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Dr Melissa Carlson researches the development of Southeast Asian modernism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The Department of History at SOAS; Ethnic culture at the crossroads: The reception and migration of cultural inheritance and religious messages by the Ahmao in southwest modern China; Ethnology of southwest China; The interaction of ethnic cultures in modern China; Folklore Studies, especially ethnic customs and ethnic belief

Rumi is a Ph.D candidate at the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS, and a Holstein Doctoral Fellow in Queer and Trans Studies in Religion at the University of California, Riverside.

Steve is the Director of the SOAS China Institute. Before taking on his current position in 2016, he was the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Kanika Sharma co-convenes the core module Introduction to Law in Asia and Africa 1: Concepts and Structures (previously Legal Systems of Asia and Africa).

Akanksha Awal is a Social Anthropologist working on the anthropology of gender, education, and freedom in peri-urban spaces of Uttar Pradesh, India, and more recently in China.