The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Fiona Adamson

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4683
• Email: fa33@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 212
• Office Hours: Thurs 3 - 5, or by appointment

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics of the Middle East

International politics of West Asia; Iranian foreign and domestic politics; Critical theories of international relations; US foreign policy in the ‘third world’; Islamic political and intellectual history

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4747
• Email: aa106@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 216a
• Office Hours: Weds. 5 - 7

Rochana Bajpai

Lecturer in the Politics of Asia/Africa

Contemporary political theory, particularly multiculturalism; methodology, particularly political ideologies; modern Indian politics

• Tel: 020 7898 4750
• Email: rb6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 209
• Office Hours: Fri. 3:30 - 5

Felix Berenskoetter

Lecturer in International Relations

International Relations Theory, Identity, Power, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security

• Tel: 0207 898 4742
• Email: fb12@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 216
• Office Hours: Weds. 11 - 1

Stephen Chan

Professor of International Relations

Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies

• Tel: 020 7898 4655
• Email: sc5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 262
• Office Hours: Thurs. 11 - 1

Bhavna Davé

Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia

Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet countries

• Tel: 020 7898 4734
• Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 221
• Office Hours: Tues. 3 - 4 / Thurs. 4 - 5

Dafydd Fell

Senior Lecturer in Taiwan Studies

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

• Tel: 020 7898 4206
• Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 204
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm and by appointment

Stephen Heder

Lecturer in South East Asian Politics

South East Asia, particularly Cambodia: political violence

• Tel: 020 7898 4707
• Email: sh32@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 219
• Office Hours: Mon. 11:30 - 12:30 / Weds. 10:30 - 11:30

Stephen Hopgood

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

International relations theory; international politics in the twentieth century; theories of the state

• Tel: 020 7898 4738
• Email: sh18@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 207
• Office Hours: (On leave 2009/10)

Salwa Ismail

Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East

Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.

• Tel: 020 7898 4740
• Email: si1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 202
• Office Hours: (on leave 2009/10)

Laleh Khalili

Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics

Political violence, nationalism, war and counterinsurgency, resistance and political mobilisation

• Tel: 020 7898 4735
• Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 210
• Office Hours: Mon. 2 - 3 / Tues. 3 - 4

Yuka Kobayashi

Lecturer in China and International Politics

Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia

• Tel: 020 7898 4736
• Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4417
• Office Hours: Thurs. 2 - 4

Tat Yan Kong

Head of Department, Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies

Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory

• Tel: 020 7898 4743
• Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 206
• Office Hours: Mon. 5-6, Weds. 5-6

Matthew J Nelson

Lecturer in Politics

Politics of South Asia; Politics of Islam

• Tel: 020 7898 4742
• Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 216
• Office Hours: (on leave 2009/10)

Mark Laffey

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

International relations theory; international security; historical sociology; postcolonial theory; foreign policy analysis; U.S. foreign policy; ideas, culture and ideology

• Tel: 020 7898 4744
• Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 208
• Office Hours: Mon 4 - 6, or by appointment

Lawrence Sáez

Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics

Comparative and international politics: international political economy, comparative political economy, emerging markets; South Asia

• Tel: 020 7898 4725
• Email: ls4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 204a
• Office Hours: Mon 11-12 / Wed 2-3

Julia C Strauss

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology

• Tel: 020 7898 4746
• Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 205
• Office Hours: Mon 3:15 - 4:30 / Tues 1:15 - 2:30

Charles R H Tripp

Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East

Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought

• Tel: 020 7898 4748
• Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 214
• Office Hours: Weds 11 - 1

Leslie Vinjamuri

Lecturer in International Relations

Dr Leslie Vinjamuri is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Convenor of General Diplomatic Studies and Practice at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy.

• Tel: 020 7898 4758
• Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 211
• Office Hours: Mon 3 - 5

Tom Young

Senior Lecturer in Politics with reference to Africa

Southern Africa: international politics; South African domestic politics; political theory

• Tel: 020 7898 4732
• Email: ty@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 213
• Office Hours: Weds. 11 - 1

Maha Aziz

Teaching Fellow

Democratization, Regime Change, Foreign Aid, Patronage

• Tel: 020 7898 4757
• Email: ma113@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218
• Office Hours: Thurs. 2 - 3 (T2)

Masooda Bano

Teaching Fellow

Political Islam, Comparative Islamic education, female Islamic movements, religious radicalization, Informal Institutions and development, aid effectiveness, South Asia, Northern Nigeria

• Tel: 020 7898 4742
• Email: mb90@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 216

Bi-Yu Chang

Teaching Fellow

Cultural construction; identity politics; spatial construction and cartographic representation; nation building and nationalism in relation to Taiwan and China.

• Tel: 020 7898 4206
• Email: bc18@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 204
• Office Hours: Mon 2-3 (or by appointment)

Julia Gallagher

Teaching Fellow

British policy in Africa; normative IR theory

• Tel: 4757
• Email: jg35@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218

David Harris

Teaching Fellow

Sierra Leone and Liberia; elections after conflict; rebel groups and political parties

• Tel: 020 7898 4832
• Email: dh16@soas.ac.uk
• Room: F402
• Office Hours: Tues. 11 - 12

Sossie Kasbarian

Teaching Fellow

Diaspora Studies, Nationalism, Minorities in the Middle East and the Balkans, Armenian Studies, Politics of Identity

• Tel: 020 7898 4734
• Email: sk8@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 221

Wanda Krause

Teaching Fellow

Civil society, state-society relations, Islamism

• Tel: 020 7898 4740
• Email: wk4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 202
• Office Hours: Weds. 11 - 12 (contact to confirm location T1)

Corinna Mullin

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

International Relations Theory, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East,

• Email: cm39@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4408
• Office Hours: Mon. 5 - 6; Thurs 5:30 - 6:30

Manjeet Ramgotra

Teaching Fellow

Political theory; contemporary liberalism; the history of political thought; notably Cicero, Machiavelli, Montesquieu and Rousseau

• Tel: 4757
• Email: mr18@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218

Simona Vittorini

Teaching Fellow

Nationalism; South Asian politics; modern Indian politics

• Tel: 020 7898 4757
• Email: sv4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218
• Office Hours: Thurs. 3 - 4

Kathryn Dean

Research Associate