
Esmond Lee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Migration; class and capitalism; settler colonialism; informal spatial (re)production; Toronto’s urban periphery
Seulsam Lee
Seulsam Lee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Social class; labour; gender; race/ethnicity; im/migration; Asian/Korean diasporas
Jack Leong
Jack Hang Tat Leong
Associate Dean
Research and Open Scholarship, York University Libraries
Research keywords: International and community engagement; access to resources; science fiction; Chinese Canadian studies; intercultural studies
Ernest Leung
Ernest Leung
Master’s Student
Communication and Culture, York University
Research keywords: Comedy and humour studies; political economy of media; cultural studies
Chenxin Vonnie Li
Chenxin Vonnie Li
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Feminine beauty and health; cosmetic surgery; southern China
Jessica Tsui-Yan Li
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
Muyang Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Media; cultural sociology; political sociology; digital sociology; computational text analysis; mixed methods
Wan Kay Li
Wan Kay Li
Adjunct Professor
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: Arts and artificial intelligence; digital humanities; inclusive education with online technologies; cultural globalization; China and Hong Kong films; cross-cultural literary and cultural encounters; intersections of arts and technologies in contemporary films; Hong Kong; China
Xiaoming Li
Xiaoming Li
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Language teaching methodology; language professional’s pedagogical beliefs and practices; learner autonomy; assessment; effects of language on integration of immigrants to Canada
Zhixiang (Steven) Liang
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
Bernard Lightman
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Huamnities, York University
Research keywords: Cultural history of Victorian science
Liu Lin
Lin Liu
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Deputy Director of the Institute of Governance
Shandong University
Research keywords: Development; governance; state-society relations; China
Lucia Lo
Lucia Lo
Professor Emerita of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Immigrant integration and settlement; global knowledge; human capital flows
Eva Lu
Eva Lu
PhD student
Visual Art & Art History, York University
Research keywords: Art history; curatorial studies; modern art; contemporary art; visual culture; new media theory and art; sound studies; feminism; diaspora and transnationalism; postcolonialism; globalization; East Asia; Taiwan; Korea; Japan; China
Jun Lu
Jun Lu
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research keywords: Individual and collective experience; trauma; literary texts; cultural expressions; Chinese Diaspora
Zhifan Luo
Zhifan Luo
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Concordia University
Research keywords: Media; technology; cultural and political system
Jia Ma
Jia Ma
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Modern Chinese literature; Chinese history; Chinese North American diasporic literature
Mallory MacDonnell
Mallory MacDonnell
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand
Clarence Magpantay
Clarence Magpantay
Alternative Transnational Economies Project, York University
Research keywords: Transnational development; Foucault; governmentality; Philippine-Canadian Diaspora; diverse economies; Philippines
Dani Magsumbol
Nadjie Danielle (Dani) Magsumbol
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Filipinx diaspora; migrant bodies as borders; migrants as capital in the global labour market; transnational motherhood/families; urbanities
Irfana Majumdar
Irfana Majumdar
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Devised theatre; physical theatre; Hindustani music; decolonizing performance; performance ethnography; South Asia; cross-cultural performance; collective creation, vocal performance
Sadia M Malik
Sadia M. Malik
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, York University
Research keywords: Comparative international development; health economics; South Asia
Guida Man
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
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
Casey Mecija
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies, York University
Research keywords: Sound studies; queer diaspora studies; Filipinx studies
Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera
Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Sand mining; rural livelihoods; rural transformations; socio-environmental relations; political ecology; Jeneberang river; South Sulawesi; Indonesia
Carli Melo
Carli Melo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma; Thailand
B. Lynn Milgram
Lynne Milgram
Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor
Anthropology, OCAD University
Research keywords: urban public space transformation; social entrepreneurship; informality; extralegality; information and communication technology (ICT)
Radhika Mongia
Radhika Mongia
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Migration; citizenship; state form
Jean Michel Montsion
Jean Michel Montsion
Associate Professor
Canadian Studies, Glendon College, York University
Research keywords: Mobility; Canada’s relations with various Asian societies and communities
Arun Mukherjee
Arun Mukherjee
Professor Emerita
Department of English, York University
Research keywords: South Asian and minority Canadian literatures; Dalit literature; translation
Yuka Nakamura
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
Chandan Narayan
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Speech; language; speech perception; acoustic phonetics; historical sound change
Rajat Nayyar
Rajat Nayyar
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Voice; vocal traditions; digital practices; possible/impossible world-making; fiction film/future-making; rural north India
Taien Ng-Chan
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
Trung Ngo
Trung Ngo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research keywords: Phenomenology; hermeneutics; early Buddhism; comparative continental and Indian philosophy
Michael Nijhawan
Michael Nijhawan
Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Transnational migration; religion; violence; trauma; health; medicine
