SOAS Library: Staff
Director of Library and Information Services
John Robinson BA (Murdoch), MA (Education Management)
Assistant Director (Acquisitions & Bibliographic Services)
Peter McCormack BSc, MA(London)
Assistant Director (Archives & Special Collections)
Susannah Rayner BA(UCL), MA(UCL)
Assistant Director (Operations)
Libby Homer BA (Hons), MA, MCLIP, FHEA
Assistant Director (Teaching & Research Support)
Barbara Spina BA (Hons), MA, DipLib, MCLIP
Library Administrator and PA to the Director
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb
Subject Librarian (Middle East & Central Asia)
- Tel: 020 7898 4152
- Email: da4@soas.ac.uk
Winifred Assan
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195/4180
- Email: wa2@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Bird
Subject Librarian (Economics, Politics, Finance & Management)
- Tel: 020 7898 4147
- Email: vb18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: C2
Marcos Carbonell
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4793
- Email: mc54@soas.ac.uk
Beth Clark
Head of Electronic Services
Deputy Head of Teaching and Research Support
- Tel: 020 7898 4164
- Email: bc3@soas.ac.uk
Richard Connor
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4168
- Email: rc40@soas.ac.uk
Simona Continente
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: sc75@soas.ac.uk
Eileen Crawley
Deputy Head of Acquisitions & Bibliographic Services
- Tel: 020 7898 4791
- Email: ec7@soas.ac.uk
Ivan Darias Alfonso
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: ia2@soas.ac.uk
Stephen Joel Dorff
Off-site Library Storage Supervisor
- Tel: 020 7898 4156
- Email: sd29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: E3
Mei-Chuan Fuehrer-Cheng
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4198
- Email: mf32@soas.ac.uk
Lesley Glassington
Assistant Librarian (Saturday Supervisor)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: lg8@soas.ac.uk
Giovanni Guazzotti
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4198
- Email: gg2@soas.ac.uk
Christopher Gutkind
Assistant Librarian (Reader Services) - Evening Supervisor
- Tel: 020 7898 4165/ 4190
- Email: cg19@soas.ac.uk
Edward Hood
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4194/4180
- Email: eh13@soas.ac.uk
Jotika Khur-Yearn
Subject Librarian (South East Asia & Pacific Islands)
- Tel: 020 7898 4173
- Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk
Adam Lausch-Holubowicz
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195
- Email: al14@soas.ac.uk
Peter McCormack
Assistant Director (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4166
- Email: pm21@soas.ac.uk
Sujan Nandanwar
Archives Assistant (Special Collections)
- Tel: 020 7898 4183/4180
- Email: sn24@soas.ac.uk
David Pearson
Subject Librarian (Anthropology & Sociology, Linguistics & Literatures)
- Tel: 020 7898 4177
- Email: dp10@soas.ac.uk
Susannah Rayner
Assistant Director (Archives & Special Collections)
- Tel: 020 7898 4178
- Email: sr30@soas.ac.uk
Stephen D Sanders
Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services)
- Tel: 0207 898 4167
- Email: ss24@soas.ac.uk
Mary Seeley
Subject Librarian (History & Religions, Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195
- Email: ms28@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D18
Yelena Shlyuger
Principal Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4794
- Email: ys2@soas.ac.uk
Keith T Sparrow
Principal Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4196
- Email: ks6@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Spina (previously Turfan)
Assistant Director (Teaching & Research Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4157
- Email: bs24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Library - C4
Harry Stephens
Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4167
- Email: hs30@soas.ac.uk
Eliane Tsarouhis
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4196
- Email: et3@soas.ac.uk
Burzine K Waghmar
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
Indo-Iranian History, Historical Geography and Philology (Avestan, Old Persian, Parthian, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi and Kashmiri); Languages and Religions of Late Antiquity and the Silk Road (Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian, contacts among Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and early Islam); Pakistan studies (Ancient and early Medieval History, Dardic and Nuristani dialectology, ethnography and topography of NWFP, FATA, Northern Areas and Trans-Karakoram Tract); Pakistani minorities; HUMINT counterterrorism and linguistic analysis; South Asian Muslim psycho-sociology; Muslim non-Muslim relations (Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
- Email: bw3@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: Thursdays and Fridays
Farzana Whitfield
Subject Librarian (South Asia & Development Studies)
- Tel: 020 7898 4153
- Email: fq@soas.ac.uk
