Alphabetical Listing of Associates

Anupama Aery: Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Public policy; urban studies; participatory decision-making; informal housing; environmental justice; transnational networks

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Min Ah: Phd Student, Department of English

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Hana Shams Ahmed: PhD Student, Social Anthropology
Social justice, Indigenous people, human rights, transnational social movements, postcolonial states, nationalism

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Nabeel Ahmed: Master's Candidate, Environmental Studies Programme, York University
Urban planning; social movements; neoliberal urban development; international aid; governance

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Marshia Akbar: Postdoctoral Researcher
Migration and settlement; geography; identity and intersectionality; South Asian diaspora; ethnic economy; mixed methods research

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R. Patrick Alcedo: Associate Professor, Department of Dance, York University
Performance of gender; folklorization of religion; world dance in the diaspora; Philippine traditional dances; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Cheryll Alipio: Transnational migration, gender and development, economic and medical anthropology, and the anthropology of children, youth, and care in Southeast Asia, the Asia Pacific, and the Philippines.

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Sarah Allen: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Water security; political ecology; urban political ecology; water governance; Vietnam

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Asma Atique: PhD student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies

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Preet S. Aulakh: Professor of Strategy and International Business
Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business
Asian business systems; Comparative state capitalism; Emerging markets; Asian business groups

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Sanjukta Banerjee: Doctoral Student, Department of Humanities, York University
Travel writing; translation; colonial history; India; France

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Sanjukta Banerjee: Doctoral Student, Dance

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Himani Bannerji: Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; class formation; women; India; South Asian Diaspora

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Ranu Basu: Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; spatial methodologies; subalterity and education in Cuba, India and Canada

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Regina Bautista: Masters Candidate, Dance Studies, York University
Dance studies; contemporary dance; dance anthropology; ballet; Philippines

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Shahab S. Bayani: PhD student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Masculinity; aerospace; subaltern; hegemony; humanism; Iran

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Russell Belk: Kraft Foods Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University
Meanings of possessions; collecting; gift-giving; materialism; East Asia; Asian Diaspora

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Jana Borras: Master's student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Precarious status; commodification of labour; transnationalism; immigration; Filipino Diaspora

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Alyssa Brierley: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of Politics, York University
Public interest litigation; non-governmental organizations; development; India

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Liliana Camacho: Economist, Environment Canada
Eenvironmental and macroeconomic effects of policy decisions; environmental valuation

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Jessica Caporusso: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Political ecology; sustainable development; transnational encounters; South Asian Diaspora

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Elena Caprioni: Program Director, Asian Business and Management Program, York University
Ethnicity; identity; Uyghurs; China

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Kenneth Cardenas: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Urban political economy; property development; capitalist class trans/formations; political ecology of disaster risk; defining and claiming new urban commons; Manila; Philippines

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Myles Carroll-Preyde: PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, York University
Marxian political economy; Japanese politics; political ecology; feminist theory; Japan

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Kabita Chakraborty: Assistant Professor, Children's Studies Programme, York University
Youth culture in South and Southeast Asia; youth migration in Asia; sexual and reproductive health of young people in Asia, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh

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Chanco Christopher: Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Labour history; transnational social movements; nationalism; historical geography; critical geopolitics; Jewish studies; peace and conflict studies; Philippines; Israel-Palestine; North America

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Sabina Chatterjee: Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

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Soma Chatterjee: Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University
Migration and mobility; sovereignty and borders; labour market integration of skilled immigrants; international education migration

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Katherine Cheng: Master's Student, Development Studies Programme
China; global health; development; South Asia; Southeast Asia; political economy; medical anthropology; international relations

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Rudhramoorthy Cheran: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology (University of Windsor)
Development, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Migration and Immigration

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Yuk-kuen Annie Cheung: Sustainable development; environmental policy; civil society engagement; multiculturalism and human rights; national and global security; diplomacy and international affairs

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Gregory T. Chin: Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University
political economy, finance, money, global governance, Asia, China, BRICS

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Lily Cho: Associate Professor, Department of English, York University
Diasporic subjectivity in cultural studies; postcolonial literature and theory; Asian North American and Canadian literature ; Chinese Diaspora

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Elena Chou: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
“Race” and racialization; identity and representation; cultural studies; media and popular culture; Asian Diaspora

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Catherine Cua: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Études francophones, Glendon College, York University

