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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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Anna Agathangelou
Professor, Department of Politics, York University
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
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Hana Shams Ahmed
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; violence; indigenous people; feminist political ecology; postcolonial capitalism
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Sheheryar Ahmed
Master's student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
South Asian nationalism; colonial history; religion; literature
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Ali Al-Zaidi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Asian art; Orientalism; colonial history; archaeology; Britain; France
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R. Patrick Alcedo
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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Ameeriar Lalaie
Lalaie Ameeriar
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Race; racism and racialization; globalization; diaspora; affect and embodiment; labour studies; feminist studies; transnational Muslim cultures
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Karen Armstrong
Course Director, Faculty of Education
Leadership and community engagement; youth development; and digital learning
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Chan Arun-Pina
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Student Housing; geographies of gender and sexuality; post-colonial education; (alternate/non-)normative urban housing; trans* domesticities; creative research methods; India; global South
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Asma Atique
Doctoral Candidate, 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 and
Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University
Asian business systems; comparative state capitalism; emerging markets; Asian business groups
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Arpita Bajpeyi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
South Asia; India; kathak; dance; gender; caste; performance; ethnography; research creation; nationalism; decolonizing methodologies; embodied histories
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Sanjukta Banerjee
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Gendered bodies and re-enactment of movements in traditional repertoires
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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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D. Mitra Barua
Research Fellow (2020–21), ACLS/Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
Buddhism in diaspora; religious diversity and multiculturalism; religious majority-minority dynamics; ethno-religious nationalism(s); Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region
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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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Shahab S. Bayani
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Aerospace and identity; mobility and humanism; technology dominance; masculinity in aviation; subaltern; hegemony
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Dawn Bazely
Professor, Department of Biology, York University
Citizen science; science-policy-politics; climate change impacts on ecosystems; invasive species; herbivory; plant defences; forests and grasslands in the arctic, sub-arctic and temperate regions
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Russell Belk
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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Jenna Blower
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Refugee and mgration issues; transnational migration; Filipina domestic workers; Philppines; Canada
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Margaret Boittin
Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Criminal law; international and comparative law; human rights; China; empirical methods; prostitution; human trafficking
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Benjamin Bongolan
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York Unviversity
Urban inequities; urban activism; Filipino diasporas; urban and social policy planning
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Alyssa Brierley
Alyssa Brierley
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Public interest litigation; non-governmental organizations; development; India
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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
Kenneth Cardenas
Doctoral Candidate, 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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Kabita Chakraborty
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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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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Shraddha Chatterjee
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
India; citizenship; nationalism; subjectivity
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Soma Chatterjee
Associate 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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Lily Cho
Chair and 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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Nicola P. Contessi
International affairs specialist
Global governance; foreign and security policy; rising powers; international transportation; Eurasia
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Boyd Cothran
Boyd Cothran
Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Global history; American West; historical memory; Indigenous Peoples; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Okinawan diaspora
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Lianbin Dai
Researcher
Cultural and social history of Ming-Qing China (1368–1911)
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Guillaume Dandurand
External Research Associate
International development; humanitarianism; new materialism; governmentality; urban studies; economic anthropology; anthropology of food; Delhi
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Nga Dao
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
Political ecology; water governance; agrarian transformations; Vietnam; Mekong region
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Tania Das Gupta
Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
South Asian diaspora; race and racism; anti-racism; immigration and refugee issues; state policies; women, work and families
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Nivedita Das Kundu
Geopolitics; foreign policy; strategic dimensions of security; India; China
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Raju J. Das
Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Marxist theory; political economy of development; state-society relations; social movements; social-cultural norms of the working class; agricultural and industrial production under neoliberal capitalism; politics of the Right and of the Left; India
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Lisa Davidson
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Anthropology; multiculturalism; migration and transnationalism; Christianity; kinship; citizenship
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Zoe Dhillon
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Postcolonial literature; diaspora literature; Dalit literature; Indian literature; orientalism; exoticism; gender roles; sexuality; cross-cultural education; power-privilege imbalances
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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
Ena Dua
Associate Professor, Equity Studies and School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
Nation; race and gender; immigration; equity processes; women and healthy policies; criminalization; racialization of masculinity and femininity; globalization; biodiversity; South Asian Diaspora
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Peter Duker
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; livelihood; conservation; development; Thailand
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Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, York University
Middle Eastern diasporic literature; war on terror
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Adam Faux
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Synaesthetic and process composition
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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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Josephine Francis Xavier
Doctoral Student, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University
South Asia; India; fathers; childbearing period (pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum); gender; immigrant; diaspora
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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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Mengzhu Fu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
Indigenous and Asian diaspora solidarity; diasporic Asian activism; gender-based violence; migrant justice; decolonization and anti-racism
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Jillian Fulton
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; dance music; nostalgia; tarab; social violence; indeterminacy
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Zed Zhipeng Gao
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
YCAR External Research Associate
Chinese immigrants; China-West interaction; Chinese socialism; Chinese post-socialism; psychology; identity and belonging; mental health
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Rommel C. Gavieta

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
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Gender identities; transnationalism; South Korea
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Margo Gewurtz
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, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Political ecology; Historical-Geographical Materialism; modernity; Marxism; South Korea
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Pietro Giordan
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Chinese literature; comparative literature; aesthetics; drama and theatre studies
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Chaya Ocampo Go
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of disaster response; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice
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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
Jay Goulding
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
Chinese and Japanese philosophy; hermeneutics; phenomenology; China; Japan
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Vedanth Sachdeva Govi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India
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Yilin Guo 郭易霖
Undergraduate student, Department of History, York University
Political history in the late Qing Dynasty (1800–1912)
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Khem Guragain
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Postcolonial; caste; Dalit; Adivasi; tribal; indigenous; subaltern; South Asia; nation-state
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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

South Korean politics; urban movements; feminist politics; gentrification; post-industrialization of urban economies; citymarketing; zoning regulations; militarization of urban space
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Yasir Hameed
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Public space; citizen engagement; housing equity; social justice in urban policy, planning and design
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Humayun Hamidzada
Director, Afghanistan Peace Research Project
Peace; reconciliation; policy; governance; modernization; Afghanistan
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Eve Haque
Eve Haque
York Research Chair in Linguistic Diversity and Community Vitality
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Race; immigration; Islamaphobia; white settler multicultural nationalism
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Sharon Hayashi
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
Course Director, York University
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
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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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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Aqeel Ihsan
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
South Asia; South Asian diaspora; immigration and refugee issues; partition; Pakistan; India
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Mihyon Jeon
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Sociolinguistics; language policy; globalization and language; heritage language; language maintenance; Korean language education pedagogy
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Lianrui Jia
Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University
Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada
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Cindy Jiang
Doctoral student, Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy Management, York University
Diaspora; health policy; disability health; health promotion; mental health; stigma; racialization
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Jolin Joseph
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
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 Art and Art History, York University
Spectacle and urban redevelopment; socially engaged art practices; community art; affective visual images; representation of trauma; South Korea
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Shruti Kalyanaraman
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Settler colonialism; economic immigration policy; labour market integration; immigrant women
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Meera Kanageswaran
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Bharathanatyam; Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora
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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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Amardeep Kaur
Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Cultural geography of religion; sacred and poetics; power and resistance; Sikh diaspora; cosmopolitanism; East Asia; Hong Kong; Asian urbanism; worlding; trans-Pacific movements and mobilities
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Ali Kazimi
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, York University
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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Daehee Kim
Department of Korean Language Education, College of Education, Wonkwang University
Visiting Scholar, York Centre for Asian Reasearch, York University
Language education pedagogy; sociolinguistics; language policy; heritage language; language maintenance; language awareness
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Janice C.H. Kim
Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Gender; labour and political consciousness; social and economic history; moral economy; Korean War; South Korea; DPR Korea
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Jihong Kim
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University
History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure and agency
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Thomas Klassen
Professor, Department of Politics and School of Public Policy and Administration, York University

International Education; Labour Market Policy; Income Security Policy; Welfare State; South Korea; North Korea; East Asia
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Abidin Kusno
Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Director, York Centre for Asian Research, York University
Indonesia; urban studies; history; politics; cultural studies; architecture; design; geography
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Vanessa Lamb
Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
Human-environment geography; political ecology; political geography; science studies; feminist political ecology; international water governance; rivers; climate and environmental change
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Robert E. Latham
Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Politics and government; economics; communications; political theory; International Relations
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Sai Latt
Research Advisor, Joint Peace Fund
Peace process in Myanmar
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Yam K. Lau
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art & Art History, York University
New media; expressions and qualities of space, time and image; video and computer-generated animation; China
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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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Jack Hang Tat Leong
Associate Dean, Research & Open Scholarship, York University Libraries
International and community engagement; access to resources; science fiction; Chinese Canadian studies; intercultural studies
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Chenxin (Vonnie) Li
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Concepts of feminine beauty in China; cosmetic surgery; health
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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
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Program Coordinator, Chinese
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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Muyang Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University (from January 2021)
Digital Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Authoritarianism; Gender Issues; Media Strategies; Social Media; China
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Wan Kay Li
Wan Kay Li
Adjunct Professor, English, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
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
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Bernard Lightman
Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Nineteenth-century popular science; Victorian scientific naturalism; global history of science
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Lucia Lo
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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Bill Lu
Bill Lu
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Public & International Affairs, Glendon College, York University
