Centre of South East Asian Studies Members
Centre Chair
Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager
Executive Officer
Members
Sallehuddin bin Abdullah Sani
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Indonesian language
- Tel: 020 7898 4256
- Email: sa38@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 450
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00/Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Peter Austin
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Lexical-Functional grammar, computer-aided linguistic analysis, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages
- Tel: 020 7898 4586
- Email: pa2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 363
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00/Wednesdays 14:00-15:00
Somnath Batabyal
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
South Asia with a focus on India; transnational news spheres with a special focus on India; Development discourses in India and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news forums; environmental politics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4415
- Email: sb127@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 570
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm
Carlo Bonura
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4617
- Email: cb84@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 252
Anne Booth
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
The role of agriculture in the growth process in Indonesia; poverty measurement, determinants and policy; oil and economic policy; economic history of East and South Asia. Teaching includes, South East Asia.- Tel: 020 7898 4526
- Email: ab10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 560
Ian Brown
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia - Tel: 020 7898 4607
- Email: ib@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4411
Michael W. Charney
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia - Tel: 020 7898 4612
- Email: mc62@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 326
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1pm
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
- Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 313
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 3-5pm
Vantana Cornwell
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Thai language pedagogy
- Tel: 020 7898 4255
- Email: vc1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 450
- Office Hours: Thursdays 13:00-14:00
Paulo dos Santos
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
The political economy of contemporary banking and capital markets. Financial theory. Bank-sector liberalisation in middle-income economies. The political economy and banking systems of the Philippines, Brazil and Mexico.
- Tel: 020 7898 4726
- Email: ps45@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 285
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11.30am - 13.30pm
Nick Gray
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay, composition, improvisation, analysis, music and religion
- Tel: 020 7898 4686
- Email: ng18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 505
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm
Sue Guiney
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Sue Guiney joins SOAS in 2011 as the Department of South East Asia's first Writer-in-Residence. She brings a wealth of experience as a writer, poet and teacher. During her time at SOAS she will and promote the activity of writing throughout the SOAS community with workshops for students and staff, and a weekly one-to-one writing surgery.
- Email: sue@guineyuk.com
- Room: 466
- Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11am
Rachel V Harrison
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00
Dana Healy
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching; folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art - Tel: 020 7898 4252
- Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 465
Mulaika Hijjas
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Literature, film, gender and cultural studies, social history.
- Email: mh86@soas.ac.uk
Mark Hobart
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.
- Email: mh5@soas.ac.uk
Andrew Huxley
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
South East Asian law, particularly Burma and Thailand; Buddhism and law; comparative legal theory; trusts and law of torts - Tel: 020 7898 4668
- Email: ah6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 238
- Office Hours: Thursday 2:15 to 4:15pm
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012-13
Monica Janowski
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.
- Tel: 020 7898 4691
- Email: mj11@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: By Email Appointment
Naila Kabeer
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Gender; Work and Labour; Livelihoods; Social Protection; Microfinance; Specialising in the following regions: Central and South Asia; South East Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4488
- Email: nk34@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 291
- Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1
Mushtaq Khan
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
South and South East Asia: institutional economics and political economy; the economics of rent seeking, corruption and patron-client networks; late industrialisation and the state - Tel: 020 7898 4546
- Email: mk100@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 284
- Office Hours: Mondays 2pm - 4pm
Jotika Khur-Yearn
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4173
- Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk
Mahnaz Marashi
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Islam and Islamic education in Malaysia
- Email: mm97@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 590
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 10am-12pm
Richard Mead
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Cross-cultural understandings within and dimensions of international management.