Shobna Nijhawan
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
Glen Norcliffe
Glen Norcliffe
Professor Emeritus of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Critical geographies of industry, trade and development; performing the economy; geographical construction of technology; dispossession in extractive regions
Mona Oikawa
Mona Oikawa
Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies
Yu-Zhi Joel Ong
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
Nikki Pagaling
Nikki Pagaling
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Filipino diasporas; labour; gender; migration
Gang Pan
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
Shyam Patel
Shyam Patel
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research keywords: Antiracism; critical race theory; diasporic studies; queer(ing) pedagogies; radical feminism; South Asianness
Prateeksha Pathak
Prateeksha Pathak
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Material culture; visual arts; memory studies; geographies of violence; South Asian studies
Nalini Persram
Nalini Persram
Associate Professor
Department of Social Science, York University
Research keywords: Feminist theory; international political theory; Caribbean society and culture; postcolonialism
Janice Phonepraseuth
Janice Phonepraseuth
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia
Sergei Plekhanov
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
Monisha Poojary
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Race; ethnicity; migration; panethnicity; transnational; social inequality; diaspora
Sheetal Prasad
Sheetal Prasad
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research keywords: Research creation; archives; history education; social justice education; aesthetic experience
Valerie Preston
Valerie Preston
Professor Emerita of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Migration and settlement in Canada
Nabila Rahman
Nabila Rahman
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Research keywords: NGO management; NGO governance; beneficiary accountability mechanisms; Bangladesh
Susan Rajendran
Susan Rajendran
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka
Jay Ramasubramanyam
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 Raganathan
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
Dalton Rawcliffe
Dalton Rawcliffe
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Maoist Cultural Revolution; propaganda; Chinese diaspora; United Kingdom
Antoniel Roca
Antoniel Roca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity
Arun Nedrsa Rodrigo
A. A. Nedra Rodrigo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Tamil Studies; translation
Sylvie Rosienski-Pellerin
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
Shreya Sangai
Shreya Sangai
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Transnational representations of war and resulting trauma in comics; India; Sri Lanka; state-sponsored violence; debilitation of bodies and dismembering of memories in conflict zones; forced displacement; memorialization of pain
Trichy Sankaran
Trichy Sankaran
Professor Emeritus
Department of Music, York University
Research keywords: Ethnomusicology; Indian music; South Indian music culture
Margaret Schotte
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
Albert Schrauwers
Professor
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Development of “corporate governmentality”; Dutch and English colonial empires
Aparna Sengupta
Aparna Sengupta
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Disaster anthropology; anthropology of policy and bureaucracy; risk, Indigenous communities, and knowledge; India; environmental management; information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Information System (GIS)
Lisa Seto Nielsen
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
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
Aarushie Sharma
Aarushie Sharma
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Anthropology of infrastructure; state; urban sociology; gender and public space; caste; ethnography
Khatereh Sheibani
Khatereh Sheibani
Contract Faculty
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Iranian cinema; Persian literature and culture
Kanishka Sikri
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Violability
Zhi Ming Sim
Zhi Ming Sim
Doctoral Student
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Decolonial feminism; Southeast Asian politics; international relations; gender-based violence; conflict-impacted communities
Rick Sin
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
Ei Phyu Smith
Ei Phyu Smith
Research keywords: Feminist geography; political geography; migration; displacement studies; Burmese diaspora
Jagteshwar Singh Sohi
Jagteshwar Singh Sohi
Doctoral Student
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Research keywords: Environmental law and policy; environmental justice; tribal; India
Gobika Sriranganathan
Gobika Sriranganathan
Doctoral Candidate
Socio-Cultural and Policy Studies, Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science, York University
Research keywords: Sport; diasporic studies; leadership; postcolonial feminism; research methodologies; data analysis; social capital; program evaluation; well-being
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Children and youth; youth, space and race; girlhood studies; transnationalism; youth belonging
Michael Stainton
Michael Stainton
President
Taiwanese Human Rights Association of Canada
Research keywords: Taiwan; democratization; Indigenous rights movements; George Leslie Mackay; Canada-Taiwan relations
Yvonne Su
Yvonne Su
Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research keywords: Migration and development; refugee protection; disaster risk reduction
Shabnam Sukhdev
Shabnam Sukhdev
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Identity; culture; environment; mental health; human rights
Geetha Sukumaran
Geetha Sukumaran
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Contemporary Tamil poetry; women’s writing; trauma literature and translation
Huiyao Sun
Huiyao Sun
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Artist communities; Beijing
Yukari Takai
Yukari Takai
Research keywords: Gender and migration; global Japanese Studies; North American history with a focus on the issues of women, work, family, race and borders in the Pacific world
F. Evnur Taran
F. Evnur Taran
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Research keywords: Hydropower dams; Artvin Dam; exploitation of rivers; development-based displacement; Turkey; eastern Black Sea coast
Priya Thomas
Priya Thomas
Assistant Professor
Department of Dramatic Arts, Brock University
Research keywords: Dance; performance; theatre; music; digital media; cultural theory; public art; community-based projects
Jessica Ticar
Jessica Ticar
Assistant Professor
Social Justice and Community Studies Department, Saint Mary’s University
Research keywords: Community-based mental health; racialized communities; transnational Filipina/o/x im/migrant workers and their families; feminist and intersectional approaches
Aidin Torkameh
Aidin Torkameh
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Research keywords: Iranian state formation
Patricia Trudel
Patricia Trudel
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Korean studies; postcolonialism; feminist theory; Korean diaspora; identity; cultural studies
Liz Tsui
Elizabeth Tsui
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Technology; popular culture; Asian diaspora
Ethel Tungohan
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
Alicia Turner
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Religion; colonialism; nationalism; Burma Myanmar
Sadia Uddin
Sadia Uddin
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Postcolonial literature; public policy; gender violence; cultural studies; Islam; Pakistan
Sanober Umar
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
Catherine Umolac
Catherine Umolac
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; Residential Schools
Daniel Uy
Daniel Uy
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Queer Asian diaspora; sexual, gender, and racial identifications; health and fitness; language use
Penny Van Esterik
Penny Van Esterik
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Nutritional anthropology; gender and development; culture history of Southeast Asia; advocacy anthropology
Peter Vandergeest
Peter Vandergeest
Professor Emeritus of Geography
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology; agrarian studies; history of scientific forestry; alternative agriculture; Southeast Asia
Julie Vig
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
Christopher Vogel
Christopher Vogel
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Late Qing sexuality; homosexuality; gender
Kun Wang
Kun Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
York Centre for Asian Research, York University
Research keywords: Social governance; modernization; strategic thinking
Qi Ping Wang
Qi Ping Wang
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Feminist theories; gender and sexuality studies; East and South Asian studies; Asian-Canadian diasporic identities
Sachin Wanniarachchi
Sachin Wanniarachchi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Ethnocentrism; language myths; second language acquisition and dominant ideologies
Megan Whitney
Megan Whitney
PhD student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Animal labour; political ecology; critical geographies of labour and migration; Thailand; Southeast Asia
Salvo Wiseman
Salvo Wiseman
Doctoral Student
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Social justice and solidarity; homelessness and mental health; decolonizing Western healthcare systems
Bernard M Wolf
Bernie M Wolf
Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Business
Schulich School of Business, York University
Research keywords: Manufacturing; motor vehicle industry
Keefer Wong
Keefer Wong
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Neoliberal ideologies; globalization; social change; knowledge production; diaspora; “identities;” transnationalism; political economy; critical theory; China
Rachel Wong
Rachel Wong
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Activism; literature in the Chinese Canadian community; Asian Canadian Studies
Wendy Siuyi Wong
Wendy Siuyi Wong
Professor
Department of Design, York University
Research keywords: Chinese comic art history; Chinese graphic design history
Yuk Lin Renita Wong
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
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
Lorna Wright
Lorna Wright
Associate Professor Emerita International Business and Organizational Studies
Schulich School of Business, York University
Research keywords: International negotiations; cross-cultural management; women entrepreneurs; conditions for SME business success internationally; Pacific Basin Region
Cary Wu
Cary Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Political sociology; migration; urban studies
Josephine Francis Xavier
Josephine Francis Xavier
Doctoral Student
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University
Research keywords: South Asia; India; fathers; childbearing period (pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum); gender; immigrant; diaspora
Xueqing Xu
Xueqing Xu
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction
Xiao Alvin Yang
Doctoral Candidate
Universität Kassel
Research keywords: Transnational and transcultural interactions and entanglements among East Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe and North America
Ani Yedigaryan
Ani Yedigaryan
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Memory studies; genocide studies; historical memory; politics of trauma; identity formation; identity politics; transnationalism; grassroots activism; social justice; pedagogy, ethics; philosophy; forgetting; politics of commemoration; politics of denial; forgiveness; responsibility; accountability; critical theory; ethnographic and qualitative research
Emrah Yesil
Emrah Yesil
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University
Research keywords: Food studies; food culture; onomastics; relations between settled and nomadic societies
Mary Young
Mary Young
Research keywords: Other diplomacies; Canada-Asian relations
Hongbing Yu
Hongbing Yu
Toronto Metropolitan University
Semiotics; comparative cultural studies; language and philosophy of mind; Zen (Ch’an) Buddhism; mythology; ancient Chinese philosophy and religion
Qiang Zha
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
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