Asian Studies

Master of Arts

Doctor of Philosophy

Research Supervisors

Name Research Interests
Ahmed, Rumee Islam,Muslims,law,theology,Quran,Koran
Bailey, C. D. Alison
Baker, Donald Leslie Cultural and religious history of Korea
Chen, Jinhua East Asian state-church relationships, monastic (hagio/)biographical literature, Buddhist sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval China, and Buddhist translations
Chiu-Duke, Josephine Chinese and Taiwanese history, political thought and institutions, liberal democracy
Duffy, Kay Jane Premodern Chinese Literature, Early Medieval China , Sinographic Sphere
Fulton, Bruce Literary translation, Modern Korean fiction, women
Hur, Nam-Lin Japanese, cultural foundations, religion, international relations
King, Ross Korean linguistics, dialectology,language pedagogy, history of language
Laffin, Christina premodern Japanese literature, medieval Japanese history, women's writing, Japanese women's history, travel writing, autobiography, Japanese poetry, literacy, socialization, wet nursing, narratology
Laird, Colleen
Li, Duanduan Chinese linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, Chinese language and culture, second language acquisition, language socialization, Chinese heritage language education, bilingualism and multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Heritage language Teaching and Learning, Language Socialization, Research Methodology, Technology in Language Teaching, Language Teaching Material, Development, Chinese Applied Linguistics
Lynn, Hyung Gu South Korea, North Korea, Japan, politics, economics, popular culture, society, international relations, Korea and Japan, ranging in chronological coverage from the late-19th century to the present, and in subject matter from international relations to contemporary popular culture
Main, Jessica Buddhism, Ethics, and Human Rights; Modern Buddhist Institutions, Law, and Governance; Buddhists and Buddhist Institutions Active in Modern Society: Social Welfare; Healthcare and Healing; Protest Movements; Rehabilitation, Incarceration and Corrections; Youth Culture, Physical Culture, and Scouting; Modern Japanese Religions and Society; Japanese True Pure Land Buddhism
Mostow, Joshua Scott Inter-relations between text and image, especially in Japanese culture, Japanese women
Murphy, Anne Cultural history, Early Modern Studies, Punjabi Studies, South Asian Studies
Naqvi, Naveena
Nosco, Peter 17th-18th century Japan construction of individuality and individual identity during the early modern Tokugawa period
Oberoi, Harjot Singh South asia, how classical empires shaped the British Raj in India, critical theory, the formation of private libraries, law and society, transnational cultures, and complex systems
Orbaugh, Sharalyn modern Japanese culture (literature, film, manga, animation, kamishibai); East Asian women’s issues; anti-racist pegagogy, Japanese narrative and visual culture
Rea, Christopher Modern Chinese literature and cinema since the 19th century, Chinese cartoons and visual culture, Chinese print and popular culture, Chinese internet culture, humour and satire, Taiwan, Chinese culture, modern Chinese history, translation
Rusk, Bruce Early Modern China, Confucianism, Authentication Studies
Sathaye, Adheesh early medieval Sanskrit drama, aesthetics, and narrative literature; Sanskrit epics, Marathi devotional performance traditions, and theories of textual production, performance, and folkloristics; South Asian folklore, narrative theory, and cultural studies
Shakya, Tsering confluence of politics, ethno-national identity and religious practice in cultural production and social transformation across both historical and contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas; contemporary minority policy and social media in the PRC.
Shin, Leo Later imperial China
Slingerland, Edward Asian Studies, Chinese philosophy, philosophy, religion, religion and conflict, secularism, spontaneity, ethics, science-humanities integration, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research, Chinese thought, religious studies (comparative religion, cognitive science and evolution of religion), cognitive linguistics (blending and conceptual metaphor theory), ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology), evolutionary psychology, the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences, and the classical Chinese language
Thobani, Sunera Critical race, postcolonial and feminist theory
Yang, Renren
Yi, Christina