SOAS China Institute Academic Staff

Dr Jakob Klein

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

China (South); anthropology of food; consumption; regional cuisines; local speciality foods; urban society and the urban/rural divide; food commodity chains; borderlands; food and environment; food safety and risk; meat-eating and vegetarianism; ethnicity and local identities; socialist and postsocialist societies.

Tel: 020 7898 4428
Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 564
Academic Support Hours: Wed 10-11am & Thurs 5-6pm (details below)

Dr Kevin Latham

China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance

Email: kl1@soas.ac.uk

Dr Tim Pringle

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

East Asia, labour relations in China and Vietnam, trade union reform in China and Vietnam, labour and social movements in China, labour migration in China.

Tel: 020 7898 4678
Email: tp21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 260a
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 1-3pm

Dr Frauke Urban

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Research: low carbon energy transitions, energy policy, climate policy, innovation for sustainability, sustainable development

Email: fraukeu@kth.se

Professor Robert F Ash

Emeritus Professor, SOAS China Institute

China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries (especially agricultural and rural change, demographic and employment issues, consumption and living standards); evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations

Tel: 020 7898 4525
Email: ra2@soas.ac.uk
Room: S134
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Chris Bramall

Academic Member, SOAS China Institute

Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire

Email: cb81@soas.ac.uk

Dr Dic Lo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

China and globalisation; industrialisation; Soviet-type economic system and transformation; East Asian economic institutions and development; comparative political economy. China.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4532
Email: dl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 271
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 10:30 to 12:30 (Term 1)

Dr Ulrich Volz

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4721
Email: uv1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 285

Professor Hong Bo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Firm investment decisions under uncertainty; capital market imperfections; corporate finance; corporate governance; financial economics; China.

Tel: 020 7898 4528
Email: hb22@soas.ac.uk
Room: 543

Yueqin Dong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Email: yd4@soas.ac.uk

Dr Eunsuk Hong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Foreign Direct Investment, Emerging-Market Multinationals, Applied spatial econometrics, Chinese management/economy

Tel: 0207 898 4564
Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
Room: 527
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Dr Huanguang Qiu

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics

Tel: 020 7898 4055
Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Academic Support Hours: Monday 1 - 3

Professor Gary Schwarz

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Public management, leadership, performance, innovation, strategy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4091
Email: gary.schwarz@soas.ac.uk
Room: 544
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Dr Andrea Janku

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press and the History of Communication; Environmental History

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4636
Email: aj7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 318
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 9:30-11:30, or by email appointment

Dr Lars Laamann

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4634
Email: ll10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 323
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment (any day)

Dr Pedith Chan

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Modern and contemporary art; social history; art and global modernism; history of Chinese art and visual culture; travel culture and landscape aesthetic; transnational contacts between China, East Asia and Europe.

Email: pc65@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Fridays 11-1; Term 2: Mondays 11-1

Professor Shane McCausland

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4705
Email: HoD_SoA@soas.ac.uk
Room: B304
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 3.30-5pm or by email appointment

Dr Stacey Pierson

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: Wednesdays, 10-12; other times by email request

Professor Louise Tythacott

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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.

Email: lt15@soas.ac.uk

Ms Zhaoxia Pang

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tel: 020 7898 4257
Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 378
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 4-5pm/Fridays 10-11am

Dr Song Lianyi

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4226
Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 367
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 12 noon -1pm/Wednesdays 12 noon -1pm

Ms Lik Suen

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4264
Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11.15am-12.15pm/Wednesdays 12-1pm

Dr Ernest Caldwell

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Early and medieval Chinese law; palaeography; manuscript culture; Classical Chinese; law and language; law and visual culture

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4645
Email: ec24@soas.ac.uk
Room: S327
Academic Support Hours: By Appointment (ec24)

Professor Carol G. S. Tan

Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4630
Email: ct9@soas.ac.uk

Dr Grace (Yu) Mou

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Criminal justice; criminal law; comparative criminal justice; criminal evidence; Chinese law; criminology; Asian legal systems; socio-legal studies.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4277
Email: ym19@soas.ac.uk
Room: S227
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 15:00-17:00hrs (Term 1)

Dr Nathan W. Hill

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; historical, descriptive and corpus linguistics, in particular with reference to Tibetan or other Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese minorities; Mongolian

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512
Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Academic Support Hours: On leave until 2022

Professor Justin Watkins

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Burmese languages and Burmese linguistics; language policy in Burma; experimental and acoustic phonetics; computer lexicography; minority languages of South East Asia; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto Burman languages; tone languages. Sign languages in Burma and South East Asia.

