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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

Emeritus Professor Gurharpal Singh was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, SOAS, from 2011 to 2017.

Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development

Research Associate

Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay; composition; improvisation; analysis; music and religion

Dr. Sophie Chamas is grounded in anthropology, her work focussing on the study of social movements, counter-culture, and political theory and discourse rooted in, focused on or related to the Middle East. 

Filippo Cervelli is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature at SOAS.

Diana Felix da Costa is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Music.

Orly has extensive international experience and she has worked and conducted research in diverse  cultural settings, including Australia, China, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the United States.