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History
Professor Tomoko Akami
Japan's news agencies and foreign policy; Japan's information policy in the 1930s; International relations; Asian history; Historical studies; Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific; Political theory and political philosophy.
Associate Professor Simon Avenell
Modern Japanese history; civic activism, civil society, and state-society relations in contemporary Japan; political thought in contemporary Japan; environmental history and environmentalism in contemporary Japan; transnational aspects of contemporary Japanese history; Japan in East Asia.
Dr Ruth Barraclough
Labour history in Japan and Korea; gender studies in Japan and Korea; Korean modern history ; the factory girl in Korean literature; literary translation; kisaeng and sex work; histories of bonded labour; socialist cultures; Red Love; Korea's Early Communist Women.
Dr Adam Broinowski
Nuclear issues (nuclear weapons, nuclear energy); Modern and Contemporary Japanese History, Culture and Society; History, Memory and Reconciliation; East Asia; International Politics; Film, Theatre, Dance.
Professor Robert Cribb
Repatriation of Japanese war criminals; Asian history; government and politics of Asia and the Pacific; professional ethics
Dr Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi
Inter-Asia and the Pacific Migration and Mobilities, Migration and Disasters, Inter-Asian Labour Migration, Japan and Australian Transnational Connections during WWII, War and Mobilities/Migration, Minorities in Asia and the Pacific, Postcolonial Studies.
Emeritus Professor Ann Kumar
Early Japanese history; the nation-state in contemporary Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; Asian history and cultural studies; Postcolonial studies; Indonesian Islam; The impact of the West on Indonesia; Indonesian history and writing traditions; Javanese theatre.
Associate Professor Roald Maliangkaij
Consumption And Everyday Life, Musicology And Ethnomusicology, Social And Cultural Anthropology
Emeritus Professor Gavan McCormack
Modern Japanese (and East Asian) political, intellectual and environmental history; changing views of nature in the course of modernisation in Japan and East Asia; regional environmental history; struggles over the definition of past (especially China and Pacific wars) and future (beyond capitalism and the Cold War) identities in Japan; North Korea as regional and global problem in early 21st century.
Emeritus Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Grassroots social and environmental movements in Japan, and in Northeast Asia more generally; border controls and migration in East Asia; national identity and ethnic minorities in Japan; modern Japanese historiography; human rights in Asia; globalization processes (with particular reference to Northeast Asia); memory and reconciliation in Northeast Asia; the Fukushima nuclear accident in social and historical context
Professor Li Narangoa
Modern Japanese and Mongolian history, culture and politics; Japan's relations with other Asian countries and its colonial history, education, religion, literature and military; modern Mongolian history; identity and cities
Dr Keiko Tamura
Australia-Japan relationship; Japan in Australian moving images; women and migration; expatriates in Japan; war and memory; Asian history; Pacific history (Excl. New Zealand and Maori); Australian history (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History); social and cultural anthropology.
Dr Keiko Tamura
Australia-Japan relationship; Japan in Australian moving images; women and migration; expatriates in Japan; war and memory.
Dr Shuge Wei
Sino-Japanese war; modern Chinese history; media policy and international communications; grassroot movements in Taiwan and China.
PhD Students
Danton John Leary
Performing the "Sacred Trust" - A Comparative Study of Japan and Australia's Experience with the League of Nations Mandates System (Chair of panel: Dr Tomoko Akami)
Andrew De Lisle
Sub-imperialism of the Japanese government-general of Korea, 1910-1931 (Chair of panel: Professor Narangoa Li)
