Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.
Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Geopolitics of Eurasia, Labour migration regulatory regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan, China's Belt and Road Initiative and effects on Central Asia, Politics in Central Asia, Development strategies in the Russian Far East
Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
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.
Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics
Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
South Asia, Central Asia; comparative political sociology of water resources and development; technology and agrarian change; boundary work in natural resources management; interdisciplinary social theory.
Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.
Nationalism and ethnicity in the South Caucasus (with a particular focus on Georgia), the ethno-territorial conflicts of the region, and the politics of conflict resolution and democratization