Faculty

Kayoko Fujita

Professor

Research Interests：History of Japanese Foreign Relations, Maritime Asian History, Global History of Material Culture

Miwa Hirono

Professor / Associate Dean

Research Interests：China, Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping, Humanitarianism, Disasters, Conflict, East Asia, Developing Countries, Foreign Policy

Miki Horie

Professor / Dean

Research Interests：Development of Intercultural Competence, Cross-cultural Peer Learning, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Education, Program Design of International Education, Global Mobility in Education

Ugur Aytun Ozturk

Professor

Research Interests：Business Analytics, Data Science, Management Sciences, Operations Research, and Operations Management.

Norihisa Yamashita

Professor

Research Interests：Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Historiography

Saeeda Batool

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Development Economics, Poverty, Inequality

Helena Čapková

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Interdisciplinary Visual Art Studies, Exhibition Curating, Japanese Art History, Architecture and Design History

Paul Haimes

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Design Studies, Digital Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Aesthetics, Interactive Art

Yuko Ishihara

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Kyoto School Tradition, Phenomenology, Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Play

Kiyu Itoi

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Internationalization of Higher Education, Translanguaging, Globalization of English, and Academic Discourse Socialization

Christopher Johnson

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Sport

Chika Kitano

Associate Professor

Research Interests：(Re)construction of language learners’ identities, Language learning through study abroad, Gender issues in Japan, Sociolinguistics

Gian Powell Marquez

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Biomass and Energy, Energy and Sustainable Development

D. Moritz Marutschke

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning, Educational Technology, Software Engineering Education

Saeko Ogiso

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Japanese Language Education, Second Language Vocabulary Learning, Kanji Learning Strategies, Learner Autonomy

Huseyin Rasit

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, State-Building, Ideologies, Middle East Studies, Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Social Science, Social Theory

Mayumi Shimura

Associate Professor / Associate Dean

Research Interests：International Relations, Intersection of International Politics and International Law, Peace Studies, International Norm Dynamics, United Nations, Collective Security, Humanitarian Interventions

Christophe Thouny

Associate Professor

Research Interests：Cultural Studies, Modern Japanese Visual Culture/Literature, Ecocriticism, Critical Theory