Loren Brandt

Loren Brandt is the Noranda Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the Chinese economy in leading economic journals, and has been involved in extensive household and enterprise survey...

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Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street

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Tania Li

Tania Li’s early research in Southeast Asia concerned urban cultural politics in Singapore. Since then she has focused on culture, economy, environment, and development in Indonesia’s upland regions. She has written about the rise of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples’ movement, land reform, rural class formation, struggles over the forests and conservation, community resource management, and state-organized resettlement. Her book The Will to Improve (2007) explores a century of interventions by colonial...

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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street

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tania.li@utoronto.ca

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Izumi Sakamoto

Izumi Sakamoto is Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. A former Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Sakamoto received her MSW, MS and Ph.D. (Social Work & Psychology) from the University of Michigan and her BA and MA from Sophia University, Japan. With five grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as the Principal Investigator, Dr. Sakamoto’s research has focused on equity, anti-oppression...

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Room 432, 246 Bloor Street West

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T 416-946-8224

izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca

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Tong Lam

Tong Lam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies and the Graduate Department of History and Director of the Global Taiwan Program at the Asian Institute. He is also Acting Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies for the 2020-21 academic year. His research is on the modern and contemporary history of China, with emphases on empire and nation, governmentality, knowledge-production, as well...

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Nhung Tran

Nhung Tuyet Tran is former director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies and Associate Professor of History. Trained in Chinese legal history at the University of Pennsylvania and Southeast Asian social history at UCLA, Tran’s intellectual interests lie at the intersection of gender, law, and religion in early modern Vietnam. She is the author of Familial Properties: Gender, State & Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1460-1783 (Hawai’i, 2018); editor of...

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Weiguo Zhang

Weiguo Zhang is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and is affiliated with the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Institute for Life Course and Aging. He received his Ph.D. in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1998. Before joining in the Department of Sociology, he worked as a lecturer...

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South Building, Room DV-3248, 3359 Mississauga Road North

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T 905-828-3943

weiguo.zhang@utoronto.ca

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Hy Van Luong

Hy V. Luong (Ph.D., Harvard University) is currently Professor of Anthropology. He is interested in the interplay of discourse, social structure, political economy, and in East and Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam). He has regularly conducted fieldwork in Vietnam since 1987. Luong’s current projects in Vietnam focus on discourse, gender, political economy, gifts and social capital, and sociocultural transformation in rural and urbanizing communities in the northern and southern parts...

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Room 336, 19 Russell Street

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vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca
Lisa Yoneyama

Lisa Yoneyama received her B.A. in German Language Studies and M.A. in International Relations at Sophia University, Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, California. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she taught Cultural Studies and U.S.-Japan Studies at University of California, San Diego, where she also served as Director of two academic units, Program for Japanese Studies and Critical Gender Studies Program. Her research interests have centered...

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RL 14215

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Joshua Barker

Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Vice-Dean, Graduate Education and Program Reviews, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He received his B.A. from Trent University, his M.A. from SOAS at the University of London, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught and conducted research at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia and has been a post doctoral fellow at Twente University, the Netherlands Institute of...

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AP 228, 19 Russell Street

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T 416-946-3305

j.barker@utoronto.ca

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Lynette Ong

Lynette H. Ong is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed at the Asian Institute and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research interests are authoritarian politics, contentious politics and the political economy of development. She is an expert of China and Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia. Her current research addresses China’s state repression, social control, and citizens’ resistance. She writes about Chinese state’s outsourcing of repression using “thugs-for-hire” and engaging with brokers to...

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lynette.ong@utoronto.ca

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Bonnie McElhinny

Bonnie McElhinny is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these. Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines during the American colonial occupation, as...

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Dept. of Anthropology 19 Russell St Univ. of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2

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T 416-978-3297

F 416-946-5561

bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Wendy Dobson

Wendy Dobson is a Professor at the Rotman School of Management and Co-director of the Rotman Institute for International Business. She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government and a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada’s leading independent economic think tank and has served as non-executive director of a number of Canadian companies. She is also a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation,...

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105 St. George Street

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dobson@rotman.utoronto.ca
Takashi Fujitani

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Professor Fujitani comes to the University of Toronto from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a professor of modern Japanese history for two decades. Professor Fujitani’s books include Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1996), Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001), and Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans...