Public policy; Canada; Asian Diaspora; China; social determinants of health
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Eva Lu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
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
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Jun Lu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Large-scale phenomena; human condition; how we are affected by the past
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Libby Lunstrum
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Political ecology of conservation; green militarization; conservation-induced displacement; illegal wildlife trade; political ecology of international borders
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Zhifan Luo
PhD candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany
YCAR External Research Associate
China; political discourse; elites and power; gender issues
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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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Mallory MacDonnell
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand
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Clarence Magpantay
Researcher, Alternative Transnational Economies Project, York University
Transnational development; Foucault; governmentality; Philippine-Canadian diaspora; diverse economies; Philippines
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Dani Magsumbol
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Filipinx diaspora, migrant bodies as borders, migrants as capital in the global labour market, transnational motherhood/families, urbanities
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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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Sadia M. Malik
Sessional Assistant Professor, Economics, York University
Health Economics; International Development; South Asia
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Ayyaz Mallick
Ayyaz Mallick
Marxist theory; postcolonial theory; labour; urban politics; 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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Nancy Mandell
Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Family; intimacy and care work; aging and immigrants; gender and schooling; qualitative methods; community-academic research partnerships
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Colin McGuire
External Research Associate
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
Rural livelihoods; rural transformation; socio-environmental relations; political ecology; South Sulawesi; Indonesia
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Carli Melo
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma
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Mila Mendez
Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
race; racialization; blackness; embodied memories
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B. Lynne Milgram
Professor, Faculty of Liberal Studies, OCAD University
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; transnational entrepreneurship between the Philippines and Canada
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Radhika Mongia
Radhika Mongia
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
History; law; political theory; global modern; India
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Jean Michel Montsion
Jean Michel Montsion
Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Associate Director, York Centre for Asian Research
Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies
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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Arun Mukherjee
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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Noa Nahmias
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Modern Chinese history; history of science; knowledge production; material culture; print culture
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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
Chandan Narayan
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Phonetics; language development in infants; Asian Diaspora
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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages
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Rajat Nayyar
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies, York University
Vocality; everyday resistance; collaborative filmmaking; performative spaces; folklore; decolonization
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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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Izumi Niki
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Unpaid care work (elder care and domestic work); labour; gender; immigration policy; Japan; East Asia
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Glen Norcliffe
Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Geography, York University
Critical geographies of industry, trade and development; performing the economy; geographical construction of technology; dispossession in extractive regions
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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
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
Dana Osborne
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ryerson University
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Gang Pan
Gang Pan
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Chinese language; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; Chinese martial arts culture; Chinese cinema; Chinese theatre; sexuality in China; digital culture in China
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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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Min Ah Park
Doctoral Student, Gradaute Programme in English, York University
Korean-Canadian diaspora; Asian-Canadian studies; immigration histories; socio-cultural politics, lived experiences; literary expression
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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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Nalini Persram
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science
Governance; international relations; social and political thought; postcolonialism and moving beyond Western political theory; consciousness and somatics; gender; poverty; subjectivity
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Janice Phonepraseuth
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia
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Sergei Plekhanov
Sergei Plekhanov
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Director, South and Central Asia Project, York University
International relations of Russia and Eurasia; regional connections between South and Central Asia; political economy of post-communism
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Valerie A. Preston
Valerie 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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Nausheen Quayyum
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in 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, Graduate Programme in Science & Technology Studies, York University
Space security; maritime security; cyber nexus; international law and security
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Vidya Rajasingam
Vidya Rajasingam
Master's Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Japan; urban planning; social housing; psychology; community development; education; evaluation
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Susan Rajendran
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in 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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Dalton Rawcliffe
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Transnationalism; Maoism; Cultural Revolution; Britain; China; Hong Kong; Cold War; propaganda
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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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K. B. Roberts
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology of resource frontiers; rural livelihood change; deforestation and forest degradation; feminist research methods
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Antoniel Roca
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Music, York University
Ethnomusicology; Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity
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Arun Nedra Rodrigo
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Tamil refugee narratives; translation
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Sylvie Rosienski-Pellerin
Professeure agrégée au Département d’Études françaises de Glendon, York University
Director, Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine; la littérature du xxe siècle
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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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Trichy Sankaran
Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, York University
Carnatic music; Indian dance compositions; South Indian classical drumming; Konnakkol; India
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Philip Sarrazin
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Global production networks; Olympics; ice hockey athletes; Canada; China
