Development Studies Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
- Dr Dae-oup Chang (Term 1)
- Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus (Terms 2 and 3)
Undergraduate Programme Convenor
Undergraduate Personal Tutors
- Dr Dae-oup Chang (Year 1 - Term 1)
- Dr Tim Pringle (Year 1 - Terms 2 and 3)
- Dr Tim Pringle (Year 2)
- Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus (Year 3)
Postgraduate Admissions Tutors
- Dr Jonathan di John MSc Development Studies
- Professor Naila Kabeer MSc Development Studies
- Dr Paolo Novak MSc Globalisation and Development
- Dr Tim Pringle MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development
- Dr Laura Hammond MSc Mobility, Migration and Development
- Dr Matteo Rizzo MSc Research for International Development
- Dr Zoe Marriage MSc Violence, Conflict and Development
Postgraduate Programme Convenors
- Professor Naila Kabeer MSc Development Studies
- Professor Gilbert Achcar MSc Globalisation and Development
- Dr Jens Lerche MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development (Terms 1 and 2)
- Dr Tania Kaiser MSc Mobility, Migration and Development
- Dr Matteo Rizzo MSc Research for International Development
- Dr Jonathan Goodhand MSc Violence, Conflict and Development
Research Admissions Tutor
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)
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: +44 (0)20 7898 4492
- Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
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 2-4pm
Maryann Bylander
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Tel: 0207 898 4690
- Email: mb103@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 298
- Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Dae-oup Chang
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
BA personal tutor (Year 1- Term 1)
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: Tuesday 3-5
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
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
Professor
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: Wednesday 10am-12pm
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
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 2-4pm
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: Monday 10-12
- On Sabbatical:Term 3 2012-13
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
- On Sabbatical:On maternity leave 2012-2013
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: Term 1 by appointment only, please email
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
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 11am-1pm
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 11am-1pm
- On Sabbatical:Term 3 2012-13
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 only
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 11am-1pm (terms 1 & 2)
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
Tim Pringle
Lecturer in Labour, Social Movements and Development
- Tel: 020 7898 4678
- Email: tp21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 260a
- Office Hours: Wednesday 12-2pm
Matteo Rizzo
Lecturer in Development Research Methods
Political economy of development, labour markets and informalisation, agrarian change, urbanisation, privatisation, aid effectiveness, Africa, Tanzania.
- Tel: 0207 898 4836
- Email: mr3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 474
- Office Hours: Wednesday 2pm - 4pm
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 term 1
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
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
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: 260
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Giovanni Cozzi
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.
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
- Room: 580
- 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
Carlos Chirinos
Senior Teaching Fellow
Radio in Africa, Communication for Development, Music and Media industries. - Tel: 020 7898 4984
- Email: carlos@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 545
- Office Hours: By appointment, please email
Osiel González Dávila
Environmental and Resource Economics, Health Economics, groundwater contamination, food security, poverty, game theory, analysis of household surveys, Microeconometrics and documentary filmmaking.
- Email: osiel.davila@soas.ac.uk
Philippa McMahon
Urban poverty, slum and squatter rights, evictions, violence, war to peace transitions, labour markets. Southeast Asia, Cambodia
- Email: p_mcmahon@soas.ac.uk
Mark McQuinn
Lecturer in Development Studies. Researching the role of civil society groups in development processes, governance and the provision of aid. Book publication in 2012 – Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania. Worked in Tanzania, the Sudan and Bulgaria.
- Tel: 020 7898 4848
- Email: mm22@soas.ac.uk
Lorenza Monaco
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Neoliberalism; Globalisation; Industrial Development; Labour; Political Economy; India; Automotive Sector
- Email: lm47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11.30am-1pm (Term 2)
Andrea Purdekova
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Email: ap70@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Friday 11am-1pm
Marion Péchayre
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Humanitarian Studies, Humanitarian Action, Pakistan, NGOs, Anthropology of Development, Medical Anthropology
- Email: mp57@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
Hannah Vaughan-Lee
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Email: hannah.vaughan-lee@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Thursday 2-3.30pm
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
Administrative Staff
Jenny Higgins
Faculty Officer (Academic Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4241
- Email: jh86@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
Anna Seecharan
Faculty Officer (Academic Support) (On leave)
- Tel: 020 7898 4241
- Email: as104@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 258
- On Sabbatical:On leave until January 2013
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
Justin Pearce
Research Associate
Africa, particularly southern and Lusophone Africa, conflict, post-colonial state formation and political mobilisation.
- Email: jp49@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
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
