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
Interns
- Paaras Abbas, 310257@soas.ac.uk
- Anees Razzak, aneesrazzak2020@hotmail.com
Jonathan Goodhand
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
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
- 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
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
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
Economics, development economics, political economy of India and Pakistan since 1947; the state and late industrialisation, the fundamental and proximate determinants of economic growth - Email: mm80@soas.ac.uk
Werner F Menski
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
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
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
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
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
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.
- Tel: 020 7898 4108
- Email: gs41@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 319
Burzine K Waghmar
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
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).
- Email: bw3@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: Thursdays and Fridays
Amina Yaqin
Chair, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
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
Economics, development economics, political economy of India and Pakistan since 1947; the state and late industrialisation, the fundamental and proximate determinants of economic growth - Email: mm80@soas.ac.uk


