Rob Tierney, PhD
Professor
Global epistemologies and cross-cultural research in education and literacy, social science research, diversity, social justice, equity, indigenous matters, digital literacies, nature of literacy, meaning making, reading comprehension, reading-writing relationships, teaching, learning, educational assessment, teacher education
Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn
AECL/KECPO Chair in Korean Research
Editor, Pacific Affairs
South Korea, North Korea, Japan, politics, popular culture, society,
Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD
Professor
Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,
Nisha Malhotra
Senior Instructor
Poverty and child malnutrition, Gender and domestic violence, International Trade, Trade Agreements, WTO Disputes, University Teaching, Higher Education.
Dr. Eric Li
Associate Professor
social enterprise, social innovation, not-for-profit marketing, pro-social behaviour, multicultural marketing and consumption, consumer well-being, health promotion, consumer privacy, food security, digital marketing, social media marketing, community well-being, sustainable rural communities,
Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,
Sebastian Prange, PhD
Assistant Professor
History, maritime trade, Indian Ocean, India, piracy, Islam
Mark Turin, PhD
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology
Tara Mayer, PhD
Instructor
Global history of fashion, clothing, material culture, and identity, colonial South Asian history, constructions of Britishness, Indo-European commodity exchanges, clothing and other forms of material culture, Orientalist portraiture, empire and aesthetic influence
Edward Slingerland
Professor, Dept. of Asian Studies
Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition
Director, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium
Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture
Associate Member, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology
Asian Studies, Chinese philosophy, philosophy, religion, religion and conflict, secularism, spontaneity, ethics, science-humanities integration, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research
Prof. John Roosa, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Indonesia, Southeast Asia,
Stuart MacLeod, MD, PhD
Professor
Child health, medical education, clinical pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology, global health, treatment of rare disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, drugs in children
Sara Shneiderman, PhD
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,
Kai Ostwald, PhD
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Burma, ASEAN, development, ethnicity, race, integration, international trade, South China Sea
Dr. Leonora Angeles, PhD
Associate Professor
Feminist gender issues, women’s movement, Philippines, international development, community planning, social planning, arts
Yue Qian
Assistant Professor
Family, marriage, divorce, intimate relationships, gender, demography, inequality, China, Asia, United States, Canada,
Adheesh Sathaye
Associate Professor of Sanskrit Literature and South Asian Folklore
Sanskrit literature, ancient India, Asian folklore, digital humanities, manuscripts, Hinduism, caste, Hindu mythology, Sanskrit theater, Sanskrit poetry
M.V. Ramana, PhD
Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Affairs
Professor
Nuclear energy, nuclear disarmament, nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, economics of nuclear power, energy in India, nuclear weapons in India, radioactive waste, nuclear accidents
Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Assistant Professor
Accounting and risk management in financial institutions, disclosure, corporate governance and performance measurement, corporate finance, applications of machine learning