Hae Yeon Choo

Professor Hae Yeon Choo’s research centers on gender, citizenship, transnational migration, and urban sociology 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...

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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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Neera Singh

Research Interests Conservation and development Commons and Commoning Practices Community forestry, forest rights and governance Environmental subjectivity; ethics of care and affective ecologies Social movements and environmental justice India

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neera.singh@utoronto.ca
Libbie (Elizabeth) Mills

Libbie Mills is a Sanskritist whose principal research interest is in the architectural instruction given in North Indian early Shaiva Tantra installation manuals. Her work 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 for others of their kind. From the basis of this textual study, she examines domestic and temple building in the...

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Room JHB 335, 170 St. George Street

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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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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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T +1 647 461 4109

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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 Ursula Franklin Street

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T 416-978-0652

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vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca
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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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
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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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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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
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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T (416) 287-5607

sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
Ruoyun Bai

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

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Room HW 415, 1265 Military Trail

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rbai@utsc.utoronto.ca
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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Room AP 206, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

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T 416-978-6050

naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
Andre Schmid

Andre Schmid is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Professor Schmid’s research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century Korea and East Asia, as seen in the broader context of global, comparative history. He is currently working on a book about the early formation of North Korea after the devastation of the late colonial and Korean wars. This book focuses on the turn to the heteronormative nuclear...

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T 416-946-7226

andre.schmid@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 has offered courses in international business and Canadian public policy. Dobson is a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute Canada’s leading in dependent economic think tank, and has served as a non-executive director of a number of Canadian companies in finance and energy. She has also chaired the...

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105 St. George Street

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T 416-978-7792

dobson@rotman.utoronto.ca
Karen Ruffle

Karen Ruffle, Associate Professor of History of Religions (UTM) and the Study of Religion (UTSG), specializes in the study of South Asian Shiʿism. Her research and teaching interests focus on devotional texts, ritual practice, and Shiʿi material practices in South Asia. She has conducted field research in India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. Her books include Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism (2011) and Everyday Shiʿism in South Asia...

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Weiguo Zhang

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

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

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T 905-828-3943

weiguo.zhang@utoronto.ca

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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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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
Joshua Barker

Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Vice-Provost of Graduate Research & Education, University of Toronto. 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...

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AP 228, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

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T 416-946-3305

j.barker@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 Ursula Franklin Street

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T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

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Diana Fu

Diana Fu is associate professor in political science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, a China Fellow at the Wilson Center, and, a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations. She has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her research examines popular contention, state control, civil society, and...

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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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Zaheer Baber

Zaheer specializes in general critical sociology. His 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 a SSHRC funded project on the role of botanical gardens and colonial rivalries in the emergence of Botany as a formal science. In addition to a number of books and articles, he is also a frequent contributor of...

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3359 Mississauga Road North South Building, Room 2077A

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T (905) 569-4348

zaheer.baber@utoronto.ca
Eric Cazdyn

Eric Cazdyn is Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Toronto. Cazdyn’s work focuses on critical and cultural theory, especially on questions of how art and politics relate to questions of time, subjectivity, and change. When he teaches, Cazdyn usually begins with a central problematic (such as “the Body” or “Japan” or “Architecture”) and then tracks the problematic historically, with special attention given to how the problematic...

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Northrop Frye Hall 324

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e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca
Joshua Pilzer

Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music, and an affiliate faculty of the Centre for the Study of Korea. His research focuses on the anthropology of music in modern Korea and Japan, women’s musical worlds, and the relationships between music, survival, memory, traumatic experience, marginalization, disability, public culture, mass media, social practice and identity. He is particularly interested in everyday musical practice as a...

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T 416-946-5159

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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, 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
Shafique Virani

Professor Shafique N. Virani’s research focuses on Ithna-‘ashari and Ismaili Shi‘ism, Quranic studies, Islamic history, philosophy, mysticism and pluralism, Muslim literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages, and Bhakti literature. His publications include books, a documentary film, multimedia productions, a registered invention, a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, entries in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Encyclopaedia of Religion, and numerous peer reviewed articles. Educated at Harvard and McGill, he...

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Room 322, 170 St. George Street

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shafique.virani@utoronto.ca

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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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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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phillip.lipscy@utoronto.ca

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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Ping-Chun Hsiung is a Professor in the Department of Sociology (UTSC) and is 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...

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1265 Military Trail

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F 416 287-7283

pc.hsiung@utoronto.ca

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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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RL 14215

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T 416-946-5800

lisa.yoneyama@utoronto.ca
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

brandt@chass.utoronto.ca
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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T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@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, status only, 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...

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100 Queen's Park

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deepalid@rom.on.ca

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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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kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
Victor Falkenheim

Victor C. Falkenheim is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto where he has taught since 1972. Educated at Princeton (B.A) and Columbia (MA & Ph.D) Professor Falkenheim has previously served twice as Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies as well as Director of the Joint Centre for Modern East Asia. His research interests and publications center on local politics and...