Tel: 020 7898 4254
Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 462
Academic Support Hours: Monday 4-5, Thursday 3-4, or email for appointment

Dr Cosima Bruno

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies; Chinese language art; Sinophone literatures

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4421
Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
Room: 388
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 3-4pm

Professor Bernhard Fuehrer

Emeritus Professor of Sinology, SOAS China Institute

Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 12-1pm

Professor Andrew H-B Lo

Emeritus Professor of Chinese, SOAS China Institute

Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, especially games; export paintings; traditional horticulture

Email: al3@soas.ac.uk

Dr Xiaoning Lu

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4670
Email: xl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 381
Academic Support Hours: By appointment (xl1)

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4348
Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
Room: 435
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, Thursday 2-3pm

Dr Guangtian Ha

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tel: 020 7898 4399
Email: hg8@soas.ac.uk
Room: T402
Academic Support Hours: By Email Appointment

Professor Rachel Harris

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics

Tel: 020 7898 4513
Email: rh@soas.ac.uk
Room: 513
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays, 11am-1pm

Dr Hwee-San Tan

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Ethnomusicology, Buddhist music in China, Taiwan, diaspora studies, intangible cultural heritage preservation, music in Singapore and Malaysia.

Tel: 07818 430 371
Email: ht5@soas.ac.uk

Dr Bi-Yu Chang

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Cultural politics; identity politics; spatial construction and cartographic representation; nationalism in Taiwan.

Tel: 020 7898 4508
Email: bc18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 364
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 11am - 1pm

Dr Olivia Cheung

Research Fellow, SOAS China Institute

Contemporary politics of China: The Chinese Communist Party; political ideas; ideology; strategic thinking; elite politics; factionalism; political norms; policymaking; local government innovations; experimental zones; rural collectivism; city-clusters; democracy.

Email: oc9@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4424

Dr Dafydd Fell

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11:00am-1:00pm and by appointment

Dr Bhavna Davé

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: 020 7898 4734
Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 224
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 3-5pm

Dr Yuka Kobayashi

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4736
Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4425
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Dr Tat Yan Kong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4743
Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 206
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 13.45pm to 15.45pm

Professor Steve Tsang

Director, SOAS China Institute

Twentieth-century Chinese history; Chinese foreign policy; China's 'peaceful rise' strategy; China's rising military might; China's soft power; China-UK relations; China-EU relations; China-US relations; China-Taiwan relations; China-Asia relations; Chinese politics; nature of political system in China; the Chinese Communist Party and democracy; human rights in China; Taiwan politics; Taiwan's external relations; Taiwan's democratisation; Taiwan's security; US-Taiwan relations; Hong Kong politics; Hong Kong's relations with mainland China; colonial history of Hong Kong.

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4222
Email: steve.tsang@soas.ac.uk
Room: S132

Dr Yanan Song

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Dr Yanan Song is a Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD). Prior to joining SOAS she was a Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics at University of Exeter. She had her PhD degree in Politics at Durham University, and completed her MSc in International Public Policy at University College London (UCL).

Email: ys18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4435
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Professor Julia C Strauss

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America

Tel: 020 7898 4746
Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 207
Academic Support Hours: Monday 3-5 pm

Dr Jieyu Liu

Deputy Director, SOAS China Institute

Women and gender in China; gender and work; sexuality and organizations; migration; gender and intergenerational relations; ageing and family transitions; unemployment; social policy and welfare reforms in China.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4899
Email: jl92@soas.ac.uk
Room: S134
Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2016-2020

Professor T H Barrett

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period

Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk

Dr Antonello Palumbo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Ideological history of pre-modern China; Chinese religions, notably Taoism and Buddhism; history of the Buddhist canon in China; Manichaeism and Iranian influences in medieval China; Chinese cultural relations with Central Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4768
Email: ap47@soas.ac.uk
Room: 345
Academic Support Hours: Friday 12:00-2:00pm - Term 2

Professor Ulrich Pagel

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4782
Email: up1@soas.ac.uk
Room: Room 343
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 16:00- 17:00 and Tuesdays by appointment

Mr Charles Manson

Tel: 020 7898 4220
Email: cm48@soas.ac.uk

Mrs Jeanne-Marie Gescher

Senior Fellow, SOAS China Insititute

Email: jeannemarie.gescher@soas.ac.uk

Professor Stefan Feuchtwang

Professorial Research Associate

Ritual and religion in China; transmission of the Great Leap famine; making place and the urbanisation of villages

Email: S.Feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk

Professor Michael J E Palmer

Professorial Research Associate

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Civil Procedure; Chinese Law (traditional and modern); Conflict of Laws; Comparative Family Law; Consumer Protection