DLC Members
DLC Members are eligible to apply for funding to support their research activities. SFU Researchers conducting research related to the mission of the Centre are encouraged to become DLC Members by submitting a CV (maximum 4 pages) to dlcadmin@sfu.ca.
John Alderete
Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Research Interests: Theoretical phonology and morphology, Optimality Theory, computational learning algorithms, neural networks, speech errors, language production; Cantonese, Austronesian, Athabaskan, Tahltan
Robert Anderson
Professor Emeritus | School of Communication
PhD (University of Chicago)
Myanmar, India
Research Interests: sustainable development and environment history, agriculture and forestry, role of science and technology in developing nations
Nadine Attewell
Associate Professor | Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (Cornell University)
Asia
Research Interests: empire, intimacy, and Asian and Asian diasporic life
Jeremy Brown
Associate Professor | Department of History
PhD (University of California, San Diego)
China
Research Interests: Modern China
Darren Byler
Assistant Professor | School for International Studies
PhD (University of Washington)
China, Central Asia, Southeast Asia
Research Interests: Political and economic anthropology; Critical studies of race, ethnicity and masculinity; Political economy of information; Biometric surveillance and digital media; Urban technologies and infrastructures; Comparative state violence and critical terrorism studies; Culture, economics and politics of Muslim societies
Habib Chaudhury
Professor | Department of Gerontology
PhD (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Hong Kong
Research Interests: Aging and Built Environment; Design for Dementia; Personhood and Dementia; Design for Active Living; Design in Acute Care Environment
Curriculum Vitae (January 2018)
Luke Clossey
Associate Professor | Department of History
PhD (Berkeley)
China
Research Interests: Global Comparative, Early modern world
Paul Crowe
Associate Professor | Department of Humanities
PhD (UBC)
China, Japan, India
Research Interests: Chinese culture and intellectual history from tenth to thirteenth century texts concerning inner alchemy in China
Zhipeng Gao
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (York)
China
Research Interests: Chinese immigrants in Canada
Curriculum Vitae (August 2019)
Andrea Geiger
Associate Professor | Department of History
PhD (Washington)
Asia Pacific, Japan
Research Interests: Trans-Pacific & borderlands history, race, contact relations, migration, legal history
Bascom Guffin
Lecturer | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (California, Davis)
India
Research Interests: human senses, urban religious practices, and the role of technology in everyday life
Curriculum Vitae (January 2018)
Huamei Han
Associate Professor | Faculty of Education
PhD (University of Toronto)
China
Research Interests: language learning, multilingualism, and socioeconomic inclusion of linguistically marginalized individuals and groups in globalization
John Harriss
Professor Emeritus | School for International Studies
PhD (East Anglia)
India, South Asia
Research Interests: Political economy of development; Indian politics; political participation and civil society in India; social policy in India and other ‘emerging economies’; institutional theories; agrarian change (especially in South India)
Lillian Mei Hung
Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Gerontology
PhD (University of British Columbia)
Hong Kong
Research Interests: person-centred care
Nicole Jackson
Associate Professor | School for International Studies
PhD (London School of Economics)
Russia, Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
Research Interests: security management in Central Asia; authoritarianism in Central Asia
Dal Yong Jin
Professor | School of Communication
PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Korea, Asia
Research Interests: globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, cultural industries and policies; Korean cinema; digital games and social media platforms, political economy of media and culture, science journalism/communication
Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Associate Professor | Department of Political Science
PhD (Princeton University)
Asia, Japan
Research interests: International Relations; Comparative Politics
Shuyu Kong
Professor | Department of Humanities
PhD (UBC)
China, Asia Pacific
Research Interests: Chinese literary, cultural studies, Asian Diaspora studies, diasporic media and literature
Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Professor | Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Asia Pacific
Research Interests: Queer and Trans Cinema, Film Sound, Sinophone Media, Transpacific Cultural Studies, Film Location & Film Policies in BC
Atiya Mahmood
Associate Professor | Department of Gerontology
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
South Asia
Research Interests: health and built environment with focus on housing for older adults, neighbourhood environment, mobility and active living, socio-cultural factors in homecare and gerontechnology
