Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS Members
Academic Staff
Parvathi Raman
Chair, Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
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: 545
Tania Kaiser
Deputy Chair, Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies
East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa, Sri Lanka; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
On leave from October 2009 to October 2010
- Tel: 020 7898 4484
- Email: tk51@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 290
- On Sabbatical:On leave from October 2009 to October 2010
Lucy Durán
Music of the Manding Cultural area; the development of popular music in post-independent Africa; the interconnections between African and Caribbean music; Afro-Latin Caribbean music. Also teaches in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa.
- Tel: 020 7898 4374
- Email: ld@soas.ac.uk
Rachel Dwyer
Member
Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; Gujarati diaspora esp UK and East Africa; comparative Indian literature.
- Tel: 020 7898 4294
- Email: rd3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 457
Paul Gifford
Christianity; recent developments in African Christianity; the socio-political role of religion in Africa Socio-political role of Christianity in Africa; Africa's new charismatic churches
- Tel: 020 7898 4773
- Email: pg@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 333
John Parker
Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana
- Tel: 020 7898 4635
- Email: jp23@soas.ac.uk
Tania Tribe
Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa
- Tel: 020 7898 4462
- Email: tt10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B406
Amina Yaqin
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
Nadje Al-Ali
Gender theory; feminist thought & activism; women, gender & feminisms in the 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: 471
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12 and Wednesday 3-4
James R Brennan
History of urbanisation and nationalism in modern East Africa; Indian ocean diasporas
- Email: jb2@soas.ac.uk
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
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: 314
- Office Hours: On leave Sept 09-Aug 10
Lindiwe Dovey
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
Chege Githiora
Swahili language, literature and linguistics; lexicography; Kikuyu language and literature; language planning and policy in East Africa; African diaspora in Latin America; language and culture in East Africa; orthography and standardization of African languages.
- Tel: 020 7898 4395
- Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk
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.
- Tel: 020 7898 4654
- Email: lh4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 371
- Office Hours: Wednesday 1 - 3
