Professor Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl's research area includes classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative literature, Qur’an and Hadith studies, Islamic art, Sufism and Neoplatonism, and refugee and exile studies.
Professor Leslie Vinjamuri International Organisation; International Politics of International and Transitional Justice; Religion, Human Rights and International Relations Theory; International Diplomacy and the Use of Force; International Diplomacy and Transitional States.
Dr Sarah Stewart Dr Sarah Stewart is Honorary Senior Fellow for the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies. Research interests include Zoroastriansm, orality and the oral transmission of texts, Zoroastrian living tradition in Iran and India.
Emeritus Professor Henry Bernstein Henry Bernstein is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London.
Professor Johan P J Pottier Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation
Professor Deniz Kandiyoti Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory