SOAS University of London

Centre of African Studies

Members

Centre Chair
Dr Wayne Dooling

Dr Wayne Dooling
Chair, Centre of African Studies
Wayne Dooling
Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony
  • Tel: 020 7898 4628
  • Email: wd2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 308
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 15:00 - 17:00

Management Committee

Professor Mashood Baderin
Management Committee Member
Professor Mashood Baderin

Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States. Appointed as Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council at its 19th Session on 23rd March 2012.

  • Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4715
  • Email: mb78@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: S135
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 13:30 - 15:30
  • On Sabbatical:T1 & 3 (2019/20)
Professor Fareda Banda
Management Committee Member
Staff Silhouette

Human Rights of Women, English Family Law, Comparative Family Law focusing on Africa, Law and Society in Africa, Alternative Dispute Resolution.

  • Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4664
  • Email: fb9@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: S223
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11 - 13:00
  • On Sabbatical:T2 (2019/20)
Professor Stephen Chan, OBE
Management Committee Member
Stephen Chan

Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies

  • Tel: 020 7898 4655
  • Email: sc5@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 253
  • Academic Support Hours: Mondays 2-4pm by email appointment
Professor Christopher Cramer
Management Committee Member
Chris Cramer
Africa: economics of Africa, political economy of development, political economy of war and peace in southern Africa, and the economics of cashew production, processing and trade
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4492
  • Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 288
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11am-1pm
Professor Lindiwe Dovey
Management Committee Member
Dovey, Lindiwe - SOA IMG

African film and video (particularly their intersection); filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); literary adaptation in Africa; contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema'; exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media; structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4388
  • Email: ld18@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 404
  • Academic Support Hours: Terms 1&3: Tuesdays, 9-11am; Term 2: On Leave
Professor Lucy Durán
Management Committee Member
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.
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4374
  • Email: ld@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 596
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Dr Kai Easton
Management Committee Member
Kai Easton

Cultures of travel (especially the Cape and the Indian Ocean; Australia; Sri Lanka); archives;  visual and material cultures; landscape; maritime history; South African fiction and non-fiction in English (Coetzee; Wicomb); intertextuality; auto/ biography

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4373
  • Email: ke@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 394
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Professor Chege Githiora
Management Committee Member
Chege Githiora
Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora.
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4395
  • Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 412
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3pm
Dr Michael Jennings
Management Committee Member
Michael Jennings

Politics, governance, and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; non-governmental organisations; faith and development; history of development processes and interventions; issues in international health and non-state actors in health delivery.

  • Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4268
  • Email: mj10@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 261
  • Academic Support Hours: By appointment only
  • On Sabbatical:Full Year (2019/20)
Professor Marloes Janson
Management Committee Member
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)

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4345
  • Email: mj19@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 580
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays (details below)
Professor Lutz Marten
Management Committee Member
Lutz Marten

Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4653
  • Email: lm5@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 426
  • Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave in Term 1
Anna De Mutiis
Management Committee Member
Staff Silhouette

Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance for Development in Africa Initiative Webinar Series Coordinator (Centre of African Studies and SOAS Radio)

Dr Martin Orwin
Martin Orwin
Somali language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry; translation of poetry; the relationship between language and music.
  • Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4376
  • Email: mo1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 405
  • Academic Support Hours: See office hours on door, or email
Dr Marie Rodet
Management Committee Member
Marie Rodet

Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4606
  • Email: mr28@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 309
  • Academic Support Hours: On Leave Term 1 - 2019-20

Members

Professor Paul Basu
Member
Paul Basu

West Africa; material culture; cultural landscape; cultural memory; heritage; historicity; history of anthropology; colonialism; museum anthropology; exhibition practice; visual anthropology; migration and diaspora; culture and development.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4424
  • Email: paul.basu@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 568
  • Academic Support Hours: Email for appointment
Dr Catherine Dolan
Member
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.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4425
  • Email: cd17@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 567
  • Academic Support Hours: Thurs 15.00-17.00 - http://tinyurl.com/yyvhxt5l
Dr Elizabeth Hull
Member
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.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4766
  • Email: eh17@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 551
  • On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2021
Dr Awino Okech
Member
Awino Okech

Africa - Critical gender theory on sexuality, queer politics, security and violent extremism, gender in nation and state making, social movements.
Qualitative research methods and feminist research methodology 

  • Email: ao21@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 4403
  • Academic Support Hours: By appointment only
Professor Laura Hammond
Member
Laura Hammond

Africa; Horn of Africa; refugees and forced migration; post-conflict social integration; violence and conflict analysis; humanitarianism and humanitarian assistance; globalisation, transnationalism, diasporas and remittances; famine and food security; livelihoods in emergency contexts.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4654
  • Email: lh4@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 371
  • Academic Support Hours: By appointment only. Please email.
Dr Jonathan Di John
Member
Jonathan Di John
Development economics, economic growth, institutional economics, taxation in less developed countries, the political economy of oil states, political economy of industrial policy in Latin America, especially of Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil. 
  • Tel: 020 7898 4087
  • Email: jd5@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 370
  • Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 2pm - 3.30pm
  • On Sabbatical:Term 2 & 3 (2019/20)
Dr Colette Harris
Member
Colette Harris

Violence and conflict, governance, post colonial state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, (reproductive) health, migration, and community development/transformative education - all explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, Latin America but currently focus mainly on West and East Africa.

