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Francis Cody

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He has been teaching at U of T since 2008. His research focuses on language, politics, and media in southern India. He first brought these interests to bear on a study of citizenship, literacy, and social movement politics in Tamilnadu. Based on two years of fieldwork in the rural district...

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Yiching Wu

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

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Room 104N, 1 Devonshire Place

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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

www.chass.utoronto.ca/~barkerj

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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kanta.murali@utoronto.ca

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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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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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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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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