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8995

t.fujitani@utoronto.ca
Rachel Silvey

Rachel Silvey is Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute and Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is a Faculty Affiliate in CDTS, WGSI, and the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a dual B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Environmental Studies and Southeast Asian Studies. Professor Silvey is best...

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1 Devonshire Place, room 225N

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ai.director@utoronto.ca
Ruoyun Bai

Ruoyun Bai is a leading scholar in Chinese television studies. She published her monograph, Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics in 2014 with the University of British Columbia Press, and co-edited two books on Chinese television, TV Drama in China (2009) and Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century: Entertaining the Nation (2014). She studies Chinese television as a powerful cultural institution that constantly evolves as a result of interactions among...

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Room HW 415, 1265 Military Trail

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rbai@utsc.utoronto.ca
Hae Yeon Choo

Professor Hae Yeon Choo’s research centers on gender, transnational migration, and citizenship to examine global social inequality. In her empirical and theoretical work, she employs an intersectional approach to social inequalities, integrating gender, race, and class in her analyses. This approach provided the foundation for an article published in Sociological Theory in 2010 (with Myra Marx Ferree), which offers an intersectional methodology to address the complex dimensions of analysis in sociological research....

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Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue

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hy.choo@utoronto.ca
Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto’s Interim Vice President, International. He is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Political Science. He was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014, and held the Canada Research Chair in health, democracy and development for a full two terms,...

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-7955

joe.wong@utoronto.ca

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Ito Peng

Ito Peng is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology, and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She is also the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto. She teaches political sociology, specializing in family, gender, and demographic issues, migration and comparative social policy. She has written extensively on family and gender policies, labour market changes, and social...

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725 Spadina Avenue

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itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Marion Bogo

Marion Bogo joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 1979 as a Tutor/Social Work Practice Professor. Today she is a full Professor in the Faculty and an Honorary Research Fellow at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland. She teaches direct clinical social work practice, social work supervision, and the theory and practice of social work education. Her primary research interests focus on competency for professional practice including social work education,...

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246 Bloor Street West

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Yiching Wu

Yiching Wu teaches East Asian Studies, modern Chinese history, and anthropology at the University of Toronto. An anthropologist trained at the University of Chicago, his research focuses on the history, society, and politics of Mao’s China, in particular during the Cultural Revolution. His main scholarly interests include historical anthropology, critical social theory, populism and social protest, modern Chinese history, Chinese socialism and post-socialism, and politics of historical knowledge. He is...

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Jacques Bertrand

Jacques Bertrand is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Collaborative Master’s Program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies (CESEAS, formerly Asia-Pacific Studies or MAPS). He was also founding Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute (2010-12). A graduate of Princeton University (PhD), he also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and McGill University. His work has focused mainly on ethnic...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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Li Chen

Li Chen received his J.D. from University of Illinois (magna cum laude) and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is currently Associate Professor of History, Global Asia Studies, and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include late Imperial and modern China (15th through 20th centuries), Chinese law and society, Sino-Western relations, law and empire, history of science and biopower in jurisprudence, politics of translation, cultural...

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HW510 UTSC

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T (416) 287-7128

lc.chen@utoronto.ca
Andre Sorensen

André Sorensen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published extensively on Japanese urbanisation, urban planning, and planning history. His monograph ‘The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the 21st Century’ (Routledge 2002) won the book prize of the International Planning History Association in 2004. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the University of Tokyo...

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Bladen Wing, Room 530, 1265 Military Trail

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sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
Andre Schmid

Andre Schmid is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. His research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century Korea, as seen against the broader context of East Asian and world history. He is working on a book dealing with the cultural history of the Cold War. By focusing on dominant ideologies of domesticity in north and south Korea, this project comparatively explores postwar reconstruction efforts...

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T 416-946-3312

andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
Diana Fu

Diana Fu is associate professor of political science at The University of Toronto and director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is a non-resident fellow at Brookings and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her...

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Room 3012, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-3334

F 416-978-5566

diana.fu@utoronto.ca

www.dianafu.org

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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Ping-Chun Hsiung is a Professor in the Sociology Department and affiliated with the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival research to advance knowledge and theory in gender studies and qualitative research at local and international levels. Over the last two decades, she has contributed to the development of women’s NGOs in China and the establishment...

