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 : 316 Academic Support Hours : Wednesdays 17:00-18:30
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 : Mondays 17:00 -19:00
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 15:00 - 17:00
Lecturer in the History of South Asia
UG Research/ISP Tutor (History)
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 : Tuesdays 14:00-16:00
Senior Lecturer in the History of China
Subject Head/Representative (History)
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
Lecturer in the Department of History
Lecturer in the Department of History
Tel : +44 (0)20 7898 4602 Email : ck17@soas.ac.uk Room : 324 Academic Support Hours : Tuesdays 10-12, or by e-mail appointment
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 : +44 (0)20 7898 4634 Email : ll10@soas.ac.uk Room : 323 Academic Support Hours : By email appointment (any day)
Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Music and performance in the ancient Near East, Sumerian liturgical texts, Mesopotamian rituals, Sumerian-Akkadian language contact, Mesopotamian intellectual history
Tel : +44 (0)20 7898 4283 Email : sm106@soas.ac.uk Room : 302 Academic Support Hours : Fridays 14:00-16:00 or by appointment
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 : Thursdays 9:00 - 10:30 and by email appointment
Reader 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 Term 1 - 2019-20
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 : On Research Leave 2020-21
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
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 : Mondays 11:00 0 13:00
Lecturer
Tel : 020 7898 4065 Email : pw10@soas.ac.uk Room : 306 Academic Support Hours : Tuesday, 2-4 pm
Teaching Fellows/Graduate Teaching Assistants
Public space, ritual studies, urban violence, urban transformation; Iran, India.
Email : rm33@soas.ac.uk Room : 310 Academic Support Hours : Tuesday 11.00-12.00
Research Associate
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel : +393386240920 Email : em56@soas.ac.uk Academic Support Hours : Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00 and by email appointment
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel : 020 7898 4627 Email : as115@soas.ac.uk Room : 307 Academic Support Hours : Wednesdays 2-4pm
Research Associates
Research Associate
Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana
Professorial Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Associate
Research Associate
Research Associate
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
Postdoctoral Fellows
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Emeritus Staff
History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Reader
Emeritus Professor
The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia
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
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor
Pre-modern Islamic and Middle Eastern history; the origins and early development of Islam in the Middle East
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Reader
Islam in South Asia; Mughal history; Muslim-Christian relations
Emeritus Professor
The history of modern South Asia; early Calcutta, c.1780-1830, Indian agrarian history, especially Bihar and Eastern India.
Emeritus Professor
Tropical Africa, c. 1850 -1960; historiography of Africa
Emeritus Professor