Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith William Gervase Clarence-Smith is Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at SOAS.
Emeritus Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Doris Behrens-Abouseif is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS.
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
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.
Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran; diasporas and transnational media; islamophobia; shi’i Islam in the West; third Cinema; big data and digital methods.