| Shane Barter | Professor of Comparative Politics Director, International Studies Concentration | Political Science, Southeast Asia Separatism, autonomy, democracy | sbarter[at]soka.edu |
| Ian Read | Professor of Latin American Studies Co-Director, Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights | History, Latin America (Brazil) History of Public Health, Slavery | iread[at]soka.edu |
| Lisa MacLeod | Associate Professor of International Studies | International Relations United Nations, human rights | lmacleod[at]soka.edu |
| Michael Weiner | Professor of East Asian History & International Studies Interim Dean of Faculty; Vice President of Academic Affairs | History, East Asia (Japan) History of medicine, race and ethnicity, minorities, nationalism, human rights | mweiner[at]soka.edu |
| Tetsushi Ogata | Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies Genocide prevention | togata[at]soka.edu |
| Dongyoun Hwang | Professor of Asian Studies Member of the Humanities Concentration | History, East Asia Radicalism, nationalism | dhwang[at]soka.edu |
| Sarah England | Associate Professor of Anthropology INTS Affiliate; SBS Faculty | Anthropology, Central America Gender and sexuality, immigration | sengland[at]soka.edu |
| Junyi Liu | Assistant Professor of Economics INTS Affiliate; SBS Faculty | International Economics, Economic Development, and Public Health | jliu[at]soka.edu |
| Jeannie Shinozuka | Visiting Assistant Professor of History in International Studies | Asian American studies, environmental studies, history of medicine and science, women of color feminism | jshinozuka[at]soka.edu |
| Fatima Rahman | Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies | Islam and Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Methodology, Comparative Politics, International Relations | frahman[at]soka.edu |
| Murrell Brooks | Visiting Assistant Professor of African Politics and Economic Development | African Studies, Tanzania, coffee industries, Middle East relations, African American studies | mbrooks[at]soka.edu |
| Chika Esiobu | Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies | African Studies, Indigenous knowledge, African history, postcoloniality | cesiobu[at]soka.edu |
| Hongyi Chen | Professor Emerita of Economics | Economics, East Asia (China) Rural development | hchen[at]soka.edu |
Shane J. Barter
(PhD University of British Columbia)
Website; Soka Profile; Google Scholar
Professor of Comparative Politics
Director, International Studies
Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Southeast Asia, Armed Conflict, Democracy, Religion & Politics
Courses Taught
Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies (INTS 150); Democracy & Democratization (INTS/POLI 305); Politics in Asia (INTS 320); State & Society (INTS/POLI 365); Political Islam (INTS 381); Political Buddhism (INTS 382); Armed Conflict in Southeast Asia (INTS 450); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Ian Olivo Read
(PhD Stanford University)
Soka Profile; Publications
Professor of Latin American Studies
Co-Director, Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights
Research Interests
Brazil, Latin America, History, Health and Disease
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin American Studies (INTS 130); US-Latin American Relations (INTS 210); Brazil, Mexico, and the Nation (INTS 303); Political Economy of Latin America (INTS/SBS 323); Plagues & Peoples (INTS 410); The Americas in the Era of Slavery (INTS/HUM 390: Special Topics); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Lisa MacLeod
(PhD University of Denver)
Soka Profile
Associate Professor of International Studies
Research Interests
The United Nations & Security Council Politics, UN Peace Operations, Human Rights, and International Law
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations; Introduction to Peace Studies; Introduction to Human Rights; The United Nations and World Politics; Peace & Conflict Resolution; International Law; Race, Ethnicity and Human Rights
Michael Weiner
(PhD University of Sheffield)
Website; Soka Profile
Professor of East Asian History and International Studies
Vice President of Academic Affairs; Interim Dean of Faculty
Research Interests
Current research interest include the history of medicine in Japan with particular reference to the social history of leprosy and leprosy control. A co-authored article that compares disease control in modernizing states (Chile and Japan) is currently in progress, and a single authored monograph, A Social History of Leprosy and Leprosy Control in Japan, is planned. A second book (edited) project, Race and Ethnicity in Asia, will be published by Routledge.
