Centre Members
Chair of Centre
Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager
Executive Officer
Academic Staff
Bhavna Davé
Member, 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: 221
- Office Hours: Tues. 3 - 4 / Thurs. 4 - 5
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: Tuesday 2-4pm
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: 509
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
Deniz Kandiyoti
Member, CCCAC
Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory
- Tel: 020 7898 4488
- Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 291
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
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: 558
Scott Newton
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
On leave in 2009-10
Legal and institutional reform in Central Asia; role of law in post-socialist transition; law, 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
- On Sabbatical:On Sabbatical Terms 1 & 2 2009-10
Paolo Novak
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Convenor of the course Globalisation, Borders and Development and Admission Tutor for the MSc Globalisation and Development.
- Tel: 020 7898 4214
- Email: pn4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 368
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10 - 12
Ceri Oeppen
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus
South and Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan; Migrant transnationalism and integration, and the relationship between them; Migration and development; Refugees and forced migrants; Remittances; Return migration; Diasporas; Social research methods.
- Tel: 0207 898 4690
- Email: co13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 298
- Office Hours: Thursday 1-3
External Members
Alisher Ilkhamov
Research Associate
Islamic movements, Nationalism and National Identity, Nation-State Building in Central Asia
- Email: ailkhamov@gmail.com
Meltem Dayioglu
Research Associate
Labour economics; child labour in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan
- Email: md49@soas.ac.uk
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: az4@soas.ac.uk
