Development Studies Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Programme Convenor
- Dr Michael Jennings - Term 1
- Dr Anna Lindley - Terms 2 and 3
Undergraduate Personal Tutors
- Dr Dae-oup Chang - Years 1 and 3
- Dr Anna Lindley - Year 2
Postgraduate Admissions Tutors
- Dr Jonathan di John MSc Development Studies
- Dr Thomas Marois MSc Development Studies
- Dr Paolo Novak MSc Globalisation and Development - Term 1
- Prof Gilbert Achcar MSc Globalisation and Development - Terms 2 and 3
- Dr Jens Lerche MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development
- Dr Laura Hammond MSc Mobility, Migration and Development - Term 1
- Dr Tania Kaiser MSc Mobility, Migration and Development - Terms 2 and 3
- Dr Jonathan Goodhand MSc Violence, Conflict and Development
Postgraduate Programme Convenors
- Dr Alessandra Mezzadri MSc Development Studies - Term 1
- Professor Naila Kabeer MSc Development Studies - Terms 2 and 3
- Dr Paolo Novak MSc Globalisation and Development - Term 1
- Professor Gilbert Achcar MSc Globalisation and Development - Terms 2 and 3
- Dr Jens Lerche MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development
- Dr Laura Hammond MSc Mobility, Migration and Development - Term 1
- Dr Tania Kaiser MSc Mobility, Migration and Development - Terms 2 and 3
- Dr Jonathan Goodhand MSc Violence, Conflict and Development
Research Admissions Tutor
- Dr Laura Hammond - Term 1
- Professor Gilbert Achcar - Terms 2 and 3
Research Tutor
Departmental Welfare Tutor
Centre for Development Policy and Research
- Professor Terry McKinley (Director)
- Dr Hannah Bargawi (On leave)
- Dr Giovanni Cozzi
Centre for Water and Development
- Professor Peter Mollinga (Director)
Gilbert Achcar
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations
Political economy and sociology of globalisation; global power structure and grand strategy; empire theory and US hegemony; politics and development of the Middle East and North Africa; sociology of religion; Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism; social change and social theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4557
- Email: ga3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 292b
- Office Hours: Monday 2-4 (Term 2 & 3)
Christopher Cramer
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Head of Department
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: 020 7898 4492
- Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
Dae-oup Chang
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
BA personal tutor
East Asia, capital-labour relations, state-society relations, labour and social movement in globalising East Asia, TNCs and division of labour in East Asia
- Tel: 0207 898 4531
- Email: dc13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4412
- Office Hours: Thursday 3-5
Jonathan Di John
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy
Development economics, economic growth, institutional economics, taxation in less developed countries, the political economy of oil states, political economy of industrial policy in Latin America, especially of Venezuela, Columbia and Brazil - Tel: 020 7898 4087
- Email: jd5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 370
- Office Hours: Thursday 1-3
Jonathan Goodhand
Reader in Conflict and Development Studies
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
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
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: Thursday 11-1 (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms 2 and 3 in 2011-12
Adam Hanieh
Lecturer in Development Studies
Political economy; labour migration; Middle East politics; Gulf Cooperation Council; migration development and remittances class and state formation internationalisation Palestine.
- Tel: 020 7898 4784
- Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4413
- Office Hours: Thursday 3-5
Michael Jennings
Senior Lecturer
Politics, governance, and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; non-governmental organisations; faith and development; history of development processes and interventions; issues in international health and non-state actors in health delivery.
- Tel: 0207 898 4268
- Email: mj10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 261
- Office Hours: Monday 10-12 (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms 2 and 3 in 2011-12
Naila Kabeer
Professor of Development 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
Tania Kaiser
Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies
East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa, Sri Lanka; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
- Tel: 020 7898 4484
- Email: tk51@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 290
- Office Hours: Monday 10-12
Jens Lerche
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
India; labour, social movements and globalisation; labour and the ILO; labour and caste in India; agrarian political economy. - Tel: 020 7898 4505
- Email: jl2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 295
- Office Hours: Thursday 2-4
Anna Lindley
Lecturer in Migration, Mobility and Development
Migration, livelihoods and development processes; conflict, forced displacement and refugee issues; transnationalism and remittances; migration policy; mobility, education and skills. - Tel: 0207 898 4690
- Email: al29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 298
- Office Hours: Monday Mornings - email for appointment
Thomas Marois
Lecturer in Development Studies
Political Economy; Emerging finance capitalism; Privatization; Alternative development; Banking, finance, and development; Mexico, Turkey, other emerging capitalisms; State-capital-labour relations; State theory; Internationalization.
