Dr Hanne-Ruth Thompson Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
Dr Orsolya Szakaly Teaching: Understanding the Modern World; Introduction to Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Research: Early Modern History; the Enlightenment; International Networks; Professionalisation and the History of Applied Science.
Professor Richard Tapper Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.
Professor Stephen Hopgood International politics of human rights; humanitarianism and international justice; and theories of the state
Professor Paul Gifford Christianity; recent developments in African Christianity; the socio-political role of religion in Africa Socio-political role of Christianity in Africa; Africa's new charismatic churches
Professor Chege Githiora Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora.