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 Asian and Military History Professor Michael W. Charney The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia
Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism Professor Lucia Dolce Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations
Senior Lecturer in the History of Southern Africa Dr Wayne Dooling Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony
Lecturer in the History of South Asia Dr Roy Fischel History of precolonial South Asia, in particular Muslim polities and societies; the Deccan, 1300-1700; South Asia and the early modern Muslim world.
Professor in the Study of Religions and Philosophies Professor Peter Flügel Jaina Studies; South Asian History and Culture; Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.
Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute Dr Sian Hawthorne Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
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.
Lecturer Dr Elvis Imafidon Comparative philosophy, African philosophy (esp. ethics, ontology and epistemology), African philosophy of disability, philosophy of alterity, philosophy of the body, African feminist philosophy, philosophy of music, postcolonial and decolonial philosophy.
Subject Head/Representative (History) Dr Andrea Janku China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press and the History of Communication; Environmental History
Senior Lecturer in the History of China Dr Lars Laamann Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)
Dr Eleanor Newbigin History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India
Professor Ulrich Pagel History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
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 African History Dr Esteban Salas Pre-Twentieth Century West Central African history; slavery, racial thinking and colonialism; legal, labor and social history
Professor in Arabic Intellectual History Professor Ayman Shihadeh Medieval Arabic Intellectual History; medieval Arabic philosophy; medieval Islamic theology, especially kalam; ethical theory; the Islamic manuscript tradition.
Shapoorji Pallonji Reader in Zoroastrianism Dr Sarah Stewart Zoroastriansm, orality and the oral transmission of texts, Zoroastrian living tradition in Iran and India.
Dr Shabnum Tejani Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance
Dr Hengameh Ziai Postcolonial Theory, Critical Political Economy, Islamic Studies, African Studies, Middle East Studies, Ottoman History, Legal History, Science and Technology Studies, Histories of Capitalism, Anthropologies of Debt and Neoliberalism.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher Dr Yousef Moradi Dr Yousef Moradi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher in the Department of Religions and Philosophies, holding a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017).
