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
PhD Admissions Tutor - Terms 2 & 3
Programme co-convenor MA in Iranian Studies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human security; art, poetry, emotions as languages for global peace; political/social psychology; the global politics of power and resistance; global thought and comparative philosophies; Iran, East-West relations, West Asia and North Africa.
Programme Convenor - BA International Relations, Term 1
International relations and migration; religion and migration; French-North African relations; Christianity in North Africa; political theology; education and governance.
Programme Convenor, MSC International Politics (Terms 2 & 3)
International Relations Theory, Concept Analysis, Identity, Power, Security, Time, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, Sociology of the Discipline
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
Programme Convenor, MSc State, Society and Development
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
REF Co-ordinator
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
Programme Convenor - MSc Comparative Political Thought
Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
PR China, state-society relations, local government, multi-level governance, policy implementation, cultural (heritage) and social policy, particularly politics of demographic ageing.
Programme Convenor - MSc International Politics (Term 1)
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
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.
Settler colonialism; Zionism; resistance; hegemony; law in society; Israeli state and society; Palestine; anticolonial solidarity; knowledge production in/on (settler) colonial contexts.
Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
BA Politics Programme Convenor
War and humanitarianism, racism and the security state, political economy and state formation in the Middle East, military and humanitarian logistics, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel/Palestine.
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, including comparative political thought and history of ideas, republicanism, liberalism, multiculturalism, Cicero, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Nehru.
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.
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.
Daniel is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Understanding Statehood through Architecture: a comparative study of Africa’s state buildings (ASA)' project with Professor Julia Gallagher. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Sheffield. His thesis examined governance practices and the construction of state ideas in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Ethiopia.
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.