Cultural and aesthetic hybridity; literature; East Asian Diaspora; Social semiotic; Visual culture; Children’s literature, Cultural representation, Multiculturalism, Cultural translation

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Lianbin Dai: CCKF Postdoctoral Researcher
Zhu Xi (1130 - 1200); art of reading; Neo-Confucianism; traditional Chinese Humanities; knowledge practice

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Guillaume Dandurand: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Political economy; political ecology; capitalism; theories of development; actor-network theory; concepts of govern mentality; habitus; India

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Nga Dao: Course Director, Development Studies programme, York University
Political ecology; water governance; agrarian transformations; Vietnam; Mekong region

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Nivedita Das Kundu: Research Associate
Geopolitics; geo-economics; foreign policy; strategic dimensions of security

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Raju J. Das: Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Marxist theory; political economy of development; state-society relations; social movements; social-cultural norms of the working class; India

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Conely de Leon: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Pinayism; transnational feminist praxis; gender; migration; care and emotional labour; kin networks; critical Filipinx diaspora studies; Philippines

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Claire Deng: Doctoral Candidate, Schulich School of Business
Knowledge diffusion; actor-network theory; linguistic anthropology; management accounting; international accounting; cultural significance of accounting

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Lisa Drummond: Associate Professor, Urban Studies Programme, York University
Urban social life; popular culture; women's roles; private and public use of space of Vietnamese cities; Vietnam

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Ena Dua: Associate Professor, Equity Studies and School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
Director, Centre for Feminist Research
Nation, race and gender; immigration processes; women and health; equity policies; criminalization; racialization of masculinity and femininity; globalization; biodiversity; South Asian Diaspora

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Sara Farhan: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Iraq; Middle East; Hashemite Monarchy; medicine; class struggle; identity formation; knowledge production; gender and sexuality

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Joshua A. Fogel: Canada Research Chair, History of Modern China
Professor, Department of History, York University
Cultural and political Sino-Japanese relations; China; Japan

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B. Michael Frolic: Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics, York University
Executive Director, Asian Business and Management Programme, York University
Democracy; human rights; civil society; China; Russia

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Jillian Fulton: Doctoral Candidate, Social Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; underground dance music scenes; nostalgia; tarab

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Zhipeng (Simon) Gao: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Psychology, York University
History of education; history of psychology; theoretical psychology; qualitative research; China

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Rommel C. Gavieta: External Associate

Infrastructure development; economic/financial/political risk assessment; mass transit; housing systems; currency exchange risk; financing structure; private funds, utility development; government policy; Philippines

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Meghna George: PhD Student, Social Anthropology, York University
Gender identities; transnationalism; South Korea

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Margo Gewurtz: Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Sino-Western cultural relations; missionaries in East Asia; China

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Kyle Gibson: Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Studies
Political ecology, Historical-Geographical Materialism, modernity, Marxism, South Korea

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Pietro Giordan: Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Chinese literature; Comparative literature; Aesthetics; Drama and theatre studies

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Theodore W. Goossen: Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Modern and contemporary Japanese literature; Asian Canadian experience; Asian film; cross-cultural analysis; Japan

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Jay Goulding: Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
Chinese and Japanese philosophy; hermeneutics; phenomenology; China; Japan

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Hansika Gunaratne: Master's Candidate, Development Studies programme, York University
Healthcare; human development; Sri Lanka

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Khem Guragain: Doctoral Student, English, York University
Nepal; South Asia; Buddha; Dalit; Hinduism; identity; representation; nationhood; diaspora

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Shubhra Gururani: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Social histories and cultural politics of gender, nature, place and science; postcolonial environments; India

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Laam Hae: Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Gentrification; post-industrialization of urban economies; city marketing; zoning regulations; militarization of urban space; South Korea; East Asia

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Yasir Hameed: Doctoral Student, Environmental Studies

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Mohammad Hasan: Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Resource extractive industries; Indigenous peoples; Environmental Impact Assessment; environmental justice; Bangladesh

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Nadia Z. Hasan: PhD, Political Science
Transnational feminism; critical race; postcolonial studies; South Asian Studies; religion and gender; Islam; Pakistan; Muslim women; diaspora and migration; Al-Huda

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Sharon Hayashi: Associate Professor, Department of Film, York University
Japanese cinema; media studies; intersection of visual culture and history; Japan

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Anindo Hazra: Independent Researcher
India; South Asia; South Asian diaspora; queer literature; queer theory; postcolonialism; deconstruction; globalization; Human Rights and the Arts; Global Asia

