Kanta Murali

Kanta Murali is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include comparative political economy of development, Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy, state-business relations and labor policy. Her Ph.D. dissertation (“Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India”) at Princeton University aims to understand the political conditions favourable to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies by focusing on a specific empirical...

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Yoonkyung Lee

Yoonkyung Lee is a political sociologist specializing in labour politics, social movements, political representation, and the political economy of neoliberalism with a regional focus on East Asia. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and was associate professor in Sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies at State University of New York-Binghamton (2006-2016) before joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto in 2016. She is...

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Room 342, 725 Spadina Avenue

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T 416-978-4783

yoonkyung.lee@utoronto.ca
Francis Cody

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, where he is the Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies. He has been teaching at U of T since 2008. His research focuses on language, politics, and media in southern India. He first brought these interests to bear on a study of citizenship, literacy, and...

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Room 269S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8988

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francis.cody@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
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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T (416) 584-4443

e.cazdyn@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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Rajshri (Raji) Jayaraman

Raji Jayaraman is Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Economics. Her research in development and labor economics examines the role of incentives and social preferences on the decisions and performance of students, workers, and consumers. Her recent empirical work has examined the effect of incentive pay on worker productivity; school feeding programs on student outcomes; defaults on charitable donations; and...

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1 Devonshire Place, Room 366S

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T 416-978-1727

r.jayaraman@utoronto.ca

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Michelle Cho

Michelle Cho’s research and teaching focus on questions of collectivity and popular aesthetics in Korean film, media, and popular culture. She has published on Asian cinemas and Korean wave television, video, and pop music in such venues as Cinema Journal, the International Journal of Communication, The Korean Popular Culture Reader, and Asian Video Cultures (2019 “Best Edited Collection” Award winner, Society for Cinema and Media Studies). Following from her first book, Genre Worlds: Global Forms and Millennial South...

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Robarts Library 14217

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mh.cho@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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Deanna Horton

Deanna Horton is a Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, focusing on interactive mapping projects and related research. Mapping Canada in Asia can been seen on the Munk site: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/canasiafootprint/ as well as the website of the Business Council of Canada, the Canada-China Business Council and the Asia-Pacific Foundation. Some of her research can also be seen on @CanAsiaMap and @DLHinTO. Ms Horton is a Senior Fellow at...

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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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T 416-978-0652

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vanluong@chass.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

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diana.fu@utoronto.ca

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Naisargi N. Dave

Professor Dave’s research concerns emergent forms of politics and relationality in contemporary urban India. Her first book, Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke 2012) examines the relationship between queer desires and queer political formations. Dave argues, in short, that activism is an ethical practice comprised of critique, invention, and creative relational practice. Queer Activism was awarded the 2013 Ruth Benedict Prize by the Association for...

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naisargi.dave@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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lisa.yoneyama@utoronto.ca
Steven Denney

Steven Denney is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and holds an MA in Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University (Seoul) and a BA in Political Science from Harding University. With a primary interest in Korean politics and society and the political economy of Northeast Asia, Steven has published in The Asan Forum, The Review...

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IPL Research Office Rm 370s

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steven.denney@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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Aisha Ahmad

Aisha Ahmad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. In 2012, she was a fellow at the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her work explores the political economy of Islamist power in weak and failed states. She specializes in International Relations and International Security and has conducted fieldwork on conflict dynamics in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, Mali, and Kenya. Her...

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MW 228

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aisha.ahmad@utoronto.ca

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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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j.barker@utoronto.ca

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Sida Liu

Professor Liu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the sociology of law, organizations and professions, criminal justice, globalization, and social theory, with a geographical focus on the Greater China Region. Professor Liu has conducted extensive empirical research on China’s legal reform and legal profession, including the globalization of corporate law firms, the political mobilization of criminal defense lawyers, the feminization...

