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Alison Bailey

Assistant Professor | Chinese | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

Alison Bailey

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Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Ayaka Yoshimizu

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Ayaka Yoshimizu

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Asian Diaspora Studies

Aynur Kadir

Assistant Professor | Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Aynur Kadir

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Bin Zheng

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

Bin Zheng

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Bruce Fulton

Associate Professor | Korean Literature and Literary Translation

Bruce Fulton

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Bruce Rusk

Associate Professor | Pre-Modern and Early Modern China | Graduate Advisor

Bruce Rusk

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Chien-Ju Lin

Lecturer | Chinese Language

Chien-Ju Lin

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Christina Laffin

Associate Professor | Classical Japanese

Christina Laffin

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Christina Yi

Associate Professor | Modern Japanese Literature | Associate Graduate Advisor

Christina Yi

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Christopher Rea

Associate Head, External | Professor | Modern Chinese Literature

Christopher Rea

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Clayton Ashton

Lecturer | Chinese Thought

Clayton Ashton

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Colleen Laird

Assistant Professor | Japanese Popular Culture

Colleen Laird

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Indo-Tibetan BuddhismTibetan and Bhutanese Buddhism

Dagmar Schwerk

Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Dagmar Schwerk

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Donald Baker

Professor | Korean

Donald Baker

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Dongchen Hou

Lecturer | Chinese Language, Literature and Film

Dongchen Hou

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Eurie Shin

Lecturer | Korean Language

Eurie Shin

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Anthropology of Art | Museum Studies | Visual and Material Culture StudiesAsian StudiesJapanese

Fuyubi Nakamura

Assistant Professor | Visual and Material Cultures of Asia | MOA Curator, Asia

Fuyubi Nakamura

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Gurinder Mann

Lecturer | Punjabi Language and Culture

Gurinder Mann

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Punjabi

Harjot Oberoi

Professor | South Asian Social & Religious History | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

Harjot Oberoi

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Haruyo Takahashi

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Haruyo Takahashi

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Hasan Siddiqui

Assistant Professor | South Asian History

Hasan Siddiqui

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Helena Wu

Assistant Professor | Hong Kong Studies

Helena Wu

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Hong Kong

Hessam Dehghani

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Persian Language and Culture

Hessam Dehghani

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Persian

Hiromi Uchida

Lecturer | Japanese Language | On leave June 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022

Hiromi Uchida

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Hsiang-ning Wang

Chinese Language Program Coordinator | Associate Professor of Teaching | Chinese Applied Linguistics

Hsiang-ning Wang

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Hyung-Gu Lynn

AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research

Hyung-Gu Lynn

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Ihhwa Kim

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Ihhwa Kim

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Insun Lee

Associate Professor of Teaching | Korean Language | On study leave Sept 1, 2021 to Aug 31, 2022

Insun Lee

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Janet Um

Lecturer | Sanskrit Language and Literature

Janet Um

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Asian StudiesSanskrit

Jee-Yeon Song

PhD Received: 2019 | Sessional Lecturer

Jee-Yeon Song

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Jeonghye Son

Lecturer | Korean Language and Culture

Jeonghye Son

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Asian StudiesBuddhist StudiesJapanese

Jessica Main

Associate Head, Internal | Chair and Director, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism | Associate Professor | Contemporary Society | On study leave July-Dec. 2022

Jessica Main

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Jiaqi Yao

PhD Candidate

Jiaqi Yao

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Jinhua Chen

Professor | East Asian Buddhism

Jinhua Chen

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Asian StudiesChinese

Josephine Chiu-Duke

Professor | Chinese Intellectual History

Josephine Chiu-Duke

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Joshua Mostow

Professor | Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Art

Joshua Mostow

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Kaori Tanaka

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Kaori Tanaka

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Kay Duffy

Assistant Professor | Premodern Sinitic Poetry

Kay Duffy

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Kurtis Hanlon

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Student

Kurtis Hanlon

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Kyoko Hillman

Lecturer | Second Language Acquisition/Applied Linguistics

Kyoko Hillman

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Leo Shin

Associate Professor | Chinese History (with the Department of History) | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

