Centre of South East Asian Studies at SOAS: Members

Dr Kostas Retsikas

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.

Tel: 020 7898 4432
Email: kr1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 552
Academic Support Hours: See bio for details

Dr Tim Pringle

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

The role of agriculture in the growth process in Indonesia; poverty measurement, determinants and policy; oil and economic policy; economic history of East and South Asia. Teaching includes, South East Asia.

Email: ab10@soas.ac.uk

Professor Mushtaq Khan

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

South and South East Asia: institutional economics and political economy; the economics of rent seeking, corruption and patron-client networks; late industrialisation and the state

Tel: 020 7898 4546
Email: mk100@soas.ac.uk
Room: 233
Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave 2019/20

Professor Ulrich Volz

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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

Ms Sonja Ruehl

Financial Sector Development in Japan and Vietnam. Gender Issues in Financing Development. Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam

Email: sr2@soas.ac.uk

Professor Ian Brown

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia

Email: ib@soas.ac.uk

Professor Michael W. Charney

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4612
Email: mc62@soas.ac.uk
Room: 322
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 17:00 -19:00

Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia

Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk

Dr Pamela Corey

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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: Wednesdays, 5-7pm

Dr Peter D. Sharrock

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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: 558
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Ashley Thompson

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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: +44 (0)20 7898 4130
Email: at50@soas.ac.uk
Room: 463
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am

Professor Louise Tythacott

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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
Room: 505
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5pm

Dr Farouk Yahya

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Southeast Asian art, Islamic art, illustrated and illuminated manuscripts and books, magic and divination.

Email: fy1@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Dr Harald Heubaum

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Senior Lecturer in Global Energy and Climate Policy

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4362
Email: hh15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4431
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Chair, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Modern Thai Cultural Studies, Cinema and Literature; gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4247
Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 455
Academic Support Hours: By appointment online

Dr Dana Healy

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Modern Vietnamese cultural studies (literature, film, gender); Vietnamese social and cultural history (the Vietnam War; art and politics); the sociology of contemporary Vietnamese literature; the Vietnamese diaspora

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4252
Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 465
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, Wednesday 10-11am

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

The Malay manuscript tradition; Islam in South East Asia; gender in the Malay world; modern literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4253
Email: mh86@soas.ac.uk
Room: 454
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-2.30pm; Friday 4.15-5pm

Dr Ben Murtagh

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Modern Indonesian cinema and literature; queer studies and sexuality in Indonesia; representation of genders and sexuality in Southeast Asian film and literatures; traditional Malay literature

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4248
Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 466
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 3-4; Friday 11-12

Professor Justin Watkins

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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: On leave until Feb 2022; online by appointment

Dr Ernest Caldwell

Member (CSEAS)

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: 398
Academic Support Hours: By Appointment (ec24)

Dr Vanja Hamzić

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4501
Email: vh1@soas.ac.uk
Room: S336
Academic Support Hours: T2: Tue 12:00 - 14:00 (by appointment only)

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

Jotika Khur-Yearn

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4173
Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk
Room: Library E10
Academic Support Hours: Monday - Friday

Professor Julia Sallabank

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, endangered languages, revitalisation methods, multilingualism, language documentation, language and development. British Isles, Channel Islands/Guernesiais, Oceania (language policies and attitudes), Thailand (minority language support and revitalisation).

Tel: 020 7898 4326
Email: js72@soas.ac.uk
Room: 428b
Academic Support Hours: On Sabbatical until 1st September 2021

Dr Andrew Channing

Academic Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Javanese and Balinese gamelan

Email: ac94@soas.ac.uk

Dr Nick Gray

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay; composition; improvisation; analysis; music and religion

Email: ng18@soas.ac.uk

Dr Carlo Bonura

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4617
Email: cb84@soas.ac.uk
Room: 205
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Dr Michael Buehler

Chair, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia

Email: mb107@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: By appointment only - see link in Bio to book slot

Professor Mark Hobart

Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Mark Hobart: Centre for Media and Film Studies

South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.

Email: mh5@soas.ac.uk

Dr Susan Conway

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Tai Theravada Buddhist art and culture of inland Southeast Asia, particularly the Shan of Burma (Myanmar) and the Tai Yuan of Lan Na (Northern Thailand)

Email: sc66@soas.ac.uk

Dr Pierre Echaubard

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Biodiversity, health and infectious diseases ecology and evolution.

Tel: +66958964673
Email: pe5@soas.ac.uk

Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

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The politics of intangible culture in ASEAN; women's role in Indonesian documentary film; trance-possession dance in Java

Email: fh7@soas.ac.uk

Dr Monica Janowski

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.

Email: mj11@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: By Email Appointment

Dr Fiona Kerlogue

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Material culture of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian textiles; the relationship between material culture and memory; the history of museum collecting; the role of material heritage in society.

Email: fk17@soas.ac.uk

Dr Patrizia Pacioni

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

South East Asian linguistics; classifiers, syntax and semantics, syntax semantic interface; Cantonese, Chinese, Khmer

Email: pp6@soas.ac.uk

Dr Titipol Phakdeewanich

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Progress of democracy in Thailand, focusing the parliamentary system

Email: tp32@soas.ac.uk

Dr Leon Redler

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Email: lr26@soas.ac.uk

Dr Edoardo Siani

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Buddhism and power in contemporary Thailand

Email: es22@soas.ac.uk

Dr Joanna Wolfarth

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Southeast Asian arts and cultures; Buddhist art and doctrine; Cambodian culture from Angkor to the contemporary period; manifestations of power; photography and technologies of representation and replication; decolonial studies.

Email: jw62@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 10-12