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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Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the Halbert Professor of Innovation Policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, and his Hons. B.A. from McGill in 1995. In...

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joewong@chass.utoronto.ca
Deepali Dewan

Deepali Dewan is an art historian with a special interest in the visual cultures of South Asia. She is a Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, and is affiliated with the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is also part of the Toronto Photography Seminar, a group of scholars from Ontario institutions who read, produce, and...

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100 Queen's Park

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T 416-586-5698

deepalid@rom.on.ca

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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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Steven Denney

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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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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naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
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
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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T 416-978-8492

kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
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
Nina Boric

A strategy and project management specialist, Nina Boric brings over eight years of experience in higher education. Holding increasingly senior roles at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, she continually offers unique vision and leadership to her new positions. Nina has developed and delivered a multitude of programs and services, including restructuring and spearheading the annual Lionel Gelber Prize; leading a capital...

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Nhung Tran

Nhung Tuyet Tran is 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 Her...

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Janet Poole

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

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Room 14097, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-5105

janet.poole@utoronto.ca
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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T 416-946-8995

t.fujitani@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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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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izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca

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Ju Hui Judy Han

Ju Hui Judy Han is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography. She teaches cultural geography courses on travel, mobility, religion, secularism, and difference. Professor Han’s inquiries generally concern deeply held intentionalities and affective charge—such as enthusiasm, repulsion, faith, passion, a sense of purpose, aspiration, and empathy—and how they play out in spectacular ways like mass prayer rallies and political protests and also in ordinary, everyday practices. Her...

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Room 265S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-208-2968

judy.han@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. 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 Nation-State, 1900-1949 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), analyzes the profound...

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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
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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T 416-978-1592

rankin@geog.utoronto.ca
Li Chen

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

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HW510 UTSC

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T (416) 287-7128

lchen@utsc.utoronto.ca
Minelle Mahtani

Dr. Minelle Mahtani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in Journalism, University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the co-editor of the book, “Global Mixed Race” (NYU Press, 2014) and the author of the forthcoming book, “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada” (UBC Press). Dr. Mahtani is the Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies, and former Chair of...

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Diana Fu

Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China,” (2018, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series; Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute), examines state control and civil society contention under authoritarian rule. The book won the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize...

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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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Lynette Ong

Lynette H. Ong is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with joint appointment 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. Written in the late 2000s, her first book, Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China (Cornell University Press, 2012), was one of the first to underscore...

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Hae Yeon Choo

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

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Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue

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T 905-828-3942

hy.choo@utoronto.ca
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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daniere@geog.utoronto.ca
Tina Park

Tina Jiwon Park is a PhD candidate in the History Department, University of Toronto, focusing on Korean-Canadian Relations from the 1880s to the 1980s. This research examines various aspects of the bilateral history, ranging from early missionary activities to the changing patterns of trade and immigration during the Cold War. It also marks one of the first attempts to explore the bilateral history in a multidisciplinary and evolving manner over...

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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
Hy Van Luong

Hy V. Luong (Ph.D., Harvard University) is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Collaborative Master’s Degree Program in Asia-Pacific Studies. 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...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

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vanluong@chass.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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Hui Kian Kwee

KWEE Hui Kian is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia and South China, where she has examined various themes relating to colonialism, political economy and diasporic entrepreneurship, from the seventeenth century to the present. Kwee has been a visiting research fellow at National University of Singapore, the Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Fudan University. education Ph.D. Leiden University,...

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Room NE 271, 3359 Mississauga Road North

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T 905-569-4551

huikian.kwee@utoronto.ca
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
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
Joseph Wong

Professor Joseph Wong was appointed Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience on January 1, 2017. Professor Wong is currently the Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy, and Development for two full terms, 2006 to 2016. He was the Director...

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-7955

joe.wong@utoronto.ca

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Eric Fong

Eric Fong is a Professor of Sociology. He is the current Vice President of the Canadian Population Society and the Chair-Elect of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. Fong also serves as an academic advisor at various international research centres. Fong widely publishes in the areas of race and ethnic residential patterns and immigration. One of his current projects, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research...