Leo Shin

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Li-jung Lee

Lecturer | Chinese Language

Li-jung Lee

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Liam Doherty

Sessional Lecturer | Cantonese Language

Liam Doherty

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Cantonese

Ludi Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow | Chinese Traditional Literature and Culture

Ludi Wang

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Masumi Abe

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Masumi Abe

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Meng Wu

Sessional Lecturer | Chinese Literature

Meng Wu

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Michiko Suzuki

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Michiko Suzuki

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Mingzhu Lu

Lecturer | Chinese Language | On PD leave from Sept. 2022 to Dec. 2022

Mingzhu Lu

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Minoru Takano

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate

Minoru Takano

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Misuzu Kazama

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Misuzu Kazama

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Mostafa Abedinifard

Assistant Professor without Review | Persian

Mostafa Abedinifard

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Persian

Nam-lin Hur

Professor | History of Japan and Religious Culture

Nam-lin Hur

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Naveena Naqvi

Assistant Professor | Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia

Naveena Naqvi

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Persian

Nesrine Basheer

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Arabic

Nesrine Basheer

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Arabic

Nick Hall

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Nick Hall

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Noriyuki Kawada

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Noriyuki Kawada

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Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Pasang Sherpa

Assistant Professor | Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Pasang Sherpa

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Peter Nosco

Professor | Japanese History and Culture

Peter Nosco

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Pihua Lin

Lecturer | Chinese Language

Pihua Lin

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Qian Wang

Chinese Language Program Director | Associate Professor of Teaching | Chinese Linguistics

Qian Wang

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Raymond Pai

Lecturer | Cantonese Language

Raymond Pai

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Cantonese

Rebecca Chau

Associate Professor of Teaching | Japanese Language Program Director | Japanese Linguistics

Rebecca Chau

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Renren Yang

Assistant Professor | Modern Chinese Popular Culture

Renren Yang

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Ross King

Professor | Korean Language and Literature | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

Ross King

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Rumee Ahmed

Canada Research Chair in Theology and Ethics | Professor of Islamic Law

Rumee Ahmed

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Saori Hoshi

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Japanese Applied Linguistics

Saori Hoshi

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Sebastian Prange

Associate Professor | South Asian History | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

Sebastian Prange

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Sharalyn Orbaugh

Department Head | Professor | Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

Sharalyn Orbaugh

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Sheni (Hsueh-Ni) Chen

Lecturer | Chinese

Sheni (Hsueh-Ni) Chen

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Shiang-Han Lin

Visiting Lecturer

Shiang-Han Lin

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Shota Iwasaki

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate

Shota Iwasaki

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Sonam Chusang

Adjunct Professor | Tibetan

Sonam Chusang

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Tibetan

Stefania Burk, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Academic | Associate Professor of Teaching

Stefania Burk, Ph.D.

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Su-Anne Yeo

Sessional Lecturer

Su-Anne Yeo

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Sunera Thobani

Professor | Department of Asian Studies

Sunera Thobani

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Sunil Bhatt

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Hindi-Urdu

Sunil Bhatt

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Hindi-Urdu

Tae Yeon Eom

Sessional Lecturer | East Asian Culture

Tae Yeon Eom

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Tsering Shakya

Associate Professor | Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia

Tsering Shakya

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Tibetan

Xiangjun (Sean) Feng

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Early Modern and Modern Chinese Literature

Xiangjun (Sean) Feng

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Xiaowen Xu

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Chinese Applied Linguistics

Xiaowen Xu

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Xinxin Wu

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

Xinxin Wu

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Xueshun Liu

Lecturer | Chinese Language

Xueshun Liu

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Yasuko Matsumoto

Lecturer | Japanese Language

Yasuko Matsumoto

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Yi Chen

Visiting Lecturer | Chinese Language

Yi Chen

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Yuchun Peng

Visiting Lecturer | Chinese Language

Yuchun Peng

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Yuki Ohsawa

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow | Japanese Visual Culture and Modern Literature

Yuki Ohsawa

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Yuqing Liu

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate

Yuqing Liu

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Zeng Yang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Zeng Yang

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Zhaokun Xin

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

Zhaokun Xin

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Zheng Cai

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

Zheng Cai

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Zoe Lam

Lecturer | Cantonese Language

Zoe Lam

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Cantonese

Zoudan Ma

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate

Zoudan Ma

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