Kim Lynette Abella
Kim Lynette Abella
Sociology almuna
York University
Research Keywords: Filipino Canadian;, ethnic identity; transnationalism; heritage language retention; internalized racial oppression; internalized racism; diaspora
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
Jasmine Ahmad
Jasmine Ahmad
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Research keywords: refugee; Afghan community; diaspora; policy
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
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
Burcu Boran
Burcu Boran
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
Research Keywords: Heritage language acquisition; Turkish; heritage speakers
Samantha Boyd
Samantha Boyd
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research Keywords: Tactical urbanism; placemaking; Singapore; public/private space; materiality; urban planninganning
Griffin Cahill
Griffin Cahill
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research Keywords: Linguistics; language revitalization; minority languages; Teochew; Ainu
Lucy Lu Cai
Lucy Lu Cai
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies
Research Keywords: Transnational Chinese feminism; digital feminist activism; post-war nationalism; East Asian Diaspora
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
Ashlynn Chand
Ashlynn Chand
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
Research Keywords: Work; labour; digital sexual violence; migrant workers; feminist; Indonesia migrant women; Malaysia; Southeast Asia; migration; gender; technology; gender-based violence
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
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
Boxi Chen
Doctoral Student
Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture, York University and Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Keywords: Social media; privacy; surveillance; surveillance capitalism; policy studies
Yu Chen
Yu Chen
Undergraduate Student
Department of Economics
Research Keywords: Digital transformation; import; exportxport
Yu-Chen Chen
Yu-Chen Chen
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Digital transnational authoritarianism; dual citizenships and nationalities; Chinese-language diaspora; disinformation; xenophobia
Lily Cho
Lily Cho
Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (International)
Western 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
Amy Choi
Amy Choi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords: Internalized racism; critical consciousness; immigration; public policy
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
Kin-Wai Chu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies
Ghent University
Research Keywords: Comics Studies; graphic humour; Hong Kong
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
Associate Professor
Department of Social Science, York University
Research keywords: River ecologies; gender; youth roles in livelihood changes; Mekong and Red River deltas; Vietnam
Thinh Dao
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Economics, York University
Research Keywords: Vietnam; macroeconomics; development economics; misallocation; productivity
Bonita Das Bhatla
Bonita Das Bhatla
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management
Skilled migrants; diaspora; globalization; identity; diversity
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
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
Peter Duker
Peter Duker
Doctoral Student
Geography Program, University of Guelph
Environmental governance; human-environment relations; political ecology; livelihoods; fisheries; food security/sovereignty; conservation; Indigenous peoples; Thailand
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
David Fasenfest
David Fasenfest
Adjunct Faculty
Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, York University
Research Keywords: Economic development; Marxism; social change
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
Michelle Faux
Michelle Faux
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture
Monstrous and grotesque iconography; caricature; cartooning; print culture; souvenir art; memory; South Asian diasporas; Goan diasporas; transnationalism; immigration history; chain migration; immigrant family photos; maternal theory; food history
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
Andrew Fuyarchuk
Andrew Fuyarchuk
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
Research Keywords: Daoism; Heidegger; Neo-Confucianism; Gadamer
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
Sugandha Gaur
Sugandha Gaur
Interim Chair, Advertising Program, Faculty of Design
OCAD University
Research Keywords: Actionism; folk art; community; decolonization; culture; creative action; activism; advertising
Margo Gewurtz
Margo Gewurtz
Professor Emerita
Department of Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Sino-Western cultural relations
Selay Ghaffar
Selay Ghaffar
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
Research Keywords: Women Human Rights Defenders; Afghan women refugees; women’s agency; resettlement and Integration; immigration
Shreya Ghimire
Shreya Ghimire
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Political Science. York University
Research Keywords: Gender and development; feminist political economy; Nepal; Canadian international development policy; feminist development; international development volunteerism
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
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
Ayan Guha
Ayan Guha
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University)
Research Keywords: Contemporary Indian politics; caste; Dalit mobilization; Hindu nationalism; West Bengal
Jasmine Gui
Jasmine Gui
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Literary and media studies; digital and print cultures
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
Nadia Hasan
Nadia Hasan
Assistant Professor
School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University
Islamophobia; multiculturalism; nationalism; diaspora; Pakistan; South Asia
Anindo Hazra
Anindo Hazra
Contract Faculty
York University
Research keywords: Gender; sexuality; queer Indian subjectivities; queer cultures; visual arts
Fan He
Fan He
Master’s Student
Gradaute Programme in Social Anthropology
Research Keywords: Cultural consumption; urban space; subject formation; commercialization; shopping mall; China; Shanghai
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
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
Su Huai
Su Huai
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Science and Technology Studies
