Dr Michael Buehler BA Politics
Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam BA International Relations Term 1
Dr. Vineet Thakur BA International Relations Terms 2 & 3
Dr Carlo Bonura (Student Welfare Tutor)
Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl (First Year Tutor)
Dr. Yuka Kobayashi (Second Year Tutor)
Dr. Hagar Kotef (Third Year Tutor)
Dr. Phil Clark (MSc African Politics)
Dr. Dafydd Fell (MSc Asian Politics)
Dr Kerem Nisancioglu (MSc International Politics)
Prof Charles Tripp (MSc Middle East Politics)
Dr Yuka Kobayashi (MSc Politics of China)
Dr Tat Yan Kong Terms 1 & 3 (MSc State, Society and Development)
Dr. Dafydd Fell Term 2 (MSc State, Society and Development)
Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri Term 1 & 3 (MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice)
Dr Phil Clark Term 2 (MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice)
Dr Matthew Nelson (MSc Comparative Political Thought)
Dr Phil Clark (MRes in Politics with a Language)
Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict
International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements
Contemporary political theory, particularly multiculturalism; methodology, particularly political ideologies; modern Indian politics
Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia
Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies
History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law
Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet countries
International political economy, particular politics of world trade and history of neoliberalism; conceptual analysis of power and legitimacy; international political sociology.
International Relations of East Asia, Chinese Politics, Ethnic Politics, Nationalism, Southeast Asia
African politics; the political economy of international development; democracy, participation and resistance.
Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Political violence, wars and counterinsurgencies, the political economy of military mobilities, refugees and humanitarian regimes, the politics of logistics and transport, Middle East, Israel/Palestine.
Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia
Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
International theory; hierarchy and world history; historical sociology; postcolonialism; foreign policy analysis; ideas, culture and ideology.
Eurocentrism; international historical sociology; World History; historical materialism; postcolonialism; critical race theory; the Ottoman Empire; Turkey; the Middle East
North-South Relations, International Theory, postcolonial and feminist approaches, global history, Indian Ocean, southern Africa
International political economy, comparative political economy, emerging markets; energy security; fiscal federalism; South Asia
State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America
International migration, political sociology, nationalism, culture, state and society in Japan, qualitative methods.
Before joining SOAS, Vineet was a Global Excellence Stature Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg.
Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
International Organisation; International Politics of International and Transitional Justice; Religion, Human Rights and International Relations Theory; International Diplomacy and the Use of Force; International Diplomacy and Transitional States.
Southern Africa: international politics; South African domestic politics; political theory
Dr. Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.
Populist politics in Latin America and East Asia. Analysis of populist discourse with post-structuralist methods.
Nationalism and Islamism in public spheres in the Somali Horn of Africa.
Hidefumi Nishiyama is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Ian Sanjay Patel is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Politics and International Relations Department. Prior to this he was an Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr. Moriel Ram is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Chinese politics, Taiwan, Urban politics, Comparative politics, Political geography
Dr. Dara Salam is a Teaching Fellow for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Dr. Suhleria is a Teaching Fellow for both Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies.
I am currently Invited Associate Editor for the Theoretical and Experimental Psychology Journal (Teoreticheskaya i Eksperimentalnaya Psihologiya). I joined SOAS in October 2015.
Nationalism; South Asian politics; modern Indian politics
Dr. Inez von Freiin Weitershausen is a Teaching Fellow with the Department of Politics and International Studies.
My main researches and interests are around Middle East Politics, European (Central EU) and British and American Politics. Also I am interested in cultural issues and cultural identity politics. I speak English, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Azeri, Kurdish and some understanding of Hebrew.
I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. My thesis draws on feminist critical thinking in order to unpack the 'political economy of love' in contemporary urban Lebanon.
Fr. Atta Barkindo is a PhD student at SOAS and a Research Fellow of GICSC, University of South Florida, and Open Doors International, Netherlands. He consults for the Nigerian Deradicalization programme and his current PhD research was awarded the 2014 Horowitz grant for Social Policy
Mehdi Beyad is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Joonhwa Cho is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Islamic philosophy; Political Islam; Social movements
Migration and displacement, politics of memory, political violence, affective politics, Middle East, state-citizen relations, transnationalism.
Jack Joy is a Graduate Teaching Assistant with the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Jonathan Leslie is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Lili Liu is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
I worked for the U.S. State Department for seven years. My previous academic and professional background has focused on developing expertise in conflict resolution, election monitoring, East and Central Africa, and diplomacy.
My research adopts a political economy approach in trying to understand how the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has impacted chewing tobacco farmers in South India.
Behar Sadriu is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Lewis Turner is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
David's research focuses on British foreign policy in the Middle East. He writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications on domestic politics and international affairs.
Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Political theory; history of political thought; comparative political thought; liberalism; modern ideologies; the nature of political thinking; conceptual history.
Professor Neve Gordon is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
I have experienced around10 years, as a program projector, NGO activities that organized international conferences in Tokyo, Beijing, Washington D.C. and Sakhalin in Russia focusing on stability of East Asia since 1999 until 2007, which would contribute to my thesis.
State and society in Egypt
Islamic political thought
Politics of resistance in Egypt
Research Methodology
Dr. Sarah A. Son is a Post Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Dr. Rafeef Ziadah joins SOAS as a postdoctoral research fellow with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project with Professor Laleh Khalili
All current student queries should be directed through the Student Information Desk (SID). Prospective students & Alumni should direct enquiries to ugpolitics@soas.ac.uk.
All current student queries should be directed through the Student Information Desk (SID). Prospective students & Alumni should direct enquiries to pgpolitics@soas.ac.uk.