Staff

Get to know the team in Asian Studies.

Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.

Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).

Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

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Head of Asian Studies

NameRole
Daniel HammondSenior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society

Academic staff

NameRole
Qiguo CenTeaching Fellow in Chinese
Sakie Chiba-MooneyTeaching Fellow in Japanese
Joachim GentzChair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion
Natascha GentzChair of Chinese Studies
Daniel HammondSenior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society
Xuelei HuangSenior Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Hephzibah IsraelSenior Lecturer in Translation Studies
Youngmi KimSenior Lecturer in Korean Studies
Yuqing LiuLecturer in Chinese Studies
Duo LuanLecturer in Chinese Studies, Head of Chinese Language
Abigail MacBainLecturer in Premodern Japanese Studies
Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt / 松本スタート洋子Lecturer in Japanese
Mark McLeisterLecturer in Chinese Studies
Professor Aaron William MooreHanda Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations
Atsuko MoriyamaTeaching Assistant in Japanese
Fumiko Narumi-Munro (FHEA)Lecturer in Japanese
Soyeon ParkTeaching Assistant in Korean
Helen ParkerLecturer in Japanese
Chris PerkinsSenior Lecturer in Japanese
Mihoko PooleyLanguage Assistant
Christopher RosenmeierSenior lecturer in Chinese
Hiromi Sasamoto-CollinsLanguage Assistant in Japanese
Akihiko ShimizuTeaching Fellow in Japanese
Holly StephensLecturer in Japanese and Korean Studies
Esther TyldesleyTeaching Fellow in Chinese and Translation
Ferran de VargasUKRI Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Winstanley-ChestersTeaching and Research Fellow in Korean Studies
Min YueTeaching Fellow in Chinese
Rui ZhangLanguage Assistant in Chinese
Xiaonan ZhuangTeaching Fellow in Chinese

Tutors

Ryan ChoiTutor
Feng GuoTutor
Charlotte HammondTutor
Chuwei HeTutor
Katherine HellerTutor in Japanese
Caitlin KowalskiTutor
Nick MillerTutor
Mari MurrayTutor
Narae ParkTutor in Korean Studies
Beth PriceTutor
Tianyi ShengTutor
Arden TaylorTutor
Sarah VickeryTutor
Yiling WangTutor
Jorinde Wels Tutor
Brian WongTutor
Di ZhangTutor

Honorary Fellows and Professors Emeriti 

Ian AstleyHonorary FellowIan.Astley@ed.ac.uk
Ian GowHonorary FellowIan.Gow@ed.ac.uk
Julian WardHonorary FellowJulian.Ward@ed.ac.uk