Research Keywords: Transnational history; scientific translation; history of science; intellectual history
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
Korina Jocson
Korina Jocson
Associate Professor & Associate Dean Academic
Faculty of Education, York University
Youth cultural studies; race and ethnic studies; digital media technologies; critical methodologies
Joan Judge
Joan Judge
Professor
Department of History, York University
Research keywords: Modern China; print culture; women’s history
Bettina Juszak
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Speculative fiction; mythology; comparative; translation; Chinese
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
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
Kutay Kutlu
Kutay Kutlu
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Socio-Legal Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Environmental justice; environmental litigation; renewable energy; land grabbing; law and social movements; green neoliberalism
Vanessa Lamb
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
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
Senior Librarian
York University Libraries
Research keywords: International and community engagement; access to resources; science fiction; Chinese Canadian studies; intercultural studie
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
Colin McGuire
Colin McGuire
Research Keywords: Ethnomusicology; martial arts studies; kung fu; lion dance; percussion music; martial sound; ritual; Chinatown; Chinese Canadians; Cantonese diaspora; embodiment; ethnography; phenomenology
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
Sara Mozafari-lorestani
sara mozafari-lorestani
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Visual Arts, York University
Research Keywords: Space; traumatic memories; body politics; social relations; diasporic feminism
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
Melik Nasar
Melik Nasar
Master’s Student
Master’s Programme in Public and International Affairs, Glendon College, York University
Research Keywords: Indo-Pacific; hegemony; multilateralism
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
Dona Nissangaratchie
Dona Nissangaratchie
Undergraduate Student
Cinema and Media Arts, York University
Research Keywords: South Asia; motion picture industry; crafts; Sri Lanka; post-war conflicts; post-colonial; film archives
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
Ari Para
Ari Para
Doctoral Student
Faculty of Education, York University
Research Keywords: Queer theory; critical race theory; auto-ethnography; storytelling; narrative inquiry
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
Helen Price
Helen Price
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research Keywords: Social identities; inter-cultural processes; ballet; dance education; study abroad
Romeo Joe Quintero
Romeo Joe Quintero
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research Keywords: Politics of bodies and borders; Forced Migration Studies; transnational feminism; Philippine Studies
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
K. B. Roberts
Research and Mentoring Fellow, Inya Institute
Research Keywords: Political ecology; rural livelihood change; resource frontiers; deforestation and forest degradation; conflict resolution
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
Humairah Saleem
Humairah Saleem
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Islamaphobia; marginalization; racialization; health policies; human rights
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
Omid Shakiba
Omid Shakiba
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Cinema and Media Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Transnational cinema; transnational feminism; Kurdish cinema; Kurdish women movement; stateless cinema; New Neorealist Cinema
Aarushie Sharma
Aarushie Sharma
Doctoral Candidate
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
Harkiran Singh
Harkiran Singh
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords: South Asia; immigrant integration; gender; race; social integration; intimate-partner violence; cultural studies
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
Magdelena Ho-Yan Tang
Magdelena Ho-yan Tang
Researcher and Choral Conductor
Research Keywords: Embodiment; choral music; public space; performativity
Ritika Tanotra
Ritika Tanotra
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords: Race; racism; ethnicity; nationalism; resistance; South Asians; immigrants
Rachel Thorn
Rachel Thorn
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Care work; parasocial bond; commodification; globalization; affect; K-pop fandom
Kasim Tirmizey
Kasim Tirmizey
Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Anti-colonialism; economic geography; labour geography; food; agrarian political economy; Pakistan
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
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
Wang Zi
Wang Zi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History, York University
Research Keywords: Print culture; ethnomusicology; language acquisition; translation studies; internet literature in China; Asian Diaspora; Chinese Diaspora; Migration studies; grassroots activism; queer fan culture; food culture
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
Sahan Wanniarachchi
Sahan Wanniarachchi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Identity; resistance; subalternity; world Englishes
Megan Whitney
Megan Whitney
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Animal labour; political ecology; 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
Gigi Wai-Chi Wong
Gigi Wai-Chi Wong
Doctoral Student, Media Studies
Western University
Research Keywords: Queer migration; East Asian Diaspora; transnationalism; queer and feminist theory; new media studies; extended reality (XR); affect studies; moving-image arts; contemporary Asian art; East Asian cinema and screen cultures, digital storytelling, cultural and visual anthropology
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 Candidate
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
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
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research Keywords: Politics; history; language and culture of Asian countries
Mary Young
Mary Young
Research keywords: Other diplomacies; Canada-Asian relations
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
Research Keywords: 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
Yuxi Zhao
Yuxi (Sebastian) Zhao
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
Research Keywords: Intercultural communication; Chinese Diaspora; new media; identity; popular culture