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Centre for the Study of Pakistan

Centre for the Study of Pakistan Members

Chair of Centre

Dr Amina Yaqin

Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager

Jane Savory

Executive Officer

Rahima Begum

Jonathan Goodhand
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Jonathan Goodhand 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
Jan-Peter Hartung
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Staff Silhouette
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4383
  • Email: Jh74@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 333
  • Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30-2:30pm

Magnus Marsden
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Magnus Marsden

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
Martin W Lau
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Martin Lau Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law
  • Tel: 020 7898 4657
  • Email: ml1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 231
  • Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30

Matthew Mccartney
Research Associate
Matthew Mccartney Economics, development economics, political economy of India and Pakistan since 1947; the state and late industrialisation, the fundamental and proximate determinants of economic growth
Werner F Menski
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Werner Menski Classical and modern Hindu law; Muslim Law; Laws of South Asia; Family law; Comparative law; South Asians in the UK; Immigration law; Ethnic minorities
  • Tel: 020 7898 4674
  • Email: wm4@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 233
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 8:30- 10:30
  • On Sabbatical:2012-13

Matthew J Nelson
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Matthew Nelson 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
Francesca Orsini
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Francesca Orsini Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu.
  • Tel: 020 7898 4242
  • Email: fo@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 419
  • Office Hours: Thursday 10:00 - 12:00

Paolo Novak
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Paolo Novak

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)
Gurharpal Singh
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Gurharpal Singh

Professor Gurharpal Singh is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor in Inter-Religious Relation and Development in the Department of Study of Religions.


Burzine K Waghmar
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Staff Silhouette

Indo-Iranian History, Historical Geography and Philology (Avestan, Old Persian, Parthian, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi and Kashmiri); Languages and Religions of Late Antiquity and the Silk Road (Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian, contacts among Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and early Islam); Pakistan studies (Ancient and early Medieval History, Dardic and Nuristani dialectology, ethnography and topography of NWFP, FATA, Northern Areas and Trans-Karakoram Tract); Pakistani minorities; HUMINT counterterrorism and linguistic analysis; South Asian Muslim psycho-sociology; Muslim non-Muslim relations (Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh).

Farzana Whitfield
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Farzana Whitfield

Amina Yaqin
Chair, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Staff Silhouette Urdu language and literature; post-colonial literature and theory; gender studies; South Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third World context; gender and politics in Pakistan
  • Tel: 020 7898 4305
  • Email: ay@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 470
  • Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00

Research Associates

Matthew Mccartney
Research Associate
Matthew Mccartney Economics, development economics, political economy of India and Pakistan since 1947; the state and late industrialisation, the fundamental and proximate determinants of economic growth

Professorial Research Associates