Alphabetical Listing of Associates

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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Farah Ahmad: Associate Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University
Health and care; immigration/refugee status, gender and race; South Asian diaspora; primary care; mental health; partner violence; neurodiversity; community-engaged mixed method research

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Hana Shams Ahmed: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Indigenous Peoples; postcolonial state; governmentality; articulation

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Sayyid-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: 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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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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Chan Arun-Pina: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Queer urban geographies; Trans theory; student housing; Home; art-based research

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Monique Attrux: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Chinese Canadian literature; Asian Canadian literary theory; diasporic theory; postcolonialism; multilingualism; Hakka literature; Canada; China

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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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Umme Hani Huzefa Bagdadi: Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture, York University
Indigenous art of India; pre-colonial and colonial Indian art and history; global contemporary art

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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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Himani Bannerji: Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, 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 of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Geographies of marginality; diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; post-colonial geographies; spatial methodologies; anti-imperialism; 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: 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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Asmita Bhutani: Doctoral student, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Labour process; workplace studies; platform work; AI and society; Global South; gendered violence; feminist political economy; migrant labour

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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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Beau Han Bridge: Master's student, Fim Production, York University
Chinese diaspora; cultural-collective memories; theatre scenography; interior space; chamber film aesthetics; distancing theories

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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: 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: 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; queer theory; South Asian studies

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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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Aadita Chaudhury: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Science and Technology Studies, York University
Cultural, material and environmental meaning-making; fire ecology; wildfire management; colonization; Indigeneity; South Asia

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Claudia Chaufan: Associate Professor, Health Policy and Global Health, York University
Comparative health policy; geopolitics of global health; medicalization and social control; critical pedagogy in higher education

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Natasha Chawdhry: Master's Candidate, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Gender-based violence; international relations; sexual violence policy; South Asia; Pakistan; critical feminism; international human rights; security conflict; intersectionality

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Myla Chawla: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Progamme in Political Science, York University
Moro conflict; gender; peace; Philippines

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

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

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

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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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Abd Darouzy: Master's Student, Translation Studies, York University
Linguistics in Western Asia; translation; linguistic landscaping

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Tania Das Gupta: Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
Appointed Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer, 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 of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
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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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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Ria Jhoanna Ducusin: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geogrpahy, York University
Climate change; environmental justice; critical disaster

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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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Leanna Durdle: Master's student, Joint Communication and Culture programme, York University
MDA; multimodality; discourse; discourse analysis; autoethnography; digital media; orientalism; Thailand; postcolonialism; globalization; education; embodiment; positionality

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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
Composition; liquid

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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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Dominik Formanowicz: Phd Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Transnational ties; Global South and North; rural-urban migrations within and outside of the Global South

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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-Melanson: Course Director, Department of Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; electronic music; nostalgia; tarab; violence; indeterminacy; Morocco; cosmopolitanism

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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: 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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Glover Frederick: Instructor, History, St. Mary’s University
History of Canadian-Korean relations; history of Korean Canadian communities,; modern Korean history; Korean Christianity; Korean diaspora; Canadian-Asian relations; history of Asian Canadian communities

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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: 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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Jasmine Gui: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Literary and media studies; digital and print cultures: zines, magazines, anthologies; transnational flows of art and archives; postcolonial theory and decolonial praxis; research creation; Asian Diaspora; East and Southeast Asia

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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

Radical urban politics and social movements in North America and South Korea; urban political economy; neoliberal urbanization; gentrification; decolonial thoughts; socialist feminism; critical geographic thoughts

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

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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: 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
Non-state diplomacies; minority territorial autonomy arrangements; territorial politics; human rights; Canada-Asia relations; China; Hong Kong

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

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Sheila Htoo: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Political ecology of war; armed conflicts and resources; ceasefire capitalism; peace; peacebuilding; Indigenous conservation; Salween Peace Park; Karen State, Myanmar/Burma; Southeast Asia

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Salman Hussain: Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, York University
Sexuality Studies Visiting Scholar, York University
Human rights and social movements; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory; political violence and terror; law and decolonization

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Jennifer Hyndman: Associate Vice-President, Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation
Professor of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Professor, Department of Social Science, 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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Ilan Kapoor: Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, 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, University of Toronto
Religious-cultural geography; sensuous geographies; poetics of resistance; Sikh diaspora; cosmopolitanism; Hong Kong; Asian urbanisms; worlding; trans-Pacific movements

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

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Philip F. Kelly: Professor of Geography and Associate Dean, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, 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
Academic Lead, Lillian Meighen Wright Foundation Maternal Child Health Scholars Program
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

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

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Janice C.H. Kim: Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
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 and Urban Change, 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, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 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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Marissa Largo: Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies, Department of Visual Art and Art History, York University
Community engagement; race; gender; Asian diasporic cultural production

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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: Associate Professor and Principal’s Research Chair (Tier 2) in Social Innovation for Health Equity and Food Security, University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Chinese consumer culture; food and gender, multicultural consumption; consumer health and well-being; social innovation and social enterprise; 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)
Media; cultural sociology; political sociology; digital sociology; computational text analysis; mixed methods

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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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Zhixiang (Steven) Liang: Assistant Professor, Management, York University