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Susan J. Henders: Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Minority territorial autonomy arrangements; territorial politics; human rights; minority rights and the arts; Canada-Asia relations; China; Hong Kong; Tibet

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Zulfikar Hirji: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Muslim societies; production and performance of identity; roles of art, artists and cultural workers in making social change; socio-legal formation of communal identity; family networks and inter-generational migration; South Asian Diaspora

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Abhar Rukh Husain: Independent Researcher
Migration policy; migration brokerage; migration and trafficking

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Jennifer Hyndman: Professor, Departments of Social Science and Geography, York University
Geopolitics and securitization of forced migration from conflict zones and refugee camps to resettlement; Sri Lanka; Indonesia

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Jassi Ranauta: Master's Student, Environmental Studies
Decoloniality; Environmental Justice; Punjab; Sikh Diaspora in Canada; Lived Experience, Migration and Transnationalism

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Lianrui Jia: PhD Student, Communication and Culture, York University
Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada

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Jolin Joseph: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
Feminist IPE; migration and transnationalism; labour migration; migration policies; reproductive labour; precarious work

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Joan Judge: Professor, Department of History, York University
Chinese cultural history; print and visual culture; women's and gender history; quotidian knowledge and everyday epistemologies; digital humanities

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Hong Kal: Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, York University
Spectacle and urban redevelopment; socially engaged art practices; community art; affective visual images; representation of trauma; South Korea

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Ilan Kapoor: Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Critical development studies; postcolonial studies/politics; participatory development; democracy; ideology critique; celebrity humanitarianism; psychoanalytic Marxism; India; Pakistan

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Hamza Karamally: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Contemporary American and South Asian literature

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Amardeep Kaur: Doctoral Candidate, Geography Department, York University
power and resistance; postcolonial theory; South Asian diaspora and mobility; transnational feminism; cosmopolitanism, East Asia; Hong Kong

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Yasin Kaya: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of Politics, York University
Comparative political economy; economic development; Turkey; Korea; telecommunications

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Ali Kazimi: Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University
Race; migration; indignity; history; memory; emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies; South Asian Diaspora; India

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Philip F. Kelly: Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Class and labour markets; immigration; transnational linkages; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Nazilla Khanlou: Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Faculty of Health
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, York University
Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

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Ann H. Kim: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Immigrant and ethnic integration processes; spatial manifestations of urban inequality; Korean Diaspora; South Korea

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Janice C.H. Kim: Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Associate Director, York Centre for Asian Research
Gender; labour and political consciousness; social and economic history; moral economy; Korean War; South Korea; DPR Korea

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Thomas Klassen: Professor, Department of Politics and School of Public Policy and Administration, York University

Labour market policy; income security policy; welfare state; South Korea; East Asia

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Dai Kojima: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Centre for Feminist Research

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Abidin Kusno: Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
Indonesia, urban studies, history, politics, cultural studies, architecture, design and geography

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Vanessa Lamb: Lecturer, School of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Nature; conservation; competing claims over and for water/rivers; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Burma

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Sai Latt: Research Advisor, Joint Peace Fund

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David Kyungwon Lee: Course Director, Department of Economics, York University
Labour economics; applied econometrics; macroeconomic policy; international economics; economics education; South Korea

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Eric Li: Assistant Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia
Chinese consumer culture, multicultural consumption, consumer well-being, social media, Chinese fashion, immigrant acculturation

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Jessica Tsui Yan Li: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Modern Chinese literature and film; gender studies; comparative literature; translation theories; stage and film adaptations; feminine in Chinese culture; Asian North American literature; Hong Kong; China

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Wan Kay Li: Adjunct Professor, English, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
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

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Lucia Lo: Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Chinese diaspora; immigrant settlement and integration; settlement services; identity and consumption; ethnic economy; ethnic banks; highly skilled migration

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Jun Lu: Doctoral Student, Social and Political Thought

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Jia Ma: Associate Profesor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Modern Chinese literature; Chinese North American diasporic literature; Chinese history; Christian cultural influences on Chinese literature; China; Chinese Diaspora

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Alexander MacNeil: Master's Candidate, Gradaute Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Fukushima; environmentalism; transnationalism; discourses of nature; politics of knowledge

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Sarah Maiter: Professor, School of Social Work, York University
Race and racism; children and youth; child welfare practice and policy for diverse communities; minority youth and their development; anti-oppressive, anti racist practice; mental health practice and policy for diverse ethno-racial groups

