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Directory of Asia Specialists in New Zealand Listed by Region

Bangladesh

Ken Jackson, see under South Asia

John McKinnon, see under Southeast Asia

Brunei

Nicholas Tarling, see under Southeast Asia

Cambodia

John McKinnon, see under Southeast Asia

Central and West Asia

Will Harris
Qualifications: MA (Cant), PhD (Durh)
Position: Professor, Political Studies, University of Otago
Research areas: the contemporary affairs and geopolitics of Southwest Asia, particularly the Levant, Turkey and Iraq; history of the Levant and Lebanon
Teaching areas: Middle East politics; Turkey and its neighbours; Syria and Lebanon since late Ottoman times
Email address: will.harris@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site:

Jim Veitch, see under Indonesia

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/staff/watsong.shtml

China

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

James Beattie, see under New Zealand

Jack Body, see under Indonesia

Anne-Marie Brady
Qualifications: BA (Auck), MA (Auckland) PhD (ANU)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science and Communication, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Chinese foreign and domestic politics
Email address: Anne-Marie.Brady@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

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:

Xin Chen
Qualifications: BA (Peking), MA (Peking), PhD (Hawaii)
Position: Research Fellow & Programme Officer, NZ Asia Institute, University of Auckland
Discipline(s): Political Science
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Chinese politics, China in East Asia
Email address: x.chen@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.auckland.ac.nz/nzai

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

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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

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:

Peter Cozens, see under New Zealand

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

Bronwyn Elsmore, see under East Asia

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

Maria Galikowski
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Leeds)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Chairperson of East Asian Studies, University of Waikato
Research areas: modern and contemporary Chinese culture and society, with an emphasis on the visual arts
Teaching areas: Chinese language; Chinese history; modern and contemporary Chinese culture; modern Chinese literary texts
Email address: mariag@waikato.ac.nz
Web site:

Robin Gauld
Qualifications: MA (Well) PhD (HK)
Position: Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago
Research areas: Comparative health policy in Asia; Hong Kong heal care system
Email address: r.gauld@otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/prevmed

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:

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 address: r.m.haddon@massey.ac.nz
Web site: language.massey.ac.nz

King Tong Ho
Qualifications: PhD (AUT); MA&D (First Class Hons, AUT)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Studies, School of Art & Design, AUT University
Research areas: Chinese aesthetics & philosophy, cross-cultural aesthetics (practice and theory); contemporary Chinese photography; photography theory & practice; digital art (aesthetics and technology); digital still imaging & ink jet printmaking
Teaching areas: Masters of Art & Design and postgraduate supervision; Chinese philosophy and aesthetics; Asian and Western cross-cultural theory and practice; photography; digital imaging aesthetics and technology; digital ink jet printmaking technologies
Email address: king.ho@aut.ac.nz
Web site: http://arden.aut.ac.nz/moodle/mod/data/view.php?d=15&rid=827

Xiaoming Huang, see under East Asia

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

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:

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
Email address:
Web site:

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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

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

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:

John McKinnon, see under Southeast Asia

Malcolm McKinnon, see under New Zealand

Lin Min
Qualifications: BA Hons (Fudan), MPhil (Ljubljana), PhD (Leeds)
Position: Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, University of Waikato
Research areas: modern and contemporary Chinese intellectuals and society; the comparative study of Chinese and Western philosophy; modern and contemporary Chinese culture; modernisation inb Chinese-speaking Asia
Teaching areas: contemporary Chinese society; modernisation in Chinese-speaking asia; business communication in Chinese
Email address: linmin@waikato.ac.nz
Web site:

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

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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:

Barbara Nowak, see under Malaysia

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: 

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

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:

Tony Shome, see under Southeast Asia

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

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

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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.n
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/chinese/staff/paola.html

Shuhong Wang, BA (Beijing)
Position: Lecturer in Chinese, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington; and, Lecturer at the International College of Chinese Language and Culture, Renmin University (Beijing)
Research areas: Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Chinese learning and teaching in non-Chinese speaking countries; second language education
Teaching areas: Chinese language; Chinese-English/English-Chinese translation
Email: shuhong.wang@vuw.ac.nz

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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

William 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:

Xiaoming Wu
Qualifications: BA Fudan, MA Peking, DPhil Sussex
Position: Senior lecturer over the bar, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury
Discipline(s): Philosophy, literature
Region(s) of Asia: China
Research areas: Chinese and comparative philosophy
Email address: xiaoming.wu@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

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

Hong Key Yoon, see under East Asia

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Xiaohuan Zhao
Qualifications: B.A., M.A. (Central China Normal University), PhD (Edinburgh)
Position: Lecturer in Chinese, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago
Research areas: Text Linguistics/Discourse Analysis, Semantics and Stylistics; traditional Chinese culture (mythology, folklore and religion) and intercultural communication; traditional Chinese literature, particularly classical Chinese fiction of the strange and supernatural
Teaching areas: Chinese language, literature and culture
Email address: xiaohuan.zhao@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/chinese/staff/xiaohuan.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:

East Asia

Matt Allen, see under Japan

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

Bronwyn Elsmore
Qualifications: BA Hons, PhD (Well)
Position: Religious Studies Programme, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Massey University
Research areas: religion and change, particularly the way in which Asian religions have altered when translocated to a western environment
Teaching areas: East Asian religions (China and Japan); Indian religions; women and religion
Email address: B.M.Elsmore@massey.ac.nz
Web site:

Xiaoming Huang
Qualifications: LLB LLM (Peking), PhD (USC)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Political science and International Relations Programme, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Politics and international relations in East Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore); political economy; modern development
Teaching areas: Asian politics; international relations; political economy
Email address: xiaoming.huang@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/pols/Staff/xhuang.aspx

Stephen Levine, see under Southeast Asia

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:

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/

Himalaya Region

Elaine Dobson
Qualifications: M Mus (Ql'd), A Mus A
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Music, College of Arts, University of Canterbury
Research areas: Bhutanese and Tibetan music, particularly that of the dranyen or Himalayan lute. Music of the Lepchas, the indigenous people of Sikkim (north India)
Teaching areas: Asian music, Himalayan music, composition, 20th - 21st century music
Email address: elaine.dobson@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.music.canterbury.ac.nz/people/dobson.shtml

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:

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India

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

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:

Tony Ballantyne, see under South Asia

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/

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, see under New Zealand

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

Peter Cozens, see under New Zealand

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Radha D'Souza
Qualifications: BA, LLB (Bombay), PhD (Auckland)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Waikato
Research areas: socio-legal studies, public law (constitutional and administrative law, public interest litigation), law and development in India/South Asia
Teaching areas: law and development; globalisation and governancel regulatory regimes and the global economy; law and societies; development theory
Email address: r.dsouza@waikato.ac.nz
Web site:

Rolf W. Giebel
Qualifications: BA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), MA (University of Tokyo)
Position: Independent scholar
Discipline(s): Buddhist studies
Region(s) of Asia: India, Tibet, China, Japan
Research areas: Comparative study of Indo-Tibetan and Sino-Japanese Tantric/Esoteric Buddhism
Email address: rwgiebel@ihug.co.nz
Web site:

Jacqui Leckie, see under New Zealand

John McKinnon, see under Southeast Asia

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

Graeme MacRae, see under Indonesia

Aditya Malik, see under South Asia

Paul Morris
Qualifications: PhD (Lancaster)
Position: Professor of Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: contemporary world religions; the relationship between religion and dying/death; religion and personal and cultural identity
Teaching areas: the world's religions; Judaism; death, dying and religion; theories and methods in the study of religion
Email address: paul.morris@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/religion/staff/paul_morris/index.html

Sean Redmond, see under Japan

Jay Shaw
Qualifications: MA (Calc), PhD (Rice)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: the relevance of Indian philosophy of language and epistemology to contemporary Western Philosophy; existence; causality in Indian Philosophy; knowledge; the concept of suffering; freedom and harmony
Teaching areas: theories of existence in Western philosophy; contemporary Western Philosophy, analytical Philosophy, Indian philosophy
Email address: Jay.Shaw@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/phil/staff/shaw.aspx

Will Sweetman
Qualifications: BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions, University of Otago
Discipline(s): Religion, History
Region(s) of Asia: India
Research areas: interactions between Asian religions and the West in the modern period; historical and theoretical questions in the study or religion; Indian religions
Email address: will.sweetman@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/religiousstudies/staff/sweetman.php

Margaret Trawick, see under South Asia

Sita Venkateswar
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 Culture and Power; Writing Ethnography; Fieldwork Practices; Anthropology and Colonialism
Email address: s.venkateswar@massey.ac.nz
Web site: www.anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/Venkateswar/

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Rich Weiss
Qualifications: PhD (Chicago)
Position: Lecturer, Religious Studies Programme, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: South Asian religions; traditional Indian medicine; contemporary Hinduism
Teaching areas: Asian religions
Email address: rick.weiss@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/religion/staff/rick_weiss/index.html

Geoff Watson, see under Central and West Asia

Indonesia

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

Jack Body, M.Mus

Jack Body
M.Mus (Auckland University)
Position: Associate professor, School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline(s): Music
Region(s) of Asia: Indonesia, China
Research areas: Music of the Chinese minorities, Music of the kraton guards, Yogyakarta, Cross-cultural musical composition
Email address: jack.body@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.jack.body.com

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/

Stephen Epstein, see under Korea

William Farrimond
Qualifications: Cert. Ed. (Oxon), Magisterkonferens/PhD (Copenhagen)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Waikato
Research areas: Balinese Topeng Pajegan; mask performance; classical Asian theatre forms (codifications, training, influences on Western practices)
Teaching areas: Contemporary Performance Studies; theatre anthropology; theatre East and West (influences on Western practices)
Email address: williamf@waikato.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:

Erich Kolig, see under New Zealand

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Uli Kozok
Qualifications: MA, PhD University of Hamburg
Position: Associate Professor, Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures. University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Discipline(s): Philology, Archaeology, Indonesian and Malay language & literature
Region(s) of Asia: South-East Asia
Research areas: Palaeography of island South East Asia, Sumatran philology, Batak oral literature, modern Indonesian literature, pre-modern history of Sumatra.
Email address: uli@bahasa.net
Web site: http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/faculty.html

Graeme MacRae
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

Mark Rolls
Qualifications: PhD (Hull)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Waikato
Research areas: NZ-Asia relations; Indonesian defence policy; ASEAN and regional security in SE Asia
Teaching areas: International Security; Security Issues in Southeast Asia; International Politics of India and Pakistan
Email address: markgr@waikato.ac.nz
Web site: www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/politics/

Nicholas Tarling, see under Southeast Asia

Jim Veitch
Qualifications: ThD (ACT), PhD (Birmingham)
Position: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: the role of the post-revolutionary government of Iran's role in the Middle East; Islam in Southeast Asia; the related areas of political violence and terrorism
Teaching areas: political Islam; Indonesia
Email address: jim.veitch@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/religion/staff/jim_veitch/index.html#a

Fay Wouk
Qualifications: MA (Mich.), PhD, CPhil (UCLA)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland
Research areas: Languages of Indonesia; interactional grammar; cross-cultural pragmatics; conversation analysis
Teaching areas: language, mind and society; acquisition of language; interactional sociolinguistics
Email address: f.wouk@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Japan

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

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/

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Erica Baffelli
Qualifications: B.A. (Venice), PhD (Venice)
Position: Lecturer in Asian Religions, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Otago
Research areas: New Japanese religious movements and media; pop cultures and religions; new religious movements and conversion stories; Japanese religions
Email address: erica.baffelli@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/religiousstudies/staff/baffelli.php

Andrew Barke
Qualifications: MA (Auck), PhD (Toronto)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Japanese Programmes, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Japanese linguistics (pragmatics)
Teaching area: Japanese language and culture
Email address: andrew.barke@vuw.ac.nz
Web site: www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/staff/andrew-barke.aspx

Gregory Booth, see under India

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:

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:

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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:

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

Brian Harrison
Qualifications: MSc (Leeds), BSc (Imperial College, London), ARCS (Associateship of the Royal College of Science)
Position: Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Discipline(s): Environmental studies
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: Environmental issues in Japan
Email address: bhchuo@gol.com
Web site:

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:

Megumi Inoue
Qualifications: BA (Sophia, Tokyo), MA (Illinois), PhD (Washington)
Position: Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Drama, literature, and culture of pre-modern and early-modern Japan, Literature, performing arts of modern and contemporary Japan.
Teaching areas: Modern and classical Japanese language at all levels.
Email address: m.Inoue@auckland.ac.nz
Web site:

Henry Johnson
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Music (Dartington), MMus (London), DPhil (Oxford)
Position: Professor, Music Department, University of Otago
Discipline(s): Ethnomusicology
Region(s) of Asia: Japan, Asia
Research areas: Music and performing arts of Japan and elsewhere in Asia, Asian diaspora.
Email address: henry.johnson@otago.ac.nz
Web site: www.otago.ac.nz/music

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

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

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:

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

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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: Japan
Research areas: Language, Linguistics
Email address: junji.kawai@aut.ac.nz
Web site: www.aut.ac.nz/schools/languages/staff/junji_kawai.htm

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:

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:

Wayne P. Lawrence
Qualifications: MA (Tokyo UFS), PhD (Tsukuba)
Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, the University of Auckland
Discipline(s): linguistics
Region(s) of Asia:
Research areas: phonology, accentuation processes, Ryukyuan dialectology
Email address: wp.lawrence@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?S=STAFF_wlaw016

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:

Mieko MacInnes
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:

Harumi Minagawa
Qualifications: BA (Tsuda), MA PhD (ANU)
Position: Senior Lecturer in Japanese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland
Research areas: Japanese linguistics; teaching Japanese as a foreign language
Teaching areas: Japanese language; teaching Japanese as a foreign language; translation
Email address: h.minagawa@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/departments/index.cfm?P=2171

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
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:

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
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:

Kaya Oriyama
Qualifications: BA (Nanzan), MA, PhD (Sydney)
Position: Lecturer, Japanese Programme, School of 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:

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: edwina.palmer@canterbury.ac.nz
Web site:

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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/

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

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:

Richard Phillips, see under China

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

Michael A Roberts
Qualifications: BA (Auck) MA (Auck) PhD (Hawai'i)
Position: Academic Director AIS St Helens
Discipline(s): Applied Linguistics, Japanese Language Pedagogy
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Research areas: Second language pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Japanese Linguistics, Issues in International Education
Email address: miker@ais.ac.nz
Web site:

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

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

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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
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:

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

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:

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

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:

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:

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Korea

Tim Beal, see under East Asia

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

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

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:

Jae Jung