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Albert Schrauwers
Albert Schrauwers
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Kinship; ethnic group formation; colonialism; role of religion in the development of civil society; Indonesia
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Cailleah Scott-Grimes
Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Japan; women and gender studies; linguisitics; film; visual culture
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Aparna Sengupta
Master’s student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Disaster anthropology; urban governance; Indigenous communities and knowledge; India; environmental management; Information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Lisa Seto Nielsen
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, York University
Palliative care; home care; death and dying; vulnerable groups; racialized immigrants; health care system; Chinese diaspora
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Reena Shadaan
Reena Shadaan
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice
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Khatereh Sheibani
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Iranian cinema; Persian literature and culture; Middle Eastern cinemas
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Zhi Ming Sim
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Feminism; international relations; political violence; conflict; post-conflict reconciliation
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Rick Sin
School of Social Work
Chinese Diasporas; Human Rights Advocacy; Transnational Social Movements; Critical Social Work
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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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Ei Phyu Smith
PhD, Geography, York University
Feminist geography; political geography; migration and displacement studies; Burmese Diaspora
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Gobika Sriranganathan
Doctoral student, Socio-Cultural and Policy Studies, Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science, York University

Sport; diasporic studies; leadership; postcolonial feminism; research methodologies; data analysis; social capital; program evaluation; well-being
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Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities
Children and youth; youth, space and race; girlhood studies; transnationalism; youth belonging
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Michael Stainton
President, Taiwanese Human Rights Association of Canada

Taiwanese domestic politics and society; religious cultures and transformations; Taiwan
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Yvonne Su
Assistant Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University
Philippines; refugees; migration; displacement; diaspora; post-disaster recovery; migrant remittances; South-South humanitarian responses; social capital; resilience; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQI+ asylum seekers; Venezuela; Brazil
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Shabnam Sukhdev
Master's candidate, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Normality and otherness; diaspora; feminism
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Geetha Sukumaran
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Contemporary Tamil poetry; women's writing; trauma literature and translation
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Doris Sung
Assistant Professor of Art History, Asian Art, University of Alabama
Modern and contemporary art of East Asia; cultural interactions between Asia and Europe; gender and visual culture
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Yukari Takai
Department of History, York University
Japanese diasporas; transnational migration; global Asia; the United States; Canada; social history; women, gender, sexuality; race; class; borders and borderlands; marriage; nineteenth century; twentieth century
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Priya Thomas
Assistant Professor, Dance, Texas Woman’s University
Transgression and transformation in performances of ‘nonhumans’ in the long nineteenth century
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Josh Trichilo
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
3.11; post-disaster life; trauma; auditory culture; sound studies; culture studies; post-humanism; media studies; archive studies; Japan
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Ethel Tungohan
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism
Assistant Professor, Departments of Politics and Social Science, York University
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 Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York Univeristy
Pakistan; human rights; Shia genocide; religious minorities; political development; religious extremism; governance; law
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Sanober Umar
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, York University
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
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Penny B. Van Esterik
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, York University
Nutritional anthropology; gender and development; advocacy anthropology; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Indonesia; Lao PDR
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Peter Vandergeest
Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Political ecology; fisheries; agrarian studies; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Taiwan; Indonesia
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Derek Verbakel
Derek Verbakel
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Militarism; (in)security; conflict; India; Israel; transnational; nationalism; violence
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Robin Verrall
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture
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Asmita Bhutani Vij
Doctoral student, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Labour market and gender; workplace learning; digital labour; India; South Asia; violence against women; capitalism
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Christopher Vogel
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Gender; Beijing opera; China
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Megan Whitney
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; wildlife tourism; critical geographies of labor and migration; climate change; Thailand; Southeast Asia
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Salvo Wiseman
Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University
Social justice and solidarity; homelessness and mental health; decolonizing Western healthcare systems
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Bernard Wolf
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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Keefer Wong
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Neoliberal ideologies; globalization; social change; knowledge production; diaspora; “identities;” transnationalism; political economy; critical theory; China
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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
Professor, School of Social Work, York University
Mindfulness; contemplative pedagogy; spirituality and social justice; critical social work; embodied learning and decolonization; China; Hong Kong
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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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Cary Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Political sociology; migration; urban studies
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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 Candidate, Graduate Programme in 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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Xiao Alvin Yang
Visiting Graduate Associate, York Centre for Asian Research
Doctoral Candidate, Political and Economic Science, Universität Kassel, Germany
International Relations theory; global political economy; Belt and Road Initiative; China and Europe; East Asia and Southeast Asia; popular music; Chinese and European history and philosophy
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Summaiya Zaidi
Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Legal education; socio-legal theory; law and policy reform; Pakistan
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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; knowledge transfer and commercialization; international migration and development; China
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Jing Zhao
Researcher
Migration and mobility; Chinese diaspora; life course; reproduction; knowledge and education; social inequality; sociological theories
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Sabrina Zhao
Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Gender; diasporic identities; historical identities,
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Yikun Zhao
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Cultural and economic sociology; cultural capital; cultural industry; Chinese consumer culture; etiquette; sociological theories; climate change; digital research methods
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