Anthropology	Education	Medicine
Architecture	Environment	Music
Asian Languages & Literature	Film & Media Studiess	Performing Arts
Bioethics	Gender Studies	Philosophy
Business/Management	Geography	Political Science
Cultural Studies	History	Religious Studies
Development Studies	International Relations	Sociology
Diaspora/Immigration Studies	Law	Visual Arts
Economics	Linguistics

Anthropology

Robyn Andrews
Qualifications: MA (Massey), PhD (Massey)
Position: Lecturer, School of People, Environment and Planning, Social Anthropology Programme
Discipline(s): Social Anthropology
Region(s) of Asia: India, Anglo-Indian diaspora (in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and UK)
Research areas: Migration, Aging, Diaspora, Anglo-Indians, Life histories, Identity
Email address: R.Andrews@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/andrews/index.html

Henry Barnard
Qualifications: MA (London - SOAS), PhD (Massey)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
Research areas: social theory and methodology; social anthropology - India and New Zealand; material culture; hierarchical societies; anthropology and literature
Regions: North India; Kerala
Teaching areas: social anthropology; ritual and belief; social suffering; social theory
Email address : H.Barnard@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/barnard/

Ian Catanach
Qualifications: M.A. (N.Z.), Ph.D. (Lond.)
Position: Retired Reader in History, University of Canterbury
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia: South Asia
Research areas:
Email address: m.peters@ext.canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Sharyn Graham Davies, see under Gender Studies

Henk de Groot
Qualifications: BJL (CPIT), MA, PhD (Canterbury)
Position: Programme Leader BLang (Japanese), CPIT, Christchurch
Discipline(s): Japanese language
Region(s): Japan
Research areas: Western learning in Japan during the Edo period (ca 1640-1868)
Email address: degrooth@cpit.ac.nz
Web site:

Erich Kolig
Qualifications: PhD (Vienna)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Otago
Research areas: political indigeneity (indigenous cultural revival, New Zealand biculturalism) in New Zealand and Australia; and Islam in New Zealand (issues and politics of multiculturalism) and Indonesia
Teaching areas: cultural politics; radical and modern Islam in the contemporary world
Email address: erich.kolig@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/staff/kolig.html

Jacqueline Leckie
Qualifications: PhD (Otago)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Otago
Research areas: Indian diaspora to New Zealand and South Pacific; anthropology and history of South Pacific cultures - especially gender, ethnicity, power; colonial psychiatry.
Teaching areas: Pacific cultures; labour and society; development and anthropology; gender and anthropology
Email address: jacqui.leckie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/staff/leckie.html

Saidatul Nornis Haji Mahali
Qualifications: B.A (Hons.). (Bachelor Degree - National University of Malaysia), M.A (National University of Malaysia), Ph.D (University of Malaya).
Position: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Discipline(s): Anthropological Linguistic
Region(s) of Asia: Borneo (especially in Sabah)
Research areas: Linguistic, Language and Society, Language, ethnic and Culture, Sociolinguistic
Email address: saidatul@ums.edu.my
Web site:

Graeme McRae
Qualifications: PhD (Auckland)
Position: Lecturer in Anthropology, Massey University, Auckland
Discipline(s): Anthropology
Region(s) of Asia: Bali, Indonesia, South India
Research areas: General ethnography, local politics, agriculture, architecture, development, environment
Email address: G.S.Macrae@massey.ac.nz
Web page: http://sscs.massey.ac.nz/staff/stfsocanth.htm#macrae

Nancy Tayles
Qualifications: Ph D (Otago)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago
Discipline(s): Biological Anthropology
Region(s) of Asia in which you specialise: Thailand
Research areas: Biology of prehistoric humans
Email address: nancy.tayles@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://anatomy.otago.ac.nz

Margaret Trawick
Qualifications: BA Hons (Harv), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Position: Professor, Social Anthropology Programme, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
Research areas: India; Sri Lanka, Tamil language and culture; medical anthropology; linguistic anthropology; anthropological analyses of modern warfare; anthropology of children and youth
Teaching areas: systems of healing; medical anthropology; linguistic anthropology; anthropology of gender; South Asia
Email address: M.Trawick@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/Trawick/

Sita Venkateswa
,Qualifications: BSc (Hons), MSc Physiology (India), PhD (Rutgers)
Position: Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme, School of People, Planning and Environment, Massey University (Turitea)
Research areas: Anthropology: colonialism/internal colonialism; indigenous peoples; Andaman Islands. Development and gender: child labour; gender and human rights; globalisation; poverty and grassroots democracy (Nepal, India, South Asia)
Teaching areas: Gender Cuture and Power; Writing Ethnography; Fieldwork Practices; Anthropology and Colonialism
Email address: s.venkateswar@massey.ac.nz
Web site: anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/Venkateswar/

William E (Bill) Willmott
Qualifications: BA MA (McGill), PhD (LSE)
Position: Professor Emeritus, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury
Discipline(s): Social Anthropology, Sociology, Asian Studies
Region(s) of Asia: China, Southeast Asia
Research areas: Chinese Diaspora, Chinese in Pacific island Countries
Email address: wew25@ext.canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Architecture

Jan White
Qualifications: Dip Des, BA, MA, Dip Tchg, PhD (ABD)
Position: Architecture, University of Auckland
Research areas: influence of Chinese and Japanese art; the work of Tomoiko Tessai, Len Lye (MA thesis) and Colin McCahon (PhD thesis); Sanskrit; Old Javanese; Thai; typological symbolism of the East and West in art and literature
Teaching areas: cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies; art history; visual studies; drawing as a research tool
Email address: jm.white@auckland.ac.nz
Web site : www.geocities.com/janwhitenz/

