Asian Diaspora

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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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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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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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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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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Russell Belk

Kraft Foods Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University

Meanings of possessions; collecting; gift-giving; materialism; East Asia; Asian Diaspora

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Jenna Blower

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Refugee and mgration issues; transnational migration; Filipina domestic workers; Philppines; Canada

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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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Jessica Caporusso

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Political ecology; sustainable development; transnational encounters; South Asian Diaspora

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Sabina Chatterjee

Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

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Soma Chatterjee

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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Claudia Chaufan

Associate Professor, Health Policy and Global Health, York University

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Lily Cho

Chair and Associate Professor, Department of English, York University

Diasporic subjectivity in cultural studies; postcolonial literature and theory; Asian North American and Canadian literature; Chinese Diaspora

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Elena Chou

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

“Race” and racialization; identity and representation; cultural studies; media and popular culture; Asian Diaspora

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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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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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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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Adam Faux

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Music, York University

Composition; liquid

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, York University

Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

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Ann H. Kim

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Immigrant and ethnic integration processes; spatial manifestations of urban inequality; Korean Diaspora; South Korea

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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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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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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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Dani Magsumbol

Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Filipinx diaspora, migrant bodies as borders, migrants as capital in the global labour market, transnational motherhood/families, urbanities

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Sarah Maiter

Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Race and racism; children and youth; child welfare practice and policy for diverse communities; minority youth and their development; anti-oppressive, anti racist practice; mental health practice and policy for diverse ethno-racial groups

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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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Mila Mendez

Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies

race; racialization; blackness; embodied memories

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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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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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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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Mona Oikawa

Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies; Japanese Canadians

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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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Janice Phonepraseuth

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shabnam Sukhdev

Master's candidate, Graduate Programme in Film, York University

Normality and otherness; diaspora; feminism

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Geetha Sukumaran

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Contemporary Tamil poetry; women's writing; trauma literature and translation

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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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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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Catherine Umolac

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; residential schools

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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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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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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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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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