Professor Niki J.P. Alsford

Professor Niki Alsford is a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London. 

He is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography and Director of the Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP) and the Institute for Area and Migration Studies. He also serves as a Research Associate at SOAS University of London and is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.

Professor Alsford’s scholarship centres on traditional knowledge and environmental change in the Pacific region, with a particular focus on how communities understand and respond to climate shifts and biodiversity loss. His work highlights the lived experiences of ecological transformation and the adaptive strategies employed across Asia-Pacific societies.

The social history of Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region; maritime Taiwan history; British maritime trade in Asia; maritime economic development of Taiwan; spatial development of Taiwan; the history of the Presbyterian Church in the Asia-Pacific region; the pre-history of Taiwan; the historical anthropology of cultures in Taiwan.