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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Hana Shams Ahmed: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; violence; indigenous people; feminist political ecology; postcolonial capitalism

View full profile
Sheheryar Ahmed: Master's student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
South Asian nationalism; colonial history; religion; literature

View full profile
Ali Al-Zaidi: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Asian art; Orientalism; colonial history; archaeology; Britain; France

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
Karen Armstrong: Course Director, Faculty of Education
Leadership and community engagement; youth development; and digital learning

View full profile
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

View full profile
Asma Atique: Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Sanjukta Banerjee: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Gendered bodies and re-enactment of movements in traditional repertoires

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Shahab S. Bayani: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Aerospace and identity; mobility and humanism; technology dominance; masculinity in aviation; subaltern; hegemony

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
Jenna Blower: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Refugee and mgration issues; transnational migration; Filipina domestic workers; Philppines; Canada

View full profile
Margaret Boittin: Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Criminal law; international and comparative law; human rights; China; empirical methods; prostitution; human trafficking

View full profile
Benjamin Bongolan: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York Unviversity
Urban inequities; urban activism; Filipino diasporas; urban and social policy planning

View full profile
Alyssa Brierley: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Public interest litigation; non-governmental organizations; development; India

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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
Shraddha Chatterjee: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
India; citizenship; nationalism; subjectivity

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
Nicola P. Contessi: International affairs specialist
Global governance; foreign and security policy; rising powers; international transportation; Eurasia

View full profile
Boyd Cothran: Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Global history; American West; historical memory; Indigenous Peoples; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Okinawan diaspora

View full profile
Lianbin Dai: Researcher
Cultural and social history of Ming-Qing China (1368–1911)

View full profile
Guillaume Dandurand: External Research Associate
International development; humanitarianism; new materialism; governmentality; urban studies; economic anthropology; anthropology of food; Delhi

View full profile
Nga Dao: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
Political ecology; water governance; agrarian transformations; Vietnam; Mekong region

View full profile
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

View full profile
Nivedita Das Kundu: Geopolitics; foreign policy; strategic dimensions of security; India; China

View full profile
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

View full profile
Lisa Davidson: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Anthropology; multiculturalism; migration and transnationalism; Christianity; kinship; citizenship

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Peter Duker: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; livelihood; conservation; development; Thailand

View full profile
Mehraneh Ebrahimi: Assistant Professor, Department of English, York University
Middle Eastern diasporic literature; war on terror

View full profile
Adam Faux: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Synaesthetic and process composition

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Jillian Fulton: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; dance music; nostalgia; tarab; social violence; indeterminacy

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Meghna George: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Gender identities; transnationalism; South Korea

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

View full profile
Kyle Gibson: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Political ecology; Historical-Geographical Materialism; modernity; Marxism; South Korea

View full profile
Pietro Giordan: Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Chinese literature; comparative literature; aesthetics; drama and theatre studies

View full profile
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

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

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

View full profile
Vedanth Sachdeva Govi: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India

View full profile
Yilin Guo 郭易霖: Undergraduate student, Department of History, York University
Political history in the late Qing Dynasty (1800–1912)

View full profile
Khem Guragain: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Postcolonial; caste; Dalit; Adivasi; tribal; indigenous; subaltern; South Asia; nation-state

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Humayun Hamidzada: Director, Afghanistan Peace Research Project
Peace; reconciliation; policy; governance; modernization; Afghanistan

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Aqeel Ihsan: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
South Asia; South Asian diaspora; immigration and refugee issues; partition; Pakistan; India

View full profile
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

View full profile
Lianrui Jia: Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University
Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Meera Kanageswaran: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Bharathanatyam; Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Jihong Kim: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University
History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure and agency

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Robert E. Latham: Professor, Department of Politics, York University
Politics and government; economics; communications; political theory; International Relations

View full profile
Sai Latt: Research Advisor, Joint Peace Fund
Peace process in Myanmar

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Chenxin (Vonnie) Li: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Concepts of feminine beauty in China; cosmetic surgery; health

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Muyang Li: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University (from January 2021)
Digital Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Authoritarianism; Gender Issues; Media Strategies; Social Media; China

View full profile
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

View full profile
Bernard Lightman: Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Nineteenth-century popular science; Victorian scientific naturalism; global history of science

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Libby Lunstrum: Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Political ecology of conservation; green militarization; conservation-induced displacement; illegal wildlife trade; political ecology of international borders

View full profile
Zhifan Luo: PhD candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany
YCAR External Research Associate
China; political discourse; elites and power; gender issues

View full profile
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

View full profile
Mallory MacDonnell: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand

