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Asian Diaspora

Ali Al-Zaidi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University
Asian art; Orientalism; colonial history; archaeology; Britain; France
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R. Patrick Alcedo
R. Patrick Alcedo
Associate Professor, Department of Dance, York University
Performance of gender; folklorization of religion; world dance in the diaspora; Philippine traditional dances; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines
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Ameeriar Lalaie
Lalaie Ameeriar
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Race; racism and racialization; globalization; diaspora; affect and embodiment; labour studies; feminist studies; transnational Muslim cultures
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Asma Atique
Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies
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Himani Bannerji
Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; class formation; women; India; South Asian Diaspora
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Ranu Basu
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Geographies of marginality; diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; spatial methodologies; subalterity and education in Cuba, India and Canada
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Russell Belk
Russell Belk
Kraft Foods Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University
Meanings of possessions; collecting; gift-giving; materialism; East Asia; Asian Diaspora
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Benjamin Bongolan
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York Unviversity
Urban inequities; urban activism; Filipino diasporas; urban and social policy planning
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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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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
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
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
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
Synaesthetic and process composition
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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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Jillian Fulton
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; dance music; nostalgia; tarab; social violence; indeterminacy
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Zed Zhipeng Gao
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
YCAR External Research Associate
Chinese immigrants; China-West interaction; Chinese socialism; Chinese post-socialism; psychology; identity and belonging; mental health
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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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Yasir Hameed
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Public space; citizen engagement; housing equity; social justice in urban policy, planning and design
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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
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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Meera Kanageswaran
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Bharathanatyam; Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora
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Amardeep Kaur
Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Cultural geography of religion; sacred and poetics; power and resistance; Sikh diaspora; cosmopolitanism; East Asia; Hong Kong; Asian urbanism; worlding; trans-Pacific movements and mobilities
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Ali Kazimi
Ali Kazimi
Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University
Race; migration; indignity; history; memory; emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies; South Asian Diaspora; India
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Philip F. Kelly
Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Class and labour markets; immigration; transnational linkages; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines
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Nazilla Khanlou
Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Faculty of Health, York University
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, York University
Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings
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Ann H. Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Immigrant and ethnic integration processes; spatial manifestations of urban inequality; Korean Diaspora; South Korea
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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
Lucia Lo
Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Chinese diaspora; immigrant settlement and integration; settlement services; identity and consumption; ethnic economy; ethnic banks; highly skilled migration
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Bill Lu
Bill Lu
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Public & International Affairs, Glendon College, York University
Public policy; Canada; Asian Diaspora; China; social determinants of health
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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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Mila Mendez
Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
race; racialization; blackness; embodied memories
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Jean Michel Montsion
Jean Michel Montsion
Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Associate Director, York Centre for Asian Research
Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies
Gateway cities; ethnicity; international education; Indigeneity; Singapore, Vancouver
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Chandan Narayan
Chandan Narayan
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Phonetics; language development in infants; Asian Diaspora
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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages
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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
Valerie Preston
Professor, Department of Geography, York University
Gender and local labour markets; immigration and Canadian cities; social and urban geography; transnationalism and citizenship; Chinese Diaspora
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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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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
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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Ethel Tungohan
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism
Assistant Professor, Departments of Politics and Social Science, York University
Migrant labour; migrant activism
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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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Sabrina Zhao
Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Gender; diasporic identities; historical identities,
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