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Barbara Greene

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor
Barbara Greene is an Assistant Professor who teaches courses on Japanese literature, popular culture, and media studies at Tokyo International University. Before joining the faculty at TIU, she taught at Southwest University in Beibei (PRC) and the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the intersection of popular media and collective memory, as well as Freudo-Marxist explorations of contemporary literature. She has recently published articles on the work of Mishima Yukio and Murakami Haruki for Crifique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, contributed a chapter for Manga and Politics - The Visual Literacy of Statecraft, and has articles forthcoming in Film International and the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. She received her Ph. D in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, her master's degree in War Studies from King's College London (Pass with Distinction), and her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and International Studies from the University of Illinois - Urbana.

Christopher Lamont

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of E - Track Programs and Professor
  • Professor / Global Governance
Christopher Lamont is Assistant Dean of E-Track Programs and Professor of International Relations. Previously, he held a tenured position at the University of Groningen, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulster. He was also previously a Fulbright scholar at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow and has published widely on human rights and transitional justice. His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Democracy, the International Journal of Human Rights, Global Policy, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Human Rights Review. He also co-edited, New Crifical Spaces in Transitional Justice (with Arnaud Kurze, Indiana University Press, 2019) and is the author of two research methods textbooks, Research Methods in International Relations (Sage 2015, second edition 2021), and Research Methods in Politics and International Relations (with Mieczyslaw Boduszyński, Sage 2020). In addition to his scholarly work, his writings have also appeared in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

Hak Yin Li

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Global Governance International Security
After obtaining his BA and MPhil degrees at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hak Yin Li earned his PhD in politics and international relations at the University of Nottingham. He previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKU SPACE Community College, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hak Yin was also a visiting research fellow of East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore. Currently Hak Yin lives in Tokyo and he is an Associate Professor of the Institute for International Strategy at Tokyo International University. Hak Yin specializes in international relations with particular reference to the evolution, formation and pattern of Chinese foreign policy and the implications of the rise of China in Asia-Pacific region. Other interests are mainly in the fields of world order issues, international relations of Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong's international status, Chinese and Hong Kong politics. His works can be found on Asian Politics and Society, East Asian Policy, Journal of Contemporary China, and Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute for International Strategy
Hiroyuki Yamamoto is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute for International Strategy (IIS) at Tokyo International University. He received his Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia in 2009. Dr. Yamamoto taught at various academic institutions including the University of Virginia (2008-2009), the University of California, Los Angeles (2010-2011), the University of Washington (2011-2012), Washington and Lee University (2010), and the University of Richmond (2012-2015). He was a recipient of the Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and was also awarded a research fellowship from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His primary research interest is the historical origins of democratic breakdown in interwar economies.