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Katharine Rankin

Katharine N. Rankin is Associate Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her broad research interests include gender and development, comparative market regulation, financial restructuring, planning history and theory, South Asia (Nepal). She is currently conducting comparative research on the gender politics of development institutions in Nepal and Vietnam. She is currently undertaking research in the areas of commercial gentrification, neighborhood-based economic development, and post-conflict transition/Nepal. She...

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rankin@geog.utoronto.ca
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
Beatrice Jauregui

Beatrice Jauregui is associate professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research is concerned with how the lived experiences and subjectivization of persons working in security institutions reflect and shape dynamics of social order and state power. Jauregui’s book Provisional Authority (University of Chicago 2016) is an ethnography of everyday police practices in northern India. She is co-editor of Anthropology and Global...

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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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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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izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca

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J. Barton Scott

J. Barton Scott works on questions of secularism, empire, and the history of the study of religion in colonial South Asia and Victorian Britain. He teaches courses on social and cultural theory, media and material religion, and religion in political thought. He is the author of Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule (University of Chicago, 2016) and the co-editor of Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia(Routledge, 2016). Recent publications include...

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170 St. George St., Room 205

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Carol Chin

Professor Chin’s research and teaching interests are in late nineteenth- through twentieth-century American foreign relations, specializing in U.S.-East Asian relations. Her particular interest is in the intersection of national identity with concepts of empire, culture, and gender and the ways in which these themes can enhance the study of international relations. She is the author of “Beneficent Imperialists: American Women Missionaries in China at the Turn of the Century” (Diplomatic...

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Woodsworth College, 119 St. George St.

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T 416-978-5782

carol.chin@utoronto.ca
Deepali Dewan

Deepali Dewan is an art historian with a special interest in the visual cultures of South Asia. She is a Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto, and is affiliated with the Centre for South Asian Studies. Her research spans colonial, modern and contemporary visual culture, knowledge production, and historiography. Her work on colonial South Asia...

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100 Queen's Park

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deepalid@rom.on.ca

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Elizabeth Wijaya

Elizabeth Wijaya works at the intersection of cinema, philosophy, and area studies. She is especially interested in the material and symbolic entanglements between East Asia and Southeast Asia cinema. Her work emphasizes a multimethodological approach, which is attentive to media forms, ethnographic detail, material realities, archival practices, international networks, and interdisciplinary modes of theorization. She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where she was...

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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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yiching.wu@utoronto.ca
Mark Manger

Mark S. Manger (PhD UBC) is an Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs specializing in Political Economy. His prior appointments were Lecturer for International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill, and Advanced Research Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His research focuses on the...

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Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto’s 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, 2006 to...

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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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Janet Poole

Janet Poole (Ph.D., Columbia University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research focuses on modernism in mid-20th century Korea, the relationship between aesthetics and formations of colonialism and postcolonial national division, theories of translation and the practice of literary translation. She is author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea (Columbia University Press, 2014), winner of the 2015 Modernist...

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Room 14097, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-5105

janet.poole@utoronto.ca
Libbie Mills

Libbie Mills teaches Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Toronto. Her principal research interest is in South Asian architectural theory and practice. Her work on the architectural instruction given in North Indian early Śaiva Tantra installation manuals features the first exposition of what the material holds and, by looking from text to extant buildings, introduces new dating tools, valuable for these texts and others. Her textual study has expanded...

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Room JHB 335, 170 St. George Street

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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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Tahseen Shams

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Toronto – St. George, and the 2020-21 Bissell-Heyd Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the United States of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of California, Los Angeles. My research interests are international migration, race/ethnicity, religion, and nationalism. The question guiding all my research pursuits...

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Scott McKnight

After receiving his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, Scott McKnight became a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of oil, in particular on relations between national oil companies and their home-states. For his doctoral dissertation, which was supervised by Dan Breznitz, he conducted fieldwork in Brazil, China, Ecuador and Mexico. After...