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Ayyaz Mallick: Doctoral Student, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Urban geography; sociology; development; Marxism; class; informality; labour; global South; Pakistan

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Guida Man: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Immigrant and diaspora communities; women and work; families; transnational migration; qualitative research methods; Chinese Diaspora

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Colin McGuire: Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music, University College Cork
Martial arts music; lion dance; kung fu; ethnomusicology; performance ethnography; Chinese diaspora; identity; embodiment, intertextuality

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Wendy A. Medina de Loera: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Indonesia; socio-environmental relations; large-scale mining operations; political ecology; rural transformation

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B. Lynne Milgram: Professor, Faculty of Liberal Studies
OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
Philippines: gender; formal/informal economies; legal/illegal practice; transformations in urban public space; street vending; secondhand clothing trade between the Philippines and Hong Kong; agricultural commodity chains; urban public market trade and modernization; material culture. Toronto: transnational entrepreneurship between the Philippines and Canada

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Rupinder Minhas: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Uneven development; revolutionary movements and histories; communist parties; political theory; gender and capitalism; India

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Radhika Mongia: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
History; law; political theory; global modern; India

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Stein Monteiro: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Program in Economics, York University
Assimilation; economic, cultural, political out-migration; family migration; Nepal; India

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Jean Michel Montsion: Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Gateway cities; ethnicity; international education; Indigeneity; Singapore, Vancouver

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Ghazy Mujahid: Researcher
Population policy; migration; ageing; Asian Diaspora, East Asia; Southeast Asia

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Ananya Mukherjee Reed: Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Director, International Secretariat for Human Development
Human development; epistemology of development; corporate economy; globalization; India

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Arun Mukherjee: Professor, Department of English, York University
Canadian literature; minority Canadian literature; Indian literature; South Asian literature, Dalit literature, diaspora; feminist critical theory; anti-racist literary theory; Postcolonial literature

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Khyati Nagar: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Visual culture of science; science, art and print culture in the Indian subcontinent; India; South Asian Arts and Culture; Hindi-Urdu

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Judith Nagata: Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, York University
Religion; Buddhism; diasporic Buddhist organizations; Islam; regional and transnational religious and ethnic identity politics; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Indonesia; Taiwan

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Yuka Nakamura: Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University
Race; class; gender; identity; sport experiences; Asian Diaspora

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Chandan Narayan: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Phonetics; language development in infants; Asian Diaspora

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Anh Ngo: Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work, York University
Newcomer settlement; mental health; Southeast Asian Diaspora

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Christine Nguyen: Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Visual culture; perceptions of East and West; Japanese contemporary literature; cross-cultural analysis between Western painting and Japanese literature

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Michael Nijhawan: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Sikh religious formation; religious transnationalism and diaspora formation; India; Sikh Diaspora; Ahmadiyya Diaspora

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Shobna Nijhawan: Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Hindi public sphere; 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; technology enhanced learning; India

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Desmond A. D. O'Doherty: PhD Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Sexuality; performance; Christianity; (post)colonialism; nationalism; citizenship; Queer Theory

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Chaya Ocampo Go: PhD Student, Geography, York University
critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of local resource management; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice

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Mona Oikawa: Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University
Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies; Japanese Canadians

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Hironori Onuki: Lecturer, International Studies, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
University of Wollongong
international political economy of work, citizenship, human in/security, Japan. East Asia

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Dana Osborne: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ryerson University
Linguistic Anthropology, Ilocano, Philippines, codemixing and switching, linguistic joking and taboo, reflexive anthropological writing

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Hyun Ok Park: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Korean transnational labour migration; national, human, ethnic and labour rights; South Korea

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Hsin-Yun Peng: Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University
Chinese LGBTQ individuals; migration; life strategy; gender equality; career planning

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Janice Phonepraseuth: Master's Candidate, Department of Sociology, York University
Asian-Canadian ethnicity, symbolic belonging, race and racism, identity formation, ethnic student organizations, and post-secondary institutions

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Sergei Plekhanov: ssociate Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Director, South and Central Asia Project
International relations of Russia and Eurasia; regional connections between South and Central Asia; political economy of post-communism

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Maxime Polleri: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Cultural politics of exclusion; belonging; citizenship; Japan

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Tiffany Pollock: Doctoral Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
Dance; affect; tourism; Thailand; cross-cultural encounter