- Tel: 0207 898 4503
- Email: tm47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 293
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1
Zoë Marriage
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
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 11-1 (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms 2 and 3 in 2011-12
Alessandra Mezzadri
Lecturer in Development Studies
International trade, global commodity chains, industrial development and labour markets in developing countries, social structures and inequality; structures of production and labour in the Indian export-oriented garment industry - Tel: 0207 898 4533
- Email: am99@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4414
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10-12 (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms 2 and 3 in 2011-12
Peter P Mollinga
Professor of Development Studies
South Asia, Central Asia; comparative political sociology of water resources and development; technology and agrarian change; boundary work in natural resources management; interdisciplinary social theory. - Tel: 020 7898 4631
- Email: pm35@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 517
- Office Hours: By Appointment - Schedule on Office Door
Paolo Novak
Lecturer in Development Studies
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 11-1 (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms 2 and 3 in 2011-12
Carlos Oya
Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development
West Africa, Southern Africa, agrarian political economy; poverty; rural labour; development aid; research methods - Tel: 020 7898 4566
- Email: co2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 292a
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1
Alfredo Saad Filho
Professor of Political Economy
Latin America; political economy of development; industrial policy; pro-poor economic policy; neoliberalism; value theory - Tel: 020 7898 4504
- Email: as59@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 294
- On Sabbatical:On leave in 2011-12
Subir Sinha
Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development
South Asia: institutions of development, NGOs, social movements; the environment, common property institutions and resource use - Tel: 020 7898 4495
- Email: ss61@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 287
- Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1
Leandro Vergara-Camus
Lecturer in the Theory, Policy and Practice of Development
Political economy of Latin America, social and peasant movements, alter-globalisation movements and social change, alternative development, agrarian issues, and bio-fuels and energy politics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4228
- Email: l.vergara-camus@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 550
Giovanni Cozzi
CDPR Research Officer
Financial globalization and free-cross border capital mobility, capital controls, financial and currency crises, and financial and real sector linkages. Political Economy of Development, Development Finance and Economics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4496
- Email: gc15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 476
Bernd Mueller
Research Officer
East Africa (in particular: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda), labour markets, political economy of development, agriculture, poverty reduction, agrarian change, livelihood diversification, development aid, commodity trade
- Tel: 020 7898 4604
- Email: bm11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4410
Part-Time Teaching Staff
Richard Axelby
Teaching Fellow
India, especially the Western Himalayas; environmental history, natural resource management, nomadic pastoralism and agrarian change
- Email: ra39@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: By email appointment
Marco Boffo
Economic Theory, History of Economic Thought, Philosophy of Economics, Science and Technology Studies.
- Email: mb94@soas.ac.uk
Brendan Donegan
Teaching Fellow
Actor-Network Theory applied to policy, activism, social movements; narrative analysis; accountability; anthropology of public health; politics of health; health and human rights; voluntarism, discourses of public service and internship cultures; ethics and anthropology; public anthropology; anthropology and activism.
- Email: 209530@soas.ac.uk
Niels Stephan Cato Hahn
Political economy of conflict and development; armed conflicts in Africa; imperialism; neocolonialism; proxy wars; Western military interventions, war propaganda, psychological warfare, humanitarian assistance; post-conflict reconstruction, and neoliberalism.
- Tel: +44 (0)7939 818 376
- Email: nh40@soas.ac.uk
- Room: TBC (Term 1)
- Office Hours: Friday 1-3pm
Polly Pallister-Wilkins
International and Comparative Politics, Political Geography, Protest and Political Resistance, Border Politics
- Tel: 020 7898 4757
- Email: pp10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 221
- Office Hours: 3-4pm Tuesdays
Lucia Pradella
Teaching Fellow
Political economy and sociology of globalisation, international migration, capital-labour relations, history of political economy and political thought
- Email: lp16@soas.ac.uk
K Ravi Raman
Research Associate
Teaching Fellow
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
- Tel: 0208 991 8091 or 0783 876 7164
- Email: rr21@soas.ac.uk, Ravi.raman@manchester.ac.uk
David Rampton
Senior Teaching Fellow
Nationalism, political theory, political violence, politics and forced migration and South Asian (and specifically Sri Lankan) society and politics. - Tel: 07985078071
- Email: dr3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Room 289, Russell Sq; Room V322, Vernon Sq;
- Office Hours: Wednesday 1-2
Veli Yadirgi
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Economy, History and Politics of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Kurds and the European Union; Capitalist Development; Social change and social theory
- Email: 168480@soas.ac.uk
Zahbia Yousuf
Teaching Fellow (Security; Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development)
- Email: zy5@soas.ac.uk
Administrative Staff
Research Associates
Tony Allan
Professorial Research Associate
Analysis of water resources in semi-arid regions and the role of global systems in ameliorating local and regional water deficits. Established the concept of Virtual Water. Was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 in recognition of his contribution to water science.
- Email: ta1@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Harriss-White
Professorial Research Associate
Markets and capitalism; rural development; poverty and social welfare; South Asian political economy; field economics
Cristobal Kay
Professorial Research Associate
Latin American theories of development, political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods, farming systems, land reform, peasant movements, historical comparative analyses of the European and Latin American rural economy and society - Email: ck7@soas.ac.uk
John Markakis
Modern political history of the Horn of Africa, with special interest in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia. Political conflict, land scarcity, state building, ethnicity, culture, borders. Pastoralism, dissident movements, arms trade.
- Email: johnmarkakis@hotmail.com
K Ravi Raman
Research Associate
Teaching Fellow
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
- Tel: 0208 991 8091 or 0783 876 7164
- Email: rr21@soas.ac.uk, Ravi.raman@manchester.ac.uk
Andy Sumner
Research Associate
Research Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK
- Email: as139@soas.ac.uk
Emeritus Professors
Henry Bernstein
Professor of Development Studies
East Africa and South Africa; sociology of development; agrarian political economy; social and political theory; food commodity chains; governance and development. - Email: hb4@soas.ac.uk
Deniz Kandiyoti
Professor in Development Studies
Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory - Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk
John Weeks
Professorial Research Associate
Emeritus Professor
Macroeconomics and poverty reduction, classical political economy, and labour markets
- Email: jw10@soas.ac.uk
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Ceri Oeppen
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora; Return migration; Migrant adaptation, including transnationalism and integration; Migration and development; Forced migration and the state; Social research methods.
- Email: c.oeppen@soas.ac.uk
Justin Pearce
ESRC postdoctoral fellow
Africa, particularly southern and Lusophone Africa, conflict, post-colonial state formation and political mobilisation.
- Email: jp49@soas.ac.uk
David Picherit
Braudel-FMSH Post-Doctoral Fellow
Changing forms of protection-dependence of manual labourers in India and the articulation between State, caste, rural markets (“social goods”) and political patronage
- Email: dp33@soas.ac.uk
