Sie-Tan Chieng, PhD, PEng
Professor Emeritus
Irrigation and drainage for food and non-food plant production, water management system planning, design, installation and operation, environment, soil-water-plant relationships, soil and water conservation, soil salinity and reclamation, water quality, environmental impact assessment, hydrology, windblown dust mitigation
Raymond Lam, MD, FRCPC
Professor
BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research
Seasonal affective disorder, winter depression, antidepressants, light therapy, depression, clinical guidelines, circadian rhythms, melatonin, serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, tryptophan, cognition, technology, eHealth, mHealth, guidelines, biomarkers, diagnosis, internet, mental illness
Daniel L. Overmyer, PhD, FRSC
Professor Emeritus
Chinese philosophy and religions, local religion in Chinese villages
Zhichun Jing, PhD
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Pacific Asia Archaeology
archaeology, ancient China, ancient technologies, jades, geoarchaeology, prehistory, bronze, Shang civilization, early Chinese civilizations, Bronzes, material culture, anthropocene, early urbanization, ancient cities, ancient globalization
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
Associate Professor
Work and employment, gender, consumption/consumerism, contemporary Chinese society
Patricia Duff, PhD
Professor
Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of languages in education
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,
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. 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,
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,
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
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
Yue Qian
Assistant Professor
Family, marriage, divorce, intimate relationships, gender, demography, inequality, China, Asia, United States, Canada,
Wei Cui, MA, JD, LLM
Professor
Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies
Chinese legal system, Chinese taxation, United States taxation, tax policy, international taxation, tax law, law and development
Jie Cheng, LLB, PhD
Associate Professor
Constitutional law, Chinese law and government, Hong Kong Basic Law, Macau Basic Law, comparative law, comparative constitutional law, Chinese legal system, information law, East Asian legal study
Pitman Potter, PhD, JD
Professor of Law (Emeritus)
PRC law, human rights,
Kristen Hopewell
Associate Professor
International political economy, international trade, trade policy, World Trade Organization (WTO), industrial policy, development, emerging powers, BRICS, trade barriers, trade war, United States, China, India, Brazil, Brexit,
Prof. Timothy Cheek, PhD
Professor
Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research
China, The Chinese Communist Party, Chinese politics, propaganda, Chinese intellectuals, ideology and politics of China, modern Chinese history, Chinese political thought, translation, translation studies,