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Valerie A. Preston: Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Gender and local labour markets; immigration and Canadian cities; social and urban geography; transnationalism and citizenship; Chinese Diaspora

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Fahimul Quadir: Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
Civil society; aid effectiveness; rising donors; South-South cooperation; democratization; governance; human development; Regionalism; Bangladesh

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Nausheen Quayyum: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of Politics, York University
Labour and feminist movements in the Global South; political economy of South Asia; community and international development; Bangladesh

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Venilla Rajaguru: Doctoral Candidate, Science & Technology Studies, York University
Maritime issues; global security; international law

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Susan Rajendran: Doctoral Candidate, Humanities, York University
Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka

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Shyam Ranganathan: Department of Philosophy, York University
Ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of thought, philosophy of language and translation; Asian philosophy; Yoga

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Reeju Ray: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queen's University
Southern Asian history; legal history; borderlands histories; human geography; feminist theory; gender studies; global indigenous studies

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Jooyeon Rhee: Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Literature and film of Korean diaspora in Japan, art and human rights, gender and ethnic identity in Korean popular culture, Korea, East Asia

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Jarren Richards: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political economy; transnational capitalism; development economics; agrarian transition; industrialization; resistance; nature-society relations; dialectical materialism

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Jacqueline Ristola: Master's Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, York University
Anime; film; new media; Japan

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K. B. Roberts: Doctoral Student, Department of Geography, York University
Political ecology of resource frontiers; rural livelihood change, deforestation and forest degradation, feminist research methods

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Arun Nedra Rodrigo: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Multiculturalism; Asian Diaspora

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Robin Roth: Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Political ecology of conservation; rural livelihood change; indigenous knowledge and spatiality; integrated social-ecological analysis; park-people conflicts; Thailand

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Kazi Rouf: Green social enterprise development; social micro-financing development; women human rights development; NGOs and community development; sustainable development; community gardening; mini cooperatives development in Canada and in Bangladesh

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Janet Rubinoff: Department of History, York University
Fisheries development; fisherwomen in markets; backwater fish farming; globalization and marine fisheries management; India; South Asia

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Fumi Sakata: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Race; identity; ethnicity; Japan

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Arianto Sangadji: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political economy; state theory; extractive industries; agrarian change; communal violence

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Trichy Sankaran: Professor, Department of Music, York University
Carnatic music; Indian dance compositions; South Indian classical drumming; Konnakkol; India

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Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy: Master's student, Interdisciplinary Studies, York University
Aging refugees; refugee status; access and utilization of health and social care; Tamil Diaspora

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Laura Schoenberger: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; agrarian transformations; state power; conflict; land

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Albert Schrauwers: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Chair, Department of Anthropology, York University
Kinship; ethnic group formation; colonialism; role of religion in the development of civil society; Indonesia

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Saher Shaikh: Master's Candidate, Development Studies Programme, York
Gender equality; aid programming; education policy; holistic child development; Pakistan

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Ritika Shrimali: Independent Researcher
Food security; food sovereignty; new food production strategies; agro-globalization; labout studies; India

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Harini Sivalingam: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Socio-legal Studies, York University
Immigration and refugee law; international and domestic human rights; national security law; South Asian Diaspora

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Soohwan Song: Visiting Scholar, York Center for Asian Research
Director, Korean National Assembly
South Korea; parliamentary democracy

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Stacey Bliss: Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Education
Cross-cultural ethnography, Levinasian philosophy, contemplative education, possibilities in conceptualizing contemplative literacies, silence and sound in meditative practices

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Michael Stainton: York University
Taiwanese domestic politics and society, religious cultures and transformations, Taiwan, East Asia

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Ishrat Zakia Sultana: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Rights; citizenship; children and youth; governance; immigration; Bangladesh

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Doris Sung: Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Research, Peabody Essex Museum
Chinese women’s painting; multimedia artwork; China; Hong Kong

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Yukari Takai: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor
Migration history; women and gender, race; Japanese diasporas; North American borders; Japanese prostitution; domestic workers, caregivers and health professionals

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Akiko Takesue: Freelance curator; Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (from April 2017)
Reception of Japanese art in the West; historiography of Japanese art; art collection; meaning-formation of objects; museum studies

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Tasnuva Tanzim: Masters Candidate, Development Studies Programme, York University
Information Communications for Development (ICT4D); human development; rural development and agriculture for development; communication for development; South Asia

