Department Structure
Head of Department
Deputy Head of Department
Undergraduate Tutor
BA Admissions Tutor
MA Religions Programme Convenor & Directors of Studies
Research Tutor
Research Admissions Tutor
Term 1 & 2: Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
Term 3: Dr Lucia Dolce
Teaching Assistant Co-ordinator
Undergraduate Exam Chair
Postgraduate Exam Chair
Undergraduate Exam Deputy Chair
Postgraduate Exam Deputy Chair
IT Rep
ISP Co-ordinator
Departmental Research Centre Chairs:
Centre for Buddhist Studies: Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
Centre for Gender and Religions Research: Dr Sian Hawthorne
Centre for Eastern and Orthodox Christianity: Dr Erica Hunter
Centre for Jaina Studies: Dr Peter Flügel
Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions: Dr Lucia Dolce
T H Barrett
Professor of East Asian History
History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period
- Tel: 020 7898 4765
- Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 330A
- On Sabbatical:2009/10
Kate Crosby
Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies
Buddhism of South and South East Asia; Buddhist Sanskrit and Pali literature, with particular reference to post- and non-canonical literature; Pali philology
- Tel: 020 7898 4771
- Email: kc21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 329
- On Sabbatical:2009/10 (Term 2)
Lucia Dolce
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese
Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations
- Tel: 020 7898 4217
- Email: ld16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 334
- On Sabbatical:2009/10 (Term 1 & 2)
Peter Flügel
Lecturer in the Study of Religions
Jaina Studies; South Asian History & Culture; Anthropology & Sociology of Religion
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4776
- Email: pf8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 564
Jan-Peter Hartung
Lecturer in the Study of Islam
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4383
- Email: Jh74@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451a
Sian Hawthorne
Lecturer in Critical Theory and the Study of Religions
- Tel: 020 7898 4215
- Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 339
- On Sabbatical:2009/10 Term 2
Almut Hintze
Zartoshty Reader in Zoroastrianism and Head of Department
Dr Hintze is the Zartoshty Brothers Reader in Zoroastrianism and currently Head of the Department of Study of Religions. She studied Indo-European philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Oxford and earned her PhD in Indo-Iranian Studies at the University of Erlangen. After her habilitation in Berlin with a study of the semantics of “reward” in Ancient Iranian (Avestan) and Vedic Sanskrit texts, she spent a term at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Subsequently she became Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and was appointed to the Zartoshty Brothers post at SOAS in 2001.
- Tel: 020 7898 4598
- Email: ah69@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 341
- Office Hours: Wednesday, 12–1
Erica Hunter
Lecturer in Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity: The Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches of the Middle East, with particular reference to Iraq
- Tel: 020 7898 4663
- Email: eh9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451B
- On Sabbatical:2008/9–2010/11
Ulrich Pagel
Reader, Languages and Religions of Tibet and Central Asia. Convener, Circle of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
- Tel: 020 7898 4782
- Email: up1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Room 332
- Office Hours: Wed, 13.00h to 15.00h
Antonello Palumbo
Lecturer in Chinese Religions
Ideological history of pre-modern China; Chinese religions, notably Taoism and Buddhism; history of the Buddhist canon in China; Manichaeism and Iranian influences in medieval China; Chinese cultural relations with Central Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4768
- Email: ap47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 337
- Office Hours: Monday, 10-12
Theodore Proferes
Senior Lecturer in Ancient Indian Religions
- Tel: 020 7898 4637
- Email: tp17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 378
Tadeusz Skorupski
Reader in Buddhist Studies
Buddhist Studies; philosophical and religious doctrines; literature; iconography Buddhist iconography; Buddhist rituals; Buddhist doctrines; Buddhist history
- Tel: 020 7898 4775
- Email: ts1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 331
Cosimo Zene
Senior Lecturer in Theory and Methods in the Study of Religions
Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology;
South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4783
- Email: zc@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 340
Teaching Fellows
Mark Dickens
Senior Teaching Fellow
Research Assistant, ‘The Christian Library from Turfan’ Project
History of Central Asia, History of Syriac Christianity
- Tel: 020 7898 4663
- Email: md45@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451B
- Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Mark Faulkner
Senior Teaching Fellow
Religions of Africa
- Email: mf34@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: By appointment
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Christopher Daily
Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Chinese Religions
- Tel: 020 7898 4215
- Email: cd8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 339
Visiting Professors
Research Associates
Emeritus Staff
Paul Gifford
Professorial Research Associate
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
