Politics Department at SOAS: Staff

Politics Department Staff

Fiona Adamson

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Head of Department

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: Weds. 1-3, or by appointment

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: 216
Office Hours: 5-7 Tuesdays

Rochana Bajpai

Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Asia / Africa

Senior Tutor and Director of Student Welfare

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

Tel: 020 7898 4750
Email: rb6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 208
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-3pm

Stephen Chan, OBE

Professor of International Relations

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

Tel: 020 7898 4655
Email: sc5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 253
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3pm
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13

Felix Berenskoetter

Lecturer in International Relations

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

Tel: 0207 898 4682
Email: fb12@soas.ac.uk
Room: 222
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm (Term 1)
On Sabbatical:Terms 2 & 3, 2012-13

Phil Clark

Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics, with reference to Africa

Postgraduate Research Training Coordinator

History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law

Tel: 020 7898 4611
Email: pc44@soas.ac.uk
Room: 253a
Office Hours: Weds 11am-12.30pm (T1 & T2); by appointment (T3)
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13

Bhavna Davé

Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

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

Tel: 020 7898 4734
Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 224
Office Hours: 2-4pm Wednesdays

Dafydd Fell

Reader in Taiwan Studies

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 201
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm and by appointment

Enze Han

Lecturer in the International Security of East Asia

Tel: 02078984364
Email: eh22@soas.ac.uk
Room: 251
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm

Stephen Hopgood

Reader in International Relations

Undergraduate Tutor

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

Tel: 020 7898 4738
Email: sh18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm

Salwa Ismail

Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East

Director of Teaching Staff

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: 204
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm

Laleh Khalili

Reader in Middle East Politics

Outreach and Communications

Tel: 020 7898 4735
Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 210
Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesdays

Yuka Kobayashi

Lecturer in China and International Politics

Environmental Issues/Green Representative

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

Tel: 020 7898 4736
Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4417
On Sabbatical:Terms 1 & 2, 2012-13

Tat Yan Kong

Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies

Deputy Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

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: Wednesday 2-4pm (Term 1)
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13

Mark Laffey

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

Research Seminar Chair

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: 211
Office Hours: Mondays 4-6pm (Term 1), Mondays 12-2pm

Matthew J Nelson

Reader in Politics

Research Tutor

Politics of South Asia; Politics of Islam

Tel: 020 7898 4742
Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 218
Office Hours: Thurs. 3.30-5.30

Rahul Rao

Lecturer in Politics

Undergraduate Year 1 Tutor

Research Seminar Chair

International Security; Indian foreign policy; Political Theory; Social Movements; Human Rights

Tel: 020 7898 4534
Email: rr18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4424
Office Hours: Mondays 1100-1300

Lawrence Sáez

Professor in the Political Economy of Asia

Postgraduate Exams Officer and Exam Board Chair

Knowledge Transfer and Third Stream Partnerships

International political economy, comparative political economy, emerging markets; energy security; fiscal federalism; South Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4725
Email: ls4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 202
Office Hours: Thursdays 1-3pm
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13

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: 207
On Sabbatical:Term 1, 2012-13

Charles R H Tripp

Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East

Research Commitee Chair & REF Coordinator

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

Tel: 020 7898 4748
Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 214
Office Hours: Wednesday 10.30-12.30, 13.30-15.00

Leslie Vinjamuri

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Postgraduate Tutor

International Relations Theory; International Organisation, Post-conflict Reconstruction and State building; the Politics of International Criminal Justice, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights in the war on terror.

Tel: 020 7898 4758
Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
Room: 213
Office Hours: 3-5pm Mondays