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 is currently engaged in a 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),...

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Amrita Daniere

Professor Amrita Daniere is a full professor of Geography and Planning and 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 two years (2016-2018). Amrita has worked for over 20 years on issues related to infrastructure provision, urban environmental...

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Room 262S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946 8983

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daniere@geog.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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T (416) 287-5607

sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
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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Yanjun Cai

Dr. Yanjun Cai is UCRSEA’s Postdoctoral Fellow for 2017/2018 and joins the Project in November 2017. She completed her doctoral dissertation, “Photovoice for Vulnerability: Resilience Building in the Philippines”, in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The dissertation project was funded by the Toyota Foundation and recognized by the MIT Climate CoLab Popular Choice Award. Dr. Cai has years of research and practice experience in...

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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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Room 2042, 40 Willcocks Street

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T 416-946-5800

lisa.yoneyama@utoronto.ca
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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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
Beatrice Jauregui

Beatrice Jauregui is assistant 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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T +1 416 978 6438

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beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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
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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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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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

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Jack Leong

Dr. Jack Leong is the Director of the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto. He chairs the International and Community Outreach Committee at the University of Toronto Libraries, which oversees the library’s visiting and exhibit programs. With his passion in education and information science, he has successfully established the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library housing the largest research collection on Hong Kong and Chinese Canadian...

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8th floor, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-3892

jack.leong@utoronto.ca
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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T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

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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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Room 106N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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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Yoonjung Kang

Yoonjung Kang is an associate professor of linguistics in the Centre for French and Linguistics and holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Linguistics. Her area of specialization is phonology, phonetics, and their interface with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The current topic of research includes loanword phonology, sound change and variation, dialect variation and contact, and Heritage language phonology and phonetics. She is an associate editor of Phonology and a section...

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HW314, 1265 Military Trail

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T 416) 287-7172

kang@utsc.utoronto.ca
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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Ito Peng

Ito Peng is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology, and the Munk School of Global Affairs and 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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T 416 946 5902

itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Ritu Birla

Ritu Birla is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Initiative in Global Governance, Economy and Society at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She has previously 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. Recognized for bringing the empirical...

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Room 354S, 1 Devonshire Place

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r.birla@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
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
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
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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Loren Brandt

Loren Brandt is a 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 work in...

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Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street

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T 416-978-4442

brandt@chass.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 Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, and Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy and Development. He was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014. Wong is the author of many academic articles and several books, including Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South...

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T 416-946-7955

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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
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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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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Aisha Ahmad

Aisha Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. 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...

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MW 228

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T 416-287-7303

aisha.ahmad@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. His research is on the modern and contemporary history of China, with emphases on empire and nation, governmentality, knowledge-production, as well as urban space and ruins. His first book, A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese...

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tong.lam@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, where he runs the newly-created Centre for Disinformation Studies program stream. Dr. McQuade is affiliated with the Queen’s University Global History Initiative and with...

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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 is also Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (Asian Institute), of which he was also the founding director (2010-12). A graduate of Princeton University (PhD), he also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and McGill University. His work...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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Francis Cody

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. 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 social movement politics in Tamilnadu. Based on two years of fieldwork in the rural district...

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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
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
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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barton.scott@utoronto.ca
Kanta Murali

Kanta Murali is an Assistant 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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Room SS3043, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-8492

kanta.murali@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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T 416-978-7792

dobson@rotman.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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Cindy Ewing

Cindy Ewing is the Assistant Professor of Contemporary International History in the Department of History and the International Relations Program at Trinity College. Her research and teaching focus on the international history of the twentieth century, in particular the global Cold War in Asia and the development of international institutions. Research Interests: International History International Relations Global Cold War Education: Ph.D. Yale University M.A. University of Chicago B.A. Harvard University Courses: US and Asia since 1945 (USA400H1S...

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Room 311N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8973

cindy.ewing@utoronto.ca

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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

lchen@utsc.utoronto.ca
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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Room 104N, 1 Devonshire Place

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yiching.wu@utoronto.ca
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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1 Devonshire Place, room 106N

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T 416-978-1592

rankin@geog.utoronto.ca
Naisargi N. Dave

Professor Dave’s research concerns emergent forms of politics and relationality in contemporary urban India. Her book, Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke 2012) explores the relationship among queer politics, activism, and affect. It was awarded the Association for Queer Anthropology’s Ruth Benedict Prize for outstanding monograph in 2013. Her second book project, The Social Skin: Humans and Animals in India engages critically with humanism...

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Room AP 206, 19 Russell Street

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T 416-978-6050

naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
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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T 905-828-5395

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Diana Fu

Diana Fu is associate professor of political science at The University of Toronto and an affiliate of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy Asian Institute. Her research examines popular contention, state power, civil society, and citizenship, with a focus on contemporary China. Her book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China,” (2018, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series) theorizes a counter-intuitive form of mobilization under authoritarian rule. It won...

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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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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 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 has...