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T 416-978-3859

victor.falkenheim@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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izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca

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Lynette Ong

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

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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
Aisha Ahmad

Aisha Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, the Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative and a Senior Researcher of the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Chair of the Board of Directors of Women in International Security-Canada. She is currently a Senior Fellow at Massey College and a Fellow at Trinity College, and was formerly...

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MW 228

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T 416-287-7303

aisha.ahmad@utoronto.ca

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Kajri Jain

Professor Jain is interested in how the efficacies, affects, and values associated with images arise not only from what goes on within the picture-frame but also from the production, circulation, and deployments of images as material objects. She therefore finds it useful to bring ethnographic sensibilities and methods to the study of images. Her work on popular images in modern and contemporary India encompasses the bazaar icons known as “calendar...

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CCT 3053, UTM/SS6030A, Sidney Smith Hall, UTSG

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kajri.jain@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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r.birla@utoronto.ca
Ito Peng

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

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725 Spadina Avenue

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T 416 946 5902

itopeng@chass.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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T 416-946-8975

dylan.clark@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
Michael Wade Donnelly

Professor Donnelly received his BS from the School of General Studies of Columbia University. He continued his studies at Columbia in the Department of Public Law and Government as a Fellow of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science. He undertook four years of dissertation research in Tokyo as a Foreign Area Fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and as a Research Fellow at the...

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

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

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AP 228, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

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Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

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

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Nina Boric

Manager, Asian Institute

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Loren Brandt

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

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Location:
Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street

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T 416-978-4442

brandt@chass.utoronto.ca

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Eric Cazdyn

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

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Location:
Northrop Frye Hall 324

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T (416) 584-4443

e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca
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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Location:
HW510 UTSC

Contact:

T (416) 287-7128

lc.chen@utoronto.ca
Hae Yeon Choo

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Korea

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Location:
Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue

Contact:

T 905-828-3942

hy.choo@utoronto.ca
Dylan Clark

Lecturer, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice
Lecturer, Contemporary Asian Studies Program, Asian Institute

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Location:
Room 003N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8975

dylan.clark@utoronto.ca
Francis Cody

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Asian Institute/Centre for South Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology, UTM

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Location:
Room 269S, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8988

F 416-946-8915

francis.cody@utoronto.ca

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Amrita Daniere

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

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Location:
100 St. George Street, Room 5063

Contact:

T 416-978-3236

amrita.daniere@utoronto.ca
Naisargi N. Dave

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Centre for South Asian Studies

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Location:
Room AP 206, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

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T 416-978-6050

naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
Steven Denney

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab

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Location:
IPL Research Office Rm 370s

Contact:

T +1 647 461 4109

steven.denney@utoronto.ca
Deepali Dewan

Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum
Associate Professor (status only), Department of Art History
Centre for South Asian Studies

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Location:
100 Queen's Park

Contact:

T 416-586-5698

deepalid@rom.on.ca

www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/deepali-dewan
Arti Dhand

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

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Location:
Room 237, 73 Queen's Park Crescent

Contact:

T 416-585-4426

arti.dhand@utoronto.ca
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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Location:
105 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-7792

dobson@rotman.utoronto.ca
Michael Wade Donnelly

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto
Dr. David Chu Professor Emeritus of Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto

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politics.utoronto.ca/faculty/profile/29

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Christoph Emmrich

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

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Location:
Room 106N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
Cindy Ewing

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Assistant Professor, International Relations Program, Trinity College
Centre for the Study of the United States
Asian Institute

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Location:
Room 311N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8973

cindy.ewing@utoronto.ca

www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/cindy-ewing

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Victor Falkenheim

Professor Emeritus, Political Science and East Asian Studies

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Location:
Room 3029, 100 St. George St.

Contact:

T 416-978-3859

victor.falkenheim@utoronto.ca
Diana Fu

Associate Professor, Munk School and Department of Political Science
Director, East Asian Seminar Series

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Location:
Room 3012, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-3334

F 416-978-5566

diana.fu@utoronto.ca

www.dianafu.org

twitter.com/dianafutweets
Takashi Fujitani

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

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Location:
Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8995

t.fujitani@utoronto.ca

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Shannon Garden-Smith

Research Coordinator, Asian Institute

Location:
Room 103N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416.946.5372

ai.coordinator@utoronto.ca
Frances Garrett

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

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Location:
Room 302, 170 St. George Street

Contact:

frances.garrett@utoronto.ca
Kanishka Goonewardena

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

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Location:
Room 5062, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-5526

kanishka.goonewardena@utoronto.ca

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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor, Department of Sociology (UTSC)

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Location:
1265 Military Trail