Asian Languages and Literature

Limin Bai, see under History

Andrew Barke, see under Linguistics

Tim Behrend
Qualifications: BA (Brigham Young University), MA (Madison), PhD (ANU)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Javanese literature, culture, history and philology, and modern Indonesian language, literature, religions and popular culture
Teaching areas: images of Asia; faith and festival in Asia; Islam, modernity and cultural identity
Email address: t.behrend@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2387

Duncan Campbell
Qualifications: BA (Wellington), MA (Auckland)
Position: Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Chinese Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Literature and material culture of Ming and Qing dynasty China (with particular reference to gardens, publishing, libraries, travel)
Teaching areas: Chinese language, classical and modern; Chinese literature, modern and classical; Chinese civilisation; Chinese to English literary translation
Email address: duncan.campbell@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

Hilary Chung
Qualifications: MA (Cambridge, Durham), PhD (Durham)
Position: Lecturer in Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Modern Chinese literature; comparative literature; gender and representation in literature; the poetics of exile
Teaching area: images of Asia; Asian identities;rethinking China; modern Chinese literature in translation; rethinking literary translation
Email address: h.chung@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2164

Paul Clark, see under Film and Media Studies

Deborah (Debbie) Corder
Qualifications: BA Dual Hons (Sheffield), MA (Massey), PGCE (Leeds), PostGrad TJFL (Massey)
Position: Head of Dept, International and Community Languages
Discipline(s): Japanese language, Intercultural Competence
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: Learner autonomy, CALL, assessment, motivation, and intercultural competence
Email address: Debbie.corder@aut.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.aut.ac.nz/schools/languages/staff/deborah_corder.htm

Jonathan Dil
Qualifications: BA (AUCK) BA hons (Cant) PhD (Cant)
Position: Lecturer Chuo University
Discipline(s): Modern Literature
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: Modern Japanese Literature, Murakami Haruki
Email address: jondil05@yahoo.co.nz
Web site:

Jacob Edmond
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Auckland)
Position: Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Otago
Discipline(s): literature
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: modern and contemporary Chinese poetry, comparative literature, literature of the Chinese diaspora, Russian literature, US literature, NZ literature, literature and globalization, literary theory, literature and politics, the avant-garde
Email address: Jacob.edmond@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/edmond.html

Stephen Epstein
Qualifications: AB (Harv) MA, PhD (Berkeley)
Position: Director of Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Contemporary Korean popular culture and literature; literary translation (Korean and Indonesian fiction); the ancient Greek novel
Teaching areas: Korean literature and society; Asian Studies
Email address: stephen.epstein@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/asianstudies/staff/stephen-epstein.aspx

Hong-yu Gong
Qualifications: BA (Hebei), M Mus (Wuhan), MA (Auckland), PhD (Auckland)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Language Studies, UNITEC-New Zealand
Discipline(s): Asian Studies
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Music, society and politics; ethnomusicology; missionaries and mission schools in late Qing; school songs and the rise of Chinese nationalism; Chinese popular culture, music, theatre, and film.
Email address: hgong@unitec.ac.nz
Web site:

Nanyan Guo
Qualifications: PhD (Ochanomizu, Japan)
Position: Associate Professor, University of Otago.
Discipline(s): Japanese literature, environmental issues, China-Japan relations, and language education
Region(s) of Asia: Japan and China
Research areas: Japanese modern writers Shiga Naoya and Osabe Hideo, the influence Lafcadio Hearn on Japan, the formation of Japan's environmental culture, contemporary cultural communications between China and Japan
Email address: nanyan.guo@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/japanese/staff/nanyan_guo.html

Maria Galikowsk, see Visual Arts

Mary Gray
Qualifications: BA (Oberlin, Phi Beta Kappa), DipEd (Oxford)
Position: retired; immediate past president and life member of the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers; past president of the New Zealand China Friendship Society
Research areas: Bushou based system for teaching Chinese vocabulary (in preparation)
Teaching experience: French, German and Spanish in UK and NZ high schools; HoD Languages, Correspondence School (1980-1987); English at Zhejiang University (1987-1990); English at Yunnan Normal University (1990-91)
Email address: vinmary.gray@paradise.net.nz (residence: Wellington, NZ)
Web site:

Rosemary Haddon
Qualifications: MA (Vict.), BA, PhD (UBC)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Language Studies, Massey University (Turitea)
Research areas: Modern fiction of China and Taiwan
Teaching areas: Chinese language, culture and literature
Email: r.m.haddon@massey.ac.nz
Web page: language.massey.ac.nz

Ken Henshall
Qualifications: B.A. Hons (London), Ph.D. (Sydney), Dip.Ed. (Adel)
Position: Associate Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Modern Japanese literature (especially late Meiji and naturalism); Japanese history (especially Meiji through to and including the Pacific War); Japanese society (especially values and ethics); Japanese language and language teaching (especially characters)
Teaching areas: Japanese language, literature, history and society
Email address: kenneth.henshall@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Chang-Yau Hoon
Qualifications: BCom, BA (Hons), PhD (W.Aust)
Position: Associate Lecturer, Asian Studies, University of Western Australia; Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Singapore Management University (starting July 2008)
Discipline(s): Asian Studies
Region(s) of Asia: Indonesia
Research areas: Chinese-Indonesian, Chinese diaspora, ethnic minority, identity politics, popular culture, hybridity
Email address: seewhy80@hotmail.com
Web site:

