Staff | Department of the History of Art & Archaeology at SOAS University of London

Crispin Branfoot

Reader in the History of South Asian Art & Archaeology

Architecture, sculpture and painting in South Asia, especially in southern India; pilgrimage and sacred geography; material religion; colonialism and material culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4450
Email: crispin.branfoot@soas.ac.uk
Room: B311
Academic Support Hours: Monday 2-3pm or by email appointment

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.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4458
Email: ac24@soas.ac.uk
Room: B306
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Pamela Corey

Lecturer in South East Asian Art

Modern and contemporary art and critical theory; Southeast Asian art history and visual studies (expertise in Vietnam and Cambodia); urban studies; postcolonial studies; theories of subjectivity, space, diaspora, transnationalism, intermedia and aesthetics.

Tel: 0207 898 4452
Email: pc50@soas.ac.uk
Room: B318
Academic Support Hours: On sabbatical 2018/2019

Heather Elgood, MBE

Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art

Dr Heather Elgood is the Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art. She is a specialist in Persian, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal manuscript painting as well as the ritual arts of Hinduism.

Tel: 020 7898 4445
Email: he2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B310
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2-5pm or by email appointment

Charles Gore

Senior Lecturer in the History of African Art

Modern and contemporary arts of Africa, including its histories of photography; visual and material cultures of West Africa, and their linkages to diasporic arts past and present; the arts of the Benin kingdom, masquerade, textiles and other art forms in southern Nigeria, as well as a particular focus on contemporary arts in Nigeria.

Tel: 020 7898 4443
Email: cg2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B402
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-3.30pm

Charlotte Horlyck

Senior Lecturer in the History of Korean Art

Visual and material culture of the Korean peninsula; Pre-modern Korean burial practices, particularly of the Koryŏ period (AD918-1392); Arts of the Koryŏ period, especially bronze mirrors and ceramics; 20th century collecting of Korean artefacts; Heritage and museum practices; Gender and material culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4704
Email: ch10@soas.ac.uk
Room: B403
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Mondays, 3.30-5pm; Term 2: Tuesdays, 4-6pm

Jaeho Kang

Senior Lecturer in Critical Media and Cultural Studies

Critical Theory; Media Theory; Aesthetics; Art, Technology and Politics; Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asian Cities; Screen Culture and Media Art in Korea; Mega-Events in the Global South

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4585
Email: jk71@soas.ac.uk
Room: 510
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 5-6 pm & Thursdays 5-6 pm

Maria Kostoglou

Lecturer in Curating and Museology

Curating archaeological collections; university museums and curriculum reform; heritage interpretation; artefact and material culture studies; ancient metalwork; archaeology of the 1st millennium BC eastern Mediterranean

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4159
Email: mk124@soas.ac.uk
Room: B320
Academic Support Hours: T1: Wed, 3-4pm; T2: Wed, 5-6pm; or by appointment

Christian Luczanits

David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art

History of art and architecture of the Himalayan region; Buddhist art of the western Himalayas; Gandharan art; presenting and exhibiting Buddhist art; heritage, preservation and conservation.

Tel: 020 7898 4162
Email: cl46@soas.ac.uk
Room: B407
Academic Support Hours: Friday 10am-12pm

Shane McCausland

Percival David Professor of the History of Art, Head of Department

Pictorial arts of China - especially painting and calligraphy; East Asian narrative art; canons, collecting and connoisseurship; Chinese art and modernity

Tel: 020 7898 4705
Email: sm80@soas.ac.uk
Room: B304
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:00

Simon O'Meara

Lecturer in the History of Architecture & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East

Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.

Tel: 020 7898 4559
Email: so20@soas.ac.uk
Room: B302
Academic Support Hours: Fridays, 5-6pm

Stacey Pierson

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics

History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; Museum Studies.

Tel: 020 7898 4441
Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Room: B308
Academic Support Hours: Term1:On sabbatical;Term 2:Tues 2-4 (14:00 -16:00)

Scott Redford

Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology

Art, archaeology, and architecture of Anatolia, the eastern Mediterranean, and SW Asia from the 11-14th centuries with a special interest in landscape, urbanism, and ceramics

Tel: 020 7898 4469
Email: sr63@soas.ac.uk
Room: B303
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5pm

Timon Screech

Professor of the History of Art

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4453
Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
Room: B408
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-3 (14:00-15:00)

Ashley Thompson

Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art

Southeast Asian arts, aesthetics, literatures and cultural histories, with a focus on Cambodia, from the Angkorian to the post-Angkorian to the contemporary; Theravadin Buddhist arts, literatures and ritual; cultural heritage; sexual difference; deconstruction; memory and textuality.

