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The School of East Asian Studies has recently employed a number of new staff, growing our expertise in areas of East Asian business, politics and international relations. These new staff members will be joining our team from Autumn 2021 and will support curriculum development and research.
Lecturers
Fumihito Gotoh
Dr Gotoh’s research expertise lie in International Political Economy, East Asian and Japanese politics and political economies, comparative capitalisms, globalization and resistance, politics and sociology of finance, and credit rating agencies and credit markets. After obtaining a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2018, Dr Gotoh published a monograph ‘Japanese Resistance to American Financial Hegemony: Global versus Domestic Social Norms’, in October 2019.
He will contribute to the teaching on our MSc East Asian Business programme
Saori Shibata
Dr Shinata’s research focuses on Japan’s political economy with a particular interest in how Japan’s model of capitalism is changing, and becoming more neoliberal, and how this is being contested by Japan’s increasingly precarious workforce.
She will be teaching a number of Japanese studies modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
David Tobin
Dr Tobin’s research examines the interplay between identity and security in global politics, with an area studies specialisation in China and Asia. He has recently submitted his first monograph to Cambridge University Press, ‘Rebuilding China: Identity and Insecurity on the Northwest Frontier’. This analyses how state-level security discourses are practiced in everyday politics in Xinjiang and the security dynamics this creates for the state and society.
He will be contributing to our undergraduate programme through a number of modules.
We are also very pleased to announce that Dr Justin Winslett has been promoted to Lecturer in East Asian Studies and will continue to teach in SEAS and contribute to our research expertise.
Teaching Associates
To support our studies and language teaching, we have recently employed a number of new, highly qualified Teaching Associates who will be working across the breadth of our undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes
Dr Nathalie Mingboupha
Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies
Dr Wayne Wong
Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies
Dr Kristian Mangus Hauken
Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies
Dr Anna Vainio
Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies
Sachiko Yamaguchi
Teaching Associate in Japanese Language
Yumi Uraki
Teaching Associate in Japanese Language
Xueni Shi
Teaching Associate in Chinese Language
Along with these new teaching members of staff, SEAS has also grown its professional services team, appointing a new Year Abroad Administrator.
Katie Langwith
Year Abroad Administrator
Katie will join us at the end of June to support the administration of the language year abroad, a crucial component to many of our undergraduate programmes. Having previously worked in the Global Opportunities team, Katie brings some great experience to this new role.