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.
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
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.
Professor Ulrich Pagel History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
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.
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).
Postdoctoral Researcher in Avestan Studies Dr Céline Redard Zoroastrianism; Avestan; Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
