Centre of South East Asian Studies at SOAS: Members

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: 595
Academic Support Hours: By Email Appointment

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: Tuesdays 1.30pm - 3.30pm

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

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: Fridays 15:00 to 17:00

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
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Sonja Ruehl

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4057
Email: sr2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 542
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3-5

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

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: 020 7898 4612
Email: mc62@soas.ac.uk
Room: 322
Academic Support Hours: Monday 3 - 5pm

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 313
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 11-1

Raquel A.G. Reyes

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

History of science and medicine; gender, sexuality, and the senses; social and cultural impact of early modern global trade in Southeast Asia with particular reference to the Philippines.

Email: rr14@soas.ac.uk

Mandy Sadan

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Ethnicity and conflict in mainland South East Asia, cultural production, non-national histories of Eastern Himalayas and South East Asian Massif and the South, South East and East Asian borderworlds of Burma

Tel: 020 7898 4622
Email: ms114@soas.ac.uk
Room: 302
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

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: On sabbatical 2018/2019

Elizabeth Moore

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

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: B406
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 3pm-4pm

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

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4159
Email: lt15@soas.ac.uk
Room: B320
Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave until term 2 2018-2019

Farouk Yahya

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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

Harald Heubaum

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Energy and climate policy in the EU, US and emerging economies, particularly in South East Asia; climate finance; global and regional energy markets; low-carbon energy technologies; urban resource governance; global public policy

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

Sallehuddin bin Abdullah Sani

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Indonesian language

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4256
Email: sa38@soas.ac.uk
Room: 450

Sud Chonchirdsin

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4255
Email: sc58@soas.ac.uk
Room: 450
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays: 2.15-3pm; Thursdays 1-2pm

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: Tuesday 3-4pm, Wednesday 3-4pm

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 12-1, Wednesday 11-12

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: On research leave in Terms 1 & 2 of A2017/18

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: Tuesday 9-10am

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 April 2019 - SEE BELOW

Ernest Caldwell

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Public Law in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; Environmental Constitutionalism; History of Environmental Law; Biodiversity and Law; Natural Resources and Law; Wildlife Law and Policy; Wildlife Trafficking

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4645
Email: ec24@soas.ac.uk
Room: S327
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00

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; Law of Tort; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4501
Email: vh1@soas.ac.uk
Room: S336
Academic Support Hours: Monday 15:30-17:30

Carol G. S. Tan

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

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
Room: S131
Academic Support Hours: by prior appointment

Jotika Khur-Yearn

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4173
Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk

Peter Austin

Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Lexical-Functional grammar, computer-aided linguistic analysis, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4586
Email: pa2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 364
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm - ON SABBATICAL IN TERM 1, 2018/19

Andrew Channing

Academic Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies

Javanese and Balinese gamelan

Email: ac94@soas.ac.uk

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

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4686
Email: ng18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 505
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11-1pm

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: Wednesdays, 11am-1pm

Michael Buehler

Academic Staff, 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
Room: 4412
Academic Support Hours: Monday 1-3pm

Enze Han

International Relations of East Asia, Chinese Politics, Ethnic Politics, Nationalism, Southeast Asia

Email: eh22@soas.ac.uk

Jan Christie

Professorial Research Associate

The early trading states of maritime Southeast Asia; economic and political history of western Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula during the first and second millennia AD; early spice trade and the role of Java in the trade of 'medieval' Asia; reassessment of the political history of the Javanese state of Mataram to complete a comprehensive history of medieval Java

Victor T. King

Professorial Research Associate

The social and cultural anthropology of South East Asia; heritage and tourism; the construction and transformation of identities; Borneo studies; the sociology of change and development; area studies and South East Asia

Email: vk4@soas.ac.uk

Clive Christie

Research Associate

20th Century Vietnamese history

Email: c.j.christie@btinternet.com

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

Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Research Associate

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

Email: fh7@soas.ac.uk

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