Megumi Inoue, see under Performing Arts

Manying Ip, see under Diaspora Studies

Yushi Ito, see under History

Fengyuan Ji
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Canterbury, Christchurch)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Chinese Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Language, politics and society in China since 1949
Teaching areas: Chinese language; China since 1949
Email address: feng-yuan.ji@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Haixian Jiang, see under Gender Studies

Fumio Kakubayashi, see under History

Fujio Kano
Qualifications: BA (Doshisha), Cert Tchg BA (Bukkyo)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Japanese Language Programme, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Modern Japanese literature and religion
Teaching areas: Literature translation
Email address: fujio.kano@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/staff/fujio-kano.aspx

Junji Kawai
Qualifications: BA (Osaka University of Foreign Studies), MA (Massey), PhD (Canterbury)
Position: Lecturer, School of Languages and Social Sciences, AUT
Discipline(s): Japanese
Region(s) of Asia in which you specialise: Japan
Research areas: Language, Linguistics
Email address: junji.kawai@aut.ac.nz
Web site: www.aut.ac.nz/schools/languages/staff/junji_kawai.htm

Elena Kolesova, see under Cultural Studies

Adam Lam, see under Film

Wayne Lawrence, see under Linguistics

Young-Hee Lee
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Hawaii)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Korean, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: modern Korean women's literature, gender studies, women's literature of the Joseon and early modern periods including courtesan poetry, the Korean 'comfort women' issue
Teaching areas: beginners, intermediate and advanced Korean; traditional and modern Korean literature
Email address: yh.lee@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2419

Zhihua Liang
Position: Senior Lecturer in Chinese, School of Languages, Auckland University of Technology
Research areas: methods of teaching students from different backgrounds; use of computer technology in language teaching
Teaching areas: Chinese language
Email address: zhihua.liang@aut.ac.nz
Web site:

Stephen McDowall
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA, PhD (Victoria)
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Languages & Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Chinese literature of the late-imperial and early Republican periods; comparative literature; travel writing; landscape in representation; late-Ming material culture & society.
Email address: stephen.mcdowall@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

Mieko MacInne
Qualifications: BA, MA
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Auckland University of Technology
Research areas: Minimising second language students' language anxiety
Teaching areas: Japanese language for beginners and post-beginners
Email address: mieko.macinnes@aut.ac.nz
Web site:

Ungku Maimunah
Qualifications: BA Hons (University of Malaya); MA (Leeds), PhD (ANU)
Position: Professor and Chair of Malay Studies, Victoria University of Wellington; Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Malay World and Civilisation, National University of Malaysia, Bangi
Research areas: Malay literature; comparative literature; literary theory and criticism; gender studies; indigenous knowledge and methodologies; postcolonial discourse
Teaching areas: the Malay world and civilisation; gender and society in Southeast Asia
Email address: ungkumaimunah@yahoo.com / ungku.maimunah@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/staff/ungku-maimunah.aspx

Lawrence Marceau, see under Cultural Studies

Lin Min, see under Philosophy

Harumi Minagawa, see under Linguistics

Katsuyuki Miyahira
Qualifications: PhD (University of Washington)
Position: Professor, Faculty of Law and Letters, University of the Ryukyus
Discipline(s): Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies
Region(s) of Asia: Okinawa & Japan
Research areas: Okinawan language, Okinawan diaspora, language planning and maintenance
Email address: miyahira@ll.u-ryukyu.ac.jp
Web site:

Ellen Nakamura, see under History

Dallas Nesbitt
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese, School of Languages, Auckland University of Technology
Research areas: Kanji learning; effective use of the language lab
Teaching areas: Japanese language
Email address: dallas.nesbitt@aut.ac.nz
Web site:

Yutaka Okura, see under Cultural Studies

Kaya Oriyama
Qualifications: BA (Nanzan), MA, PhD (Sydney)
Position: Lecturer, Japanese Programme, School of Asian and Euroepan Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Language acquisition; sociolinguistics; bilingualism and language maintenance
Teaching areas: Japanese language; Japanese language and culture
Email address: kaya.oriyama@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

Yvonne Pakenham
Qualifications: Diploma, BA (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader, Auckland University of Technology
Research areas: cross cultural conversations on friendship; collaboration, collegiality and comradeship in diversity
Teaching areas: Japanese language, international language
Email address: yvonne.pakenham@aut.ac.nz
Web page: http://www.aut.ac.nz/schools/languages/staff/

Edwina Palmer
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (London)
Position: Japanese Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Japan: geography, anthropology, myth
Teaching areas: Japanese language; Japanese culture
Email address: edwina.palmer@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Maurizio Paolillo
Qualifications: PhD
Position: Assistant Professor, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
Discipline(s): Chinese Language, History of Chinese Art, Chinese Religion and Philosophy
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Chinese Painting Theory, Gardens Literature and Theory, Fengshui, Space Concepts and Symbolism in Chinese Art, Cultural Interactions between East and West
Email address: paliao@tiscali.it / paliao2@yahoo.it
Web site:

Rachel Payne, see under History

Peter Petrucci
Qualifications: PhD (University of Southern California)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Language Studies
Discipline(s): Linguistics and Second Language Teaching
Region(s) of Asia: Okinawa and Okinawan diaspora
Research areas: Language and Identity in the Okinawan diaspora; Language planning in the Okinawan diaspora
Email address: p.r.petrucci@massey.ac.nz
Web site:

