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