Department of Art & Archaeology at SOAS: Staff

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology

Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East

Tel: 020 7898 4455
Email: da30@soas.ac.uk
Room: B303
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5-6pm

Crispin Branfoot

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Art and Archaeology

Architecture, sculpture and painting in South Asia, especially in southern India; pilgrimage and sacred geography; material religion; colonialism and material culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4450
Email: crispin.branfoot@soas.ac.uk
Room: B311
Office Hours: Mondays 3-4pm (during term time)

Arab and early Persian painting and the arts of the Islamic book in general, including the production of manuscripts of the Qur'an; art and material culture of the Islamic world; Fatimid art and architecture; the arts of Islamic Spain; artistic contacts between the Islamic World and Europe; aspects of contemporary Islamic art.

Tel: 020 7898 4458
Email: ac24@soas.ac.uk
Room: B306
Office Hours: All Year (during term time) - Thursdays 2-3pm

Heather Elgood

Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art

Dr Heather Elgood is the Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art. She is a specialist in Persian, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal manuscript painting as well as the ritual arts of Hinduism.

Tel: 020 7898 4445
Email: he2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B310
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-5pm or by email appointment

Charles Gore

Senior Lecturer in the History of African Art

Visual culture of West Africa and the Caribbean

Tel: 020 7898 4443
Email: cg2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B305
On Sabbatical:Sabbatical Term 2 2012-13

Charlotte Horlyck

Lecturer in the History of Korean Art

Art, archaeology of Korea; funerary customs; architecture, spatiality in pre-modern Korea; theories in the study of visual and material culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4704
Email: ch10@soas.ac.uk
Room: B403
Office Hours: Thursdays 5-6pm (during term time)

Geoffrey King

Reader in Islamic Art and Archaeology

Islamic art and archaeology in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE and Oman; late Antiquity, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ayyubids and Mamluks

Tel: 020 7898 4447
Email: gk3@soas.ac.uk
Room: B304
Office Hours: Wednesday, 13.30-14.30

Shane McCausland

Reader in the History of Art of China

Pictorial arts of China - especially painting and calligraphy; East Asian narrative art; canons, collecting and connoisseurship; Chinese art and modernity

Tel: 020 7898 4705
Email: sm80@soas.ac.uk
Room: B402
On Sabbatical:October 2012-May 2013

Elizabeth Moore

Reader in the Art and Archaeology of South East Asia

Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape

Tel: 020 7898 4452
Email: em4@soas.ac.uk
Room: B408
Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm

Lukas Nickel

Reader in Chinese Art History and Archaeology

History of Art and Archaeology of China and the Silk Road, Chinese culture of the Bronze Age and the Han to Tang period; early Buddhist art; art and technology in China, Chinese heritage, comparative art history

Tel: 020 7898 4454
Email: ln2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B407
Office Hours: Thursday 4-5 (during term time)

Stacey Pierson

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics

History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; Museum Studies.

Tel: 020 7898 4441
Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Room: B308
Office Hours: Term 2 - Tuesdays 3:30-5pm

Timon Screech

Professor of the History of Art

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Tel: 020 7898 4453
Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
Room: B301
Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 3-4pm (during term time)

Tania Tribe

Lecturer in Art History