Courses Taught
The Emergence of Modern Japan (INTS/HIST 371); Media & Society in Pacific Asia (INTS 345); War & Memory in Pacific Asia (INTS 405); Human Rights & Civil Society in East Asia (INTS 406); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Tetsushi Ogata
(PhD George Mason University)
Soka Profile
Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Research Interests
Genocide and mass atrocities, mass political violence, identity conflict, extremist violence, genocide & atrocity prevention, post-conflict memories and narratives, denialism of past violence, early warning tools of prevention
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations (INTS 111); Introduction to Peace Studies (INTS 114); Introduction to Human Rights (INTS 205)
Dongyoung Hwang
(PhD Duke University)
Soka Profile
Professor of Asian Studies
Research Interests
Radicalism and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Eastern Asia, The Guomindang Leftists in the 1920s, and Wartime Collaboration in China during the Pacific War
Courses Taught
East Asia: A Historical Survey (INTS 120/HIST 140); History of East Asian-American Relations (INTS/HIST 221); Modern China: Roots of Revolution (INTS 261/HIST 231); Third World & The West (INTS 283/HIST 234); Ideas of East & West (INTS 316/HIST 315); Women in East Asia (INTS/HIST 326); Modern China in Literature & Film (INTS/HIST 330); China Since 1949 (INTS 333/HIST 335); The Emergence of Modern Japan (INTS/HIST 371); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Sarah England (Affiliate Member)
(PhD University of California Davis)
Soka Profile
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Cultural Anthropology, history and ethnography of Central America, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Racism, Central American immigrants and the deportation regime. Author of Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space (University Press of Florida, 2006) and Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala (Lexington Books, 2018). She is currently working on a study of the effects of current US immigration policies on Honduran Garifuna asylum seekers.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin American Studies (INTS 130); Latin American/US Transnational Migration (INTS 313); Inequality, Repression, and Resistance in Central America (INTS 325); Gender & Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective (INTS 348); Violence and Oppression in Latin America (INTS 404)
Junyi Liu (Affiliate Member)
(PhD Indiana University Bloomington)
Soka Profile
Assistant Professor of Economics
Research Interests
International Economics and Development Economics, Public Health and Political Economy, Asian Economy
Courses Taught
Principles of Economics (INTS/ECON 100); Macroeconomics (ECON 302); International Economics (INTS/ECON 362); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Jeannie Shinozuka
(PhD University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Soka Profile
Visiting Assistant Professor of History in International Studies
Research Interests
Asian American history, comparative race and ethnicity, environmental studies, feminist epistemology, history of medicine, history of science, women of color feminism. Author of Biotic Borders: Foreigners, Flora, and Fauna Along the Asian/American Frontier, 1890-1950 (forthcoming 2022, University of Chicago Press).
Courses Taught
Introduction to the Pacific Basin; Introduction to Women’s Studies (SBS 215); The Making of Asian America (INTS 290); Race and Environment Across Borders (INTS 290); Race and Medicine at the Border (INTS 390)
Fatima Rahman
(PhD University of California, Irvine)
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
Research Interests
Islam and Politics, Politics of the Middle East, Rights of Religious Minorities, Islam and women.
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations (INTS 111); Peace and Conflict in the Middle East (INTS 240); Introduction to Middle East Studies (INTS 290); American Experience
Murrell Brooks
(PhD University of California, Los Angeles)
Visiting Assistant Professor of African Politics and Economic Development
Research Interests
African Studies, Tanzania, coffee export industries, Middle East relations
Courses Taught
Introduction to African Studies (INTS 190);
Chika Esiobu
(PhD Howard University, Washington DC)
Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies
Research Interests
African Studies, Indigenous knowledge, Education, Postcoloniality, Agriculture and Culture and development
Courses Taught
Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge (INTS 290);
Hong-Yi Chen (Emerita)
(PhD University of California Berkeley)
Soka Profile
Professor Emerita of Economics
Research Interests
Development Economics, Institutional Economics, Pacific Asian and China’s Economic Development
Courses Taught
Principles of Economics (INTS/ECON 100); China’s Economic Development & Economic Reform (INTS/ECON 262); Economic Development in Pacific Asia (INTS/ECON 321); Economic Development (INTS 361/ECON 330); Microeconomics (ECON 301); Introduction to the Pacific Basin; Core II