Faculty —As of August 2024—
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* This list is arranged in alphabetical order.
Published on : August 1, 2024
Department of Humanities
Professors
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| ISHII, Miho | Religion, spirit possession, and intercorporeality in West Africa and South Asia
/ Anthropological research on religion, sorcery, and spirit possession * |
| IWAKI, Takuji | The Processes of disintegration of early modern society |
| KOSEKI, Takashi | The Irish Problem during the First World War |
| MORIMOTO, Atsuo | French Symbolism and Literary Modernity |
| NAONO, Akiko | History of “Non-Human” and the Ontology of Memory |
| OKADA, Akeo | The First World War and music history
/ Modern Western music history |
| TAKAGI, Hiroshi | Cultural History of the Modern Emperor System of Japan |
| TAKASHINA, Erika | (*In Preparation) Modern Japanese Arts and the West |
| TSUIKI, Kosuke | (*In Preparation) Considerations on Psychoanalytical Knowledge from the Perspective of the History of Thought |
Associate Professors
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| FUJIHARA, Tatsushi | Reconstruction of Agricultural History |
| FUKE, Takahiro | Social Movement and Social Thought in Modern Japan |
| ITO, Junji | Bandits in Modern Transcaucasia, Especially Georgia |
| KNAUDT, Till | Social and intellectual history of modern Japan |
| KOBORI, Satoru | Socio-Economic and Environmental History of Modern Japan |
| SAKAI, Tomoko | Everyday ethics of dirtiness, disorder, life and danger |
| SETOGUCHI, Akihisa | Biological 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 |
Program-Specific Associate Professor
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| MORIYA, Risa | (*In Preparation) |
Assistant Professors
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| FUJINO, Shiori | Reconsideration of the importance of playing in modern French literature and art |
| KIKUCHI, Akira | Socio-cultural History of Modern Japanese Ethnography |
| 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
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| FORTE, Erika | Buddhist material culture in Eastern Central Asia |
| FUNAYAMA, Toru | Scholastic Tradition and Practice in Indian and Chinese Buddhism |
| FURUMATSU, Takashi | The Multi-state System of Eastern Eurasia in the 10th to 13th Centuries |
| IKEDA, Takumi | Descriptive and Historical Study on Sino-Tibetan Languages in Southwest China |
| INABA, Minoru | (*In Preparation) Cultural contact and interaction around the ‘historical Afghanistan’n |
| INAMOTO, Yasuo | History of Buddhist Art in East Asia |
| ISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro | History of the Chinese Communist Party |
| KOGACHI, Ryuichi | History of Commentary on Classics in China |
| MIYAKE, Kiyoshi | Institutional History of the Qin and Han Dynasties |
| MURAKAMI, Ei | (*In Preparation) Changes in Socio-economic Institutions in China during the Modern Era |
| WITTERN, Christian | Knowledgebase for Buddhist Studies, with Chan-Buddhism as an Example |
| YAGI, Takeshi | Politics and Institutions in Premodern Korea |
| YASUOKA, Koichi | Methodology of Character Codes |
Associate Professors
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| 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 | Historical Study of Islam in China |
| NOHARA, Masaki | The study of Old Chinese Phonology |
Assistant Professors
| Name | Reseach Theme / Subject |
|---|---|
| FUJII, Noriyuki | History of the Bureaucratic System 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 | Cross-cultural Exchanges in the Mongol Period |
| SHIRASU, Hiroyuki | Logical Investigations of the Object in East Asian Studies |
| TAKAI, Takane | History of Chinese Furniture |
| YANG, Weigong | The Acceptance of Chinese Operas and Novels in Japan since the Early Modern Period |