Departmental Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Tutor
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor/Postgraduate Taught Courses Tutor
Research Admissions Tutor/Research Tutor
BA Student Rep
Alexandra D'Arche
Annie TING-AN LIN
Ji Young Park
Selma Ahmed
MA Student Rep
Hayashi Miwako
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
Crispin Branfoot
Senior Lecturer in South Asian Art and Archaeology
Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Architecture, Sculpture and Painting; Pilgrimage and Sacred Geography, Archaeology and Material Religion; South India
- Tel: 020 7898 4450
- Email: crispin.branfoot@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B311
John T Carpenter
Reader in the History of Japanese Art
Adjunct Professor, Art Research Centre, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
Visiting Professor (2009-2010), Dept. of Cultural Resources Studies, University of Tokyo.
Premodern Japanese art and cultural history; East Asian calligraphy; Buddhist sutra copying; Heian court culture; classical literary themes in Japanese art; Ukiyo-e prints and painting.
- Tel: 020 7898 4457
- Email: jc54@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B402
Anna Contadini
Reader in the Art and Archaeology of Islam
Director of the 'Treasures of SOAS' project
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
Dr 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: B312
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: B302
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: Wednesdays 15:30-17:00
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
Shane McCausland
Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art
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: B310
Elizabeth Moore
Reader in the Art and Archaeology of South East Asia
Art and archaeology of Cambodia, Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand; remote sensing to study settlement form, ancient water management, urban growth; religious architecture and sculpture
- Tel: 020 7898 4452
- Email: em4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B408
Lukas Nickel
Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology
Archaeology of the Qin and Han periods; early Buddhist art; traditional architecture of China and Japan, ancient Chinese bronzes and their production method.
- Tel: 020 7898 4454
- Email: ln2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B407
Stacey Pierson
Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics
History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; history of art history
- Tel: 020 7898 4441
- Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Timon Screech
Professor in 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
Wang Tao
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology
Archaeology in China; palaeography; early Chinese religion and language
- Tel: 020 7898 4463
- Email: wt@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B403
Tania Tribe
Lecturer in Art History
Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa
- Tel: 020 7898 4462
- Email: tt10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B406
Teaching Fellows
Peter D. Sharrock
Senior Teaching Fellow
He is now focusing on the evidence in Indochina for the influence of tantric or esoteric Buddhism, developed in the great monasteries of the Ganges valley and diffused and developed in different ways through much of Asia.
- Tel: 0207 435 8819
- Email: ps56@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B408
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-13:00
Polly Savage
Teaching Fellow
Contemporary art and curatorial strategies in twentieth and twenty-first century Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean; post-independence visual arts in Angola, Madagascar and Haiti; post-colonial critique and trans-national exhibition practice.
- Email: ps52@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Gina Barnes
Professorial Research Associate
Theory: complex societies, state formation; agricultural transition; urbanization; landscape archaeology. Area: East Asian archaeology, especially Japanese archaeology, prehistory/protohistory and tectonic archaeology.
- Tel: 020 7898 4463
- Email: gb11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B305
John Carswell
Professorial Research Associate
Relations between the Pacific and the Mediterranean, through the export of Chinese ceramics
- Email: jc78@soas.ac.uk
Robert Elgood
Research Associate
Interests include architectural conservation, gardens, the arts, books, mountain walking and he has visited more than forty countries.
- Email: re11@soas.ac.uk
Anthea Harris
Research Associate
Ritual, ritual symbolism, religious practice and gender in Iran and the Middle East
Vittorio Roveda
Research Associate
Regions: Middle East, Western Central Asia Countries: Iran, Afghanistan, Arab world History and Archaelogy of Iran and Central Asia
- Email: vr2@soas.ac.uk
S. G. Safavi
Research Associate
Dr S.G. Safavi is a Research Associate in the Department of Art and Archaeology and is working with Dr Geoffrey King on a study of the Islamic monuments of Iran. He was appointed as Research Associate in 2007.
Chia-Ling Yang
Research Associate
Chinese Painting; Shanghai School Painting; Photography; Interactions between China, Japan and the West (1840–1949)
- Email: cy1@soas.ac.uk
