Asia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Assistant Professor

History, maritime trade, Indian Ocean, India, piracy, Islam

Mark Turin, PhD

Mark Turin, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology

Tara Mayer, PhD

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

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

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

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

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

Adam Jones

Adam Jones

Professor

Human rights, gender studies, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, media and political transition

Dr. Leonora Angeles, PhD

Dr. Leonora Angeles, PhD

Associate Professor

Feminist gender issues, women’s movement, Philippines, international development, community planning, social planning, arts

Yue Qian

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

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