- Tel: 020 7898 4835
- Email: rm14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 525
- Office Hours: Drop in or By Appointment
Elizabeth Moore
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape - Tel: 020 7898 4452
- Email: em4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B408
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm
Ben Murtagh
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian literature; history of Indonesia. Film in Indonesia and Malaysia. Gender and sexuality in Indonesia - Tel: 020 7898 4248
- Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 466
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 / Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Mark Neal
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Management and leadership in the Middle East and South East Asia. Corruption. Tourism. Business education and poverty reduction. Sustainable development in MENA and SE Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4778 / 07517670054
- Email: mn12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 566
- Office Hours: Thursday 12-2pm
Kostas Retsikas
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
South East Asian Anthropology, notably Indonesia, Java, migration, ethnicity and the body - Tel: 020 7898 4432
- Email: kr1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 595
- On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13
Sonja Ruehl
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Financial Sector Development in Japan and Vietnam. Gender Issues in Financing Development. Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam - Tel: 020 7898 4057
- Email: sr2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 542
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Mandy Sadan
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Ethnicity and conflict in mainland South East Asia, cultural production, non-national histories of Eastern Himalayas and South East Asian Massif and the South, South East and East Asian borderworlds of Burma
- Tel: 020 7898 4622
- Email: ms114@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 302
- Office Hours: Tues 11:30-12:30, Wed 11:30-12:30 & 5-6pm
David A Smyth
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
The Thai novel; Thai literary historiography; Thai language; modern Thai history
- Tel: 020 7898 4253
- Email: ds5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 452
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13:00
Carol G. S. Tan
Chair, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law
- Tel: 020 7898 4630
- Email: ct9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4415
- Office Hours: Tuesday 14.30 - 16.30
- On Sabbatical:Term 2 2012-13
Justin Watkins
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics and speech acoustics; computer lexicography; sign languages in South East Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4254
- Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 462
- On Sabbatical:Academic Year 2012-2013
Professorial Research Associates
Vladimir I Braginsky
Professorial Research Associate
Malay and Indonesian classical and modern literature and culture; Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world; Islamic literature of South East Asia; comparative study of South East Asian literatures; Malay philology and traditional literature sufism in Malay literature - Tel: 020 7898 4245
- Email: vb1@soas.ac.uk
Jan Christie
Professorial Research Associate
The early trading states of maritime Southeast Asia; economic and political history of western Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula during the first and second millennia AD; early spice trade and the role of Java in the trade of 'medieval' Asia; reassessment of the political history of the Javanese state of Mataram to complete a comprehensive history of medieval Java - Email: c.j.christie@btinternet.com
E Ulrich Kratz
Professorial Research Associate
Traditional Malay philology; the contemporary literatures, cultures and societies of the Malay-speaking world; Malay society; Malay culture; Malay history; Malay politics; Malay religion - Email: uk1@soas.ac.uk
William R Roff
Professorial Research Associate
Muslim social and intellectual history in Southeast Asia, in the 18th-21st centuries, with particular reference to law, education, and the pilgrimage to Mecca; the comparative study of Muslim societies - Email: william.roff@btinternet.com
Robert Taylor
Professorial Research Associate
Government and politics of South East Asia, especially Myanmar; the military in politics, comparative constitutions, biographical studies - Email: rt22@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Timothy Andrews
Research Associate
Management and Business Studies: strategy and implementation of multinational corporate strategy in Southeast Asia, internal and external aspects of business of branch operations of Western corporations, human resource management in the guise of gender discrimination and inequality, adapted marketing management and strategy methods in regard to subsidiaries/joint ventures interacting with the external indigenous customer base and a qualitative contextual emphasis exploring the role and impact of societal culture upon management practice in the ASEAS bloc.
- Email: tim.andrews@uwe.ac.uk
Clive Christie
Research Associate
20th Century Vietnamese history
- Email: c.j.christie@btinternet.com
Susan Conway
Research Associate
Tai Theravada Buddhist art and culture of inland Southeast Asia, particularly the Shan of Burma (Myanmar) and the Tai Yuan of Lan Na (Northern Thailand)
- Email: sc66@soas.ac.uk
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Research Associate
The politics of intangible culture in ASEAN; women's role in Indonesian documentary film; trance-possession dance in Java
- Email: fh7@soas.ac.uk
Guy Horton
Research Associate
Human rights violations in Burma/Myamar with a view to identifying the policy underlying the violations
- Email: ghrtn7@gmail.com
Carool Kersten
Research Associate
Islam in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia)
- Email: ck3@soas.ac.uk
Elizabeth A Lambourn
Research Associate
History of Muslim societies and communities in the medieval and early modern Indian Ocean; material culture and epigraphy of Islamic cemeteries in Southeast Asia; stone quarrying, carving, and stone circulation int he Indian Ocean area; visuality in Islamic Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian coastal spaces and port cities
- Email: el5@soas.ac.uk
Atsuko Naono
Research Associate
The emergence of the public health administration in colonial and early post-colonial Burma from the 1923 to 1962
- Email: an7@soas.ac.uk
James Putzel
Research Associate
Politics of agrarian reform in the Philippines; rural development and environmental issues; transition to democracy in the Philippines; Tagalog language
- Email: j.putzel@lse.ac.uk
Ashley South
Research Associate
Politics and humanitarian issues in Burma/Myanmar, and Southeast Asia
- Email: as127@soas.ac.uk
Visiting Scholars
Karl Kucera
Visiting Scholar
Integrated river basin and coastal zone management in tropical environments with specia reference to north Sulawesi region; effect of boundary disputes on management and security in the Malak-Indonesian archipelago with emphasis on the South China sea
- Email: kp24@soas.ac.uk
