Members
Centre Chair
Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager
Executive Officer
Meri Arichi
Member, Japan Research Centre
History of Japanese Art, Buddhist Art of Japan in context
- Email: ma70@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B302
T H Barrett
Member, Japan Research Centre
History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period - Tel: 020 7898 4765
- Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451a
- On Sabbatical:2009/10
Alan Cummings
Member, Japan Research Centre
- Tel: 020 7898 4200
- Email: ac50@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 391
- Office Hours: Mondays 17:00-18:00/Fridays 16:00/17:00
Stephen Dodd
Chair, Japan Research Centre
Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in representations of the native place (furusato), gender/sexuality and modernity - Tel: 020 7898 4216
- Email: sd5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 381
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Lucia Dolce
Member, Japan Research Centre
Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations - Tel: 020 7898 4217
- Email: ld16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 342
- Office Hours: Term 1 - Wednesdays 3-4pm
- On Sabbatical:Term 2 - Research Leave
Andrew Gerstle
Member, Japan Research Centre
Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu - Tel: 020 7898 4207
- Email: ag4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 390
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Christopher Gerteis
Member, Japan Research Centre
Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4093
- Email: cg24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 304
- On Sabbatical:AY 2012-13
Noriko Iwasaki
Member, Japan Research Centre
Second language acquisition (grammatical and pragmatic development, impact of study abroad), language pedagogy, psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), Japanese linguistics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4394
- Email: ni3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 401
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00- 13:00/Thursdays 15:00 - 17:00
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Misako Kanehisa
Member, Japan Research Centre
- Tel: 020 7898 4235
- Email: mk7@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 387
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Miwako Kashiwagi
Member, Japan Research Centre
- Tel: 020 7898 4236
- Email: mk56@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 387
- Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-17:00 / Wednesdays 16:00-17:00
Miki Kawabata
Member, Japan Research Centre
- Email: mk90@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 480
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 15:00-16:00
Griseldis Kirsch
Member, Japan Research Centre
Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4288
- Email: gk10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 377
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 and by appointment
Mika Kizu
Member, Japan Research Centre
Theoretical Linguistics; Syntax; Japanese Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition - Tel: 020 7898 4224
- Email: mk89@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 383
Yuka Kobayashi
Member, Japan Research Centre
Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4736
- Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4417
- On Sabbatical:Terms 1 & 2, 2012-13
Costas Lapavitsas
Member, Japan Research Centre
Theory of banking and finance; history of economic thought; the Japanese financial system. Teaching interests include banking and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought. - Tel: 020 7898 4538
- Email: cl5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 269
Tullio Lobetti
Member, Japan Research Centre
Philosophy, particularly Philosophy of Religion; Theology; Japanese Religions.
- Email: tl3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 340
- Office Hours: By Appointment
Angus Lockyer
Member, Japan Research Centre
Modernisation and modernity in Japan; world’s fairs, international and industrial exhibitions - Tel: 020 7898 4626
- Email: al21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 316
- Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 3:30-5pm and by appointment
Helen Macnaughtan
Member, Japan Research Centre
Employment, human resource management, gender and economic development in Japan.
- Tel: 020 7898 4530
- Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 546
- Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Dolores P Martinez
Member, Japan Research Centre
Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions - Tel: 020 7898 4425
- Email: dm6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 567
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm (or by Appointment)
Satoshi Miyamura
Member, Japan Research Centre
Regions: South & East Asia. Countries: India, Japan. Subjects: Development economics, Labour economics, Institutional economics, Labour-management bargaining; Research methods in economics. - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4544
- Email: sm97@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 554
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Wednesday 11.30-13.00
Barbara Pizziconi
Member, Japan Research Centre
Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness - Tel: 020 7898 4225
- Email: bp3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 362
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Nicole Rousmaniere
Member, Japan Research Centre
Japanese ceramics, archaeology, photography; Japanese metal works; Japanese lacquer; also Chinese and Korean artefacts
Sonja Ruehl
Member, Japan Research Centre
Financial Sector Development in Japan and Vietnam. Gender Issues in Financing Development. Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam - Tel: 020 7898 4057
- Email: sr2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 542
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Timon Screech
Member, Japan Research Centre
History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history - Tel: 020 7898 4453
- Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B301
- Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 3-4pm (during term time)
Yoshikatsu Shinozawa
Member, Japan Research Centre
Dr Shinozawa's research interests lie in asset management firms and their products. Recently he has developed a special interest in the areas of corporate governance, and the banking industry in Japan.
- Tel: 020 7898 4084
- Email: ys6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 556
- Office Hours: Monday 4-6pm
Isolde Standish
Member, Japan Research Centre
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:00
Professorial Research Associates
Gina Barnes
Professorial Research Associate
- Tel: 020 7898 4463
- Email: gb11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B302
- Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5pm
Christopher Goto-Jones
Professorial Research Associate
Japanese philosophy and political thought; modern Japanese history; digital humanities and Japan
- Email: c.goto-jones@lucresearch.nl
Peter Kornicki
Professorial Research Associate
Cultural history of Japan before 1900, with special interests on the history of the book in East Asia (Korea and Vietnam as well as Japan), women's education and literacy, and the history of medicine and of cartography.
