History Department Staff

James Caron

Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia

Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4295
Email: jc84@soas.ac.uk
Room: 468
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 p.m

Michael W. Charney

Professor of Asian and Military History

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

Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa

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

Wayne Dooling

Senior Lecturer in the History of Southern Africa

Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony

Tel: 020 7898 4628
Email: wd2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 308
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 12:45 - 14.45, or by appointment

Roy Fischel

Lecturer in the History of South Asia

History of precolonial South Asia, in particular Muslim polities and societies; the Deccan, 1300-1700; South Asia and the early modern Muslim world.

Tel: 020 7898 4643
Email: rf26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 326
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Tuesday, 10-12, Term 2: Monday, 2-4

Andrew R George

Professor of Babylonian

Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4335
Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 312
Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2018-2021

Andrea Janku

Senior Lecturer in the History of China

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: 316
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 10-12am (during term time)

Ceyda Karamursel

Lecturer in the Department of History

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4602
Email: ck17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 324
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 1:00pm - 3:00pm or by appointment

Lars Laamann

Senior Lecturer in the History of China

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: 020 7898 4634
Email: ll10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 323
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10am-12pm

Angus Lockyer

Lecturer in the History of Japan

Modernisation and modernity in Japan; world’s fairs, international and industrial exhibitions

Tel: 020 7898 4626
Email: al21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 318
Academic Support Hours: Bookable at https://goo.gl/U30hFW and by apptmt.

Cultural and social history of the late medieval and early modern Persianate world; urban and local history in Iran; space, memory, and narrative in Persian historiography; shrine-centered religiosity; Safavid history

Tel: 020 7898 4609
Email: dm40@soas.ac.uk
Room: 311
Academic Support Hours: Mondays, 3.15-4.45pm

Jana Matuszak

Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Sumerian literature, literary disputations and dialogues, gender in the Ancient Near East

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4335
Email: jm101@soas.ac.uk
Room: 312
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 12-13 and Tuesdays 13-14

Eleanor Newbigin

Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia

History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India

Tel: 020 7898 4625
Email: en2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 307
Academic Support Hours: Weds 11-1pm

John Parker

Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa

Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana

Tel: 020 7898 4635
Email: jp23@soas.ac.uk
Room: 305
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 10am-12pm

Marie Rodet

Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa

Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4606
Email: mr28@soas.ac.uk
Room: 309
Academic Support Hours: On Leave 2018-2019
On Sabbatical:2018-2019

Mandy Sadan

Reader in the History of South East Asia

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

Ayman Shihadeh

Reader in Arabic Intellectual History

Medieval Arabic Intellectual History; medieval Arabic philosophy; medieval Islamic theology, especially kalam; ethical theory; the Islamic manuscript tradition.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4343
Email: a.shihadeh@soas.ac.uk
Room: 320
Academic Support Hours: Monday, 3.00-4.00, or by appointment

Gurharpal Singh

Professor of Sikh and Punjab Studies

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4108
Email: gs41@soas.ac.uk
Room: 310
Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2018-19

Shabnum Tejani

Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia

Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance

Tel: 020 7898 4613
Email: st40@soas.ac.uk
Room: 314
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 3-5pm

Mark Weeden

Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Hittite, Akkadian language and literature in Syria

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4328
Email: mw41@soas.ac.uk
Room: 304
Academic Support Hours: Mon 11-12 & Wed 12-1pm. Research Leave Term 2/3

David Bannister

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: db30@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 3-5pm, Room 305

George Lane

Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia

Current research concerns the presence of Persians in Yuan (Mongol) China. Teaching concentrates on Mediaeval Persia. Involved in IFCELS with the Lord Chancellor's programme for Chinese Lawyers since the early 90s as well as pre-sessionals and ELAS.

Tel: 020 7898 4285
Email: gl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 303
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays &Thursdays 1.30-2.30pm or by appointment

Marina Pyrovolaki

Senior Teaching Fellow

Arabic Historiography (Popular/Scholarly), Crusades, Arab-Byzantine Relations, Early Islamic History.

Email: mp52@soas.ac.uk
Room: 306
Academic Support Hours: Fridays from 5pm-6pm or by appointment

Martyn Smith

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: martyn.smith@soas.ac.uk
Room: 310
Academic Support Hours: Fridays 10-11am

Philipp Wirtz

Senior Teaching Fellow

Tel: 020 7898 4773
Email: pw10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 306
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday, 2-4 pm

David Morgan

Professorial Research Associate

Email: domorgan@wisc.edu

Richard Rathbone

Professorial Research Associate

Email: r.j.a.r.rathbone@btopenworld.com

Peter Riddell

Professorial Research Associate

Email: pr21@soas.ac.uk

Michael Ferguson

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Tamima Bayhom-daou

Research Associate

Email: tamimabayhom@daou.fsnet.co.uk

Valentina Boretti

Research Associate

Email: vb16@soas.ac.uk

Carol-Ann Boshier

Research Associate

Email: prboshier@tiscali.co.uk

Marisa Candotti

Research Associate

I am an economic historian specialised in West Africa, with a particular research focus on trans-Saharan trade and the local patterns of trade and production in the Hausa speaking area of Northern Nigeria. My current research explores the influence of pre-colonial institutions on the development of the local economy, and its implications for textile production and trade in a global perspective.

Stephanie Cronin

Research Associate

Email: sc45@soas.ac.uk

Deborah Gaitskell

Research Associate

Email: dgaitskell@googlemail.com

Anthony Gorman

Research Associate

Email: tg@soas.ac.uk

Lifeng Han

Research Associate

Email: 234754@soas.ac.uk

Colin Heywood

Research Associate

Matthew Hopper

Research Associate

Michael Leigh

Research Associate

Email: ml135@soas.ac.uk

Yi Li

Teaching Fellow/Programme Development Manager in Online and Distance Learning

South East Asia and China, Colonial and Imperial History, History of Migration, Overseas Chinese Network

Email: yl19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 302

Raquel A.G. Reyes

Research Associate

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.