Staff
Chair of Centre
Angelica Baschiera
Manager
- Tel: 020 7898 4370
- Email: ab17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 475
- Office Hours: 9am-3pm, Monday-Friday
Michael Jennings
Chair, Centre of African Studies
Politics, governance, and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; non-governmental organisations; faith and development; history of development processes and interventions; issues in international health and non-state actors in health delivery.
- Tel: 0207 898 4268
- Email: mj10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 261
- Office Hours: Monday 10-12
Research Associates
Barbara Heinzen
Research Associate
The role of 'soft infrastructure' in society; the social and economic implications of HIV/AIDS; the invention of new social and economic systems that support the natural environment
Murray Last
Professorial Research Associate
Medical anthropology; traditional medicine; pre-colonial history: Islamic (especially 19th century Jihad) and pre-Islamic societies of northern Nigeria; religion among non-Muslim Hausa; Islamic intellectual tradition in northern Nigeria; youth culture of urban Kano (Nigeria).
John Ryle
Research Associate
Human rights, famine relief and conflict resolution, and a popular ethnography of the Agar Dinka of South Sudan
