Dr Xiaoning Lu Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity
Dr Christopher Lucas Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, Maltese linguistics, Arabic dialectology, language contact, linguistic variation, contact-induced language change, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages, English
Dr Marie Rodet Dr Marie Rodet's principal research interests lie in Modern African history, gender history, history of slavery, public history, gamification, and digital humanities.
Dr Yair Wallach Social and cultural history of modern Palestine/Israel; material, visual and urban culture; history of textuality; race and antisemitism; migration and settler colonialism in Jewish history
Professor Gurharpal Singh Emeritus Professor Gurharpal Singh was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, SOAS, from 2011 to 2017.
Dr Roy Fischel History of precolonial South Asia, in particular Muslim polities and societies; the Deccan, 1300-1700; South Asia and the early modern Muslim world.
Dr Satona Suzuki Dr Satona Suzuki is currently a senior lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History at SOAS University of London.