CCRJ Members
Co-Directors: Dr Stephen Hopgood & Dr Leslie Vinjamuri
Stephen Hopgood
Co-Director
International relations theory; international politics in the twentieth century; theories of the state - Tel: 020 7898 4738
- Email: sh18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 209
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm
Leslie Vinjamuri
Co-Director
International Relations Theory; International Organisation, Post-conflict Reconstruction and State building; the Politics of International Criminal Justice, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights in the war on terror.
- Tel: 020 7898 4758
- Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 213
- Office Hours: 3-5pm Mondays
Fiona Adamson
Member
International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4683
- Email: fa33@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 212
- Office Hours: Weds. 1-3, or by appointment
Mashood Baderin
Member
Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States. Appointed as Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council at its 19th Session on 23rd March 2012.
- Tel: 020 7898 4715
- Email: mb78@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 220
- Office Hours: by email appointment
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Rochana Bajpai
Member
Contemporary political theory, particularly multiculturalism; methodology, particularly political ideologies; modern Indian politics
- Tel: 020 7898 4750
- Email: rb6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 208
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-3pm
Christopher Cramer
Member
Africa: economics of Africa, political economy of development, political economy of war and peace in southern Africa, and the economics of cashew production, processing and trade - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4492
- Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
Jonathan Goodhand
Member
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
Laura Hammond
Member, Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
Africa; Horn of Africa; refugees and forced migration; post-conflict social integration; violence and conflict analysis; humanitarianism and humanitarian assistance; globalisation, transnationalism, diasporas and remittances; famine and food security; livelihoods in emergency contexts.
- Tel: 020 7898 4654
- Email: lh4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 371
- Office Hours: Wednesday 10am-12pm
Stephen Heder
Founding Member
South East Asia, particularly Cambodia: political violence - Email: sh32@soas.ac.uk
Laleh Khalili
Founding Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4735
- Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 210
- Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesdays
Mark Laffey
Founding Member
International relations theory; international security; historical sociology; postcolonial theory; foreign policy analysis; U.S. foreign policy; ideas, culture and ideology
- Tel: 020 7898 4744
- Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 211
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-6pm (Term 1), Mondays 12-2pm
Zoë Marriage
Member
The political economy of security, DR Congo, demobilisation, emergency assistance to countries at war - Tel: 020 7898 4437
- Email: zm2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 297
- Office Hours: Friday 11am-1pm
Matthew J Nelson
Founding Member
Politics of South Asia; Politics of Islam - Tel: 020 7898 4742
- Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 218
- Office Hours: Thurs. 3.30-5.30
Rahul Rao
Member
International Security; Indian foreign policy; Political Theory; Social Movements; Human Rights - Tel: 020 7898 4534
- Email: rr18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4424
- Office Hours: Mondays 1100-1300
Chandra Lekha Sriram
Member
International human rights law, international criminal law, transitional justice, conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict peace building in Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
- Tel: 0207 898 4540
- Email: cs79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 541
- Office Hours: Monday 15.00 to 17.00pm
Charles R H Tripp
Member
Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
- Tel: 020 7898 4748
- Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 214
- Office Hours: Wednesday 10.30-12.30, 13.30-15.00
Tom Young
Member
Southern Africa: international politics; South African domestic politics; political theory
- Tel: 020 7898 4732
- Email: ty@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 215
- Office Hours: 1-3 Wednesdays
Stephanie Pillion
Intern
Stephanie has joined the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) as an intern for June, July and August of 2011.
- Email: sp41@soas.ac.uk



