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Monika Hirmer is a certified Teaching Fellow (FHEA) who has been teaching at SOAS, University of London, in the departments of Religions and Philosophies and Politics and International Studies.

South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.

Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music

General descriptive linguistics, Arabic, Persian, North American Indian languages, dialects and oral literature of the Arabian Peninsula - in particular the dialects of the Arabian bedouin, covering the dialects of the Al Dhafir, Mutair, Al Murrah and Rwalah tribes; Lakota (Siouan), Cree (Algonquian)

Traditional Malay philology; the contemporary literatures, cultures and societies of the Malay-speaking world; Malay society; Malay culture; Malay history; Malay politics; Malay religion

South Asian laws and politics, especially Nepal, India and Pakistan; comparative constitutional law; law and conflict; human rights

Music of the Eastern Mediterranean; music of the Near and Middle East; music and ideology; voice and singing; life writing and music ethnography. 

Dr Yuri Stoyanov's research interests and teaching activities include comparative literature in the fields of apocalypticism, mysticism and heresy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Charles Manson received his BA degree from SOAS, and MTS degree from Harvard Divinity School (Tibetan Buddhism).