Research Students in the Politics Department
Information on SOAS Scholarships
Examples of Recently Awarded PhDs
- Barrie Collins, The Rwandan War 1990-1994: Interogating the Dominant Narrative (2010)
- Suthaharan Nadarajah, Clash of Governmentalities: Liberal Peace, Tamil Freedom, and the 2001-2006 Peace Process in Sri Lanka (2010)
David Rampton, Deeper Hegemony: The Populist Politics of Sinhala Nationalist Discontent and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in Sri Lanka (2010) - Carl Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Social Imperialism- and how it was applied in the Bombay Presidency 1895-1925 (2010)
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Israeli and Palestinian activism and the Separation Wall: A Challenge to Hegemony? (2009)
- Christine Ryan, Raised by war: child soldiers of the Southern Sudan during the second civil war (2009)
- Julia Gallagher, The Good State: Britain, Africa and the Ethical Foreign Policy, 1997-2007 (2009)
- Maria Aurora Sottimano, Economic Discourse in Ba'thist Syria: Continuities and Changing Strategies (2009)
- Daniel Scott Neep, Colonising Violence: Insurgency, Space and Subjectivity in French Mandate Syria (2009)
- Evaleila Pesaran, Negotiating Independent Economic Growth: The Debate Over Foreign Investment in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2008)
- David Harris, Post-Conflict Elections or Post-Elections Conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia (2008)
- Basak Ince, Construction and Redefinition of Citizenship in Turkey (2008)
- Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, The Overdeveloping State: The Politics of Common Sense in Pakistan, 1971-2007 (2008)
- Nicholas Hostettler, A Critical Theory of Eurocentrism (2008)
- Hanan Toukan, Art, Aid, Affect: Locating the Political in Post-Civil
War Lebanon’s Contemporary Cultural Practices (2012) - Hannes Baumann, Citizen Hariri: Economic and symbolic power in Lebanon (2012)
- Sambaiah Gundimeda, Mapping Dalit Politics in Contemporary India: A
Study in Political Sociology (2012) - Sophia Hoffmann, Disciplining Movement: Sovereignty in the Context of
Iraqi Migration to Syria (2012) - Hania Sobhy, Education and the Production of Citizenship in the Late
Mubarak Era: Privatization, Discipline and the Construction of the
Nation in Egyptian Secondary Schools (2012) - Tanya Walker, Shari'a Councils in England: The Role of Authority and
the Authoritative (2012)
Current research students
Seyed Ali Alavi
Iranian-Palestinian Relations and the broader Middle East Politics.
- Email: 221666@soas.ac.uk
Sasan Aghlani
Nuclear Proliferation, non-Proliferation, and the Islamic Republic of Iran: Foreign and Security Policy under Wilayat al-Faqih.
- Email: 211353@soas.ac.uk
Sanaa Alimia
The Quest for Humanity in a Dehumanised State: Afghan Refugees and Devalued Citizens in Urban Pakistan 1978-2012
- Email: sa113@soas.ac.uk
Barkindo Atta
Impunity and Political Violence: Boko Haram in Nigeria Since 1999
- Email: maqseekawase_atta@yahoo.com
Julie Broome
The impact of international and domestic prosecutions in post-conflict or post-authoritarian countries on the establishment of the rule of law
- Email: julie_broome@soas.ac.uk
Felix Conteh
Governance Reforms in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of the Conception, Design and implementation of the Decentralization programme and its Impacts 2004-2011: A Political Economy Approach
- Email: f_conteh@soas.ac.uk
Ini Dele-Adedeji
The Transmogrification of the Jamā'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lādda'awatih wal-Jihad (a.k.a. Boko Haram): Islam, Islamic Identities & Mobilisation within Northern Nigeria
- Email: 575729@soas.ac.uk
James Eastwood
The ethics of Israeli militarism: conflict and confession since 1982
- Email: 295283@soas.ac.uk
George Fernee
Representing Reality: Images of Iran in U.S. Cultural Discourses
- Email: 217458@soas.ac.uk
Abdullai Haroon
Ghanaian Political Thought on the Governance of the Formal State and that of Chieftaincy: with Special Reference to Dispute, Conflict and Thought in Dagbon
- Email: 260930@soas.ac.uk
Richard Howarth
‘A New White Man’s Burden?’ The implications of racial identities on wildlife management practices in Tanzania.
- Email: 287816@soas.ac.uk
Cathy Huser
Protecting people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence: Do global protection norms make a difference in the lives of people at risk?
