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Shatha Alowda is a PhD researcher at the SOAS University of London whose research cuts across social movements and solidarity studies, decolonial theory, and the sociology of everyday encounters, with a particular focus on the everyday interactions through which solidarity is enacted, negotiated, and contested.

Chuchu Fu is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Media Studies at SOAS. Her current research project on the urban and digital influence of ‘Global China’ in Düsseldorf Germany is funded by European Research Council Starting Grant, CHINA.EU.

Yang Jiang is a doctoral researcher in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, focusing on Islamic mysticism, esotericism, philosophy, and Iraqi modern and contemporary art

Froilan Malit Jr. is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, where his research examines multilateral migration diplomacy in Asia-Gulf South-South migration corridors. His scholarly interests span international relations, comparative politics, comparative regional studies, and regional migration governance in the Global South.

Wealth Dickson Ominabo is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. His research examines farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria through the lens of political ecology. His work investigates how climate change, transhumance and governance shape security in Nigeria. His interests include sovereignty, democratic governance and the climate-security nexus across West Africa.

Yidan is an ERC-funded PhD student in Media Studies, School of Anthropology, Media, and Gender. Her research investigates how "Global China" (re)configures Parisian urbanism through fashion.

Gothic studies; Asian Gothic; affect and empathy; transnational aesthetics; modernity; terror and the sublime; Korean literature and popular culture; visual culture; public humanities; translation and literary circulation. 

Huang Shan is a historian of material culture and sensory experience in medieval and early modern Asia. Her research explores how aromatic substances—particularly musk—shaped medical knowledge, commercial networks, and cross-cultural encounters across the Silk Road. Drawing on sources in Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic, and Persian, her work brings together sensory studies, the history of science and medicine, and global history. Her current project traces the trajectories of musk through imperial pharmacopoeias, merchant caravans, and ritual spaces, analyzing how this singular olfactory commodity became entangled in ethical, religious, and political discourses across the medieval and premodern periods.

Bárbara Araújo Machado is a Research Associate at the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London.