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Bernard Lightman: Professor, Department of Humanities, York University
Nineteenth-century popular science; Victorian scientific naturalism; global history of science; British naturalists in China

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Lucia Lo: Professor of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Chinese diaspora; immigrant settlement and integration; settlement services; identity and consumption; ethnic economy; ethnic banks; highly skilled migration

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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, Environmental Studies and Global Studies, School of Public Service, Boise State University
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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Htet Min Lwin: Doctoral Student, Religious Studies, York University
Religion and politics; religious ideology; Buddhism; social movements; participatory democracy; decentralization/federalism; culture; Burmese political philosophy; Southeast Asia

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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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Seema Mahi: Doctoral student, Sociology, University of Delhi
Visiting Graduate Associate, York Centre for Asian Research, York University
Sociology; cultural sociology; social anthropology; transnational migration; religious community; subaltern studies; Punjabi diaspora; culture

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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, Department of Economics, York University
Health economics; International Development; South Asia

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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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Casey Mecija: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University
Queer diaspora studies; Filipinx Studies; sensorial ecounters; sound as a mode of affective, psychic and social representations

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

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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: 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: 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 Candidate, Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies, York University
Vocality; everyday resistance; collaborative filmmaking; performative spaces; folklore; decolonization

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Taien Ng-Chan: Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Arts, AMPD, York University
Asian-Canadian media arts; Asian Diaspora; BIPOC Futurism

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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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Glen Norcliffe: Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, 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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Yu-Zhi Joel Ong: Assistant Professor, Computational Arts, York University
Director, Sensorium: The Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, York University
Visibility and audibility of ambient phenomena; Asian Diaspora

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

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Dana Osborne: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Toronto Metropolitan University

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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: 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: 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: 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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Nabila Rahman: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
NGO management; NGO governance; beneficiary accountability mechanisms; 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: 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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Jay Ramasubramanyam: Assistant Professor, Law and Society Program, York University

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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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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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Esther Sampson: Master’s student, Communication and Culture, York University and Ryerson University
Cultural artifacts; social semiotics/multimodal discourse analysis; cross-cultural book covers; identity; representation; diaspora; Other; Orientalism; ideologies; culturally Western English translations of Japanese self-help books; self-help book covers

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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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Margaret E. Schotte: Associate Professor, Department of History, York University.
Maritime history; trade and colonialism in Indian Ocean world; early modern history of science and technology; history of the book and information; digital humanities

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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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Aparna Sengupta: Master’s student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Disaster anthropology; anthropology of policy and bureaucracy; Indigenous communities and knowledge; India; environmental management; information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Informon 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: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice

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Shirin Shahrokni: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Glendon College, York University
Sociology of race, racisms and anti-racisms; international migration; second-generation immigrants; critical race theory; racial capitalism

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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
Decolonial feminism; Southeast Asian politics; international relations; gender-based violence; conflict-impacted communities

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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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Jagteshwar Singh Sohi: Doctoral student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Environmental law and policy; environmental justice; tribal; India

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Srinivasan Sharada: Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
Gender; development; social justice; India

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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: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Family therapy; dysfunctional family; inter-generational trauma; performance; improvisation; mental health

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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; Japan; United States; Hawai'i; Canada; social history; women, gender, sexuality; race; class; borders and borderlands; marriage; divorce; nineteenth century; twentieth century

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Evnur Taran: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Hydropower dams; Artvin Dam; exploitation of rivers; development-based displacement; Turkey; eastern Black Sea coast

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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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Aidin Torkameh: Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University
State formation; Iran; critical urban theory; human geography

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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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Patricia Trudel: Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Korean Studies; postcolonialism; feminist theory; Korean diaspora; identity; cultural studies

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Ethel Tungohan: Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism
Associate 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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Catherine Umolac: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; residential schools

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Daniel Uy: Master's student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Queer Asian diaspora

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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 Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Political ecology; fisheries; agrarian studies; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Taiwan; Indonesia

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Julie Vig: Assistant Professor, Humanities, Religious Studies, and South Asian Cultures, York University
The Early Modern in South Asia; Punjabi and Brajbhasha literature; comparative religion; Gender, sexuality and religion; Sikh women in the diaspora; Queer studies

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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: 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: 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
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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Eleanor Yang: Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
The Chinese/Hakka diaspora; Chinese history; anti-Asian racism; model minority myth; perpetual foreigner syndrome

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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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Emo Yesil: MA Candidate, Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University
Food politics; history/geo-cultural history of Central Asia/Turkic Asia; food studies; Turkish Studies; Sinology; creative writing

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Hongbing Yu: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Toronto Metropolitan University
Language and cognition; semiotics; Chinese philosophy (particularly Taoism, Zen Buddhism and Wang Yangming’s thought); Chinese mythology

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Sashar Zarif: Identity; globalization; cross-cultural collaborations; dance; music; Near East and Central Asia

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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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Tracy Ying Zhang: Assistant Professor (CLTA), Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University
Labour and cultural Industries; intersectional Feminisms; cultural policy studies; global politics and cultural economy; media and performance; minority cultural productions; live entertainment in transnational China; Sino-Tibetan cultural politics

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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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Sebastian Yuxi Zhao: Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture, York University
Intercultural communication; Chinese diaspora; new media; identity; popular culture

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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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