CCCAC Members
Chair of Centre
James Caron
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.
- Tel: 020 7898 4295
- Email: jc84@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 468
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-17:00 / Fridays By appointment
Bhavna Davé
Chair, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet countries
- Tel: 020 7898 4734
- Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 224
- Office Hours: 2-4pm Wednesdays
Jonathan Goodhand
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
South and Central Asia; complex political emergencies, humanitarian aid; NGO capacity building, aid, conflict and development - Tel: 020 7898 4483
- Email: jg27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 296
- Office Hours: Monday 2-4
Rachel Harris
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; recorded music; music and ritual, music, identity and politics - Tel: 020 7898 4513
- Email: rh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 513
- On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13
B George Hewitt
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Caucasian languages (especially South and North-West Caucasian) and linguistics; language work - Tel: 020 7898 4332
- Email: gh2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 430
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 -12:00 /Thursdays 11:00-12:00
Magnus Marsden
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
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
Peter P Mollinga
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
South Asia, Central Asia; comparative political sociology of water resources and development; technology and agrarian change; boundary work in natural resources management; interdisciplinary social theory. - Tel: 020 7898 4631
- Email: pm35@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 517
- Office Hours: By appointment only
Scott Newton
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights - Tel: 020 7898 4658
- Email: sn21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 299
- Office Hours: Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00
Paolo Novak
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs.
- Tel: 020 7898 4214
- Email: pn4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 368
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-1pm (terms 1 & 2)
Ulrich Pagel
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
- Tel: 020 7898 4782
- Email: up1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Room 338
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm
Professorial Research Associates
Deniz Kandiyoti
Professorial Research Associate
Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory - Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Laurence Broers
Research Associate
Nationalism and ethnicity in the South Caucasus (with a particular focus on Georgia), the ethno-territorial conflicts of the region, and the politics of conflict resolution and democratization
Alisher Ilkhamov
Research Associate
Islamic movements, Nationalism and National Identity, Nation-State Building in Central Asia - Email: ailkhamov@gmail.com
Daniel Stevens
Research Associate
Development aid, civil society and governance in Central Asia
- Email: ds54@soas.ac.uk
Anna Zelkina
Research Associate
Islamic studies, with special reference to Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Islamic mysticism in the 13-20 century AD (the history of the Naqshbandi and Qadiri Sufi orders), social and political history of the Northern Caucasus, Post-Soviet transformation in the Caucasus and Central Asia - Email: az2@soas.ac.uk