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725 Spadina Avenue

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fong@chass.utoronto.ca

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Joshua Barker

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

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AP 228, 19 Russell Street

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j.barker@utoronto.ca

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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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3359 Mississauga Road North South Building, Room 2077A

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T (905) 569-4348

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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 Polichy. 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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r.birla@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
Mark Manger

Mark S. Manger (PhD UBC) is Director of the Master of Global Affairs program at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. 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...

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Room 210, 315 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario, M5S 0A7

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mark.manger@utoronto.ca

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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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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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Jennifer Jihye Chun

Jennifer Jihye Chun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology (UTSC) and Director of the Centre for the Study of Korea. She received her B.A. at Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the faculty at the University of Toronto, after teaching at the University of British Columbia. Her research is internationally comparative and focuses on the changing world of work, culture,...

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Room 265S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-0333

jchun@utsc.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 is also a core faculty member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (Asian Institute), of which he was 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...

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Eric Cazdyn

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

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Centre for Comparative Literature Northrop Frye Hall 324

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e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca
Tania Li

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

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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street

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tania.li@utoronto.ca
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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Christoph Emmrich

Christoph Emmrich (PhD University of Heidelberg, 2004), is Associate Professor for South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at he 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 ritual specialists in Yangon, Mawlamyine,...

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T (416) 978-6463

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Yiching Wu

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

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yiching.wu@utoronto.ca
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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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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Aisha Ahmad

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

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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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Joshua Barker

Vice-Dean, Graduate Education and Program Reviews, Faculty of Arts and Science
Collaborative Master’s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute

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

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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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Marion Bogo

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246 Bloor Street West

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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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Nina Boric

Manager, Asian Institute

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T 416-946-8997

F 416-946-8915

nina.boric@utoronto.ca
Loren Brandt

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

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Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street

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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 Program in Asia-Pacific Studies

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Location:
Centre for Comparative Literature 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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HW510 UTSC

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T (416) 287-7128

lchen@utsc.utoronto.ca
Hae Yeon Choo

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

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T 905-828-3942

hy.choo@utoronto.ca
Jennifer Jihye Chun

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

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Room 265S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-0333

jchun@utsc.utoronto.ca
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

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T 416-946-8988

F 416-946-8915

francis.cody@utoronto.ca

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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

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T 416-946 8983

F 416-946-8915

daniere@geog.utoronto.ca
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

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T 416-978-6050

naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
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,
Associate Professor, Department of Art
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for South Asian Civilizations

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100 Queen's Park

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T 416-586-5698

deepalid@rom.on.ca

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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

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T 416-978-8277

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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105 St. George Street

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T 416-978-7792

dobson@rotman.utoronto.ca

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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

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T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca

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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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T 416-978-3859

victor.falkenheim@utoronto.ca
Eric Fong

Professor, Department of Sociology
Advisory Committee Member, Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Graduate Program
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Location:
725 Spadina Avenue

Contact:

T (416) 978-8488

fong@chass.utoronto.ca

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Diana Fu

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Room 3012, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-3334

F 416-978-5566

diana.fu@utoronto.ca

www.dianafu.org

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Takashi Fujitani

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

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8995

t.fujitani@utoronto.ca

G

Shannon Garden-Smith

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

Location:
Room 255S, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416.946.5372

ai.coordinator@utoronto.ca; csgj.munk@utoronto.ca
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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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 at the Asian Institute

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Location:
Room 5062, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-5526

kanishka@geog.utoronto.ca

H

Ju Hui Judy Han

Centre for the Study of Korea
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC

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Location:
Room 265S, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-208-2968

judy.han@utoronto.ca

judyhan.com
Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor, Asian Institute
Professor, Department of Sociology

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1265 Military Trail

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T 416-287-7291

F 416 287-7283

pchsuing@utsc.utoronto.ca

J

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

Contact:

T 905-569-4878

kajri.jain@utoronto.ca

K

Malavika Kasturi

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

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

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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

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

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Location:
Room 14217, 130 St. George St.

