List of Faculty in FY2025
* This list is arranged in alphabetical order.
Published on : July 10, 2024
Department of Humanities
Professors
| ISHII, Miho | (*In Preparation) Anthropological Study of Religion, Environment, and Corporeality in Africa and South Asia |
| IWAKI, Takuji | The Processes of disintegration of early modern society |
| KOSEKI, Takashi | UK and Irish modern and contemporary history |
| MORIMOTO, Atsuo | French symbolism and literary modernity |
| NAONO, Akiko | The Ontology of Memory and the History of “Non-Humans” |
| OKADA, Akeo | Modern Western music history |
| TAKAGI, Hiroshi | Cultural-historical study of the modern Japanese emperor system |
| TAKASHINA, Erika | Modern Japanese art and the West |
| TSUIKI, Kosuke | (*In Preparation)Considerations on Psychoanalytical Knowledge from the Perspective of the History of Thought |
Associate Professors
| FUJIHARA, Tatsushi | Reconstructing agricultural history |
| FUKE, Takahiro | Social Movements and Social Thought in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
| ITO, Junji | (*In Preparation) Bandits in Modern Transcaucasia, Especially Georgia |
| KNAUDT, Till | Social, intellectual, and technological history of modern and contemporary Japan |
| KOBORI, Satoru | Socio-Economic and Environmental History of Modern Japan |
| SAKAI, Tomoko | Everyday ethics of dirtiness, disorder, life and danger |
| SETOGUCHI, Akihisa | Life sciences and “nature” in East Asia |
| SUGAWARA, Yurie | The Self, Feeling and Truth in France under the “Ancien Regime” |
| SUNAGA, Satoshi | History of Education in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
Assistant Professors
| FUJINO, Shiori | Reconsideration of “playing” in modern French literature and art |
| KIKUCHI, Akira | Research on ethnographic systems in modern Japan |
| KIM, Jihye | A study of modern kabuki plays focusing on three aspects; nostalgia, script improvement, and canonization |
| OKAZAWA, Yasuhiro | The History of Collective Knowledge Making |
| RI, Yongmi | Studies on the Social History of Immigration Control |
Department of Oriental Studies
Professors
| FORTE, Erika | Ancient Buddhist material culture in Eastern Central Asia |
| FUNAYAMA, Toru | (*In Preparation) Scholastic Tradition and Practice in Indian and Chinese Buddhism |
| FURUMATSU, Takashi | (*In Preparation) The Multi-state System of Eastern Eurasia in the 10th to 13th centuries |
| IKEDA, Takumi | (*In Preparation) Descriptive and Historical Study on Sino-Tibetan Languages in Southwest China |
| INABA, Minoru | (*In Preparation) |
| INAMOTO, Yasuo | History of East Asian Buddhist art |
| ISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro | (*In Preparation) History of the Chinese Communist Party |
| KOGACHI, Ryuichi | (*In Preparation) |
| MIYAKE, Kiyoshi | (*In Preparation)Institutional History of the Qin and Han Dynasties |
| MURAKAMI, Ei | (*In Preparation) |
| WITTERN, Christian | A Knowledgebase for Buddhist Studies: With Chan Buddhism as an Example |
| YAGI, Takeshi | Politics and Institutions in Premodern Korea |
| YASUOKA, Koichi | (*In Preparation) Methodology of Character Codes |
Associate Professors
| HIRAOKA, Ryuji | Traditional science in East Asia |
| KURAMOTO, Hisanori | Buddhist History of the Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang |
| KURE, Motoyuki | Research on the history of Chinese painting |
| MUKAI, Yusuke | Exploring Chinese Culture through Historical Archaeology |
| NAGATA, Tomoyuki | Literary Theory in Medieval and Early Modern China |
| NAKANISHI, Tatsuya | Chinese Islam |
| NOHARA, Masaki | The study of Old Chinese Phonology |
Assistant Professors
| FUJII, Noriyuki | History of bureaucratic institutions in ancient and medieval China |
| LI, Yuan | Research on early Japanese dictionaries from the perspective of digital humanities |
| LIU, Guanwei | Enhanced Utilization of Public Research Resources through the Development of Old Japanese Dictionaries Portal Site |
| MIYA, Noriko | Cultural exchange and institutions in the Mongol period through Eastern and Western sources |
| SHIRASU, Hiroyuki | (*In Preparation)Logical Investigations of the Object in East Asian Studies |
| TAKAI, Takane | Chinese furniture and its uses |
| YANG, Weigong | The Acceptance of Chinese Operas and Novels in Japan since the Early Modern Period |