SOAS Food Studies Centre: Members

Members

Deputy Chair

Advisory Committee Members

Professor Johan Pottier, Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Dr Deborah Johnston, Dr Carlos Oya, Dr Nigel Poole, Ms Hannah Roberson, Professor Peter Jackson (external, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield), Dr Polly Russell (external, Food Collections Curator, British Library)

Members

For a list of members, see Academic Staff below.

Associate Members

Associate members of the Centre include more than 600 SOAS students and alumni, academics and students at other institutions, policymakers, independent scholars and journalists, and food producers.

Invitation to Join

Members of SOAS staff are eligible for full membership in the Centre. Applications for associate membership are accepted at the discretion of the Centre Chair from those with an academic interest in food. Requests to join should be addressed to: soasfoodstudies@soas.ac.uk

Nadje Al-Ali

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Women & gender in the Middle East; women’s movements and feminism in Middle East; secularism and Islamism; transnational migration, diaspora mobilization; gendering violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; impact of sanctions, war and occupation on Iraqi women, Iraq.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4547
Email: n.s.al-ali@soas.ac.uk
Room: 452A
Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm

Tony Allan

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East

Tel: 020 7898 4455
Email: da30@soas.ac.uk
Room: B303
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5-6pm

Chris Bramall

Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire

Tel: 0207 898 4616
Email: cb81@soas.ac.uk
Room: 275
Office Hours: Open door policy

William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 313
Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 3-5pm

Christopher Cramer

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Philippe Cullet

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Law and environment, law and natural resources, intellectual property, water, human rights, international law, India.

Tel: 020 7898 4651
Email: pcullet@soas.ac.uk
Room: 226
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00 to 5:00pm

Andrew Dorward

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Agricultural and rural development processes and policies, building from strong interdisciplinary, livelihood and institutional understandings. Links between these, environmental challenges and wider development processes.

Tel: 020 3073 8330
Email: andrew.dorward@soas.ac.uk
Room: LIDC202

Ben Fine

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Southern Africa: the mineral-energy complex in South Africa; the political economy of consumption, particularly food;
privatisation and industrial policy; political economy, history of economic thought and economic theory; economics
imperialism especially social capital.

Tel: 020 7898 4527
Email: bf@soas.ac.uk
Room: 278
Office Hours: Thursdays 4pm - 5pm

Peter Flügel

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Jaina Studies; South Asian History & Culture; Anthropology & Sociology of Religion

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4776
Email: pf8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 593
Office Hours: All Year - Fridays 3-5pm (during term time)

Bernhard Fuehrer

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects

Tel: 020 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Office Hours: Please e-mail to make an appointment
On Sabbatical:2012-13

Christopher Gerteis

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.

Tel: 020 7898 4093
Email: cg24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 304
On Sabbatical:AY 2012-13

Laura Hammond

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Jane Harrigan

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

International finance for development and the economic reform programmes associated with IMF and World Bank finance to developing countries; the links between macro-economic policy and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa; the gender dimensions of economic liberalisation and globalisation; and the political economy of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Cross-cutting these subject areas are two geographical areas of specialisation, namely sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Ghana and Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.

Tel: 020 7898 4537
Email: jh66@soas.ac.uk
Room: 281
Office Hours: On leave term 2

Catherine Hezser

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Tel: 020 7898 4633
Email: ch12@soas.ac.uk
Room: 335
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10-11am

Elizabeth Hull

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

South Africa; economic anthropology; anthropology of the state & institutions, bureaucracy, agriculture; livelihoods; health; nutrition; politics of food systems, food acquisition and consumption practices.

Tel: 020 7898 4766
Email: eh17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4416
Office Hours: Mondays - 10:30am-12:30pm in 569
On Sabbatical:On Research Leave 2012-2015

Deborah Johnston

Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS

Tel: 020 7898 4494
Email: dj3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 270
Office Hours: Mondays 12pm - 2pm

Tania Kaiser

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Deniz Kandiyoti

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory

Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk

Jakob Klein

Deputy Chair, SOAS Food Studies Centre

China (South); anthropology of food and eating, urban social relations

Tel: 020 7898 4428
Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 564
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30-13:00

Jens Lerche

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Helen Macnaughtan

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Employment, human resource management, gender and economic development in Japan.

Tel: 020 7898 4530
Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
Room: 546
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm

Peter P Mollinga

Member

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

Elizabeth Moore

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape

Tel: 020 7898 4452
Email: em4@soas.ac.uk
Room: B408
Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm

David Mosse

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

India, especially Tamil Nadu and adivasi western India; caste and religion, dalit politics, vernacular Christianity, environmental history, common property resources, indigenous irrigation, participatory rural development, aid agencies, anthropology of development

Tel: 020 7898 4426
Email: dm21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 573
Office Hours: Fridays 11am-1pm

Carlos Oya

Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Nigel Poole

Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Agrifood marketing, market coordination and information issues in agribusiness and poverty reduction, sustainable use of natural resource products, food safety and quality, urban and rural development.