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100 Queen's Park

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T 416-586-5698

deepalid@rom.on.ca

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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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Room DV 3263, 3359 Mississauga Road North

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T 905-828-5389

shivaji.mukherjee@utoronto.ca

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Virginia Maclaren

Virginia Maclaren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning. She has a Ph.D. in Regional Science from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Regional Planning from the University of Ottawa. Her main research interests in Southeast Asia are in environmental and waste management. Her most recent projects include an investigation of community-based waste management in Siem Reap (with colleagues at the Royal University...

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Room 5050, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-1594

maclaren@geog.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
Scott McKnight

BIOGRAPHY Scott McKnight is a PhD candidate in Political Science (international relations and comparative politics). His research focuses on the comparative political economy of oil, in particular relations between national oil companies and their home-states. He is currently in the fieldwork stage of his dissertation, which includes the country-cases of Brazil, China, Ecuador and Mexico. After completing his undergraduate degree in public affairs and policy management at Carleton in Ottawa, he...

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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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Room HW 415, 1265 Military Trail

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T 416-287-7134

rbai@utsc.utoronto.ca
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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Steven Denney is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He 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 of Korean Studies, The Stanford Journal of East...

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Pushpa Acharya

Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute
Lecturer, Centre for South Asian Studies

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Room 222N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8842

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Aisha Ahmad

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute
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Senior Fellow, Massey College

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MW 228
Zaheer Baber

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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Jacques Bertrand

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

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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Ritu Birla

Director, Initiative in Global Governance, Economy and Society, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of History

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Room 354S, 1 Devonshire Place
Marion Bogo

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246 Bloor Street West
Alana Boland

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

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Room 5029, 100 St. George Street
Nina Boric

Manager, Asian Institute

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Room 226N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Loren Brandt

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

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Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street
Yanjun Cai

Postdoctoral Fellow, Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

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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

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SS2076, Sidney Smith Hall100 St. George Street
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
Julia Jihae Chun

Korean Studies Librarian, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

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Dylan Clark

Lecturer, Contemporary Asian Studies Program

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Room 003N, 1 Devonshire Place
Francis Cody

Associate Professor, Asian Institute/Centre for South Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology, UTM

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Room 269S, 1 Devonshire Place
Amrita Daniere

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

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Room 262S, 1 Devonshire Place
Naisargi N. Dave

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

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Room AP 206, 19 Russell Street
Steven Denney

Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science

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Deepali Dewan

Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum,
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Affiliated Faculty, Centre for South Asian Civilizations

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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;
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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105 St. George Street
Christoph Emmrich

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

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Room 106N, 1 Devonshire Place
Cindy Ewing

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Assistant Professor, International Relations Program, Trinity College
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS, Asian Institute

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Room 311N, 1 Devonshire Place
Victor Falkenheim

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

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Room 3029, 100 St. George St.
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Diana Fu

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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Room 3012, 100 St. George Street

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Takashi Fujitani

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Professor, Department of History

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place
Shannon Garden-Smith

Research Coordinator, Asian Institute
Programs Coordinator, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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Room 103N, 1 Devonshire Place
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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Room 5062, 100 St. George Street
Deanna Horton

Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor, Asian Institute
Professor, Department of Sociology

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1265 Military Trail
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

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

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Yoonjung Kang

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HW314, 1265 Military Trail
Malavika Kasturi

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

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Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
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
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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Room 14217, 130 St. George St.
Dasha (Darya) Kuznetsova

Event Coordinator and Administrator, Asian Institute

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Tong Lam

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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Room 064S, 1 Devonshire Place

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Yoonkyung Lee

Director, Centre for the Study of Korea
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Korea Foundation Endowed Chair of Korean Studies

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Room 342, 725 Spadina Avenue
Jack Leong

Director, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto

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8th floor, 130 St. George St.
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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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street
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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Room 336, 19 Russell Street

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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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Room 228N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Virginia Maclaren

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
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Room 5050, 100 St. George Street
Mark Manger

Director, Master of Global Affairs Program
Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs

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Lisa Mar

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Room 150, 15 King's College Circle
Bonnie McElhinny

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Dept. of Anthropology 19 Russell St Univ. of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2
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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Room AP334, 19 Russell Street
Libbie Mills

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

Location:
Room JHB 335, 170 St. George Street
Kiran Mirchandani

Professor, Adult Education and Community Development Program, OISE
Shivaji Mukherjee

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

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Room DV 3263, 3359 Mississauga Road North
Kanta Murali

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

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Room SS3043, 100 St. George Street
Rajyashree Narayanareddy

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

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Room B508, 1265 Military Trail
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

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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

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

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Room JHB313, 170 St. George Street
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
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

Location:
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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Location:
170 St. George St., Room 205

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Jayeeta Sharma

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

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Room HW428A, 1265 Military Trail
Rachel Silvey

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

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1 Devonshire Place, room 225N
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

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Bladen Wing, Room 530, 1265 Military Trail
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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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
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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Room 322, 170 St. George Street
Joseph Wong

Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place
Yiching Wu

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies
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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Location:
Room 2042, 40 Willcocks Street
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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