Dr Tania Kaiser
Member
Tania Kaiser

East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions

  • Tel: 020 7898 4484
  • Email: tk51@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 290
  • Academic Support Hours: By appointment, https://goo.gl/L4KXfA
Professor Zoë Marriage
Member
Zoë Marriage
The political economy of security, DR Congo, demobilisation, emergency assistance to countries at war
  • Tel: 020 7898 4437
  • Email: zm2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 259
  • Academic Support Hours: By appt: https://10to8.com/book/mprnro-free/#
Professor Carlos Oya
Member
Carlos Oya
West Africa, Southern Africa, agrarian political economy; poverty; rural labour; development aid; research methods
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4566
  • Email: co2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 292a
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2.30pm to 4.30pm via link t.ly/XKmk  
Dr Matteo Rizzo
Member
Matteo Rizzo

Political economy of development, labour markets and informalisation, agrarian change, urbanisation, privatisation, aid effectiveness, Africa, Tanzania.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4836
  • Email: mr3@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 256
  • Academic Support Hours: By Appointment: http://bit.ly/2gEHDDd
Dr Antonio Andreoni
Antonio Andreoni

Production Structures and Capabilities; Learning, Organisations and Innovation; Automation and Robots; Industrial Ecosystems; Linkages, Diversification and Industrial Renewal; Financialisation of manufacturing; Political economy of industrial development; Role of the State; Political settlements and corruption; Structural Economic Dynamics; Global Policy; Industrial Policy.

Dr Hannah Bargawi
Member
Hannah Bargawi
Feminist Economics; Gender and Employment; Care and Social Reproduction; Aid, Debt and International Financial Institutions; Macroeconomic Policies and Employment; Commodities, Agriculture and Rural Development; Research Methods; Qualitative Methods; Middle East; Palestine; Jordan; Egypt; East Africa; Tanzania; Uganda.
  • Tel: 020 7898 4496
  • Email: hb19@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 278
  • Academic Support Hours: https://hannahbargawi.youcanbook.me/
Professor Ben Fine
Member
Ben Fine

I have been Professor of Economics at SOAS since 1992, having travelled the short distance from Birkbeck College where I was Professor of Economics, having been a founding member of the Department in 1972.

Dr Catherine Jenkins
Member
Staff Silhouette
Human rights; transitional justice; law and conflict; international criminal law; post-conflict reform and reconstruction; legal developments in post-apartheid South Africa; law and society in Africa.
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4676
  • Email: cj3@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: S340
  • Academic Support Hours: Friday 10 - 11 and 12 - 13.00
Dr Lutz Oette
Member
Lutz Oette

Public international law; human rights, particularly prohibition of torture; victims' rights and reparation; human rights, law reform and justice in Sudan; international refugee law

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4727
  • Email: lo8@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: S226
  • Academic Support Hours: Fridays 12:30 - 13:30
Professor Alena Rettová
Member
Alena Rettova

Swahili literature; African philosophy; Afrophone philosophical discourses; literatures in African languages

  • Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4372
  • Email: ar42@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 413
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 14.30-16.30
Dr Caspar Melville
Member
Caspar Melville

Specialist interest in popular music, the music industry, music of the Black Atlantic, Afro-diasporic music scenes and London music scenes.

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4249
  • Email: cm54@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: B302
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11-1
Dr Angela Impey
Member
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
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4433
  • Email: ai6@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 518
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 11am-1pm
Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen
Member
Ilana Webster-Kogen

Ethiopian music; music and religion in north Africa; Biblical cantillation; ritual and gender; Diaspora.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4334
  • Email: iw4@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 503
  • Academic Support Hours: Mondays, 9-11am
Professor Phil Clark
Member
Phil Clark

History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law

  • Tel: 020 7898 4611
  • Email: pc44@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 202
  • Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm
  • On Sabbatical:2020/21 (Term 2)
Dr Alastair Fraser
Member
Alastair Fraser

African politics; the political economy of international development; democracy, participation and resistance.

  • Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4733
  • Email: af22@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: Room 4404
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 09-12 - see link in Bio to book slot
Professor Julia Gallagher
Member
Julia Gallagher

African politics and international relations, popular conceptions of the state, architecture, images and politics in Africa, fieldwork methodologies.

  • Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4753
  • Email: jg35@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 228
  • Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 3:00 - 5:00pm via Teams (See link in Bio
Dr Meera Sabaratnam
Member
Meera Sabaratnam

International theory; postcolonial approaches; race and racism; intervention, statebuilding and development; global history; southern Africa

  • Tel: 020 7898 4722
  • Email: ms140@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 4413
  • Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 10-1 on MS Teams, email for appointment
  • On Sabbatical:2020/21 (Term 1)
Dr Tom Young
Member
Tom Young

Southern Africa: international politics; South African domestic politics; political theory

Dr Olivia Lwabukuna
Member
Olivia Lwabukuna

Law and Development in Africa, Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, Natural Resource Governance in Africa, Law and Legal Reform in Post Conflict Reconstruction, Transitional Justice (Constitutions), Trade conflict and Law in Africa, Law and Policy on Internal Displacement in Africa

  • Tel: +44 (0) 207 074 5120
  • Email: ol3@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: S328
  • Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 15.00-17.00 See link in Bio to book slot