Anthropology and Sociology Dept at SOAS: Staff

Staff

John R Campbell

Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development

His research interests include: East and Northeastern Africa; development, urbanisation, civil society, and ethnicity and nationalism.

Tel: 020 7898 4412
Email: jc58@soas.ac.uk
Room: 580
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Christopher Davis

Lecturer in Anthropology

Medical anthropology, interpretive anthropology, ethnographic writing, philosophical anthropology; Central Africa.

Tel: 020 7898 4418
Email: cd3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 572
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm / Wednesdays by appointment

Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4406
Email: rf@soas.ac.uk
Room: 591
Office Hours: By Email Appointment

Stephen P Hughes

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

India, especially the Tamil-speaking south, and Sri Lanka: popular cinema, media theory, historical anthropology and visual anthropology

Tel: 020 7898 4070
Email: sh37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 558
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm

Elizabeth Hull

Lecturer in Anthropology

South Africa; economic anthropology; anthropology of the state & institutions, bureaucracy, agriculture; livelihoods; health; nutrition; politics of food systems, food acquisition and consumption practices.

Tel: 020 7898 4766
Email: eh17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4416
Office Hours: Mondays - 10:30am-12:30pm in 569
On Sabbatical:On Research Leave 2012-2015

Marloes Janson

Lecturer in Anthropology

Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)

Tel: 020 7898 4345
Email: mj19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 502
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:30am-12:30pm (and by appointment)

Jakob Klein

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

China (South); anthropology of food and eating, urban social relations

Tel: 020 7898 4428
Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 564
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30-13:00

Kevin Latham

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance

Tel: 020 7898 4423
Email: kl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 565
Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 2-4pm (during term time)

Trevor H J Marchand

Professor of Social Anthropology

Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4424
Email: tm6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 551
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Magnus Marsden

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology with reference to South and Central Asia

Social anthropology of Pakistan, Central Asia and the Middle East; anthropology of religion (especially Islam), the interaction between religious and political transformations within and beyond South Asia and the Muslim world, as well as the study of transnational identity formations.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4491
Email: mm101@soas.ac.uk
Room: 588
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Dolores P Martinez

Reader in Anthropology with reference to Japan

Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions

Tel: 020 7898 4425
Email: dm6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 567
Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm (or by Appointment)

David Mosse

Professor of Social Anthropology

India, especially Tamil Nadu and adivasi western India; caste and religion, dalit politics, vernacular Christianity, environmental history, common property resources, indigenous irrigation, participatory rural development, aid agencies, anthropology of development

Tel: 020 7898 4426
Email: dm21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 573
Office Hours: Fridays 11am-1pm

Caroline Osella

Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia

Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: ethnophysiology, concepts of person, gender, ethnicity, psychology and anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4427
Email: co6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 582
Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm

Johan P J Pottier

Professor of Anthropology with reference to Africa

Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation

Tel: 020 7898 4417
Email: jp4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 562
Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 2-3pm

Parvathi Raman

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

The Indian Community in South Africa; Politics and identity in South Africa; African and Asian Communities in Britain; Political and cultural issues in Diaspora Studies; Historical anthropology; Philosophical issues in anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4434
Email: pr1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 571
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm or by Appointment

Kostas Retsikas

Lecturer in South East Asian Anthropology

South East Asian Anthropology, notably Indonesia, Java, migration, ethnicity and the body

Tel: 020 7898 4432
Email: kr1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 595
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Edward Simpson

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Islam in South Asia; politics, ethnography, and society of Gujarat; social theory and the western Indian Ocean; the ethnography of reconstruction after catastrophic natural disasters

Tel: 020 7898 4481
Email: es7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 589
Office Hours: Term 2 - Research Leave, email to make appointment

Gabriele vom Bruck

Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East

Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, memory, religion and politics

Tel: 020 7898 4408
Email: gb19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 585
Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm

Harry West

Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology of Food: agriculture, food, and state policy; food safety and regulation; food and international trade; food and cultural heritage. Southern Africa, especially Mozambique; political anthropology; violence and the state; revolutionary socialism and post-socialist societies; traditional authority; sorcery; healing.

Tel: 020 7898 4414
Email: hw16@soas.ac.uk
Room: 569
Office Hours: All Year - by email appointment (during term time)

Visiting Professors and Readers

Audrey Cantlie

Visiting Reader

Emma Crewe

Visiting Reader

South Asia and the UK; anthropology of institutions (including the UK parliament and development NGOs), international development, policy, planning and practice, technology, gender, children's rights, violence and inequality.

Email: ec15@soas.ac.uk

Tom Selwyn

Director of Studies of the MA in the Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage and Visiting Professor

Anthropology of Tourism, hospitality, imagery and semiotics, Palestinian pilgrimage and cultural industries, Israeli landscape, borderlands, Indian caste system, political anthropology, post-conflict development, coasts, EC cultural policy in Mediterranean and Balkans, libraries.

Email: ts14@soas.ac.uk
Room: 590
Office Hours: Fridays