Tel: 020 7898 4130
Email: at50@soas.ac.uk
Room: B301
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm (16:00-17:00)

Tania Tribe

Senior Lecturer in Art History

Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa

Tel: 020 7898 4462
Email: tt10@soas.ac.uk
Room: B406
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 5-7pm (17:00-19:00)

Louise Tythacott

Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art

Chinese and Buddhist art in museums; history of Yuanmingyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) collections; museology; colonialism and material culture; post-colonial critiques of museum representations; history and theory of collecting; art and anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4159
Email: lt15@soas.ac.uk
Room: B320
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Research Leave; Terms 2&3: Thursdays 11-12

Fiona Buckee

Research Associate

Temporary Lecturer in South Asian Art

Email: fb13@soas.ac.uk
Room: B311
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2-3pm

Elaine Buck

Senior Teaching Fellow

Tel: 020 7898 4705
Email: eb37@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11am-1pm

Nixi Cura

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: nc43@soas.ac.uk
Room: B304
Academic Support Hours: Term 2: Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00; or by appointment

Lizeta Makka

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: lm58@soas.ac.uk

David Malik

Email: dm41@soas.ac.uk

Polly Savage

Senior Teaching Fellow

Contemporary art and curatorial strategies in twentieth and twenty-first century Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean; post-independence visual arts in Angola, Madagascar and Haiti; post-colonial critique and trans-national exhibition practice.

Email: ps52@soas.ac.uk

Peter D. Sharrock

Senior Teaching Fellow

He is now focusing on the evidence in Indochina for the influence of tantric or esoteric Buddhism, developed in the great monasteries of the Ganges valley and diffused and developed in different ways through much of Asia.

Tel: 020 7898 4462
Email: ps56@soas.ac.uk
Room: B406
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 3pm-4pm

Heidi Tan

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: ht21@soas.ac.uk; 101614@soas.ac.uk

Tanja Tolar

Senior Teaching Fellow

Art and architecture of the Islamic world; Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture; Glass and Ceramics of Islamic lands; Orientalism.

Email: tt30@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: By appointment only.

Joanna Wolfarth

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: jw62@soas.ac.uk

Ben Wreyford

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Email: bw64@soas.ac.uk

Farouk Yahya

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: fy1@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm in B306

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Emeritus Professor

Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East

Email: da30@soas.ac.uk

Geoffrey R D King

Emeritus Reader

Islamic art and archaeology in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE and Oman; late antiquity, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ayyubids and Mamluks

Elizabeth Moore

Emeritus Professor

Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape

Email: em4@soas.ac.uk

Youngsook Pak

Emeritus Reader

Korean art history (from prehistory to the 20th century), Buddhist art, Confucian elite and its culture, Text and Images

Email: yp@soas.ac.uk

John Picton

Emeritus Professor

Professorial Research Associate

The art and archaeology of Nigeria, masquerade, textile history, 20th-century transformations in the visual culture of sub-Saharan Africa

Email: jp17@soas.ac.uk

Michael Rogers

Emeritus Professor

Roderick Whitfield

Professorial Research Associate

Emeritus Professor

Email: rw5@soas.ac.uk

Lily Bai

Research Associate

Email: lily-bf@163.com

Gina Barnes

Senior Teaching Fellow

Professorial Research Associate

State formation; agricultural transition; urbanisation; landscape archaeology; East Asian archaeology especially Japanese archaeology and prehistory/protohistory

Email: gb11@soas.ac.uk

Marine Cabos

Research Associate

History of photography in China; Modern and contemporary arts of China; Founder of photographyofchina.com, platform whose goal is to present photographic material related to China.

Email: marinecabos@photographyofchina.com

John Carswell

Professorial Research Associate

Email: jc78@soas.ac.uk

Anthony Cutler

Professorial Research Associate

Cultural relations between Byzantium and early Islam; ivory carving in these societies.

Email: axc6@psu.edu

Mehreen Chida-Razvi

Research Associate

History of Art & Architecture of the Muslim World, focusing on Mughal South Asia; Artistic, historic and cultural links between 17th Century Muslim South Asia and Iran, Anatolia and Europe; urbanism in Mughal South Asia.