Faculty －As of April 2023－
* This list is arranged in alphabetical order.
Published on : May 9, 2023
Department of Humanities
Professors
| IWAKI, Takuji | Japanese Society in the 19th Century |
| KAGOTANI, Naoto | Asian Merchants' Networks and Japan's Industrialization |
| KOSEKI, Takashi | Modern History of Britain and Ireland |
| MORIMOTO, Atsuo | French Symbolism and Literary Modernity |
| NAONO, Akiko | History of “Non-Human” and the Ontology of Memory |
| OKADA, Akeo | European Music History in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
| SATO, Junji | Thinking Technology, Nature and (Post-)Modernity : A Philosophical Inquiry |
| TAKAGI, Hiroshi | Cultural History of the Modern Emperor System of Japan |
| TAKASHINA, Erika | Modern Japanese Arts and the West |
| TSUIKI, Kosuke | Considerations on Psychoanalytical Knowledge from the Perspective of the History of Thought |
Associate Professors
| FUJIHARA, Tatsushi | Reconstruction of Agricultural History |
| FUKE, Takahiro | Social Movement and Social Thought in Modern Japan |
| ISHII, Miho | Anthropological Study of Religion, Environment, and Corporeality in Africa and South Asia |
| 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 (*In Preparation) |
The Self, Feeling and Truth in France under the “Ancien Regime” |
Assistant Professors
| 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 |
Department of Oriental Studies
Professors
| FORTE, Erika | Buddhist material culture in Eastern Central Asia |
| FUNAYAMA, Tōru | 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 | History of Early Islamic Eastward Expansion |
| ISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro | History of the Chinese Communist Party |
| INAMOTO, Yasuo | History of Buddhist Art in East Asia |
| KOGACHI, Ryūichi | History of Commentary on Classics in China |
| MIYAKE, Kiyoshi | Institutional History of the Qin and Han Dynasties |
| MURAKAMI, Ei | 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 | Bureaucracy in the Goryeo Dynasty |
| YASUOKA, Kōichi | Methodology of Character Codes |
Associate Professors
| HIRAOKA, Ryūji | 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, Yūsuke | 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
| FUJII, Noriyuki | History of the Bureaucratic System in Ancient and Medieval China |
| 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 |
| TSURU, Shuntaro | Transformation of Agricultural Economy and Autonomy in 20th Century Taiwan |
| YANG, Weigong | The Acceptance of Chinese Operas and Novels in Japan since the Early Modern Period |