History Department at SOAS: Staff

T H Barrett

Research Professor of East Asian History

History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period

Tel: 020 7898 4765
Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 451a
On Sabbatical:2009/10

Islamic History to 1200; social history of elites in early Islam, especially 'Alid family; documentary and material evidence from Late Antiquity to early Islam; origins and development of Shi'ism; early Islamic Iran

Tel: 020 7898 4605
Email: tb31@soas.ac.uk
Room: 306

Ian Brown

Professor of Economic History of SE Asia

The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia

Tel: 020 7898 4607
Email: ib@soas.ac.uk

Michael W. Charney

Reader in South East Asian and Imperial History

The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia

Tel: 020 7898 4612
Email: mc62@soas.ac.uk
Room: 326
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1pm

William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa

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: Terms 1 & 2 - Mondays 3-4pm / Thursdays 3-4pm

Wayne Dooling

Senior Lecturer in African History

Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony

Tel: 020 7898 4628
Email: wd2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 318

Benjamin Fortna

Professor in the History of the Middle East

Modern Middle Eastern History, the late Ottoman empire, late Ottoman education and literature

Tel: 020 7898 4632
Email: bf7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 300
Office Hours: Mondays 2-3pm

Nelida Fuccaro

Reader in the Modern History of the Middle East

Modern Middle Eastern history, especially Iraq, Persian Gulf and Syria; urban history; history of violence; social and cultural history of oil ; colonialism, ethnicity and nationalism; Kurdish history

Tel: 020 7898 4618
Email: nf2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 308
Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 2-4pm (during term time)

Christopher Gerteis

Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan

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
Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5pm

Konrad Hirschler

Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East

Cultural and social history of the premodern Middle East; historiography; history of reading; Crusades in the Middle East

Tel: 020 7898 4602
Email: kh20@soas.ac.uk
Room: 324
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm (and by appointment)

Andrea Janku

Senior Lecturer in the History of China

China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press and the History of Communication; Environmental History

Tel: 020 7898 4636
Email: aj7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 310
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm or by appointment

Lars Laamann

Lecturer in the History of China

Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)

Tel: 020 7898 4634
Email: ll10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 318
Office Hours: Mon & Tues 10am-12pm / Thurs & Fri 10-11am

Angus Lockyer

Lecturer in the History of Japan

Modernisation and modernity in Japan; world’s fairs, international and industrial exhibitions

Tel: 020 7898 4626
Email: al21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 316
Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 3:30-5pm and by appointment

Eleanor Newbigin

Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia

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: Tues 11:30-12:30 / Thurs 11:30-12:30, or by email

John Parker

Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa

Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana

Tel: 020 7898 4635
Email: jp23@soas.ac.uk
Room: 305
Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 10am-12pm and Tuesdays 2-3pm

Richard Reid

Reader in the History of Africa

Warfare in Eastern Africa; Politics of the Horn

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4774
Email: rr15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 322
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm

Peter Robb

Research Professor of the History of India

The history of modern South Asia; early Calcutta, c.1780-1830, Indian agrarian history, especially Bihar and Eastern India.

Tel: 0207 898 4614
Email: pr4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4411

Marie Rodet

Lecturer in the History of Africa

Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.

Tel: 020 7898 4606
Email: mr28@soas.ac.uk
Room: 309
Office Hours: All Year - Wednesdays 11am-1pm (during term time)

Mandy Sadan

Lecturer in the History of South East Asia

Ethnicity and conflict in mainland South East Asia, cultural production, non-national histories of Eastern Himalayas and South East Asian Massif and the South, South East and East Asian borderworlds of Burma

Tel: 020 7898 4622
Email: ms114@soas.ac.uk
Room: 312

Shabnum Tejani

Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia

Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance

Tel: 020 7898 4613
Email: st40@soas.ac.uk
Room: 314

Tom Tomlinson

Research Professor of Economic History

Email: tt2@soas.ac.uk

Heidi Walcher

Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East

Political and social history of 19th century Iran; Qajar urban history

Tel: 020 7898 4662
Email: hw15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 311

Arezou Azad

Senior Teaching Fellow

Islamic History to 1300; urban history in the Islamic world; cultural interactions between Muslims and non-Muslims, texts and material culture in the eastern Islamic world

Tel: 020 7898 4662
Email: aa136@soas.ac.uk
Room: 311

Vivian Ibrahim

Senior Teaching Fellow

Ethnic and religious relations (with emphasis on Copts and Muslims in Egypt); Nationalism; historiography; Political Islam in Europe and the Middle East;

Email: vi2@soas.ac.uk

George Lane

Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia

Current research concerns the presence of Persians in Yuan (Mongol) China. Teaching concentrates on Mediaeval Persia. Involved in IFCELS with the Lord Chancellor's programme for Chinese Lawyers since the early 90s as well as pre-sessionals and ELAS.

Tel: 020 7898 4285
Email: gl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 303
Office Hours: All Year - Fridays 1:30-3:30pm (during term time)

Jack Lord

Senior Teaching Fellow

History of childhood in colonial Ghana, c.1900-57. I teach courses on Africa in the twentieth century and the history of childhood and youth in Africa.

Tel: 020 7898 4613
Email: Jl79@soas.ac.uk
Room: 314
Office Hours: All Year - Wednesdays 10-11am (during term time)