Chair Dr Alyosxa Tudor Trans_feminism; Racism, Migratism and Constructions of Europeanness; Critical European Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Critical Migration Studies; Interdependencies/Intersectionality; Diaspora Studies.
Dr Sophie Chamas Dr. Sophie Chamas is grounded in anthropology, her work focussing on the study of social movements, counter-culture, and political theory and discourse rooted in, focused on or related to the Middle East.
Lecturer in Law and Gender Dr Sidonia Lucia Kula My research focuses on how law and gender interacts with national/international instruments and institutions in the protection of (Congolese) refugees against sexual and gender based violence in Angola.
Lecturer in Gender Studies Shreeta Lakhani Gender Theory, Postcoloniality, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Diasporas and Migration, Abolition, Queer Marxism
Professor Nadje Al-Ali 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.
Lecturer in Law Dr Samia Bano Muslim Family law in the UK and Europe, Family Law, Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Islamic Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Feminist and Critical Social and Political Theories, Issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and Gender Equality.
Reader in Economics Dr Hannah Bargawi Economic development, Macroeconomic and Social policies, Social reproduction, Feminist political economy, Care, Feminist economics, Economics pedagogy.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Orkideh Behrouzan medical anthropology; anthropology of medicine, psychiatry, science, and technology; STS; mental health, trauma, social ruptures, memory, and subjectivity; refugees and displacement; Iran; the Middle East; epidemics and pandemics; COVID19; HIV/AIDS
Reader in Marketing and Cultural Studies Dr Senija Causevic Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; Balkans; India
Professor Stephen Dodd Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in gender/sexuality, Modernism and translation studies
Professor of Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Kate Grady Military law, criminal law, international criminal law, peace and security, peacekeeping, critical legal theories
Professor of Development Studies Professor Laura Hammond 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.
Reader in Law, History and Anthropology Dr Vanja Hamzić Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.
Reader in Gender and Development Dr Colette Harris Violence and conflict, governance, post colonial state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, (reproductive) health, migration, and community development/transformative education - all explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, Latin America but currently focus mainly on West and East Africa.
Professor of Ethnomusicology Professor Rachel Harris Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics
Professor of Thai Cultural Studies Professor Rachel V Harrison Modern Thai Cultural Studies, Cinema and Literature; gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics Dr Sian Hawthorne Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
Professor of Ethnomusicology Professor Angela Impey Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development
Lecturer in Law Dr Catherine Jenkins Human rights; transitional justice; law and conflict; international criminal law; post-conflict reform and reconstruction; legal developments in post-apartheid South Africa; law and society in Africa.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Deborah Johnston Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS
Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies Dr Tania Kaiser East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
Emeritus Professor in Development Studies Professor Deniz Kandiyoti Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory
Professor of Sociology Professor Jieyu Liu Chinese society (urban and rural), gender, sexuality, ethnography of organizations, family, migration, ageing and care, inequalities.
Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan) Dr Helen Macnaughtan Helen joined SOAS in 2002 and lectures on economic, business, labour and HRM issues in contemporary Japan (and within a broader East Asian context). Her research interests focus on a broad range of topics relating to gender issues, employment and sport in Japan.
Dr Dolores P Martinez Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions
Reader in Global Development & Political Economy Dr Alessandra Mezzadri International trade, global commodity chains; production networks and industrial systems; informality and processes of labour informalisation; inequality and social structures of oppression; gender, feminisms and reproduction; the political economy of the garment industry; the political economy of India
Reader in Indonesian and Malay Dr Ben Murtagh Modern Indonesian cinema and literature; queer studies and sexuality in Indonesia; representation of genders and sexuality in Southeast Asian film and literatures; representation of HIV in Indonesian culture
Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia Dr Eleanor Newbigin History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India
Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature Professor Francesca Orsini Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu.
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Professor in Political Sociology and Development Studies Professor Navtej K Purewal Bordering logics; feminism; gender and social policy; reproductive rights; girls' education; coloniality; neoliberal development; South Asia; India and Pakistan
Reader in Political Theory Dr Rahul Rao International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queertheory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Mayur Suresh Anti-terror laws (particularly of South Asia); law and anthropology; legal theory (particularly on theories of emergency legality); sexuality and gender identity in South Asia.
Emeritus Professor of Law Professor Carol G. S. Tan Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law
Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia Dr Shabnum Tejani Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance.
Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art Professor Ashley Thompson Southeast Asian arts, aesthetics, literatures and cultural histories, with a focus on Cambodia, from the Angkorian to the post-Angkorian to the contemporary; Theravadin Buddhist arts, literatures and ritual; cultural heritage; sexual difference; deconstruction; memory and textuality.
Emeritus Reader Dr Gabriele vom Bruck Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics
Professor of Law with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa Professor Lynn Welchman Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law
