Instructor Profiles
Nathan Hill:
Nathan Hill holds a PhD in Tibetology from Harvard University and is currently serving as the Head of School of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at TCD. He is also the director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies.
Professor Hill researches Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics. He has published on Old Tibetan descriptive linguistics, Tibetan corpus linguistics, Tibeto-Burman reconstruction and comparative linguistics, the history of Chinese, and the typology of evidential systems. He has led research projects funded by the European Research Council, the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the British Academy.
His books include The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese (2019, Cambridge), A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition (2010, Bavarian Academy of Sciences), and Old Tibetan Inscriptions, co-authored with Kazushi Iwao (2009, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). His edited books include Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages, with Lauren Gawne (2017, De Gruyter Mouton).
Kazue Iwasa:
Kazue Iwasa holds a PhD in literature from the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies and currently serves as an associate professor at School of Foreign Languages, Department of Chinese Studies, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. She has researched Yi manuscripts and Yi scripts, and also has carried out fieldwork on Modern Yi dialects.
Her details and research data are as follows:
https://researchmap.jp/getty?lang=en
Shuya Zhang:
Shuya Zhang holds a PhD from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), France, and is currently an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has published on Gyalrongic and Tangut descriptive linguistics, typology, Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics and Gyalrongic ethnobotanic and kinship studies. Dr Zhang has been awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship, and she currently leads a National Social Science Fund of China project “Dialectal Survey and Historical Evolution of Situ Gyalrong.”
https://sjtu.academia.edu/zhangshuya
Kazue Iwasa:
Kazue Iwasa holds a PhD in Literature from Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. She is Associate Professor at School of Foreign Languages, Department of Chinese Studies, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. She has researched Yi manuscripts and Yi scripts, and also has carried out fieldwork on Modern Yi dialects.Her details and research data are as follows:
https://researchmap.jp/getty?lang=en
Shuya Zhang:
Shuya Zhang holds a PhD from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), France, and is currently an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has published on Gyalrongic and Tangut descriptive linguistics, typology, Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics and Gyalrongic ethnobotanic and kinship studies. Dr Zhang has been awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship, and she currently leads a National Social Science Fund of China project “Dialectal Survey and Historical Evolution of Situ Gyalrong.”
https://sjtu.academia.edu/zhangshuya
Yunfan Lai:
Lai Yunfan is Nanyang Assistant Professor in the Division of Linguistics & Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, specialising in historical and typological linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan family, particularly Gyalrongic languages.
His work focuses on endangered language documentation, proto-language reconstruction and language subgrouping, using both the traditional Neogrammarian method and innovative computational tools. He has published extensively on Gyalrongic and Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics, and supervises research on Sino-Tibetan subgrouping and phonological reconstruction using interdisciplinary methods.
Pascal Gerber:
Pascal Gerber specializes in the documentation, description and historical-comparative exploration of endangered minority languages of Nepal and Bhutan belonging to the Trans-Himalayan/Sino-Tibetan language family, with a focus on the Kiranti languages of eastern Nepal. Additional projects involve the Tamang language in Nepal and the languages Lhokpu, Gongduk, Brokpa and Tshangla in Bhutan. Further research interests are phonology, pragmatics and its role in language change, person marking and agreement morphology as well as language isolates. He is also interested in the theoretical foundations, methods and research history of historical linguistics.
https://www.isw.unibe.ch/about_us/personen/dr_gerber_pascal/index_eng.html
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Tilman Frasch:
Tilman Frasch Tilman Frasch studies South Asian History, Indian Languages (Indology) and European History at Heidelberg University, where he also gained his MA and PhD degrees with dissertations on the early history of Myanmar (Burma). After teaching at Heidelberg University and holding research fellowships at Manchester and Singapore, he joined MMU in 2006, and is currently a Reader in Asian History.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-tilman-frasch
Josiah Medin:
Josiah Medin is a PhD candidate in the Trinity Centre for Asian studies funded by a Trinity Research Doctorate Award. His project, entitled A Descriptive Grammar of the Old Meitei Language as Attested in the Numit Kappa and the Cheitharol Kumpapa, concerns the description of the linguistic features of the oldest attested stage of the Meitei language of Manipur, Northeast India, and of the changes that the language underwent in its development into its modern form. His research combines descriptive linguistics, historical phonology, morphology, syntax, palaeography, epigraphy, and textual criticism to date and describe the contents of manuscripts and inscriptions from pre-colonial Manipur.
https://tcd.academia.edu/JosiahMedin