Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Fabio Gygi Japanese society, material culture, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural history
Professor of Economics Professor Costas Lapavitsas 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.
Head of Department Dr Satoshi Miyamura Regions: South and East Asia. Countries: India, Japan. Subjects: Development economics, Labour economics, Institutional economics, Labour-management bargaining; Research methods in economics.
Professor of Economics Professor Ulrich Volz International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets
Lecturer in the Arts of Japan Dr Monika Hinkel Japanese woodblock prints, Contemporary reworkings and interpretations of Ukiyo-e, Meiji nostalgia
Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan Dr Christopher Gerteis Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
Lecturer in Japanese and Applied Linguistics (Education) Dr Seiko Harumi Classroom discourse; classroom silence; pragmatics; translanguaging; conversation analysis; learner-centred reflective approaches in second language learning and language pedagogy
Co-ordinator, The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese / Japanese Language Proficiency Test Ms Yoshiko Jones Ms Jones coordinates The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese and Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the SOAS Japan Research Centre.
Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Lecturer in Japanese and Language Acquistion (Education) Dr Natsuko Shibata Perera Japanese language pedagogy and second language acquisition, especially interested in applied drama and sociocultural approach; bilingualism and translanguaging.
Reader in Applied Japanese Linguistics Dr Barbara Pizziconi Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness
Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History (Education) Dr Satona Suzuki Modern Japanese history; modernity, imperialism and militarism. Social and political issues of contemporary Japan.
Head of School Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg History of Translation Studies in Japan, Intergeneric translations (manga to film), Translation of oral narratives or orality, Cultural translation, The relationship between translation and power.
Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism Professor Lucia Dolce Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations
Professor Gina Barnes State formation; agricultural transition; urbanisation; landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology, tectonic archaeology; East Asian archaeology especially Japanese archaeology and prehistory/protohistory
Professor Stephen Dodd Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in gender/sexuality, Modernism and translation studies
Professor Andrew Gerstle Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu
Dr David W Hughes Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music
Professor Machiko Nissanke North-South Economic relations, adjustment and development, finance and development, international trade and finance, and comparative economics policy studies in Asia and Africa. Teaching interests include open economy macroeconomics, international trade and finance and financial economics. Africa and Asia.
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Professor Timon Screech 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
Research Associate Dr Marcos Centeno Japanese Cinema particularly non-fiction formats, representation of minorities, Ainu people, transnationality, memory, film theory and postwar avant-garde.
Research Associate Dr Penelope Francks Japanese economic history, especially rural economic development and the history of consumption and the consumer
Research Associate Professor Christopher Goto-Jones Japanese philosophy and political thought; modern Japanese history; digital humanities and Japan
Research Associate Professor Peter Kornicki 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.
Research Associate Dr Barak Kushner History of Japanese propaganda, Sino-Japan relations, comedy, and food history
Research Associate Princess Akiko of Mikasa Japanese art; western collections of Japanese art in the west
Research Associate Dr Forum Mithani Representations of gender and motherhood in mass media and popular culture
Research Associate Dr Hannah Osborne Modern Japanese literature, gender and the body in literature, illustrations and text in literature, women's writing and translation
Research Associate Dr Verity Postlethwaite Relations between Japanese society and sport, specialising in the Paralympics and disability sport policy.
Research Associate Jonathan Service History of music theory; structures of perception and changes in mentalité in Japan
Research Associate Dr Robert Simpkins Anthropology of Japan, Music and Sound, Creativity, Marginality and Urban Space.
Research Associate Professor Evgeny Steiner Muromachi epoch arts (especially Ikkyu and his circle); Ukiyo-e prints; history of Western collections of Japanese arts.
Research Associate Dr Kristin Surak International migration, political sociology, nationalism, culture, state and society in Japan, qualitative methods.
Research Associate Dr Sarah Teasley Histories of design, technology and making in modern and contemporary Japan; gender and design; material history
Research Associate Dr Ellis Tinios The illustrated woodblock-printed book in the Edo period; representing China in Edo-period books and prints; the actor prints of Kunisada
Visiting Scholar Dr Mohamad Firdaus Research Area: Modern History of Japan with a special interest on Meiji Ishin. Date of Appointment: November 2021 - October 2023
Visiting Scholar Professor Masanao Kawakami Research Area: Value Capture driven Business Model Innovation. Date of Appointment: October 2022 - September 2023
Visiting Scholar Professor Shiba Suzuki Research Area: Macroeconomics, disaster risk, and financial markets. Date of Appointment: September 2022 - August 2024