Contact:

T 416-946-5115

kyoungrok.ko@gmail.com
Hui Kian Kwee

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

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Location:
Room NE 271, 3359 Mississauga Road North

Contact:

T 905-569-4551

huikian.kwee@utoronto.ca

L

Tong Lam

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

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tong.lam@utoronto.ca

tonglam.com

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Grayson Lee

Assistant to the Director, Centre for the Study of Korea

Location:
Room 064S, 1 Devonshire Place

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csk@utoronto.ca
Tania Li

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street

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T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca
Hy Van Luong

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

F 416-946-8915

vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

M

Ken MacDonald

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

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Room MW276, 1265 Military Trail

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T 416-287-7294

kmacd@utsc.utoronto.ca
Katherine MacIvor

Program Advisor and Communications Officer, Asian Institute

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Room 228N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T (416) 946-8832

ai.asianstudies@utoronto.ca
Virginia Maclaren

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

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Room 5050, 100 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-1594

maclaren@geog.utoronto.ca
Minelle Mahtani

Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Advisory Committee, Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Graduate Program
Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute

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mahtani@utsc.utoronto.ca

twitter.com/mminelle
Mark Manger

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

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Room 210, 315 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario, M5S 0A7

Contact:

T 416-946-8927

mark.manger@utoronto.ca

www.markmanger.net

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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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Location:
Room AP334, 19 Russell Street

Contact:

T 905-828-3741

csas.assist@utoronto.ca

www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3hmlmil
Libbie Mills

Professor, Department of Historical Studies (Scarborough) and 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

Contact:

libbie.mills@utoronto.ca
Shivaji Mukherjee

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

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Location:
Room DV 3263, 3359 Mississauga Road North

Contact:

T 905-828-5389

shivaji.mukherjee@utoronto.ca

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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

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T 416-978-8492

kanta.murali@utoronto.ca

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Rajyashree Narayanareddy

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

Location:
Room B508, 1265 Military Trail

Contact:

T 416-287-7297

rreddy@utsc.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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Tina Park

Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute
PhD Candidate, Department of History

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park.tina@gmail.com

park.tina@gmail.com

twitter.com/jiwontina
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

Contact:

T 416 946 5902

itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Joshua Pilzer

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

Location:
EJ255, 80 Queen's Park Crescent

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T 416-946-3477

jdpilzer@gmail.com
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.

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T 416-946-5105

janet.poole@utoronto.ca

R

Bhavani Raman

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

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T 416-287-2754

bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca
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

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T 416 978-3189

s.raman@utoronto.ca
Katharine Rankin

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

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1 Devonshire Place, room 106N

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T 416-978-1592

rankin@geog.utoronto.ca
Ajay Rao

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

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Location:
NE 153G, 3359 Mississauga Road North

Contact:

T 905-569-4494

ajay.rao@utoronto.ca
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

Contact:

T 416-978-6217

karen.ruffle@utoronto.ca

S

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

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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Room AP 340, 19 Russell Street

Contact:

T 416-978-7787

s.satsuka@utoronto.ca
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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T 416-946-3312

andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
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

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T 416-208-4752

sharma@utsc.utoronto.ca
Rachel Silvey

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

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1 Devonshire Place, room 225N

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ai.director@utoronto.ca
Neera Singh

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

Location:
Room 3028, 33 Willcocks Street

Contact:

T 416-978-1879

neera.singh@utoronto.ca
Jesook Song

Acting Director, Centre for the Study of Korea
Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room AP208, 19 Russell Street

Contact:

T 416-946-3312

jesook.song@utoronto.ca
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

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T (416) 287-5607

sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
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

Contact:

T 416-946-7072

wenching.sung@utoronto.ca

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Nhung Tran

Director, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
Professor, Department of History

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nhungtuyet.tran@utoronto.ca
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

Contact:

T 416-978-5817

k.tsang@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
Director, Centre for South Asian Civilizations

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Room 322, 170 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-4892

shafique.virani@utoronto.ca

www.shafiquevirani.org

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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

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T 416-946-7955

joe.wong@utoronto.ca

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Joseph Wong

Director of the Asian Institute
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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T 416-946-8913

joewong@chass.utoronto.ca
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

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yiching.wu@utoronto.ca

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Jia-Lin Xie

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

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Location:
105 St. George Street

Contact:

T 416-978-4629

xiejl@rotman.utoronto.ca

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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:
Room 2042, 40 Willcocks Street

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

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Xiaodong Zhu

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

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200, Max Gluskin House150 St. George St.

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T 416-978-6713

xzhu@chass.utoronto.ca

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