Professor in Conflict and Development Studies Professor Jonathan Goodhand South and Central Asia; complex political emergencies, humanitarian aid; NGO capacity building, aid, conflict and development
Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature Professor Francesca Orsini Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu.
Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia Dr James Caron Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.
Professor of South Asian Law Professor Martin W Lau Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law
Professor in Politics Professor Matthew J Nelson Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Thought, South Asia, Islam, non-elite politics, democracy.
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies Dr Paolo Novak Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs.
Professor in Political Sociology and Development Studies Professor Navtej K Purewal Bordering logics; feminism; gender and social policy; reproductive rights; girls' education; coloniality; neoliberal development; South Asia; India and Pakistan
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Dr Avinash Paliwal Avinash specialises in foreign and security policy analysis with regional focus on South Asia, Afghanistan, and Myanmar.
Director, SOAS South Asia Institute Professor Edward Simpson Ethnography of western India; social theory and the Indian Ocean; disaster and reconstruction anthropology; post-colonial rural change; infrastructure development in South Asia
Reader in Law, History and Anthropology Dr Vanja Hamzić Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Rachel Dwyer Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Professorial Research Associate Professor Michael J Hutt Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees.
Professor Aamer Hussein Hussein will be researching the development of narrative traditions in modern Urdu, with a particular focus on mid-20th century Pakistani fiction,and women's writings from South Asia. He will make use of rare and forgotten volumes in the library, some of which he has, in the past, rediscovered. He will also be completing a volume of fiction in Urdu, which reflects his readings in Urdu literature.
