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.
To search for a DLC member by name, department, or reaserch area please visit our Researcher Directory.
John Alderete
Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, fieldwork and language documentation
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
Cornel Bogle
Assistant Professor | Department of English
PhD (University of the West Indies, Mona)
Asia, Carribean
Research Interests: Caribbean, Black, and diasporic literatures and cultures
Curriculum Vitae (November 2024)
Nicolas Bommarito
Associate Professor | Department of Philosophy
PhD (Brown University)
Tibet
Research Interests: nomative ethics, moral psychology, Buddhist philosophy, Asian philosophy, ancient philosophy
Jeremy Brown
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
Daniel Chang
Term Lecturer | Faculty of Education
PhD (Simon Fraser University)
Asia, Taiwan
Research Interests: multilingual international students, writing instructions and pedagogy, writing and learning technology, augmentation
Curriculum Vitae (June 2023)
Habib Chaudhury
Professor | Department of Gerontology
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Hong Kong, Singapore
Research Interests: Aging and the Built Environment; Long-Term Care; Dementia-Friendly Community; Age-friendly Community
Curriculum Vitae (January 2018)
Christopher Chong
Assistant Professor | School for the Contemporary Arts
M.F.A., Film (York University)
Asia
Research Interests: social and natural sciences with transnational circuits of globalization and manufactured cultures and landscapes
Luke Clossey
Associate Professor | Department of History
PhD (University of California Berkeley)
China
Research Interests: Global Comparative, Early modern world
Paul Crowe
Associate Professor | Department of Humanities
PhD (University of British Columbia)
China, Japan, India
Research Interests: Chinese culture and intellectual history from tenth to thirteenth century texts concerning inner alchemy in China
Parin Dossa
Professor Emeritus | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (University of British Columbia)
India
Research Interests: Migration, gender and health, critical feminist anthropology, transnational aging, politics of disablement, structural violence, storytelling and witnessing, Muslim women
Curriculum Vitae (February 2023)
May Farrales
Assistant Professor| Department of Geography and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (University of British Columbia)
The Philippines, East and Southeast Asia
Research Interests: gender and sexuality studies, transnationalism, women and immigration
Carman Fung
Lecturer | Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (University of Melbourne)
People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Research Interests: gender and sexuality studies, queer Asia studies, intra-Asian cultural studies, globalization and transnational media
Zhipeng Gao
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (York University)
China
Research Interests: Chinese immigrants in Canada
Curriculum Vitae (August 2019)
Andrea Geiger
Professor Emerita | Department of History
PhD (University of 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 (University of California Davis)
India
Research Interests: human senses, urban religious practices, and the role of technology in everyday life
Curriculum Vitae (January 2018)
Chung-hye Han
Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Research Interests: Syntax, semantics, experimental syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammar, clause structure, syntactic dependencies, anaphoric dependencies, Korean, Japanese
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 (University of 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)
Michael J. Hathaway
Professor | Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD (University of Michigan)
Southwest China, Japan, Asia
Research Interests: China; social studies of science; globalization; Indigeneity; postcolonial theory; history and anthropology; social movements (Indigenous, social justice and environmental); gender studies; critical studies of development; critical studies of race and racial formation; multispecies ethnography, more-than-human studies
Curriculum Vitae (January 2022)
Lillian Mei Hung
Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Gerontology
PhD (University of British Columbia)
Hong Kong
Research Interests: person-centred care
Daniel Akihiro Iwama
Lecturer | Department of Indigenous Studies
PhD (University of California Los Angeles)
Japan
Research Interests: global Indigeneity, planning history & theory, land-use planniing, and social movements
Curriculum Vitae (November 2023)
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
Janice Jeong
Assistant Professor | Department of History
PhD (Duke University)
East Asia, China
Research Interests: mobility, religious networks, and politics, and their intersections across time
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
Professor | Department of Political Science
PhD (Princeton University)
Asia, Japan
Research interests: International Relations; Comparative Politics
Shuyu Kong
Professor | Department of Humanities
PhD (University of British Columbia)
China, Asia Pacific
Research Interests: Chinese literary, cultural studies, Asian Diaspora studies, diasporic media and literature
Joanne Leow
Associate Professor, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Transnational and Decolonial Digital Humanities | Department of English
PhD (University of Toronto)
Southeast Asia, Singapore
Research Interests: intersections of spatial theory, decolonial theory, postcolonial studies, transnational and diasporic texts, and the environmental humanities
Curriculum Vitae (December 2024)
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
Ching-Chiu Lin
Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education
PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Asia, Taiwan
Research Interests: educational research, digital storytelling, community arts education, and visual research methodologies
Curriculum Vitae (September 2022)
Sharon Luk
Associate Professor, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Geographies of Racialization | Department of Geography
PhD (University of Southern California)
Asia, China
Research Interests: history of knowledge production that defines Western civilization in contradistinction from “the Orient"
Curriculum Vitae (February 2023)
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
Anushay Malik
Term Lecturer | School for International Studies
PhD (School of Oriental and African Studies)
South Asia
Maureen Maloney
Professor | School of Public Policy
LL.B. (Warwick University), LL.M. (University of Toronto)
South-East Asia, Iraq, China, Brazil, Guatemala and South Africa
Research Interests: international governance, dispute resolution and human rights
Janice Matsumura
Professor | Department of History
PhD (York University)
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 (University of Washington)
Malaysia
Research Interests: Law and society; Religion and politics
Shivaji Mukherjee
Assistant Professor & Somjee Chair in Indian Political Development | Department of Political Science
PhD (Yale University)
South Asia, India
Research interests: South Asian politics; colonial legacies; civil war and political violence; qualitative and mixed methods; ethnic violence
Murray Munro
Professor | Department of Linguistics
PhD (University of 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
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
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
Simone Rapisarda
Associate 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
Vaibhav Saria
Assistant Professor | Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
South Asia
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Kinship, Psychoanalysis, HIV/AIDS, Children/Childhood Studies
Hitoshi Shigeoka
Associate Professor | Department of Economics
PhD (Columbia University)
Japan
Research Interests: health (Primary), labor, public, and behavioral economics
Curriculum Vitae (February 2024)
Rupak Shrestha
Assistant Professor | School for International Studies and Global Asia Program
PhD (University of Colorado)
South Asia, Nepal
Research Interests: migration; refugees; indigeneity; security and surveillance; political geography; borders and belonging; global Asia
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 (University of British Columbia)
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
Associate 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)
Siyuan Yin
Assistant Professor | School of Communication
PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
China, Canada
Research Interests: Cultural studies, feminisms, migrant labor, social movements, alternative media, global digital media, political economy of communication
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
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 (Feb 2023)
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