Rumi Sakamoto, see under History

Robert Sanders
Qualifications: MA (Hawai'i), PhD (Berkeley)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Discipline(s): Chinese Linguistics
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Beijing-Taiwan Mandarin, Language Contact & Change, Chinese Dialectology
Email address: r.sanders@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Shie Sato
Qualifications: BA, MA (Cal State), PhD (UCLA)
Position: Lecturer, East Asian Studies, Massey University
Research areas: Pragmatics; discourse analysis; Japanese linguistics; second language acquisition; language pedagogy
Teaching areas: Japanese language; Japanese linguistics; Japanese-English translation
Email address: s.sato@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/ssato.shtml

Penny Shino, see under History

Ellen Soulliere
Qualifications: B.A. Wellesley, M.A. Princeton, PhD. Princeton
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Language studies, Massey University
Discipline(s): Language, Linguistics, History
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Language and culture, Imperial women of the Ming dynasty
Email address: e.f.soulliere@massey.ac.nz
Web site: www.massey.ac.nz

Gillian Skyrme
Qualifications: PhD (Massey)
Position: Lecturer, School of Language Studies, Massey University, Palmerston North
Discipline(s): Linguistics and Second Language Teaching
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Chinese international students in undergraduate university study in New Zealand; Resettlement for refugees and migrants
Email address: g.r.skyrme@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/gs.shtml

Roy Starrs
Qualifications: BA, MA, PhD (UBC)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Asian Studies, School of Asian Studies, University of Otago
Research areas: Japanese literature and intellectual history
Teaching areas: Japanese literature and culture; Asian Studies
Email address: roy.starrs@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site:

Changzoo Song, see under Diaspora Studies

Carolyn Shaw
Qualifications: BA (Canterbury), BA (Hons), MPhil (Massey)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Japanese; Course Coordinator Part-time Foreign Languages in the School of Music, Language and Communication, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT)
Research areas: Japanese language as an economic resources; language learning motivation
Teaching areas:Japanese interpreting
Email address: shaw@cpit.ac.nz
Web site: www.cpit.ac.nz/schools/languagecommunication/staffdetails.asp?sid=222

Tomoko Shimoda, see under Gender Studies

Ellen Soulliere, see under History

Mei Sun, see under Performing Arts

Taka Sunahara
Position: Japanese Section, International Languages, School of Languages, Auckland Institute of Technology
Research areas: intercultural communication
Teaching areas: Japanese language and literature
Email address: takako.sunahara@aut.ac.nz
Web site:

Yukako Sunaoshi
Qualifications: BA (International Christian University, Tokyo), MA, PhD (University of Texas, Austin)
Position: Lecturer, Japanese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: relationship between regionality, language use, and gender; communicative strategies employed by Japanese and American workers in the workplace; role of gesture in intercultural workplace communication; language use by women in authoritative positions
Teaching areas: beginners and intermediate Japanese language
Email address: y.sunaoshi@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2420

Paola Voci, see under Film

Xiaoning Wang
Qualifications: BA (Shanghai) MA, PhD (Waikato)
Position: Lecturer, East Asian Studies, University of Waikato
Research areas: Chinese language teaching and and modern Chinese literature.
Teaching areas: Chinese language and literature
Email address: xnw@waikato.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/staff/huma/xnw

Xiaoming Wu, see under Philosophy

Hong Xiao
Qualifications: TESL Certificate (Toronto), MEd, PhD (Manitoba)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Sociolinguistics (China)
Teaching areas: Chinese language, linguistics
Email address: hong.xiao@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Nora Yao
Qualifications: BA Shanghai, CLTA, MA
Position: Senior Tutor in Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Contrastive analysis between Chinese and English, its implications in teaching/learning Chinese as a second language; teaching methodology in Chinese language classrooms
Teaching areas: Chinese language acquisition; Business Chinese; Chinese language teaching methodology
Email address: n.yao@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Inshil Yoon
Qualifications: MA (Seoul National), PhD
Position: Senior Lecturer in Korean, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Korean language teaching and learning; material development; Korean classics on choosing settlement
Teaching areas: Korean as a foreign language; Korean language education
Email address: ic.yoon@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Xiaohuan Zhao, see under Linguistics

Bioethics

Jing-bao Nie
Qualifications: BMed, MMed, MA, PhD
Position: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Bioethics, University of Otago.
Research areas: cross-cultural and international bioethics; medical ethics in China; history of medicine in China
Teaching areas: Bioethics
Email address: jing-bao.nie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site:

Business & Management Studies

Tim Beal
Qualifications: MA Hons, PhD (Edinburgh)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Marketing and International Business
Research areas: Asian political economy, business and international relations Teaching areas: international marketing; Asian political economy
Email address: tim.beal@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/beal.html

Malcolm Cone
Qualifications: BA, DipArts, CertAddicStudies, MNZAC, PhD (Otago)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Otago
Research areas: international management and comparative approaches to management and business in the Asia Pacific; business ethics in Islamic business practice, knowledge distribution networks in Chinese organisations
Teaching areas: management in Asia; Chinese business management
Email address: mcone@business.otago.ac.nz
Web site:

André M. Everett
Qualifications: BA, MBA, PhD (Nebraska)
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Otago
Discipline(s): International and Strategic Management
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Intercultural knowledge management, cultural influences on international business, international transferability of management approaches
Email address: aeverett@business.otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/mgmt/staff/aeverett.html