View full profile
Clarence Magpantay: Researcher, Alternative Transnational Economies Project, York University
Transnational development; Foucault; governmentality; Philippine-Canadian diaspora; diverse economies; Philippines

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Sadia M. Malik: Sessional Assistant Professor, Economics, York University
Health Economics; International Development; South Asia

View full profile
Ayyaz Mallick: Marxist theory; postcolonial theory; labour; urban politics; Pakistan

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Colin McGuire: External Research Associate
Martial arts music; lion dance; kung fu; ethnomusicology; performance ethnography; Chinese diaspora; identity; embodiment, intertextuality

View full profile
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

View full profile
Carli Melo: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma

View full profile
Mila Mendez: Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
race; racialization; blackness; embodied memories

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Ghazy Mujahid: Researcher
Population policy; migration; ageing; Asian Diaspora; East Asia; Southeast Asia

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Noa Nahmias: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Modern Chinese history; history of science; knowledge production; material culture; print culture

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

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

View full profile
Nanditha Narayanamoorthy: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages

View full profile
Rajat Nayyar: Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies, York University
Vocality; everyday resistance; collaborative filmmaking; performative spaces; folklore; decolonization

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Dana Osborne: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ryerson University

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Janice Phonepraseuth: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Venilla Rajaguru: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Science & Technology Studies, York University
Space security; maritime security; cyber nexus; international law and security

View full profile
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

View full profile
Susan Rajendran: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka

View full profile
Shyam Ranganathan: Department of Philosophy, York University
Ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of thought; philosophy of language and translation; Asian philosophy; yoga

View full profile
Dalton Rawcliffe: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Transnationalism; Maoism; Cultural Revolution; Britain; China; Hong Kong; Cold War; propaganda

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Antoniel Roca: Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Music, York University
Ethnomusicology; Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity

View full profile
Arun Nedra Rodrigo: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Tamil refugee narratives; translation

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

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

View full profile
Philip Sarrazin: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Global production networks; Olympics; ice hockey athletes; Canada; China

View full profile
Albert Schrauwers: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Kinship; ethnic group formation; colonialism; role of religion in the development of civil society; Indonesia

View full profile
Cailleah Scott-Grimes: Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Japan; women and gender studies; linguisitics; film; visual culture

View full profile
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)

View full profile
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

View full profile
Reena Shadaan: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice

View full profile
Khatereh Sheibani: Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Iranian cinema; Persian literature and culture; Middle Eastern cinemas

View full profile
Zhi Ming Sim: Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Feminism; international relations; political violence; conflict; post-conflict reconciliation

View full profile
Rick Sin: School of Social Work
Chinese Diasporas; Human Rights Advocacy; Transnational Social Movements; Critical Social Work

View full profile
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

View full profile
Ei Phyu Smith: PhD, Geography, York University
Feminist geography; political geography; migration and displacement studies; Burmese Diaspora

View full profile
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

View full profile
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities
Children and youth; youth, space and race; girlhood studies; transnationalism; youth belonging

View full profile
Michael Stainton: President, Taiwanese Human Rights Association of Canada

Taiwanese domestic politics and society; religious cultures and transformations; Taiwan

View full profile
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

View full profile
Shabnam Sukhdev: Master's candidate, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Normality and otherness; diaspora; feminism

View full profile
Geetha Sukumaran: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Contemporary Tamil poetry; women's writing; trauma literature and translation

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Priya Thomas: Assistant Professor, Dance, Texas Woman’s University
Transgression and transformation in performances of ‘nonhumans’ in the long nineteenth century

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Penny B. Van Esterik: Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, York University
Nutritional anthropology; gender and development; advocacy anthropology; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Indonesia; Lao PDR

View full profile
Peter Vandergeest: Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Political ecology; fisheries; agrarian studies; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Taiwan; Indonesia

View full profile
Derek Verbakel: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Militarism; (in)security; conflict; India; Israel; transnational; nationalism; violence

View full profile
Robin Verrall: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture

View full profile
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

View full profile
Christopher Vogel: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Gender; Beijing opera; China

View full profile
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

View full profile
Salvo Wiseman: Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University
Social justice and solidarity; homelessness and mental health; decolonizing Western healthcare systems

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Cary Wu: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Political sociology; migration; urban studies

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

View full profile
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

View full profile
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

View full profile
Summaiya Zaidi: Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Legal education; socio-legal theory; law and policy reform; Pakistan

View full profile
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

View full profile
Jing Zhao: Researcher
Migration and mobility; Chinese diaspora; life course; reproduction; knowledge and education; social inequality; sociological theories

View full profile
Sabrina Zhao: Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Gender; diasporic identities; historical identities,

View full profile
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

View full profile