Tel: 020 7898 4375
Email: n.poole@soas.ac.uk
Room: 531
Office Hours: Monday 12-1pm

Johan P J Pottier

Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation

Tel: 020 7898 4417
Email: jp4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 562
Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 2-3pm

Colin Poulton

Member, SOAS Centre for Food Studies

Rural development and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tel: 020 3073 8327
Email: cp31@soas.ac.uk
Room: LIDC 203

Parvathi Raman

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

The Indian Community in South Africa; Politics and identity in South Africa; African and Asian Communities in Britain; Political and cultural issues in Diaspora Studies; Historical anthropology; Philosophical issues in anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4434
Email: pr1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 571
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm or by Appointment

Kostas Retsikas

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

South East Asian Anthropology, notably Indonesia, Java, migration, ethnicity and the body

Tel: 020 7898 4432
Email: kr1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 595
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Pasquale Scaramozzino

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics

Tel: 020 7898 4055
Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Office Hours: By appointment

Timon Screech

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Tel: 020 7898 4453
Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
Room: B301
Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 3-4pm (during term time)

Colin Shindler

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

History and politics of Israel; Zionism

Tel: 020 7898 4358
Email: cs52@soas.ac.uk
Room: 418

Subir Sinha

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Laurence Smith

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Natural resource management, water resources, rural development and poverty reduction.
Catchment management for protection of water resources.

Tel: +44 (0)20 3073 8328
Email: ls34@soas.ac.uk
Room: 204

Julia C Strauss

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology

Tel: 020 7898 4746
Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 207
On Sabbatical:Term 1, 2012-13

Leandro Vergara-Camus

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

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

Jeff Waage, OBE

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Food Policy. Farmer participatory research, biological alternatives to pesticides, biosecurity and management of invasive species affecting agriculture and the environment

Email: Jeff.Waage@lidc.bloomsbury.ac.uk

Harry West

Chair, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Anthropology of Food: agriculture, food, and state policy; food safety and regulation; food and international trade; food and cultural heritage. Southern Africa, especially Mozambique; political anthropology; violence and the state; revolutionary socialism and post-socialist societies; traditional authority; sorcery; healing.

Tel: 020 7898 4414
Email: hw16@soas.ac.uk
Room: 569
Office Hours: All Year - by email appointment (during term time)

Cosimo Zene

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology; South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia.

Tel: 020 7898 4783
Email: zc@soas.ac.uk
Room: 340
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2.30-4pm / Thursdays 3.30-5pm

Professorial Research Associates

Henry Bernstein

Professorial Research Associate

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

Anne Murcott

Professorial Research Associate

UK; anthropology and sociology of food and eating

Email: am112@soas.ac.uk

Sami Zubaida

Professorial Research Associate

Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck

Mediterranean, Ottoman, culinary cultures, boundaries, nationalism, religion

Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck College)

Email: s.zubaida@bbk.ac.uk

Research Associates

Emma-Jayne Abbots

Research Associate

Eating, food & consumption; migration and mobilities; class subjectivities; time politics and cultural heritage; the body, bio-politics and governance; discourses and policies of obesity and nutrition; work, labour and livelihoods; rural development, landscape and the environment; economic anthropology, remittances and material culture; gender, generations & relatedness; Latin America, esp. Ecuador & the Andes

Tel: 07970 324 774
Email: ea1@soas.ac.uk

Nuno Domingos

Research Associate

Portuguese colonialism; Mozambique; Portuguese Estado Novo; Leisure and sports’ practices; football; popular culture; Anthropology of Food; social history and political economy of artisan cheese making; Portuguese wine production and consumption.

Email: nd16@soas.ac.uk

Manpreet Janeja

Research Associate

Email: mj18@soas.ac.uk

Monica Janowski

Research Associate

SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.

Tel: 020 7898 4691
Email: mj11@soas.ac.uk
Office Hours: By Email Appointment

Gavin Whitelaw

Research Associate

Email: gw19@soas.ac.uk

Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Nicola Frost

Post doctoral Research Fellow

Indonesia, especially Maluku; urban Australia; migration and multiculturalism: Indonesians in Sydney, Bengalis in East London; migrants’ organisations; migrant festivals and the cultural politics of food; state-civil society relations; nationalism.

Email: nf19@soas.ac.uk

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Eona Bell

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Chinese in Britain, China, diaspora, food and ethnicity, ethnic catering industry, childhood, socialisation, learning and cognition, emotion, gender and cultural transmission

Email: eb38@soas.ac.uk

Julie Botticello

Post Doctoral Research Associate

I have recently completed my doctorate in Anthropology at UCL, under the supervision of Professors Mike Rowlands and Danny Miller, on the materialization of wellbeing among Yoruba-Nigerians in London, in which the practices of using healing foods (ingestible materials with both material and immaterial qualities) became a significant feature of wellbeing attainment in migration.

Email: jb81@soas.ac.uk