Tony Shome
Qualifications: BA, MA Hons (Auck), CLTA (AUT), PhD (VUW)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Management and International Business, Massey University
Research areas: China - business, economy; Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Malaysia and Singapore - business, economy, politics, culture, religion
Teaching areas: international business, trade, leadership; religions of Asia and Asian culture
Email address: a.shome@massey.ac.nz
Web site:

Cultural & Popular Culture Studies

Matt Allen, see under History

Tim Behrend, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Vijay Devadas
Qualifications: BA (Hons), PhD (Murdoch)
Position: Lecturer, Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago
Research areas: Postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, critical theory and cultural studies, and film and media studies
Email address: vijay.devadas@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/communicationstudies/Staff/devadas.html

Stephen Epstein, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Elena Kolesova
Qualifications: BA, MA,, CLTA, PhD (Auck)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland
Research areas: Contemporary Japanese society; history of Japanese education; East asian popular culture and its impact on the West; development of Russian popular culture
Teaching areas: East Asian studies; Japanese studies; Japanese language
Email address: ekolesova@unitec.ac.nz
Web site:

Aditya Malik, see under Religious Studies

Lawrence E. Marceau
Qualifications: BA (Colgate), MA (Kyoto), PhD (Harvard)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: early modern (Edo/Tokugawa period) literature; text & image in woodblock-printed books; bunjin bohemianism and reclusion/social resistance; intellectual and cultural contacts between Tokugawa Japan and Qing China/Yi Dynasty Korea; gender and literature; history of printing and publishing; relationships between literature and intellectual currents
Email address: l.marceau@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Yutaka Okura
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Florida)
Position: Lecturer in Japanese Programme, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Behavioural characteristics of Japanese from cross-cultural psychological perspectives
Teaching areas: Japanese language
Email address: yutaka.okura@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Edwina Palmer, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Hong Key Yoon
Qualifications: BA (Seoul), MS (BYU), PhD (UC Berkeley)
Position: Associate Professor, School of Geography and Environment, University of Auckland
Research areas: Korean and Chinese geomancy
Teaching areas: Culture and environment in East Asia
Email address: hk.yoon@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Development Studies

Helder Da Costa
Qualifications: PhD (Adelaide), MAgEcon (Massey)
Position: Programme Manager (Asia) Volunteers Service Abroad (VSA) New Zealand
Research areas: Development economics, agricultural trade policy, roles of civil society in post conflict situations, higher education in Timor-Leste
Email address: helcosta@yahoo.com, hdacosta@vsa.org.nz
Web site:

Ken Jackson
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Kent)
Position: Associate Professor, Development Studies, University of Auckland and Director, Centre for Development Studies
Research areas: micro-finance, migration and remittances, economic policy, growth and development in forestry and timber, and general small business development in Asia and the Pacific, particularly Malaysia, Bangladesh and India
Teaching areas: issues in development theory and practice; economic development
Email address: k.jackson@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2234

Andrew McGregor
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), PhD (Syd)
Position: Lecturer in Geography, University of Otago
Research areas: Southeast Asian development - particularly Myanmar, East Timor and Laos, foreign aid and human rights, post-development theory, tourism as development, political ecology
Teaching areas: contemporary Southeast Asian geography; transformations in developing countries; human geography; field research studies
Email address: arm@geography.otago.ac.nz
Website: www.geography.otago.ac.nz/Geography/People/AndrewMcGregor.html

John McKinnon
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Well)
Position: Fellow, Asian Studies Institute; Honorary Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences; member, Institute of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Southeast Asia: action research; participatory rural development; livelihood enhancement; sustainable livelihoods; indigenous highland people of the Central Mastiff, mainland Southeast Asia
Country experience: Thailand; DRP Lao; Cambodia; southwest China (Yunnan, Guizhou); India (Gujurat)
Email address: john.mckinnon@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

Philip Morrison, see under Geography

Vijay Naidu
Qualifications: BA, MA (Distinct)(USP), Dphil (Sussex)
Position: Professor and Director Development Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Millennium development goals; poverty reduction and social security; migration and diaspora; ethnicity and conflict resolution/management; globalisation and small island states.
Countries: Maldives; Timor-Leste; Vietnam; Laos PDR; Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand.
Teaching areas: Development theory and practice; Poverty and Development; State and Public Policy making.
Email address: Vijay.Naidu@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

Barbara Nowak
Qualifications: BA (Bard College), MA, PhD (SUNY, Buffalo)
Position: Institute of Development Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
Research areas: Malaysia, Indonesia and China: indigenous people; development; gender; plantation economies; rural sustainable livelihoods and natural hazards preparedness and reconstruction
Teaching areas: Development; indigenous people and ethnicity; gender; human rights
Email address: b.s.nowak@massey.ac.nz
Web site:

Diaspora and Immigration Studies

Robyn Andrews, see under Anthropology

Alice Cleland, see under Sociology/Social Policy

Ruth DeSouza, see under Sociology/Social Policy

Manying Ip
Qualifications: BA (HKU), MA (UoA), PhD (UoA)
Position: Associate Professor, Sch of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Discipline(s): Social history; humanities
Region(s) of Asia: China, New Zealand
Research areas: Chinese New Zealanders: historical and contemporary;
migration in transnational context; Maori-Chinese interactions
Teaching areas: New Zealand and Asia; Rethinking China; Asian New
Zealanders; Research methodology
Email address: my.ip@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?S=STAFF_bip001

