Faculty List of RIIS
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Director
Atsushi Toriyama: Professor
Field of Expertise: Modern Okinawan History
Other Information: reseachmap KAKEN
Associate Director
So Hatano: Professor
Field of Expertise: Architectural history, Cultural heritage, Cultural landscape
Other Information: reseachmap KAKEN
Full-time Faculty
Yoko Fujita: Professor
Field of Expertise: Environmental economics, Island studies
Other Information: researchmap KAKEN
Ayano Ginoza: Associate Professor
Field of Expertise: American Studies, Gender studies, Postcolonialism, Indigenous studies
Other Information: KAKEN
Kaishi Yamagiwa: Associate Professor
Field of Expertise: Archaeology, Prehistoric anthropology
Other Information: リサーチマップ / researchmap 科研費 / KAKEN
Concurrent Faculty
Daisuke Ikegami: Associate Professor
Affiliation: aculty of Global and Regional Studies
Field of Expertise: Western world history, Local history and War memorie
Yoko Kanna: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Science
Field of Expertise: Photochemistry, Organic chemistry
Hiromi Kinjo: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Field of Expertise: Study of Chinese language
Jun Kobayashi: Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
Field of Expertise: Global health
Yasuhiko Sugimura: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Agriculture
Field of Expertise: Agricultural economics
Syota Tanno: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Education
Field of Expertise: Educational psychology
Nana Tohyama: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Field of Expertise: Linguistic of Ryukyuan Languages
Shigeyuki Naito: Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Agriculture
Field of Expertise: Agricultural economics
Naomi Noiri: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Field of Expertise: Sociology
Takashi Hirose: Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Global and Regional Studies
Field of Expertise: Physical geography, Hydrogeomorphology
Takashi Furukawa: Professor
Affiliation: Institute for Global Education
Field of Expertise: Clinical psychology
Hisamitsu Miyauchi: Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Global and Regional Studies
Field of Expertise: Human geography
Atsuko Miyazato: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Global and Regional Studies
Field of Expertise: European culture, French literature
Makoto Motomura: Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Field of Expertise: Community development
Emi Yano: Professor
Affiliation: Graduate School of Law
Field of Expertise: Criminal code
Kinuko Yamazato: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Global and Regional Studies
Field of Expertise: American Studies
客員研究員 / Visiting Researcher
Masaaki Gabe: Emeritus Professor, Visiting Researcher
Field of Expertise: International Politics, Japanese diplomatic history, Japan–United States Relations
Aaron Sherman Hopes: Visiting Researcher
Field of Expertise: Political Anthropology, Muitispecies Studies, Okinawan Studies, Yambaru
Yuka Hatano: Visiting Researcher
Field of Expertise: Anthropology, Dentistry, Forensic Medicine
Kohei Tamura: Visiting Researcher
Field of Expertise: Anthropology, Cultural Evolution, Information Culture