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Zaheer Baber

Zaheer is a general sociologist whose broad research interests include social theory, science, technology and society, comparative and historical sociology, race and racial projects, visual sociology etc. He has recently completed SSHRC funded project on the role of botanical gardens and colonial rivalries in the emergence of Botany as a science. His books include The Science of Empire (1996), Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals (2006), CyberAsia (editor, 2005), Society, History,...

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3359 Mississauga Road North South Building, Room 2077A

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T (905) 569-4348

zaheer.baber@utoronto.ca
Dylan Clark

Dylan Clark is an instructor for Contemporary Asian Studies and the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice. Clark has worked at the University of Toronto since 2006; teaching and serving in the the departments of Anthropology, Geography, Contemporary Asian Studies. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2006-2012) and Director of Contemporary Asian Studies (2012-2015). Prior to arriving at the University of Toronto, he worked at the University of...

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Room 003N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8975

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Lisa Mar

Lisa Mar specializes in modern Canadian and U.S. socio-political history, particularly immigration and ethnicity, and especially the experiences of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans. Her research focuses on Chinese Canadians and Chinese Americans, their relations with their neighbours, and relations between global and local multicultural experiences in Canada. Mar’s first book, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2010), exemplifies her blending of Canadian and Pacific World Studies by tracing...

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Room 150, 15 King's College Circle

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T 416-978-8087

F 416-971-2027

lisa.mar@utoronto.ca
Pegah Shahbaz

Pegah Shahbaz is a specialist of Persian classic literature of Iran, Central and South Asia. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy – the Asian Institute, an Associate Member of the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Inde, l’Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor of...

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Kajri Jain

Kajri Jain teaches in the Department of Visual and the Graduate Department of Art at the University of Toronto. Her research is on popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures. She is the author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Duke University Press, 2007). Jain’s current project is on gigantic religious statues in post-liberalization...

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CCT 3053, 3359 Mississauga Road North

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T 905-569-4878

kajri.jain@utoronto.ca
Yoonjung Kang

Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D., MIT) is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language Studies at UTSC and the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonetics and phonology and its interface with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Current research topics include loanword phonology, sound change, dialect variation and contact, heritage language phonetics and phonology, hyperspeech and sound change, speech rate and sound change,...

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MW314, UTSC

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T (416) 287-7172

yoonjung.kang@utoronto.ca

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Joseph McQuade

Joseph McQuade is the Richard Charles Lee Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies. He is also Editor-in-Chief at the NATO Association of Canada and Digital Content Manager for the Munk School’s Belt and Road in Global Perspective research initiative. Dr. McQuade is affiliated with the Queen’s University...

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Nina Boric

A strategy and project management specialist, Nina Boric brings over fifteen years of experience in higher education. Holding increasingly senior roles at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and currently at the Asian Institute, she continually offers unique vision and leadership in her positions. A two times Excellence through Innovation, University of Toronto, award winner, Nina has developed and...

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Room 226N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8997

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nina.boric@utoronto.ca
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
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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T 416-287-7291

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pchsiung@utsc.utoronto.ca
Rui Hou

Dr. Rui Hou is a postdoc fellow in the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Queen’s University in 2020. His doctoral dissertation, ‘Outsourced Authoritarianism: the Commercialization of State Control in Chinese Mayor’s Hotlines and the Internet-opinion Industry’, explores how for-profit organizations are engaged in the frontline governance of contemporary China. His current research interests are in political...

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Cheng Li

Cheng Li is Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale University, and a member...

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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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T 905-828-3942

hy.choo@utoronto.ca
Julia Jihae Chun

Julia Jihae Chun is a Korean Studies Librarian in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. Before coming to University of Toronto, Julia held a shared position as a Catalog Librarian for Korean language resources at Duke University and Korean Studies Librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). At the East Asian Library, she continues to build strong Korean Studies collections and works to acquire, catalogue, maintain,...