Maureen Maloney
Professor | School of Public Policy
LL.B. (Warwick), LL.M. (Toronto)
South-East Asia, Iraq, China, Brazil, Guatemala and South Africa
Research Interests: international governance, dispute resolution and human rights
Janice Matsumura
Associate Professor | Department of History
PhD (York)
Japan, Asia
Research Interests: Japanese psychiatric profession, Japanese thought control/internal security system
Kirsten McAllister
Associate Professor | School of Communication
PhD (Carleton University)
Japan, Asia
Research Interests: Visual culture, Cultural memory, Political violence, Photography, memorials, multi-media art, interviews, field work, Asylum and displaced populations, Japanese/Asian Canadian cultural studies
Tamir Moustafa
Professor | School for International Studies
PhD (Washington)
Southeast Asia
Research Interests: Law and society; Religion and politics
Murray Munro
Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (Alberta)
Research Interests: communication skills of immigrant groups in Canada; research on acquisition of tone by speakers of Asia
Melek Ortabasi
Associate Professor | World Languages and Literatures
PhD (University of Washington)
Japan
Research Interests: Children’s literature and World literature, Translation theory and practice, Cultural studies and intellectual history of 20th-century Japan, Crosscultural influences between European and Japanese literature and critical theory, Comparative folklore studies, Film and popular culture in contemporary Japan
Irene Pang
Assistant Professor | School for International Studies
PhD (Brown University)
China, India
Research Interests: political sociology; development; citizenship; labor; civil society; dynamics of capitalism
Cindy Patton
Professor | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (University of Massachusetts)
Taiwan
Research Interests: Social study of medicine; continental theory; research design; and bioethics
Stacy Pigg
Professor | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (Cornell University)
South Asia
Research Interests: theory/ethnography in anthropology; medicine and science in postcolonial social relations; sexuality, medicine and reproduction
Simone Rapisarda
Assisstant Professor | School for the Contemporary Arts
M.F.A., Film and Video (York University)
Asia
Research Interests: emerging approaches to experimental, collaborative, and ethnographic process-driven filmmaking
Andrew Sixsmith
Professor | Department of Gerontology
PhD (King's College London)
Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore
Research Interests: technology for independent living; theories and methods in aging and understanding the innovation process
Curriculum Vitae (September 2018)
Naoko Takei
Senior Lecturer | World Languages and Literatures
PhD (Simon Fraser University)
Japan
Research Interests: Japanese language
Curriculum Vitae (February 2019)
Rosalie L. Tung
Professor | Beedie School of Business
PhD (UBC)
Asia Pacific
Research Interests: Comparative and Cross-cultural Management, Strategies for International Business, International Human Resources Management, Asia-Pacific Business, International Business Negotiations
Jan W. Walls
Professor Emeritus | Department of Humanities
PhD (Indiana University)
Asia Pacific
Research Interests: East Asian languages and cultures, East-West intercultural communication, and the theory and practice of cross-cultural translation
Jennifer Wang
Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy
PhD (Rutgers University)
China
Research Interests: classical Chinese philosophy, metaphysics (esp. modality), philosophy of logic, epistemology, and early modern philosophy
Yue Wang
Associate Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (Cornell University)
Research Interests: Phonetics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Science
Jie Yang
Professor | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (University of Toronto)
China
Research Interests: linguistic/psychological anthropology, mental health, psychotherapy, psychologization, therapeutic governance
Curriculum Vitae (October 2019)
Habiba Zaman
Professor | Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (University of Manitoba)
South Asia, Bangladesh, the Philipines
Research Interests: immigrants and settlement in Canada, global south and social justice movements, labour mobility, race, gender and class
Curriculum Vitae (February 2018)
David Zandvliet
Associate Professor | Faculty of Education
PhD (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan
Research Interests: science, technology and environmental education with expertise centred on the assessment of physical and/or psychosocial learning environments
Curriculum Vitae (April 2018)
Yuezhi Zhao
Professor | School of Communication
PhD (Simon Fraser University)
China
Research Interests: Political economy of global communication; media & democracy; communication industries in China
Yushu Zhu
Assistant Professor | Urban Studies Program
PhD (University of Illinois)
China, Canada
Research Interests: urban housing; home and belonging; migration; neighbourhood engagement; social capital; public opinion research
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