Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia Dr James Caron Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.
Professor of Asian and Military History Professor Michael W. Charney The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia
Senior Lecturer in the History of Southern Africa Dr Wayne Dooling Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony
Lecturer in the History of South Asia Dr Roy Fischel History of precolonial South Asia, in particular Muslim polities and societies; the Deccan, 1300-1700; South Asia and the early modern Muslim world.
Senior Lecturer Dr Andrea Janku China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press and the History of Communication; Environmental History
Professor of Arabic Professor Hugh N Kennedy Early Islamic History from 600 to1100, Arabic historiography, Islamic archaeology, historical geography of the Middle East, castle building in the Middle East, history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain and Portugal)
Senior Lecturer in History Dr Samia Khatun I am a feminist historian of the British Empire, focussing on the life worlds and experiences of colonised peoples. Tackling the central role of the discipline of modern history in constructing myths of the superiority of white man, my research and writing develops methodologies for analysing intersecting gender, race and class oppressions by engaging colonised peoples’ intellectual traditions.
Senior Lecturer in the History of China Dr Lars Laamann 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)
Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia Dr Eleanor Newbigin History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India
Reader in the History of Africa Dr Marie Rodet Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.
Lecturer in African History Dr Esteban Salas Pre-Twentieth Century West Central African history; slavery, racial thinking and colonialism; legal, labor and social history
Professor of the Intellectual History of the Islamic World Professor Ayman Shihadeh Medieval Arabic Intellectual History; medieval Arabic philosophy; medieval Islamic theology, especially kalam; ethical theory; the Islamic manuscript tradition.
Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia Dr Shabnum Tejani Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance.
Lecturer in the History of the Middle East and Africa Dr Hengameh Ziai Postcolonial Theory, Critical Political Economy, Islamic Studies, African Studies, Middle East Studies, Ottoman History, Legal History, Science and Technology Studies, Histories of Capitalism, Anthropologies of Debt and Neoliberalism.
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Amrita Shodhan Nineteenth century transformations in western India, gender, caste and community in law and governance, histories of partition India/Palestine.
Professor T H Barrett History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period
Professor Ian Brown The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia
Professor G R Hawting Pre-modern Islamic and Middle Eastern history; the origins and early development of Islam in the Middle East
Professor Peter Robb The history of modern South Asia; early Calcutta, c.1780-1830, Indian agrarian history, especially Bihar and Eastern India.