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Kyoungrok Ko

Kyoungrok Ko (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is an associate professor, teaching stream in the department of East Asian Studies. He is currently coordinating the Korean language program and teaching Korean language courses. He is a former board member of the American Association of Teachers of Korean and a recipient of the 2016 UofT Faculty of Arts and Science Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award. He has also taught Korean language and literature...

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Room 14217, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-5115

kyoungrok.ko@gmail.com
Matthew Walton

Matthew J Walton is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was the inaugural Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on religion and politics in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Buddhism in Myanmar. Matt’s first book, Buddhism, Politics, and Political...

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SS 3107

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T 416-978-0345

matthew.walton@utoronto.ca
Ritu Birla

Ritu Birla is Associate Professor in the Department of History. She has held positions as the Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School, and before that, Director of the Asian Institute’s sub-unit, the Centre for South Asian Studies. She currently directs a research project in Global Governance, Economy and Society at the Munk School. Recognized for bringing the empirical study of economy and empire to current...

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Frances Garrett

I have taught in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto since 2003. I grew up in Oregon, received a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2004. My research has examined the intersections between tantric practice, ritual and occult knowledge and medical theory, and what these tell us about the processes of institutional and...

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Room 302, 170 St. George Street

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Kiran Mirchandani

Dr. Mirchandani’s research and teaching focuses on gendered and racialized processes in the workplace; critical perspectives on organizational development and learning; criminalization and welfare policy; and globalization and economic restructuring. Using qualitative, interpretive approaches, her work is based on qualitative interviews with transnational service workers in India and workers in precarious jobs in Canada. RESEARCH INTERESTS Immigration and the labour market experiences of professional migrants to Canada Processes of racialization and gendering in...

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T 416 978-0884

kiran.mirchandani@utoronto.ca

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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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T 416-978-4442

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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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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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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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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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Phillip Lipscy

Phillip Y. Lipscy is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is also Chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. His research addresses substantive topics such as international cooperation, international organizations, the politics of energy and climate change, international relations of East Asia, and...

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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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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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Shivaji Mukherjee

I am an Assistant Professor in Political Science, at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and also part of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Toronto, St. George. I am also a Faculty Associate at the Center for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. I work on political violence and conflict in India, and do research on insurgencies in South Asia,...

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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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Christoph Emmrich

Christoph Emmrich (PhD University of Heidelberg, 2004), is Associate Professor for South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department for Historical Studies and is Chair of the UofT/McMaster Numata Buddhist Studies Program. His research bridges Southeast and South Asia as it engages with fields as diverse as Burmese and Nepalese Buddhism, and Tamil Jainism. He works with girl children, young women, and...

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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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Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute
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Aisha Ahmad

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute
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Professor, Department of Sociology
Center for South Asian Studies

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3359 Mississauga Road North South Building, Room 2077A
Ruoyun Bai

Associate Professor, Global Asia Studies, UTSC
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Room HW 415, 1265 Military Trail
Joshua Barker

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Affiliated Faculty, Asian Institute

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AP 228, 19 Russell Street

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

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Associate Professor, Department of History
Asian Institute
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Research Project in Global Governance, Economy and Society

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Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

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246 Bloor Street West
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Manager, Asian Institute

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Loren Brandt

Professor, Department of Economics
Noranda Chair in Economics and International Trade
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies

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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 Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian 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
Carol Chin

Associate Professor, Department of History
Principal, Woodsworth College

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Woodsworth College, 119 St. George St.
Michelle Cho

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Korea

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Robarts Library 14217
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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Korean Studies Librarian, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

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Dylan Clark

Lecturer, Contemporary Asian Studies Program

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Francis Cody

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies
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Amrita Daniere

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

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Naisargi N. Dave

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Steven Denney

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab

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IPL Research Office Rm 370s

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Deepali Dewan

Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum
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100 Queen's Park
Arti Dhand

Professor, Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Room 237, 73 Queen's Park Crescent
Wendy Dobson

Professor and Co-Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management;
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105 St. George Street
Christoph Emmrich

Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
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Victor Falkenheim

Professor Emeritus, Political Science and East Asian Studies
Contemporary Asian Studies Program

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Elisa Freschi

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Diana Fu

Director, East Asia Seminar Series
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Takashi Fujitani

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

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Shannon Garden-Smith

Research Coordinator, Asian Institute

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Frances Garrett

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute
Director, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies

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Room 302, 170 St. George Street
Kanishka Goonewardena

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Alessandro Graheli

Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies
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Deanna Horton

Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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Rui Hou

Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Institute

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Ping-Chun Hsiung

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Professor, Department of Sociology

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Kajri Jain

Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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CCT 3053, 3359 Mississauga Road North
Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Anthropology, Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Economics
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Yoonjung Kang

Professor, Department of Language Studies, UTSC
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Linguistics

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Malavika Kasturi

Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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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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Kyoungrok Ko

Senior Lecturer, Korean Language, Department of East Asian Studies
Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute

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Dasha (Darya) Kuznetsova

Event Coordinator and Administrator, Asian Institute

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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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Grayson Lee

Assistant to the Director, Centre for the Study of Korea

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Yoonkyung Lee

Director, Centre for the Study of Korea
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Korea Foundation Endowed Chair of Korean Studies

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Cheng Li

Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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Tania Li

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Phillip Lipscy

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs
Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS and Asian Institute

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Sida Liu

Associate Professor of Sociology and Law

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Hy Van Luong

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Affiliated Faculty, Asian Institute

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Ken MacDonald

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UTSC
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Katherine MacIvor

Program Advisor and Communications Officer, Asian Institute

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Mark Manger

Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs

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Lisa Mar

Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies
Associate Professor, Department of History

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Bonnie McElhinny

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY;
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Scott McKnight

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Joseph McQuade

Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Institute

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Heather Miller

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UTM
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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HSC 346
Libbie Mills

Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Kiran Mirchandani

Professor, Adult Education and Community Development Program, OISE

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Shivaji Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, U of T Mississauga
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Kanta Murali

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Rajyashree Narayanareddy

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto

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Lynette Ong

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute

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Ito Peng

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy
Director, Centre for Global Social Policy
Department of Sociology, and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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725 Spadina Avenue
Joshua Pilzer

Professor, Faculty of Music
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute

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EJ255, 80 Queen's Park Crescent
Janet Poole

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute

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Room 14097, 130 St. George St.
Bharat Punjabi

Lecturer, Asian Institute
Research Fellow, Global Cities Institute

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Jennifer Purtle

Associate Professor, Department of Art History
Affiliated Faculty, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Bhavani Raman

Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute
Srilata Raman

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Katharine Rankin

Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Centre for South Asian Studies

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1 Devonshire Place, room 106N
Ajay Rao

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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NE 153G, 3359 Mississauga Road North
Donald Rickerd

Research Fellow, Asian Institute
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Korea

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Karen Ruffle

Professor, Department of Historical Studies (UTM) and Department for the Study of Religion (St. George)
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Room 329, 170 St. George Street
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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J. Barton Scott

Assistant Professor, Historical Studies and the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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170 St. George St., Room 205

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Pegah Shahbaz

Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Institute

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Tahseen Shams

Assistant Professor, Sociology

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Jayeeta Sharma

Professor, Department of History, UTSC
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Rachel Silvey

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

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Neera Singh

Professor, Faculty of Forestry
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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Room 3028, 33 Willcocks Street
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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Aparna Sundar

Sessional Lecturer, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies

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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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Ka Tat Tsang

Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
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Shafique Virani

Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Historical Studies, UTM and Department for the Study of Religion, UTSG
Director, Centre for South Asian Civilizations

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Matthew Walton

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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SS 3107
Elizabeth Wijaya

Director, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
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Joseph Wong

University of Toronto’s 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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Yiching Wu

Associate Professor, Asian Institute and Department of East Asian Studies

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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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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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Professor, Department of Economics
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