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1265 Military Trail

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pchsiung@utsc.utoronto.ca
Amrita Daniere

Professor Amrita Daniere is a full professor of Geography and Planning. She served as Co-Director of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (which is funded through the IPaSS program, a cooperative initiative of SSHRC and IDRC). In March 2016, she was appointed Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean at U of T Mississauga for five years (2016-2021). Amrita has worked for over 20 years on issues related to infrastructure provision,...

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Room 263S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 905-828-3791

F 905-828-3979

amrita.daniere@utoronto.ca
Eric Cazdyn

Eric Cazdyn is Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Toronto (Centre for Comparative Literature and Department of East Asian Studies) where he teaches courses on critical and cultural theory, globalization, psychoanalysis, Marx and Marxism, Deleuze, film and video, architecture, modern literature, and modern Japan. He is the author of the following books: The Already Dead (Duke, 2012), After Globalization (with Imre Szeman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), The Flash of Capital (Duke, 2002); and...

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Centre for Comparative Literature Northrop Frye Hall 324

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e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca

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Ruoyun Bai

Associate Professor, Global Asia Studies, UTSC
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Joshua Barker

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute

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AP 228, 19 Russell Street

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Jacques Bertrand

Director, Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies
Professor of Political Science

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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Marion Bogo

Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

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246 Bloor Street West
Alana Boland

Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room 5029, 100 St. George Street
Loren Brandt

Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Professor, Department of Economics

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Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street
Eric Cazdyn

Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies

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Centre for Comparative Literature Northrop Frye Hall 324
Li Chen

Associate Professor of History, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Graduate Department of History, Center for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, and Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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HW510 UTSC
Hae Yeon Choo

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue
Amrita Daniere

Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean, U of T Mississauga
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room 263S, 1 Devonshire Place
Wendy Dobson

Professor and Co-Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management;
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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105 St. George Street
Diana Fu

Director, East Asia Seminar Series
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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Room 3012, 100 St. George Street
Takashi Fujitani

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (on leave 2020-21)
Professor, Department of History

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor, Asian Institute
Professor, Department of Sociology

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1265 Military Trail
Ken Kawashima

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies,
Asian Institute

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Room 14127, 130 St. George Street
Tong Lam

Acting Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies and Director, Global Taiwan Program
Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

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Tania Li

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street
Hy Van Luong

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute

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Room 336, 19 Russell Street

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vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca
Katherine MacIvor

Program Advisor and Communications Officer, Asian Institute

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Room 228N, 1 Devonshire Place
Bonnie McElhinny

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY;
WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTE

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Dept. of Anthropology 19 Russell St Univ. of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2
Lynette Ong

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute

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Ito Peng

Professor, Department of Sociology
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute

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725 Spadina Avenue
Izumi Sakamoto

Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room 432, 246 Bloor Street West
Shiho Satsuka

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room AP 236, 19 Russell Street
Andre Schmid

Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Rachel Silvey

Richard Charles Lee Director, Asian Institute
Professor, Department of Geography

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1 Devonshire Place, room 225N
Jesook Song

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room AP208, 19 Russell Street
Andre Sorensen

Professor of Urban Geography, Department of Social Science, UTSC
Chair, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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Wen-Ching Sung

Assistant Professor, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room VC 308, 91 Charles Street West
Nhung Tran

Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
Professor, Department of History

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Ka Tat Tsang

Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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246 Bloor Street West
Joseph Wong

University of Toronto’s Interim Vice President, International
Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Professor, Department of Political Science

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place
Yiching Wu

Associate Professor, Asian Institute and Department of East Asian Studies

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Room 104N, 1 Devonshire Place
Jia-Lin Xie

Professor, Rotman School of Management
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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105 St. George Street
Lisa Yoneyama

Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and Women and Gender Studies Institute
Collaborative Master's Specialisation in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute; Affiliated faculty, CSUS

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RL 14215
Weiguo Zhang

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UTM
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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South Building, Room DV-3248, 3359 Mississauga Road North
Xiaodong Zhu

Professor, Department of Economics
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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