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T 416-287-7291

F 416 287-7283

pc.hsiung@utoronto.ca

www.pchsiung.com

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Kajri Jain

Professor, Department of Visual Studies, UTM
History of Art, UTSG
Centre for South Asian Studies

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Location:
CCT 3053, UTM/SS6030A, Sidney Smith Hall, UTSG

Contact:

kajri.jain@utoronto.ca
Rajshri (Raji) Jayaraman

Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Economics
Centre for South Asian Studies

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, Room 366S

Contact:

T 416-978-1727

r.jayaraman@utoronto.ca

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Malavika Kasturi

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

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Location:
Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

malavika.kasturi@utoronto.ca
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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Location:
Room 14127, 130 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-946-5116

ken.kawashima@utoronto.ca
Kyoungrok Ko

Associate Professor, Korean Language, Department of East Asian Studies
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Location:
Room 14217, 130 St. George St.

Contact:

T 416-946-5115

kyoungrok.ko@utoronto.ca
Dasha (Darya) Kuznetsova

Event Coordinator and Administrator, Asian Institute

Location:
1 Devonshire Place, room 227N

Contact:

T 416-946-8996

asian.institute@utoronto.ca

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Tong Lam

Director (on leave), Global Taiwan Studies Program
Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

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Contact:

tong.lam@utoronto.ca

tonglam.com

twitter.com/tong_lam
Tania Li

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Centre for Southeast Asian Studies

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Location:
Room AP 424, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

Contact:

T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

taniamurrayli.wordpress.com
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
Centre for the Study of the United States
Asian Institute

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, Room 262S

Contact:

phillip.lipscy@utoronto.ca

www.lipscy.org
Hy Van Luong

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

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Location:
Room 336, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

Contact:

T 416-978-0652

F 416-978-3217

vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

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Bonnie McElhinny

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies Institute

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

Contact:

T 416-978-3297

F 416-946-5561

bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Heather Miller

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

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Location:
HSC 346

Contact:

T 905-828-3741

heather.miller@utoronto.ca

www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3hmlmil
Libbie (Elizabeth) Mills

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

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Location:
Room JHB 335, 170 St. George Street

Contact:

libbie.mills@utoronto.ca
Shivaji Mukherjee

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

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Location:
Room DV 3263, 3359 Mississauga Road North

Contact:

T 905-828-5389

shivaji.mukherjee@utoronto.ca

www.shivajimukherjee.org
Kanta Murali

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

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Location:
Room SS3043, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-8492

kanta.murali@utoronto.ca

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Rajyashree Narayanareddy

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

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Location:
Room B508, 1265 Military Trail

Contact:

T 416-287-7297

rajyashree.narayanareddy@utoronto.ca

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Lynette Ong

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute

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lynette.ong@utoronto.ca

lynetteong.com

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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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Location:
725 Spadina Avenue

Contact:

T 416 946 5902

itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Joshua Pilzer

Associate Professor, Faculty of Music
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Contact:

T 416-946-5159

joshua.pilzer@utoronto.ca

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Bhavani Raman

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

Contact:

T 416-287-2754

bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca
Srilata Raman

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

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Location:
Room JHB313, 170 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416 978-3189

s.raman@utoronto.ca
Karen Ruffle

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

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Contact:

karen.ruffle@utoronto.ca

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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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Location:
Room 432, 246 Bloor Street West

Contact:

T 416-946-8224

izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca

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Shiho Satsuka

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

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Location:
Room AP 236, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

Contact:

T 416-978-7787

s.satsuka@utoronto.ca
Andre Schmid

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

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Contact:

T 416-946-7226

andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
Jayeeta Sharma

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

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Location:
Room HW428A, 1265 Military Trail

Contact:

T 416-208-4752

jayeeta.sharma@utoronto.ca
Rachel Silvey

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

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, room 225N

Contact:

ai.director@utoronto.ca
Neera Singh

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

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Location:
Room 5025A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George

Contact:

T 416-971-2658

neera.singh@utoronto.ca
Jesook Song

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Location:
Room AP208, 19 Ursula Franklin Street

Contact:

T 416-946-3312

jesook.song@utoronto.ca
Andre Sorensen

Professor and 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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Location:
Bladen Wing, Room 530, 1265 Military Trail

Contact:

T (416) 287-5607

sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca

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Shafique Virani

Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Historical Studies, UTM and Department for the Study of Religion, UTSG

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Location:
Room 322, 170 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-4892

shafique.virani@utoronto.ca

www.shafiquevirani.org

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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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Location:
RL 14215

Contact:

T 416-946-5800

lisa.yoneyama@utoronto.ca

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

Contact:

T 905-828-3943

weiguo.zhang@utoronto.ca

www.utm.utoronto.ca/sociology/faculty-staff/zhang-weiguo
Xiaodong Zhu

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

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Location:
200, Max Gluskin House150 St. George St.

Contact:

T 416-978-6713

xiaodong.zhu@utoronto.ca

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