Jacqui Leckie, see under Anthropology

Brian Moloughney, see under History

Vijay Naidu, see under Development Studies

Paul Spoonley, see under Sociology/Social Policy

Changzoo Song
Qualifications: BA (Kookmin U), MA (Hangkuk U of Foreign Studies), PhD (Hawaii)
Position: Lecturer in Korean, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: nationalism, globalisation, diaspora issues with Korea and East Asia focus
Teaching areas: Korean Studies (politics and culture); Asian diasporas
Email address: ch.song@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

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Economics

Rashmi Umesh Arora
Qualifications: M.A. (Lucknow University, India), M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), PhD (University of Auckland)
Position: University of Auckland
Discipline(s): Economics, Development Studies
Region(s) of Asia:India, South Asia
Research areas: Economic Development, Economic Reforms, Development Finance, Agriculture, Poverty
Email address: rashmi_umesh@hotmail.com
Web site:

Reiko Aoki
Qualifications: BS (Tokyo), MA (Tsukuba), MS, PhD (Stanford)
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Director, Japan Studies Centre of the NZ Asia Institute, University of Auckland
Research areas: intellectual property; innovation; comparison of US, EU and Japanese intellectual property systems; patent pools switching; cost (number portability) in networks and e-commerce
Teaching area: microeconomics; industrial organisation; economics of the internet
Email address: r.aoki@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://yoda.eco.auckland.ac.nz/~raoki/personal/

Sayeeda Bano
Qualifications: BA Hons, MA (Patna), MPhil (Jawaharal Nehru University, New Delhi), MA (University of Alberta, Edmonton), PhD (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Management, University of Waikato
Research areas: international trade; international finance; international economy; comparative economic performance and economies of Asia and the Pacific
Teaching areas: international trade and finance, economies of Asia and the Pacific, and comparative economic performance
Email address: sbano@waikato.ac.nz
Web site: wms-soros.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/staff%20List/staffhome.asp?user=SBANO

Helder Da Costa, see under Development Studies

Education

David Keen
Qualifications: BA (Massey), MA, Dip Ed (Oxford), MPhil (Waikato), PhD (Otago)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Social Studies Department, Dunedin College of Education
Current research activity: Pacific Bridges - outcomes of study experiences in New Zealand and Japan for New Zealand and Japanese exchange students
Teaching areas: SU181 Japanese Language and Culture; SU284 Cultural Enrichment
Email address: david.keen@dce.ac.nz
Web site:

Environment

Cath Knight
Qualifications: B.A. (Tezukayama Gakuin University), MA (Canterbury), PhD (Canterbury)
Position: Policy Adviser, Ministry for the Environment
Discipline(s): Japanese Studies
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: environmental history, human perceptions of the natural environment, wildlife management, human-animal relations
Email address: cath.knight@xtra.co.nz
Web site: www.knightcommunications.co.nz

Film and Media Studies

Paul Clark, see under History

Adam Lam
Qualifications: BA (Monash), MA (HK), PhD (Auckland)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Discipline(s): Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Chinese Studies
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Film Studies (Chinese, NZ, Global Cinema), Cultural Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Films and Television, Internet, Technology and Globalisation), Chinese Studies (Contemporary Culture, Literature, and Overseas Chinese Writings)
Email address: adam.lam@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.lanc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/lam.shtml

Sean Redmond
Qualifications: BA (Hons) (Lancaster), PGCE (Leicester), MA (Warwick), PhD (Lancaster)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline(s): Film, Cultural Studies, Phenomenology
Region(s) of Asia: Hong Kong, Japan, popular Indian cinema
Research areas: film authorship (Wong Kar-wai, Takeshi Kitano); film genre (the youth film, kung-fu, wuxia, horror, mecha anime, yakuza film); globalisation and identity
Email address: sean.redmond@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/film/staff/sean-redmond.aspx

Paola Voci
Qualifications: BA (Venice); Diploma in Film Theory and Practice (Beijing Film Academy), MA, PhD (Indiana)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Chinese Programme, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago
Research areas: East Asian studies (particularly Chinese language and culture); film and media studies, and visual culture in contemporary China and in the Chinese disaspora
Teaching areas: Chinese cinema; Chinese language; contemporary Chinese culture; media studies
Email address: paola.voci@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/chinese/staff/paola.html

Xuelin Zhou
Qualifications: BA, PhD (Auck)
Position: Lecturer in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Asian popular culture, including Chinese film and Hong Kong cinema
Teaching areas: film, television and media studies
Email address: x.zhou@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Gender Studies

Hilary Chung, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Sharyn Graham Davies
Qualifications: PhD (UWA, Perth)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology
Research areas: Indonesia, gender, sexuality, politics, media, ethics
Teaching areas: anthropology, research methods. media ethics
Email address: sharyn.graham@aut.ac.nz
Web site: www.aut.ac.nz/schools/social_sciences/staff/

Rosemary Haddon, see Asian Languages and Literature

Haixin Jiang
Qualifications: BA (Sichuan Normal University), MA (Nanjing University), PhD (Canterbury, NZ)
Position: Lecturer in Chinese Programme, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago
Research areas: Contemporary Chinese women's literature; Chinese women's studies; regional focus - Sichuan province
Teaching areas: Chinese language, literature and culture

