Dr Jakob Klein China (South); anthropology of food; regional cuisines; local foods; restaurant cultures; urban Chinese society and the urban/rural divide.
Professor Alessandra Mezzadri Alessandra Mezzadri Professor in Global Development and Political Economy.
Emeritus Professor Francesca Orsini Professor Francesca Orsini is a literary historian working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials and interested in exploring how multilingualism worked and continues to work within the literary cultures of South Asia.
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 Eleanor Newbigin History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India
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.
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
Dr Harald Heubaum Dr Harald Heubaum is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Energy and Climate Policy at the SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD).