Staff at the Centre for Gender Studies
Centre Chair
Nadje Al-Ali
Professor of Gender Studies
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
Gina Heathcote
Lecturer in Gender Studies
Research and admissions tutor
International feminist legal theories; International Law especially laws on the use of force; women's human rights; political and legal theories
- Tel: 020 7898 4367
- Email: gh21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 535
- Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30 - 12:30
Ruba Salih
Reader in Gender Studies & Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies
Gender, Islam and modernity in the Middle East and Europe; Islamic feminism, secular and religious women’s movements in the Middle East, transnational migration and gender; multiculturalism and citizenship; Islam in Europe, globalization; disapora and refugee studies; the Palestine question.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4245
- Email: ruba.salih@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 471
- Office Hours: Thursday 1-3pm
Members
Fareda Banda
Member
Human Rights of Women, English Family Law, Comparative Family Law focusing on Africa, Law and Society in Africa, Alternative Dispute Resolution.
- Tel: 020 7898 4664
- Email: fb9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 237
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11.00 - 13.00
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Member
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 Davis
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Medical anthropology, interpretive anthropology, ethnographic writing, philosophical anthropology; Central Africa.
- Tel: 020 7898 4418
- Email: cd3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 572
- Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm / Wednesdays by appointment
Stephen Dodd
Member
Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in representations of the native place (furusato), gender/sexuality and modernity - Tel: 020 7898 4216
- Email: sd5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 381
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Lindiwe Dovey
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
African film and video (particularly their intersection); filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); literary adaptation in Africa; contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema'; exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media; structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film
- Tel: 020 7898 4388
- Email: ld18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 404
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Kai Easton
Member
Colonial and postcolonial studies, especially South African literature (the Cape, Wicomb, Coetzee); gender and the culture of travel; Indian Ocean diasporas; theories of fiction and history.
- Tel: 020 7898 4373
- Email: ke@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 409
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00/Thursdays 15:00-16:00
Ayman El-Desouky
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4355
- Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 423
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012
Christopher Gerteis
Member
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, Centre for Gender 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
Rachel V Harrison
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00
Sian Hawthorne
Member
Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
- Tel: 020 7898 4215
- Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 337
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 10am-12pm (during term time)
Angela Impey
Member
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. - Tel: 020 7898 4433
- Email: ai6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 518
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Wednesdays 3-5pm
Naila Kabeer
Member, Centre for Gender 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
Member, Centre for Gender 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
Deniz Kandiyoti
Member
Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory - Email: dk1@soas.ac.uk
Laleh Khalili
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4735
- Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 210
- Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesdays
Karima Laachir
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4336
- Email: kl19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 365
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00
Zoë Marriage
Member, Centre for Gender 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
Dolores P Martinez
Member
Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions - Tel: 020 7898 4425
- Email: dm6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 567
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-5pm (or by Appointment)
Dina Matar
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Middle East, especially the Arab world; international political communication; Arab cultural politics; Arab cultural studies; memory studies and oral history; Islamist movements; social movements and media; diasporas; ethnic minorities; transnational movements and communications.
- Tel: 0207 898 4696
- Email: dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 575
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm
Alessandra Mezzadri
Member, Centre for Gender 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
Ben Murtagh
Member
Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian literature; history of Indonesia. Film in Indonesia and Malaysia. Gender and sexuality in Indonesia - Tel: 020 7898 4248
- Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 466
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 / Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Eleanor Newbigin
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India
- Tel: 020 7898 4625
- Email: en2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 307
- Office Hours: Wed 12:00-13:30 / Thurs 11:30-12:30
Caroline Osella
Member
Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: ethnophysiology, concepts of person, gender, ethnicity, psychology and anthropology. - Tel: 020 7898 4427
- Email: co6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 582
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Member
Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse. - Tel: 020 7898 4348
- Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 435
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Parvathi Raman
Member
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
Rahul Rao
Member
International Security; Indian foreign policy; Political Theory; Social Movements; Human Rights - Tel: 020 7898 4534
- Email: rr18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4424
- Office Hours: Mondays 1100-1300
Timon Screech
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
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)
Annabelle Sreberny
Member
Middle East, especially Iran; gender and democratization; diasporic cultures; ‘small media’ and political change.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4422
- Email: as98@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 587
- Office Hours: Mondays 1-2pm or by email appointment
Chandra Lekha Sriram
Member
International human rights law, international criminal law, transitional justice, conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict peace building in Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
- Tel: 0207 898 4540
- Email: cs79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 541
- Office Hours: Monday 15.00 to 17.00pm
Gabriele vom Bruck
Member
Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, memory, religion and politics
- Tel: 020 7898 4408
- Email: gb19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 585
- Office Hours: By Email Appointment
Lynn Welchman
Member
Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law - Tel: 020 7898 4672
- Email: lw10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 229
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10.15 - 12.15 terms 2 and 3
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012-13
Amina Yaqin
Member
Urdu language and literature; post-colonial literature and theory; gender studies; South Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third World context; gender and politics in Pakistan - Tel: 020 7898 4305
- Email: ay@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 470
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00
Katherine P Zebiri
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Arabic language and literature, modern Islamic studies - Tel: 020 7898 4342
- Email: kz@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 441
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012
Part-time teaching staff
Katherine Natanel
Tutor in Gender theory and the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Katherine received her BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS.
Marta Pietrobelli
Gender in the Middle East
Gender Mainstreaming, Democratization, Institutionalization of Gender, International Organizations, Political Participation, NGOs, Women’s Empowerment
Research Fellows
Leila Zaki Chakravarti
Research Fellow
Leila Zaki Chakravarti trained as an anthropologist at the American University in Cairo. She worked as a shop-floor operative in an Egyptian garment assembly factory as fieldwork for her PhD at SOAS. She is currently publishing her thesis and related papers on the intersection of class, gender and religion within workplace politics on the globalised shop-floor. She is also exploring new research avenues into issues of gender identities and local politics in the 'workplaces' of football, encompassing both professional clubs and informal urban street games, in post-Arab Spring Egypt.
- Email: lc43@soas.ac.uk
Mehri Honarbin-Halliday
Research Fellow
Dr Honarbin-Holliday is a practicing artist and works interdisciplinary exploring the intersections of gender, identity, and education. She is the author of Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society (2008). She has exhibited her video and fired clay installations in Iran, Britain, Mexico, and the United States and is the recipient of the 2007 national award from the Art and Culture Secretariat at Tehran Municipality. Dr Honarbin-Holliday is currently working on a new book for I.B. Tauris titled Masculinities in Urban Iran.