Jacqui Leckie, see under Anthropology

Young-Hee Lee, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Ungku Maimunah, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Tomoko Shimoda
Qualifications: BA (Jissen), MA (Sydney), PhD
Position: Lecturer in Japanese Programme, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Women and media in Japan
Teaching areas: Japanese language; media and gender issues in contemporary Japan
Email address: t.shimoda@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Ellen Soulliere, see under History

Yukako Sunaoshi, see under Asian Languages and Literature

Geography

Ken Jackson, see under Development Studies

Doug Johnston
Qualifications: M.A., Ph.D (Cant.)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Geography, University of Canterbury
Research areas: rural transport in Southeast Asia
Teaching areas: difference, change and development in Southeast Asia
Email address: doug.johnston@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

Andrew McGregor, see under Development Studies

John McKinnon, see under Development Studies

Philip Morrison
Qualifications: BA Hons, MA (Well), PhD (Toronto)
Position: Professor, Institute of Geography, School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: labour market geography; urban growth and development; housing markets and housing policy; urban historical geography; development issues in Sarawak, Malaysia
Teaching areas: economic geography
Email address: philip.morrison@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/geo/staff/morrison.html

Edwina Palmer, see under Asian Languages and Literature

History

Matthew Allen
Qualifications: BA PhD (Sydney)
Position: Associate Professor, History, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland (on leave until 2008)
Research areas: identity in Japan and Okinawa; minorities in Japan; popular culture; ethnopsychiatry of Japan, East Asia and Okinawan culture
Teaching area: modern Japanese history; pop culture in East asia; identity in Japan and East asia
Email address: me.allen@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2032

Limin Bai
Qualifications: BA (Anhui Univ), MA (East China Normal), PhD (LaTrobe)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Chinese, School of Languages and Cultures
Research areas: intellectual history of the Qing dynasty; history of traditional Chinese education; history of Chinese mathematics; cross-cultural attitudes to childhood
Teaching areas: modern Chinese language and literature; classical Chinese language and literature
Email address: limin.bai@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/staff/limin-bai.aspx

Tony Ballantyne
Qualifications: BA Hons (Otao), PhD (Cambridge)
Position: Lecturer in History, University of Otago
Research areas: intellectual and cultural networks that reshaped South Asia in the long nineteenth century; the construction of colonial knowledge within South Asia; "webs of empire"
Teaching areas: world history; empires and globalisation; modern India
Email address: tony.ballantyne@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/history/staff/tony_b.html

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Calcutta)
Position: Professor of Asian History, History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: history of modern South Asia, with a special focus on caste and nationalism in India
Teaching areas: history of modern South and Southeast Asia
Email address: sekhar.bandyopadhyay@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/history

James Beattie
Qualifications: BA Hons (Otago); PhD (Otago)
Position: Lecturer, Department of History, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, Waikato, New Zealand
Discipline(s):History
Region(s) of Asia: China; nineteenth century India
Research areas: environmental history; medical history; history of science; garden history
Email address: jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/people/james/

Jane Buckingham
Qualifications: BA (double Hons) Sydney; PhD (Sydney)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia: South Asia specially South India
Research areas: Medicine and law; Early colonial Madras; Disability; Leprosy in the South Pacific ( Marsden project)
Email address: jane.buckingham@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site: via school of history

Paul Clark
Qualifications: BA MA (Auckland), AM PhD (Harvard)
Position: Professor of Chinese, The University of Auckland
Discipline(s): China Studies, History
Region(s) of Asia: contemporary China
Research areas: Chinese popular culture (including films), youth cultures in China since the 1960s
Email address: paul.clark@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/asian/staff

Elise Foxworth
Qualifications: BA The College of Wooster (USA) MA Monash University (Australia) Ph.D. (to receive in 2009) The University of Melbourne
Position: Lecturer, School of Arts, Monash University
Discipline(s): Japanese studies
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: post war Japan / Minorities in Japan / postcolonial studies/ cultural studies / Japanese literature – specifically minority literature
Email address: elise.foxworth@arts.monash.edu.au
Web site:

W. R. (Rick) Garside
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Leeds), FRHS
Position: Professor of Economic History, Dean of School of Liberal Arts,
University of Otago
Research areas: economic history, with a focus on the role of government; micro- and macroeconomic policy as it impacts upon labour, industry and national competitiveness; government, markets and industry in Britain and Japan since 1945; the rise and fall of the developmental state
Teaching areas: economy and society in Japan since 1945; 20th century European history
Email address: rick.garside@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/history/staff/rick_g.html

Ellen Van Goethem
Qualifications: PhD (Ghent University), PhD (Berkeley)
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS), Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
Discipline(s): Ancient Japanese history
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: Chinese-style capital cities mokkan (inscribed wooden tablets) urban planning shijin sōō ('corresponding to the four gods') theory
Email address: evgoethem@gmail.com, evgoethem@hosei.ac.jp
Web site:

Susan Heydon
Qualifications: BA (Hons) (London); MA (Otago); PhD (Otago)
Position: Lecturer, University of Otago
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia: Nepal/Himalaya
Research areas: “modern” medicine and international aid; rural health services; high-altitude medicine
Email address: susan.heydon@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web page:

Yushi Ito
Qualifications: BSc (Tohoku), MA (Hiroshima), PhD (Melb)
Position: Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Japanese intellectual history; Japanese language teaching
Teaching areas: Japanese intellectual history; Japanese language teaching
Email address: yushi.ito@vuw.ac.nz;
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/staff/yushi-ito.aspx

