Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Charlotte Sanders Migration and diaspora; feminist theory (particularly Black and decolonial); critical race theory; feminist/socialist/anarchist geographies; everyday politics; housing and homelessness; community grounded research; Sudanese in the UK.
Professor of Islamic Law Professor Mashood Baderin Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States.
Professor of Law Professor Fareda Banda Fareda Banda is a human rights lawyer focusing on women and children's rights and a Professor in law at SOAS. She is the author of African Migration, Human Rights and Literature.
Member Dr Jing Bian Financial Regulation, International Economic Law, Chinese Law, Corporate Governance, Cross-border Mergers and Aquisitions
Reader in the History of South Asian Art & Archaeology Dr Crispin Branfoot Architecture, sculpture and painting in South Asia, especially in southern India; pilgrimage, sacred geography; material religion; histories of archaeology, conservation and collecting.
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia
Professor of the History of Islamic Art Professor Anna Contadini Arab and early Persian painting and the arts of the Islamic book in general, including the production of manuscripts of the Qur'an; art and material culture of the Islamic world; Fatimid art and architecture; the arts of Islamic Spain; artistic contacts between the Islamic World and Europe; aspects of contemporary Islamic art.
Professor of the Political Economy of Development Professor Christopher Cramer Africa: economics of Africa, political economy of development, political economy of war and peace in southern Africa, and the economics of cashew production, processing and trade
Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia Dr Bhavna Davé Geopolitics of Eurasia, Labour migration regulatory regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan, China's Belt and Road Initiative and effects on Central Asia, Politics in Central Asia, Development strategies in the Russian Far East
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Clara Della Croce Asylum and Immigration law (particularly detention of migrants and foreign prisoners); EU law (particularly migration); Human Rights law; Law and Development
Professor of Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Lecturer in Law Dr Catriona Drew Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory
Professor of Music Professor Lucy Durán Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.
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 of Ethnomusicology Professor Rachel Harris Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics
Professor of Jewish Studies Professor Catherine Hezser Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late antiquity; American Jewish history and literature, Jewish identity, gender studies
Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism Professor Almut Hintze Professor Hintze takes an interest in all aspects of Zoroastrianism, the religion of pre-Islamic Iran.
Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies Dr Tania Kaiser East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
Departmental Director of Learning and Teaching; BA Programme Convenor Dr Naomi Leite Sociality, belonging, and exclusion across cultural domains and scales; identity and identification; cultural logics of kinship, relatedness, heritage, and obligation; transcultural encounter and (mis)communication (esp in tourism/travel); community, self, and wellbeing; social inequality; language and thought; psychological anthropology, person-centred ethnography, ethnographic theory & practice.
Reader in Migration, Mobility and Development Dr Anna Lindley Global migration dynamics, politics and experiences: displacement & refugees; transnationalism & remittances; Somali mobilities; UK immigration policy; detention; access to justice; civic mobilization.
Reader in Laws of Central Asia Professor Scott Newton Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies Dr Paolo Novak Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs.
Dr John Parker Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana
Reader in Social Anthropology Dr Kostas Retsikas The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.
Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace & Conflict Dr Althea-Maria Rivas Humanitarian intervention, post-conflict reconstruction, the politics of global development, everyday violence in post-conflict settings, gender (in)security, violence and development, race, racism and development, peace and justice, emotion and conflict, the relationship between peace, forgiveness and justice, black and indigenous feminisms, feminist and decolonial theory and pedagogy, postcolonial conversations on resistance and development, research methods and ethics. Regional focus: Central Asia, West and East Africa.
Reader in the History of Africa Dr Marie Rodet Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Nikita Simpson India; UK; Southern Africa; mental health; HIV; sexual and reproductive health; digital health; feminist anthropology; care; aging; inequality; Covid-19 pandemic policy; participatory and co-design methods.
Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development Dr Subir Sinha South Asia; social movements; civil society; the environment; institutions; agrarian questions; Marxist and postcolonial theory; Social theory in Development studies.
Senior Lecturer in Art History Dr Tania Tribe Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa
Reader in Israeli Studies Dr Yair Wallach Social and cultural history of modern Palestine/Israel; material, visual and urban culture; history of textuality; race and antisemitism; migration and settler colonialism in Jewish history
Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen Ethiopian music; music and religion in north Africa; Biblical cantillation; ritual and gender; Diaspora.
Professor of Law with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa Professor Lynn Welchman Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law
Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies Professor Cosimo Zene 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, world philosophies.
Dr Defne Karaosmanoğlu Globalisation, Nostalgia and Food; Food cultures in Cities; Foodscapes and Mobility
Research Associate Dr Giulia Casentini Border crossing, identity and political institutions in Ghana and Togo; migration networks, regional mobility and return migration in West Africa. Trafficking, smuggling and migrants' mobility along the Mediterranean route and in Italy. Child trafficking, child labour and labour migration in West Africa.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Rachel Dwyer Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Mr Ed Emery I specialise in the Arabic and Hebrew dance songs of al-Andalus [muwashshah and zajal] 1100-1350, and their possible overlaps into the musics of Early Europe. Migrant musics. For many years I worked as an activist around the motor industry [Ford and FIAT]. Migrant labour and new class compositions. I am a translator of the theoretical writings of the Italian revolutionary movement (A. Negri et al]. I am currently working on a major project of the musics of the Kurdish migrant communities in France and elsewhere. With a special interest in establishing Music Rooms in all places where migrants and refugees are aggregated “The Music Room Project”.
Dr Nima Mina Classical and Modern Persian literature, Orientalism in 18th-20th century Europe, Middle Eastern minority writers in Europe, Diaspora studies, music performance, translation studies
Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez The ethnography of West Africa, especially the social experiences of European governance of migration, youth, gender, the moral economy.
Research Associate Dr Kristin Surak International migration, political sociology, nationalism, culture, state and society in Japan, qualitative methods.
Emeritus Professor; Professorial Research Associate Professor Vladimir I Braginsky Malay and Indonesian classical and modern literature and culture; Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world; Islamic literature of South East Asia; comparative study of South East Asian literatures; Malay philology and traditional literature sufism in Malay literature
Emeritus Reader Dr Gabriele vom Bruck Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics
Emeritus Reader Dr John R Campbell East and Northeastern Africa; refugees and asylum law, legal anthropology, development, urbanisation, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism.
Emeritus Professor of Music Professor Keith Howard Ethnomusicology; anthropology; Korean music; music traditions in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Thailand, and Siberia; studies of religion; composition; education; shamanism; early keyboard instruments, players and restorers
Emeritus Professor of Arabic Dialect Studies Professor Bruce Ingham General descriptive linguistics, Arabic, Persian, North American Indian languages, dialects and oral literature of the Arabian Peninsula - in particular the dialects of the Arabian bedouin, covering the dialects of the Al Dhafir, Mutair, Al Murrah and Rwalah tribes; Lakota (Siouan), Cree (Algonquian)
Emeritus Professor of International Commercial Law Professor Peter Muchlinski The regulation of multinational enterprises, international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, foreign investment law, WTO law and practice, competition law, international commercial law and development.
Emeritus Professor of Law Professor Carol G. S. Tan Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law
