LAINAC Members

UTokyo LAINAC is in College and Graduate School of Arts and Science, on Komaba Campus at The University of Tokyo. Its staff members mainly consist of researchers and graduate school students from the four humanity majors on Komaba Campus: Advanced Social and International Studies, Language and Information Sciences, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, and Area Studies. In addition to many of its staff members who specialize their research in area studies of Latin America and Iberia, experts of other area studies as well as the alums also take an active role in various activities. Our vision is to go beyond area studies and aim for an organization that can constantly offer inter-disciplinary and international activities, incorporating boundaries of multiple fields in humanities and social sciences.

LAINAC Members

Hiroyuki UKEDA
Department of Advanced Social and International Studies (Professor)
UTokyo LAINAC Director

Takeshi WADA
Department of Area Studies (Professor)
Research Member

Takahiro MIYACHI
Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (Associate Professor)
Research Member

Yoshifumi KAWASAKI
Department of Language and Information Sciences (Lecturer)
Reseach Member

Ayako SAITO
Department of Area Studies (Professor)
Research Member

Osamu TAKAMIZAWA
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Professor)
Research Member

Junji NAKAGAWA
Institute of Social Science (Emeritus Professor)
Research Member

Takaatsu YANAGIHARA
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology (Professor)
Research Member

Student Members

Kensuke SAITO
Department of Advanced Social and International Studies (Ph.D. Student)
Staff Assistant