Professor Peter Austin Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Lexical-Functional grammar, computer-aided linguistic analysis, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages
Dr John R Campbell East and Northeastern Africa; refugees and asylum law, legal anthropology, development, urbanisation, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism.
Dr Stefania Travagnin Stefania Travagnin is Reader in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS University of London, where she is also Chair of the Centre of Buddhist Studies.
Dr Xu Peng Dr. Xu Peng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Illicit Economies, Violence, and Development (CIVAD) at SOAS University of London.
Dr Vidya Venkat Vidya Venkat has worked in India for over a decade as a journalist in a reputed English newspaper and as a communications consultant in the international development sector.
Ummugulsum Kurukol Ummugulsum is a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research explores Muslim travel writing across different genres and periods, asking how travellers understood their journeys, explained their motives, and experimented with the language of travel.
Dr Mariano Errichiello Mariano is a scholar of Zoroastrianism with an interest in history, rituals, texts and communities of the modern period.
Jens Augspurger Jens Augspurger is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies and a doctoral fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Foundation).