Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
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
Professor of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies
Research Tutor - Term 1
Programme co-convenor MA in Iranian Studies
International politics of West Asia; Iranian foreign and domestic politics; Critical theories of international relations; US foreign policy in the ‘third world’; Islamic political and intellectual history. Professor Adib-Moghaddam also gave a keynote lecture at the University of Hamburg : The European Crisis in Global Perspective - Local Changes and Global Developments.
International Relations Theory, Concept Analysis, Identity, Power, Security, Time, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, Sociology of the Discipline
Programme Convenor - MRes Politics with (Language)
Reader in Comparative & International Politics
History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
International political economy, particular politics of world trade and history of neoliberalism; conceptual analysis of power and legitimacy; international political sociology.
Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East
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.
Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies
Programme Convenor- State, Society and Development
Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory
Senior Lecturer of Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Research Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Year 3 Tutor
Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
Christina Maags is Lecturer in Chinese Politics. Prior to joining SOAS, she completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Frankfurt, Germany (2017) and studied in Oxford, Frankfurt and Bonn.
Eurocentrism; international historical sociology; World History; historical materialism; postcolonialism; critical race theory; the Ottoman Empire; Turkey; the Middle East
International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queer theory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, 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
Programme Convenor for MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice
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.
Elian is a lecturer in Middle East Politics. Before re-joining SOAS she was the deputy director of the CBRL Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem (2015-2017).
Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
BA Politics Programme Convenor
Rafeef Ziadah is Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East. Prior to this she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SOAS Politics and International Studies department with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project
Laurie holds a PhD in International Relations from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Re-imagining French-Algerian Relations: Art Practices, Institutions, and the International’, examined the artistic practices of French-Algerian artists at the intersection of the transnational art world and local French institutional contexts as a political sociology of the postcolonial.
Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.
Political theory; articulations of republicanism in the history of political though (Cicero, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau) and comparative political thought (Nehru); contemporary liberalism and multiculturalism
I am currently Invited Associate Editor for the Theoretical and Experimental Psychology Journal (Teoreticheskaya i Eksperimentalnaya Psihologiya). I joined SOAS in October 2015.
Calum's PhD research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is an ethnographic portrait of the working lives of Members of Parliament in Malawi.
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.
Maria Gloria Polimeno is Doctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter. Before joining the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, she was appointed Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College.
Political theory; history of political thought; comparative political thought; liberalism; modern ideologies; the nature of political thinking; conceptual history.
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.
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.