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Jessica Ticar: Doctoral Candidate, Educational Studies, Western University, London, Ontario
Filipina/o/x youth; urban schools; postcolonial and transnational feminism; race; class; gender; sexuality; spirituality; religion; identity and belonging; intersectionality; agency; decolonization; critical and performance ethnography; oral history and memory; Live-in/Caregiver Program

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Kasim Tirmizey: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Colonialism; anti-colonialism; social movements; anti-colonial Marxism; agrarian political economy and ecology; critical human geography; environmental sociology; Pakistan

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Tomoe Otsuki: PhD, Sociology of Education (OISE, University of Toronto)
Cultural Studies, Trauma Studies, Postcolonialism, Environmental Humanities, Japanese Studies, Japan-U.S. relations

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Ethel Tungohan: Assistant Professor, Departments of Politics and Social Science
Migrant labour; migrant activism

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Alicia M. Turner: Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Religion; colonialism; nationalism; secularism; religious tolerance; Buddhism in Southeast Asia; Burma/Myanmar

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Sadia Uddin: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York Univeristy
Pakistan; human rights; Shia genocide; religious minorities; political development; religious extremism; governance; law

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Penny B. Van Esterik: Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Nutritional anthropology; gender and development; advocacy anthropology; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Indonesia; Laos

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Peter Vandergeest: Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Political ecology; environmental sociology; cultural politics of environment and development; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Cambodia; Malaysia ; Indonesia

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Robin Verrall: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of Politics, York University
Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture

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(Eugenia) Chen Wang: Adjunct Faculty, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Comparative literature; Modern Chinese literature; gender studies; Chinese Canadian and American literature; Chinese and western literary theories; American literature and gender studies

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Baohua Wang: Visiting Scholar

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Bernard Wolf: Professor Emeritus, Economics, Schulich School of Business, York University
Associate Director, IMBA Program, Schulich School of Business, York University
International trade and finance; multinational enterprises; strategic alliances; economic integration; trade/investment liberalization; East Asia; China; Korea; Japan

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Rachel Wong: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Asian North American diasporic literature and theory; twentieth century Canadian literature, minority writers; Post Colonial theory; Critical Race theory; cultural studies; literary representations of women and ethnic enclaves.

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Wendy S. Wong: Associate Professor, Department of Design, York University
Chinese visual cultural history; Chinese consumer society, design and identity; Hong Kong; Taiwan; China

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Yuk-Lin Renita Wong: Associate Professor, School of Social Work, York University
Mindfulness, spirituality and social justice; contemplative pedagogy; critical social work; embodiment and decolonization of knowing and knowledge production; gender, colony and nation

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Lorna Wright: Export Development Canada Professorship in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University
Director, Centre for Global Enterprise, Schulich School of Business, York University
Cross-cultural management; international negotiations; strategic alliances; conditions for SME business success internationally; women-owned SMEs in the digital economy; Pacific Basin region; Southeast Asia; East Asia

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Jie Wu: Master's Student, Communication and Culture
Place, space, environment, Chinatowns, multiculturalism, settler-colonialism, arts, activism

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Lydia Wytenbroek: PhD Candidate, Department of History, York University
Colonial Medicine; nursing history; gender history; history of global health; Iran

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Jing Xu: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Northeast China; postcolonial culture; architecture; literature; film

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Xueqing Xu: Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction; Chinese Diaspora; China

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Harshita Yalamarty: Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Critical transnational feminist and postcolonial theories; women’s movements in India; gendered citizenship practices; religious communities in India; migration and marriage practices; South Asian diaspora

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Sun-Kyung (Sunny) Yi: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Multiculturalism; identity; ethnicity; Seoul; South Korea; Korean Diaspora

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Megan Youdelis: PhD, Geography, York University
Political ecology; neoliberal conservation; environmental governance; ecotourism; Thailand; Canada

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Mary Young: Research Associate, York Centre for Asian Research
York University
Political economy, political ecology, Taiwan, Indonesia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

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Sashar Zarif: Multi-disciplinary performing artist, educator and researcher
Identity; globalization; cross-cultural collaborations

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Qiang Zha: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
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; knowledge transfer and commercialization; international migration and development; China

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Yikun Zhao: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Critical social theories; modern consumer culture; China

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Jianlan Zhu: Doctoral Candidate, Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Internet law; intellectual property; privacy; public policy; China

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