Interim Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology Professor Marloes Janson Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)
Dr Lori Allen Palestine and the Middle East; human rights; nationalism; the United Nations; investigative commissions; political epistemologies; international law; anthropology of violence; political anthropology; historical anthropology
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Alina Apostu Affect, senses (in particular sound), future-making, heritage, time and temporality, urban anthropology, religion
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Orkideh Behrouzan medical anthropology; anthropology of medicine, psychiatry, science, and technology; STS; mental health, trauma, social ruptures, memory, and subjectivity; refugees and displacement; Iran; the Middle East; epidemics and pandemics; COVID19; HIV/AIDS
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Benjamin Bowles Political and economic anthropology, resilience and sustainability, uncertainty; infrastructure- governance, finance, sustainability; alternative lifestyles and sustainable forms of dwelling; narrowboat travelling communities (Boaters); Britain.
Professor of Social Anthropology; Director, GRNPP Professor Emma Crewe Anthropology of organisations (especially parliaments and other legislatures); politicians and people in democracies; international development; relationship between research, policy and practice; UK, South Asia and Ethiopia.
Professor in Anthropology Professor Catherine Dolan East Africa. Corporations and capitalism, international development, moral economies, corporate social responsibility, enterprise and entrepreneurialism, inclusive markets, consumption and commodities, politics and practices of food governance, gender.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Fabio Gygi Japanese society, material culture, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural history
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Elizabeth Hull South Africa; economic anthropology; anthropology of the state & institutions, bureaucracy, agriculture; livelihoods; health; nutrition; politics of food systems, food acquisition and consumption practices.
Interim Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology Professor Marloes Janson Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)
MA Tutor Dr Jakob Klein China (South); anthropology of food; regional cuisines; local foods; restaurant cultures; urban Chinese society and the urban/rural divide.
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.
Professor of Social Anthropology Professor David Mosse Anthropology of mental health and psychiatry; anthropology of organisations and activism, international development, caste, Dalit rights, anthropology of Christianity, South Asian society and popular religion, environmental history and natural resources management.
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Maria Nolan Contemporary China; urban sociality; psychological anthropology and mental health; anthropology of home; digital anthropology and social media.
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Itay Noy Mining and resource extraction; dispossession and displacement; labour and livelihoods; inequality and precarity; extractive politics; India; Adivasi (tribal) communities
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Saad Quasem Climate Change, Post-Colonialism, Disaster Studies, Indigenous Knowledge Practices, South Asia.
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.
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.
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
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.
Departmental Director of Student Support and Experience Dr Mina Sol Contemporary anthropological theory; critical social theory; philosophical anthropology; creative ethnographic methods (esp. literary and visual tools); gender and body politics; queer diasporas; queer pieties; racialised religions; neo-spiritual movements and subjectivities; politics of memory and secrecy
Professor in Anthropology Professor Sanjay Srivastava Urban anthropology; consumer cultures; masculinity studies; middle-class cultures; ethnographies of the state and capital; India.
Senior Researcher Dr Richard Axelby Natural resource use; citizenship and identity, and the politics of development.
Professor of Social Anthropology; Director, GRNPP Professor Emma Crewe Anthropology of organisations (especially parliaments and other legislatures); politicians and people in democracies; international development; relationship between research, policy and practice; UK, South Asia and Ethiopia.
Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Jas Kaur Conflict and conviviality, belonging and exclusion, indigenous and immigrant narratives of statehood in post-colonial, multi-ethnic spaces. Anthropology of coups. Ethnography of Parliament. Fiji (also Myanmar and Ethiopia).
Professorial Research Associate Professor Kathleen M Adams Anthropology of tourism, heritage and the politics of identity, globalization, museum studies, anthropology of art; Indonesia and South East Asia.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Tom Selwyn Anthropology of tourism, pilgrimage, cultural heritage; the Mediterranean, in particular Palestine/Israel.
Research Fellow Dr Matt Birkinshaw South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh); urban governance and politics; technology, infrastructure and urban development; political ecologies of water (and land); informality, private sector participation and public sector reform.
ESRC postdoctoral fellow Julia Modern Uganda, East Africa; disability; mental distress; Deaf Studies; sign language interpretation; social movements, especially those operating in environments of institutional and economic precarity; embodiment and the theorisation and experience of non-normative body-minds; practices of entitlement and resource distribution; resource extraction.
Dr Zoë Goodman Urban anthropology; anthropology of insecurity; architecture; Islamic reform; blood donation; memory especially nostalgia; Indian Ocean; South Asian diasporas in East Africa.
Dr Sushrut Jadhav Britain, South Asia; cultural dimensions of mental health across nations, suffering, marginalised populations in psychiatric care in London and Chennai, cultural identity of Dalit groups (formerly 'untouchable' caste) in India. Senior Clinical Lecturer, Research Department of Health Sciences, UCL.
Research Associate Dr Gunvor Jonsson Development, migration, (im)mobilities; francophone/Islamic West Africa.
Research Associate Dr Kevin Latham China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance
Research Associate Dr Nancy Lindisfarne Gender, marriage, politics, religion and secularism, neoliberalism; Turkey, Afghanistan.
Research Fellow Dr Stefanie Lotter Nepali society and culture; museology; social and cultural anthropology of the Himalaya; elite studies; heritage studies
Dr Marina Marouda Anthropology of death and life; religion and ritual; Buddhism; social study of life sciences; anthropology of biomedicine; innovative technologies and science-based entrepreneurship; market and exchange circuits; global markets and entrepreneurial diasporas; Việt Nam; Southeast Asia; Vietnamese diasporas in Eastern Europe.
Dr Marta Agosti Pinilla Gender, body politics, sexual violence, citizenship; occupied Palestinian territories, Egypt, Syria.
Dr Reza Masoudi-Nejad Public space, ritual studies, urban violence, urban transformation; Iran, India.
Emeritus Professor Professor Lionel Caplan South Asia - Nepal and urban India. politics of land, religious fundamentalism, post-colonialism. Gurkhas, Anglo-Indians.
Emeritus Professor Professor Richard Fardon Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.
Emeritus Professor Professor Trevor H J Marchand Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.
Dr Dolores P Martinez Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions
Emeritus Professor Professor David Parkin Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.
Emeritus Professor Professor Johan P J Pottier Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation
Emeritus Professor Professor Richard Tapper Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.
Emeritus Reader Dr Gabriele vom Bruck Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics
