Professor Jairus Banaji Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.
Dr Simon O'Meara Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.
Dr Nazneen Engineer Nazneen Engineer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.
Dr Aglaia Iankovskaia Aglaia Iankovskaia is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'Mapping Sumatra’s Manuscript Cultures'.
Victor Max Smith Victor is currently a Ph.D. Arts researcher with an interest in how people use culture, music, and performance as a means of forming communities of resistance.