People
Director
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Duncan McCargo , Director |
Administration
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Marie Yoshida, Senior Advisor Marie coordinates the Asian Dynamics Initiative – ADI – a University of Copenhagen project, which promotes Asian studies across the humanities and social sciences |
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Amanda Lybke Rasmussen , Student Assistant Amanda helps make everything happen at NIAS, including our events, the visiting residency programme, and our e-resources |
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Susanne Boelt Kristiansen , Student Assistant Susanne helps make everything happen at NIAS, including our events, our visiting residency programme, and our e-resources |
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Tyra Winther Orton, Student Assistant Tyra helps make everything happen at NIAS, including our events, our visiting residency programme, and our e-resources |
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Fakhrul Islam, IT Support Fakhrul maintains and develops our Asiaportal website and the NIAS library IT infrastructure, so we can all do our work. |
Library & Information Centre
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Inga-Lill Blomkvist, Librarian and Web-coordinator Inga-Lill creates fantastic electronic resources about Asia – to be found on the AsiaPortal – and co-ordinates NNC cooperation around these resources. She also manages the NIAS website. |
NIAS Press
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Gerald Jackson, Editor-in-Chief Gerald creates wonderful books about Asia. His formal title does not do justice to his many talents and responsibilities. |
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Fanny Töpper, Publishing Assistant Fanny helps NIAS Press create wonderful books about Asia, working on marketing, editorial and other matters. |
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David Stuligross, Desk Editor David polishes up our books to make them even better. |
Researchers
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Petra Desatová, Postdoctoral Researcher Petra teaches and researches about Southeast Asia, and edits the Nordic Asia Podcast series. |
Guest researchers
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Gitte Marianne Hansen, Guest Researcher Gitte does research on Japan, especially Japanese culture, literature, manga, anime, film, contemporary Japanese society, Murakami Haruki, Miyazaki Hayao, gender and character construction theory. |
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Andreas Bøje Forsby, Guest Researcher Andreas is an international relations specialist who works on China's foreign and security policy, China’s identity and emotional assertiveness, US-China strategic rivalry, Nordic-China relations, the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula. |
Affiliated PhD students
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Lisa Lindkvist Zhang, Associated PhD Student Research areas: |
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Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, Associated PhD Student Tabita Rosendal is a PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden, where she also lectures on China’s modern history as well as contemporary Chinese politics and society. |
