Aika Ishige
PhD
she / her / hers
日本語/Japanese, English
Biography
Aika Ishige is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the University of British Columbia. Her research interests encompass race, identity, multiculturalism, and critical pedagogy. Her dissertation project examines majority-group students’ awareness of privilege in the context of multiculturalism in Japan.
She has worked as a lecturer at a university in Japan for several years before her Ph.D.