- Email: cathyhuser@yahoo.com
Freya Irani
The Constitution of Sovereignty and the “Extraterritorialization” of US and UK Immigration Controls
- Email: freya_irani@soas.ac.uk
Hae Won Jeong
A Critical Analysis of State-Society Relations in Post-Gulf War Kuwait
- Email: Haewon_Jeong@soas.ac.uk
Amir Khnifess
The Collective Action of the Druze in Israel: Between Politics of Accommodation and Politics of Contention
- Email: Ak100@soas.ac.uk
Myung Ja Kim
Diaspora and Divided Homeland: How Does Geopolitics Affect the Identity of the Zainichi?
- Email: 153301@soas.ac.uk
Priya Kumar
“Wireless Platforms and Borderless Grievance: An Analysis of Transnational Diaspora Linkages and Mobilization Outcomes” (Preliminary title)
- Email: priya_kumar@soas.ac.uk
Daniel Large
Fantastic Invasions: intervention and the politics of the international in Sudan
- Email: danlarge@soas.ac.uk
Zaad Mahmood
Globalisation, Policy Convergence and Labour Market Reform: A Political Economic Analysis of Labour Policy
- Email: 228541@soas.ac.uk
Najia Mukhtar
Discourses of resistance? Examining spaces of religious tolerance in contemporary Pakistani society.
- Email: najia_mukhtar@soas.ac.uk
Sruthi Muraleedharan
Symbolic Encounters: Identarian Performativity and Political Subjectivity [Tentative]
- Email: 566332@soas.ac.uk
Thanos Petouris
The Anti-Colonial Movement in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia, 1937-1967
- Email: agpetouris@soas.ac.uk
Lucas Robinson
New cities, new phones, new politics: accounting for political legitimacy among transnational Afghans and Somalis
Igor Rogelja
Urban Redevelopment and the East Asian Development Model: Urban forms and the politics of space in Taiwan and China
- Email: Igor_Rogelja@soas.ac.uk
Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara
Post Genocide Rwanda Military Intergration (MI): The case Study of Ingando
- Email: 531284@soas.ac.uk
Marwa Salem Mamdou
The Feeble Giant: Analysing Egypt’s Foreign policy towards some African issues
- Email: 218633@soas.ac.uk
Benjamin Schuetze
Unforeseen and Contradictory Consequences of US and European Democracy Promotion in Jordan
- Email: benjamin_schuetze@soas.ac.uk
Arash Sedighi
Rhizomatic Responses: The Politics of Women's Football in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Email: as124@soas.ac.uk
Mohammad Ali Shabani
Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq
- Email: 216746@soas.ac.uk
Priyadarshini Singh
Nation at the Grassroots: The meanings of Indian nationhood and the role of political practices in its institutionalisation
Goktug Sonmez
Grand Strategy in the Making: The Case of Turkey and the Interplay between International and Domestic Factors, 2002-2011
- Email: goktug_sonmez@soas.ac.uk
James H. Sunday
In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Power, Politics, and Participation in Contemporary Egypt
- Email: james.sunday@soas.ac.uk
Hagar Taha
The Local Element of Peace: Role of Indigenous Civil Societies in Intervention and Conflict Resolution – Cases of Darfur (Sudan) and Somaliland (Northern Somalia)
- Email: Hagar_Taha@soas.ac.uk
Konstantinos Tsimonis
Political Representation and Mass Organisations in the People’s Republic of China: Chinese Youth and the Communist Youth League
- Email: kt13@soas.ac.uk
Alexej Ulbricht
Antinomies of Multicultural Reason: liberalism, community and difference
- Email: a.ulbricht@soas.ac.uk
Michael Edward Walsh
Theorizing Securitization Audiences within Democracies: The Social Construction of Security Threats in Africa and Asia (Tentative)
- Email: 550406@soas.ac.uk
Elian Weizman
Hegemony, Law, Resistance: The Struggle Against Zionist Hegemony in the State of Israel
- Email: Elian.wei@gmail.com
Yusuf Yerkel
A critical analysis of the culture of geopolitics: The relationship between Turkey and Iran in the post 1980s. (Preliminary)
- Email: Yusuf_yerkel@soas.ac.uk
Bendetta de Alessi
From liberation movement to State: the transformation of the SPLM/A in the context of implementation of the CPA in Sudan
- Email: bda@soas.ac.uk
