Reader in Asia Pacific Studies
School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies
The Ethnohistory of Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific Region, Transnational Urban Maritime History, Historical studies of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples, Pacific Immigration History, Mission History in the Asia-Pacific Region, Necrogeographic GIS Mapping
Dr Niki Alsford is Reader in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Languages & Global Studies at UCLan.
Prior to joining UCLan, Dr Alsford was Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences as part of a research project titled: Power and Strategies of Social and Political Order of which his contribution was primarily the continuation of his work on comparative Taiwan social history. A core part of this project explored the formation and development of urban spaces in the Asia Pacific region.
Dr Alsford is an appointed Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, the University of London and Research Fellow a Research Fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. He was formally an elected executi
more...Dr Niki Alsford is Reader in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Languages & Global Studies at UCLan.
Prior to joining UCLan, Dr Alsford was Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences as part of a research project titled: Power and Strategies of Social and Political Order of which his contribution was primarily the continuation of his work on comparative Taiwan social history. A core part of this project explored the formation and development of urban spaces in the Asia Pacific region.
Dr Alsford is an appointed Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, the University of London and Research Fellow a Research Fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. He was formally an elected executive board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS). He is currently a strand convenor for the Social History Society and is Co-Editor of the BRILL Series in Taiwan Studies. He has worked on a number of collaborative projects that include the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, the Council of Indigenous Peoples, and the National Museum of Taiwan History.
He is a Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society and Country of Origin Expert (Taiwan) for the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
Ph.D. Modern East Asian History, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), the University of London, 2015
MA, Asia Pacific Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Bsc (Hons) Applied Social Science (Anthropology & Criminology), the University of Southampton, 2006
