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

NameRoleEmailPhone number
Daniel HammondSenior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and SocietyDaniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk+44(0)131 650 6941

Academic staff

NameRoleEmailPhone number
Qiguo CenTeaching Fellow in ChineseCen.Qiguo@ed.ac.uk 
Sakie Chiba-MooneyLanguage Assistant in JapaneseSakie.Chiba@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 3064
Joachim GentzChair of Chinese Philosophy and ReligionJoachim.Gentz@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 3681
Natascha GentzChair of Chinese StudiesNatascha.Gentz@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4229
Daniel HammondSenior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and SocietyDaniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk+44(0)131 650 6941
Xuelei HuangSenior Lecturer in Chinese StudiesXuelei.Huang@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 8985
Hephzibah IsraelSenior Lecturer in Translation StudiesH.Israel@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4467
Youngmi KimSenior Lecturer in Korean StudiesYoungmi.Kim@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 651 1363
Yuqing LiuLecturer in Chinese Studiesyuqing.liu@ed.ac.uk 
Duo LuanLecturer in Chinese Studies, Head of Chinese Languageduo.luan@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4274
Abigail MacBainLecturer in Premodern Japanese Studiesabigail.macbain@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 651 1358
Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt / 松本スタート洋子Lecturer in JapaneseYoko.Matsumoto-Sturt@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4228
Mark McLeisterLecturer in Chinese StudiesMark.McLeister@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4232
Professor Aaron William MooreHanda Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relationsaaron.moore@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4225
Atsuko MoriyamaLanguage Assistant in Japaneseatsuko.moriyama@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131
Fumiko Narumi-Munro (FHEA)Lecturer in JapaneseF.Narumi-Munro@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 6971
Helen ParkerLecturer in JapaneseHelen.Parker@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4230
Chris PerkinsSenior Lecturer in JapaneseChris.Perkins@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4174
Christopher RosenmeierSenior lecturer in Chinesechristopher.rosenmeier@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 4357
Akihiko ShimizuTeaching Fellow in Japaneseakihiko.shimizu@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 8294
Holly StephensLecturer in Japanese and Korean Studiesholly.stephens@ed.ac.uk+44 (0)131 650 8984
Esther TyldesleyTeaching Fellow in ChineseEsther.Tyldesley@ed.ac.uk 
Robert Winstanley-ChestersTeaching and Research Fellow in Korean Studiesr.winstanley-chesters@ed.ac.uk 
Lisha XuTeaching Fellow in Chinese and Translation StudiesLisha.Xu@ed.ac.uk 
Min YueTeaching Fellow in Chinesemin.yue@ed.ac.uk+44 (0) 131 650 4231

Tutors

Yizhu LiTutor in Chineseyli27@ed.ac.uk
Narae ParkTutor in Korean Studiesnpark@ed.ac.uk
Mihoko PooleyTutor in Japanesemihoko.pooley@ed.ac.uk
Hiromi Sasamoto-CollinsTutor in Japanese Studieshiromi.sasamoto-collins@ed.ac.uk
Xiaoming WangTutor in Chinesev1xwan18@exseed.ed.ac.uk

Honorary Fellows and Professors Emeriti 

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

 

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