Development Studies Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Convenor
Undergraduate Personal Tutor
Postgraduate Admissions Tutors
Professor Gilbert Achcar (PhD)
Dr Alessandra Mezzadri (MSc Development Studies)
Dr Paolo Novak (MSc Globalisation and Development)
Dr Zoë Marriage (MSc Violence, Conflict and Development)
Dr Laura Hammond (MSc Mobility, Migration and Development)
Postgraduate Convenors
Dr Zoë Marriage (MSc Violence, Conflict and Development)
Dr Alessandra Mezzadri (MSc Development Studies)
Professor Gilbert Achcar (MSc Globalisation and Development)
Dr Laura Hammond (MSc Mobility, Migration and Development
Research Tutor
Welfare Tutor
Centre for Development Policy and Research
Prof. Terry McKinley (Director)
W Foundation Centre for Water & Development in Africa
Dr Frances Cleaver (Director)
Staff
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
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.
On leave for term two of 2009-10
- Tel: 020 7898 4485
- Email: hb4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 298
- On Sabbatical:On leave term 2 of 2009-10
Dae-oup Chang
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: Tuesday 3-5pm
Christopher Cramer
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
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
- On Sabbatical:On leave 1 September 2009 until 1 September 2010
Jonathan Di John
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
On leave terms two and three of 2009-10
- Tel: 020 7898 4087
- Email: jd5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 368
- On Sabbatical:On leave terms two and three of 2009-10
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Senior Teaching Fellow
Welfare Tutor
Middle East and North Africa; Cuba; North-South relations; refugees and forced migration; protracted refugee contexts; transnational movements, migration and diaspora; education and migration; children and youth; gender and development; representations of Islam and gender in/to the North.
- Tel: 0207 898 4484
- Email: ef14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 290
- Office Hours: Monday 11:30-13:00 in V215, Vernon Square Campus
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: Tuesday 2-4pm
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 1 - 3
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: 10:30 - 12:30 Mondays
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
On leave from October 2009 to October 2010
- Tel: 020 7898 4484
- Email: tk51@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 290
- On Sabbatical:On leave from October 2009 to October 2010
Deniz Kandiyoti
Professor in Development Studies
Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory
- Tel: 020 7898 4488
- Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 291
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
Jens Lerche
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
South Asia; agrarian political economy; rural labour relations; governance and development
- Tel: 020 7898 4505
- Email: jl2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 295
- Office Hours: Thursday 2 - 4
Anna Lindley
Lecturer
Relationships between migration, conflict and development; Horn of Africa
On leave 2009-10
- Tel: 0207 898 4690
- Email: al29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- On Sabbatical:On leave from 9 November 2009
Thomas Marois
Lecturer in Development Studies
Mexico, Turkey; Political economy of banking, finance, and development; state-owned banks; privatization; state-capital-labour relations; state theory; internationalization
- Tel: 0207 898 4503
- Email: tm47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 293
- Office Hours: Tuesday 9:30 - 11:30
Zoë Marriage
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
Sierra Leone, Rwanda, DR Congo and Sudan; political and psychological processes of violence and assistance, rural policy
- Tel: 020 7898 4437
- Email: zm2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 297
- Office Hours: Thursday 3:30 - 5:30
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: Tuesdays 10am-12pm
Paolo Novak
Lecturer in Development Studies
Convenor of the course Globalisation, Borders and Development and Admission Tutor for the MSc Globalisation and Development.
- Tel: 020 7898 4214
- Email: pn4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 368
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10 - 12
Ceri Oeppen
Senior Teaching Fellow
South and Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan; Migrant transnationalism and integration, and the relationship between them; Migration and development; Refugees and forced migrants; Remittances; Return migration; Diasporas; Social research methods.
- Tel: 0207 898 4690
- Email: co13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 298
- Office Hours: Thursday 1-3
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
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
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 2-4 pm
Frances Cleaver
Reader in Development Studies
Water governance and poverty, local institutions and collective action, participatory and gendered approaches to development, application of social theory to understanding natural resource management. Water and development in Africa – achieving equity of access.
- Tel: 0207 898 4621
- Email: fc5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4413
- Office Hours: By appointment
Kate Bayliss
Privatisation, Public Sector Reform, Infrastructure, Utilities and Provision of Basic Services.
- Tel: 020 7898 4496
- Email: kb6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 476
Kristin Hamada
Administrator - Water and Development in Africa Project
gender, conflict, development, water rights, poverty and financing, conflict and water, and the applications of gender theory in governance issues
- Tel: 0207 898 4604
- Email: kh23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4410
- Office Hours: Monday 2-5.30pm, Tues & Thurs 9am-5pm
Rose Nyatsambo
Rose's research interest is in improved water development and management for the poor in the developing world, with a focus on bridging the gap between academics and practitioners. Her geographic area of expertise is Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Tel: 0207 898 4620
- Email: rn21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4410
- Office Hours: 11-4 Tuesdays
Richard Axelby
Teaching Fellow
India, especially the Western Himalayas; environmental history, natural resource management, nomadic pastoralism and agrarian change.
- Email: ra39@soas.ac.uk
Demet Dinler
Teaching Fellow
Comparative political economy of developing countries and neoliberalism, class formation and collective action, anthropology of the markets
- Email: dd1@soas.ac.uk
Saloni Gupta
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Wildlife and forest conservation policies
- Email: sg62@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm
Saurabh Gupta
Senior Teaching Fellow
Politics of Environment and Natural Resources; State-NGO interactions; Grassroots organisations; Democratic decentralisation, Public Policy; South Asia.
- Email: sg59@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
Tony Kahane
Senir Teaching Fellow
The AIDS epidemic and its social and economic impacts, with particular reference to South East Asia, East Asia and South Asia
- Email: tk45@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: By appointment
David Rampton
Senior Teaching Fellow
Nationalism, political theory, political violence, politics and forced migration and South Asian (and specifically Sri Lankan) society and politics.
- Email: dr3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: 5–6 Tuesday
Jasmine Subasat
Teaching Fellow
Literacy, theories of power, gender and development, sexuality, and civil society
- Email: js15@soas.ac.uk
Oliver Walton
Senior Teaching Fellow
NGO legitimacy and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka
- Email: ow1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-12
Research Associates
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
Ravi Raman
Research Associate
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
