Faculty
David Anderson
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Museum Learning and Visitor Experience, Japanese World Expositions, Asia-Pacific Museum and Educational Reforms
David Barrett
Department of Wood Science
Stefania Burk
ArtsOne and Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Poetry and Salon Culture, and Women's Writing
Jennifer Chan
Department of Educational Studies
Gender, Education, Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Human Rights, Transnational Social Movements, and Globalization
Rebecca Chau
Department of Asian Studies
Japanese Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
David Cohen
Faculty of Forestry
Globalization, Markets and Housing of Japan and China
Millie Creighton
Department of Anthropology
Consumerism, Popular Culture, Identity, Gender, Work/Leisure, and Minorities
Julian Dierkes, Director
Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research
Institute of Asian Research
Sociology, History Education, Supplementary Education (学習塾)
W. Erwin Diewert
Department of Economics
Measuring Productivity of the Economies of Japan, Australia and New Zealand
David Edgington
Department of Geography
Geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim
Shirin Eshghi
Asian Library
Benjamin Goold
Faculty of Law
Criminology, Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, and Security
Steven Heine
Department of Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Nam-Lin Hur
Department of Asian Studies
History of Japan and Religious Culture
Ishu Ishiyama
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Multicultural Counselling and Healing Practices, Anti-racism and Multiculturalism, Japanese Morita Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Multidimensional Self-identity, Positive Psychology
Ryuko Kubota
Department of Language and Literacy Education
Culture and second language education, Critical pedagogies, Second language writing
Christina Laffin
Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Women's History, Gender Studies
Frank Lam
Department of Wood Science
Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Darrin R. Lehman
Department of Psychology
Cultural Psychology, Self-Criticism among Japanese, Health Psychology
Hyung Gu Lynn
AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research
Institute of Asian Research
Modern Japanese and Korean History
Jessica Main
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Chair in Buddhism and Contemporary Society
Institute of Asian Research and Department of Asian Studies
Buddhist Ethics, Human Rights, Modern Buddhist Institutions and Governance, Japanese True Pure Land Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū)
Shigenori Matsui
Director of Japanese Legal Studies
Faculty of Law
Japanese Law, Constitutional Law, Internet Law and Law and Medicine
Joshua Mostow
Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Gender Studies, Critical Theory
Masao Nakamura
Konwakai Japan Research Chair
Institute of Asian Research; Sauder School of Business
International Business, Technology Management and Transfer, Japanese Economy
Peter Nosco
Department of Asian Studies
Intellectual and social history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan
Benjamin Nyblade
Department of Political Science
Japanese Politics, Comparative Political Institutions
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Department of Asian Studies
Modern Japanese Literature
John Ries
Sauder School of Business
Japanese Business, International Trade
Marc-David Seidel
Sauder School of Business
Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship, Social networks and organizational decision making, Community Form (C-Form) of organization
Yves Tiberghien
Department of Political Science
Japanese Politics
Ilan Vertinsky
Institute of Asian Research; Sauder School of Business
Japanese and Korean Business Systems, Technology Management of the Forest Sector
George Wagner
School of Architecture
Architecture and Urbanism
William Wray
Department of History
Business History and the World Economy
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Chiaki Konishi
Faculty of Applied Science
Social-emotional Development Among Children and Adolescents, Health in Vulnerable/Marginalized/Minority Youth, Methodological and Statistical Issues
Kuniaki Nemoto
Department of Politics
Elections, Party Politics, Legislatures
James Welker
Department of Asian Studies
Modern and Contemporary Japanese History and Culture; Gender and Sexuality; Globalization
Associate Members
R. Dore, Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research, UBC
T. Gonnami, UBC
T. Kakehi, UBC
T. Kawasaki, Simon Fraser University
M. Kohno, Waseda Univ
B. Lee
M. Matsumoto, UBC
C. Mosk, University of Victoria
K. Nagatani, Kobe University
B. Pendleton, Langara College
Y. Shibata, UBC
P. Tsurumi, University of Victoria
Affiliated Graduate Students, 2011-2012
MA Students
Masumi Abe El-khoury (Asian Studies)
Kelly Christensen (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Tye Ebel (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Justin Elavathil (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Arc Han (Politics)
Mina Hattori (Asian Studies)
Koichiro Ito (Economics)
Woobinn Kim (Asian Studies)
Soyeop Kwon (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Andrew Lambert (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Matthew Lee (School Psychology)
Lucia Lee (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Alexei Lushchenko (Asian Studies)
Kim McNelly (Asian Studies)
Shiho Minami (Language and Literacy Education)
Cyrus Huiyong Qiu (Asian Studies)
Rob Rudolph (Asia Pacific Policy Studies)
Kenji Scott (Asian Studies)
Kengo Seki (Anthropology)
Nicholas Sutton (Educational Studies)
Jayme Taylor (Anthropology)
Adam Wanke (Law)
Ben Whaley (Asian Studies)
Sandra Youssef (Anthropology)
PhD Students
Pavlos Alexiadis (Wood Science)
Tamara Barnett (Asian Studies)
Mara Blair (Asian Studies)
Kyung Ho Chun (Anthropology and Sociology)
Nathen Clerici (Asian Studies)
Dada Docot (Anthropology)
Gideon Fujiwara (Asian Studies)
Nicole Go (Asian Studies)
Nicholas Hall (Asian Studies)
Hiroko Hara (Educational Studies)
Daisaku Higashi (Political Science)
Asato Ikeda (Art History)
Gergana Ivanova (Asian Studies)
Nao Kashiwagi (Law)
Konrad Kalicki (Political Science)
Kazuko Kameda-Madar (Art History)
Sung Sook Lim (Anthropology)
Wenping Eric Liu (Law)
Alexey Lushchenko (Asian Studies)
Shiho Maeshima (Asian Studies)
Pascale Massot (Political Science)
Otilia Milutin (Asian Studies)
Hideyuki Mizobuchi (Economics)
Satoko Mizutani (Sociology)
Go Murakami (Political Science)
Mariko Nagoshi (Anthropology)
Yoko Namita (Curriculum Studies)
Robin O'Day (Anthropology)
Eiji Okawa (Asian Studies)
Minami Orihara (Asian Studies)
Naayeli Ramirez (Law)
Sam Shooklyn (Asian Studies)
Hanae Tsukada (Educational Studies)
Fernando Villaseñor (Law)
Ethan Windschitl (Asian Studies)