Pauline Keating
Qualifications: BA Hons (Monash); PhD (ANU, Canberra)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Victoria University Wellington
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Republican-era rural China (Rural Reconstruction and rural cooperatives; Rural democracy; Chinese Communist Party base areas); Post-Mao China (Village self-government programme; NGOs)
Email address: pauline.keating@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/history/staff/pauline.aspx

Fumio Kakubayashi
Position: former lecturer in Japanese, Massey University
Research areas: ancient Japanese history from the Jono period to the early Heian period; the early relations, particularly mythologocal relations, between Japan and Polynesia
Email address: F.Kakubayashi@massey.ac.nz
Web site:

Malcolm Mckinnon
Qualifications: BA (Hons), VUW; M Phil (Oxford); PhD (VUW)
Position: Adjunct research associate, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, VUW
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia:
Research areas: globalization and modernity in Asia
Email address: mckinnonmalcolm@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/history/staff/malcolm.aspx

Hew McLeod
Qualifications: MA (UNZ), PhD (London, DLit (London), FRSNZ
Position: Emeritus Professor of History, University of Otago
Research areas: Sikh history and religion; Punjab and the diaspora
Email address: hew.mcleod@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/history/staff/hew_m.html

Brian Moloughney
Qualifications: BA, MA (Canterbury, Christchurch), PhD (ANU)
Position: Professor, School of Languages & Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline(s): History, Literature
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Chinese history, Chinese Literature, the Chinese diaspora
Email address: brian.moloughney@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/saelc/staff/brian-moloughney.aspx

Ellen Nakamura
Qualifications: BA Hons (ANU), MEd (Tokyo Gakugei Uni), PhD (ANU)
Position: Lecturer in Japanese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Japanese social history; Japanese medicine
Teaching areas: Japanese language and culture
Email address : e.nakamura@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Rachel Payne
Qualifications: BA, MA, PhD (Oxon)
Position: Japanese Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Japanese theatre history, with an emphasis on Meiji Kabuki; its patronage systems and the socio-political background to its reform movements; Meiji Noh; the history of Japanese and Western Noh mask collections
Teaching areas: Japanese language
Email address: rachel.payne@canterbury.ac.nz
Web page: www.lanc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/payne.shtml

Richard Phillips
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: twentieth century Chinese history, with particular reference to China-Japan relations, 1919 - 1945
Teaching areas: modern and late imperial Chinese history; Chinese civilisation; classical Chinese; general topics in Asian Studies
Email address: rt.phillips@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2347

Rumi Sakamoto
Qualifications: BA (Tsuda), MA, PhD (Essex)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Japanese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Modern intellectual history of Japan; nationalism and national identity in Japan
Teaching areas: Modern Japanese history and society
Email address: r.sakamoto@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=2349

Penny Shino
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Auck)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese; Programme Co-ordinator for East Asian Studies
Research areas: Shotetsu; Waka poetry of 15th-century Japan; aristocratisation of the warrior class in 14th- and 15th-century Japan; the formative period of the tea cult in Muromachi Japan.
Teaching areas: Japanese language and literature
Email address: p.a.shino@massey.ac.nz
Web site: language.massey.ac.nz/staff/ps.shtml

Ellen Soulliere
Qualifications: BA (Wellesley), MA, PhD (Princeton), DipTESOL (Well)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Linguistics and Second Language Teaching Programme, Massey University
Research areas: Chinese social history; gender issues; the imperial court in the Ming dynasty
Teaching areas: Chinese language; Chinese literature and society
Email address: e.f.soulliere@massey.ac.nz
Web site: language.massey.ac.nz/staff/es.shtml

Nicholas Tarling
Qualifications: Litt D (Camb)
Position: Emeritus Professor of History; Fellow, New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland
Research areas: Southeast Asia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam; West New Guinea/Irian/Papua in 1962; regionalism in Southeast Asia; nationalism in Southeast Asia
Email address: n.tarling@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Geoff Watson
Qualifications: MA (Cantuar); PhD (Griffith)
Position: Lecturer, History Programme, School of History, Philosophy and Classics, Massey University, Palmerston North
Discipline(s): History
Region(s) of Asia: Central Asia, South Asia
Research areas: Indian Sports Clubs in New Zealand; Western Images of Central Asia
Email address: g.watson@massey.ac.nz
Web site: http://hpc.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/cohss/schools/school-of-history-philosophy-and-classics/staff/geoff-watson.cfm

Rowena Ward
Qualifications: BA (Newcastle); MA (Asian Studies, PhD (UNSW)
Position: Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, UTS
Discipline(s): Politics/ History
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: the construction of the contemporary Japanese nation; repatriation and internment
Email address: Rowena.ward@uts.edu.au
Web site:

Vanessa Ward
Qualifications: BAS (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Position: Tutor, History and Asian Studies programmes, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Japanese modern/contemporary history; intellectual history; publishing and book history
Teaching areas: Asian studies; Asian history; Japanese history
Email address: vanessa.ward@vuw.ac.nz
Web site:

International Relations

David Capie
Qualifications: BA Hons, LLB (VUW), MA (ANU), PhD (York, Canada)
Position: Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: conflict and security issues in Asia; ASEAN; regionalism and institutions
Teaching areas: Asia-Pacific security; New Zealand's international relations; civil wars; identity and world politics
Email address: david.capie@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/pols/Staff/dcapie.aspx

Peter Cozens
Qualifications: BA, MA (Well)
Position: Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand, and of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific-New Zealand
Research areas: maritime security and oceans policy in the Asia-Pacific; Chinese and Indian maritime strategy

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