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Staff members with discipline Asian Studies

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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socio-cultural anthropology, India (esp. Odisha)
theory and history of anthropology; anthropology of religion; indigenous religions; in relation to the aforementioned areas mainly the following topics: values, cosmology, ritual, food, death, cultural and religious change, Indian tribal (Adivasi) cultures, anthropology of India
P. (Peter) Berger, Dr
Contact
p.berger rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion
Field / Discipline
- Political economy of South Korea 
- Carbon neutralization, energy policy and energy economic policies 
- Economic experiments 
S. (Sunkung) Choi, Dr
Contact
s.choi rug.nl
+31 50 36 33848
Function
Assistant Professor
C. (Cong) Duan
Contact
c.duan rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
F. (Frank) Gaenssmantel, PhD
Contact
f.gaenssmantel rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Van Haaften is a historian interested in the question how higher educational institutes, as nodes in a transnational network of knowledge institutes, have transformed societies. His research has a strong focus on South Asia. He has published in academic journals and edited volumes, covering issues related to the business and management education, the history of testing and assessment, governmentality and the geopolitics of education.
dr. L.W. (Lourens) van Haaften
Contact
l.w.van.haaften rug.nl
Function
Assistant professor
East Asian Studies, with a focus on modern day Mongolia
prof. dr. mr. T.H.F. (Tjalling) Halbertsma
Contact
t.h.f.halbertsma rug.nl
Function
Bijzonder hoogleraar
Qian's research interests and expertise include digital vigilantism, digital harms, creator culture, and digital culture in general. Her research intersects media studies and surveillance studies through lenses of critical theories such as feminism and post-colonialism. She is currently working on research projects studying how content creators negotiate their identities and manage their visibility in daily production practices in contemporary surveillance culture (including potential peer surveillance, platform governance, and state censorship), especially in transnational contexts.
dr. Q. (Qian) Huang
Contact
qian.huang rug.nl
Function
Lecturer
Modern history and international relations  of East Asia ( in particular related to Japan); history and historiography of colonialism, imperialism and globalisation; European political culture and political history ( 19th-21st century) with special attention to the role of the press.
prof. dr. J. (Janny) de Jong
Contact
janny.de.jong rug.nl
+31 50 36 36021
Function
Professor Europe-East Asia Relations, with a focus on Japan;Director of Studies Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context
Field / Discipline
My research focuses on two areas of citizenship.
1. Rights and citizenship in the virtual world - I imagine virtual spaces as expanding geographies, where norms, values, and communities of digital citizens are evolving. Social media platforms have become an extension of our cultures, polity, and economy. Every day millions of people around the world redefine cultural norms, assert their political identities, and monetize the platforms for gainful living. But who determines the nature of rights (especially the nature of the right to freedom of expression) on these platforms? Can the platforms which are controlled by monopolistic tech companies, truly be a space of citizenship much less responsible citizenship? How does a digital citizen who lives in a bubble shape their worldview? How do they reach out for varied forms of information to form opinions? Can they burst the information bubbles that surround them? These are some of the questions I explore while simultaneously entering into the rabbit holes of disinformation, digitally generated social movements, and circles of hate.
2. Construction of citizenship in the real world, especially in geographies that are becoming uninhabitable due to climate change. This is a work that I started during my doctoral studies at Edinburgh, and I continue to look at both online and offline citizenship (especially the question of citizenship -exclusion, and 'othering') from the lens of vulnerabilities in the face of climate change.

Both these strands of the scholarship allow me to explore how our future societies will develop, and who humanity might forever leave behind.
R. (Ritumbra) Manuvie, Dr
Contact
r.manuvie rug.nl
Function
Docent
Art History of China, prediominatly from the sixteenth century onwards; early and modern Chinese history; archaeology and material culture of China/East Asia; early and modern printing systems, including photography in China and Japan; classical (literary) Chinese texts and philology; ancient and modern Chinese literature
O.J. (Oliver) Moore, Prof Dr
Contact
o.j.moore rug.nl
Function
Chair, Chinese Language & Culture
Field / Discipline
Indian Studies, Textual Studies, Performance and Ritual in South Asia
E. (Elena) Mucciarelli, Dr
Contact
e.mucciarelli rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor for Hinduism in the Sanskrit Tradition - Gonda Lecturer
Chinese studies; International Relations; Development Studies; International Comparative Education; International Development Cooperation; International Organizations and the UN; Policy Analysis.
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Contact
c.pinna rug.nl
Function
Theories of International Relations, Visual Studies, Political Geography/Critical Geopolitics, Theories of Discourse, East Asian Studies
D.U. (David) Shim, Dr
Contact
david.shim rug.nl
+31 50 36 37896
Function
Senior Lecturer
Early Modern South Asia; Early Modern Global History; History of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in India and Asia; Indian Ocean Port Cities and Trading Communities; Social History of Knowledge; SondToll Registers Online
A. (Anjana) Singh, Dr
Contact
anjana.singh rug.nl
+31 50 36 35914
Function
Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer)
Contemporary South and Southeast Asian history; history of North-South relations since the 19th century; internationalisms after 1945
prof. dr. C. (Clemens) Six
Contact
c.six rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor
R. Tai, MA
Contact
r.tai rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Law and Economics, Climate change Law (in particular Emissions Trading Design, Linking, Allocation and Competition), Competition law and Public Procurement in EU, China and Japan
S.E. (Stefan) Weishaar, Prof Dr LLM
Contact
s.e.weishaar rug.nl
Function
Professor of Law and Economics
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