Asia

Jerry Spiegel, MSc, PhD

Professor

Director, Global Health Research Program

Global health, international health, environmental health, Cuba, Latin America

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Associate Professor

Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

Japanese education, cram schools, history education, history textbooks, reconciliation, legal education, Canada-Japan relations, contemporary Mongolia,

Milind Kandlikar, PhD

Professor

Climate change, air pollution, extended producer responsibility, human development, agricultural biotechnology, information technology in developing countries, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Bruce Fulton

Associate Professor

Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation

Modern Korean fiction, literary translation

Kenneth Fung

Clinical Associate Professor

Healthcare policy

Josephine Chiu-Duke, PhD in Asian Studies (Chinese Intellectual History)

Associate Professor

Chinese history, intellectual history, thought and institutions (traditional and modern), Taiwan

Amy Hanser

Amy Hanser

Associate Professor

Work and employment, gender, consumption/consumerism, contemporary Chinese society

Michael Devereux

Michael Devereux

Professor & School Director

Economics, macro and monetary economics, economic policy, monetary and fiscal policy, deficits, exchange rates, capital flows, financial crises

Stefania Burk

Assistant Professor

Japanese poetry, women poets, waka, tanka, haiku, renga, anthologies, patronage

Michele Koppes, PhD

Associate Professor

Climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

George Wagner, MArch

Associate Professor

Architecture, urbanism, built culture, Japanese architecture and urbanism, architectural theory

Patricia Duff, PhD

Professor

Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of languages in education

Roger Wong, CM, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS

Roger Wong, CM, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS

Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine

Vice Dean, Education

Geriatrics, geriatric medicine, acute care for older people, hospital medicine, frailty, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, quality improvement in medicine, medical education,

Pierre Walter, PhD

Associate Professor

Adult education, environmental education, literacy, comparative education, gender and development, Southeast Asian studies

Sumeet Gulati, PhD

Sumeet Gulati, PhD

Associate Professor

Tax incentives for hybrid or electric vehicles, carbon tax, cap and trade, India

Timothy Brook

Professor

Republic of China Chair, Dept. of History and Institute of Asian Research

Chinese history, global history, war crimes

Duanduan Li, Ed.D

Duanduan Li, Ed.D

Associate Professor

Chinese linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, Chinese language and culture, second language acquisition, language socialization, Chinese heritage language education, bilingualism and multilingualism

Christina Laffin

Christina Laffin

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture

Women writers of Japan before the 19th century, history of women in Japan before the 19th century, Japanese diaries and memoirs, Japanese poetry, Japanese travel writing

Prof. David Anderson

Prof. David Anderson

Professor

Museums, informal learning, out-of-school learning, large-scale public events, world expositions, science centre, visitor experiences, long-term memories, Showa Japan, metacognition

Prof. Yves Tiberghien, PhD

Prof. Yves Tiberghien, PhD

Professor, Department of Political Science

Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Director, Center for Japanese Research

Director, UBC Sciences Po Dual Degree program

Global Economic governance, COVID politics, G20, WTO, RCEP, CPTPP, Global environment, climate change, biodiversity governance, GMO, Japan, Chinese political economy, China and global order, China global, EU, France, COVID-19 politics, WHO, EU-China relations, Japan-China relations,