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 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 Ethnomusicology Professor Angela Impey Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development
Lecturer in Musicology of the Middle East Dr Saeid Kordmafi Music of the Islamic Middle East and Central Asia; Persian art music; classical music of the Arab Mashriq; music analysis; rhythm and temporality; performance studies and practice-based research; historical ethnomusicology; music revival.
Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen Ethiopian music; music and religion in north Africa; Biblical cantillation; ritual and gender; Diaspora.
Senior Lecturer in Music and South Asian Studies Dr Richard Williams Music of South Asia; Hindustani classical music; historical ethnomusicology; cultural history; historical musicology and musical aesthetics; lyric, song, and musical literature; music and gender; music and religion; history of emotions
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 Musicology Professor Richard Widdess Historical, analytical, ethnographic and cognitive approaches to music of South Asia; music, cognition and language.
Emeritus Professor of Musicology of the Middle East Professor Owen Wright Music of the Islamic Middle East; historical musicology
Mr Kadialy Kouyate Kadialy Kouyate comes from a very large African musical family of dialis, who are well known in Mandinka history. Since 2005 he has been teaching the Kora to undergraduate and postgraduate students at SOAS.
Senior Teaching Fellow (Performance) Mr Sanju Sahai Sanju Sahai represents the distinguished lineage of tabla players and teachers from Banaras. He performs internationally as a soloist and in a variety of ensembles, and has been teaching tabla at SOAS for many years.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Rachel Beckles Willson Migration, gender, musical composition, performance, history and politics. The oud. 19th to 21st-century Palestine, Hungary, and African migration to Europe.
Research Associate Dr Nick Gray Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay; composition; improvisation; analysis; music and religion