- Email: pk104@cam.ac.uk
Ian Nish
Professorial Research Associate
International history of northeast asian in 19th and 20th centuries
- Email: ian_nish@btinternet.com
Naoko Shimazu
Professorial Research Associate
Political, social and cultural history of modern Japan, and Japan in the wider world
- Email: n.shimazu@bbk.ac.uk
Evgeny Steiner
Professorial Research Associate
Muromachi epoch arts (especially Ikkyu and his circle); Ukiyo-e prints; history of Western collections of Japanese arts.
- Email: es9@soas.ac.uk
Yuriko Takahashi
Professorial Research Associate
Classical Chinese philology and phonology (Shuowen Jiezi focusing on the process of annotation by Duan Yucai and computerization of the Xu Yuan’s Text) and modern Chinese literature (Lao She focusing on his Christian background) - Email: yt2@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
John Breen
Research Associate
Modern Japanese language; Japanese history, with special reference to 19th century political, social and intellectual history; Japanese religions in the premodern and modern eras.
- Email: jb8@soas.ac.uk
John T Carpenter
Research Associate
Adjunct Professor, Art Research Centre, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
Visiting Professor (2009-2010), Dept. of Cultural Resources Studies, University of Tokyo.
Premodern Japanese art and cultural history; East Asian calligraphy; Buddhist sutra copying; Heian court culture; classical literary themes in Japanese art; Ukiyo-e prints and painting.
- Email: jc54@soas.ac.uk
Timothy Clarke
Research Associate
Japanese pictorial arts of the early modern and modern periods
- Email: tc32@soas.ac.uk
Penelope Francks
Research Associate
Japanese economic history, especially rural economic development and the history of consumption and the consumer - Email: p.g.francks@leeds.ac.uk
Christine Guth
Research Associate
Art and design history; collecting and collections - Email: christine.guth@rca.ac.uk
Monika Hinkel
Research Associate
Meiji period prints especially prints by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)
- Email: monikahinkel@aim.com
David W Hughes
Research Associate
Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music - Email: dh6@soas.ac.uk
Olga Khomenko
Research Associate
Post war Japanese History of Advertisement & consumerism in Japan
Personal Email: okhomenkojp@gmail.com
- Email: ok1@soas.ac.uk
Barak Kushner
Research Associate
History of Japanese propaganda, Sino-Japan relations, comedy, and food history
- Email: bk284@cam.ac.uk
Nicola Liscutin
Research Associate
Development of the annual Japanese Studies Graduate Student Research Forum; gender studies; medieval literature
- Email: n.liscutin@bbk.ac.uk
Jonathan Mackintosh
Research Associate
Gender and sexuality in modern/contemporary Japan; Japanese social and cultural history; Japanese diaspora in the Americas
Princess Akiko of Mikasa
Research Associate
Japanese art; western collections of Japanese art in the west
Mami Mizutori
Research Associate
The relevance of governmental funding for international culture and academic exchange
Rajyashree Pandey
Research Associate
Medieval Japanese literature and Buddhism
- Email: rp7@soas.ac.uk
Lone Takeuchi
Research Associate
Narrative patterns in 10th-11th century Japanese texts with particular reference to the practice of NASAKE
- Email: lt5@soas.ac.uk
Sarah Teasley
Research Associate
History of design and built space in modern Japan, with an emphasis on media, technology and institutional formation; design and architectural theory; gender and design; the history of new materials research and application - Email: sarah.teasley@rca.ac.uk
Ellis Tinios
Research Associate
The illustrated woodblock-printed book in the Edo period; representing China in Edo-period books and prints; the actor prints of Kunisada - Email: p.e.tinios@leeds.ac.uk
Carla Tronu
Research Associate
History of Japan (early modern) and Japanese religions; production of sacred space in Japanese cities; history of Christian missions in Asia; history of Nagasaka, Macao and Goa
- Email: ct8@soas.ac.uk
Stephen Turnbull
Research Associate
Japanese history and religion
- Email: stephenturnbull@ntlworld.com
Akiko Yano
Research Associate
Japanese art and culture of the 16th to 19th centuries
- Email: ay8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4407
Visiting Scholars
Tomokazu Takahashi
Visiting Scholar
Geographic information system (GIS); simulation of CO2 reduction in biomass town
- Email: tt32@soas.ac.uk
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Taka Oshikiri
Research Associate
Modern Japanese history; social and cultural history of Japan with reference to the practice of Chanoyu
- Email: to10@soas.ac.uk
