Professor Richard Widdess Historical, analytical, ethnographic and cognitive approaches to music of South Asia; music, cognition and language.
Professor Jae Hoon Yeon Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature
Emeritus Professor Louis Brenner Louis Brenner is Emeritus Professor of the History of Religion in Africa at SOAS.
Professor Julia C Strauss Julia C. Strauss received a BA in Chinese Language and European History from Connecticut College and both an MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Matthew J Nelson Matthew J. Nelson (Ph.D. Columbia) is a Professor of Politics, currently serving as Head of Department (Department of Politics and International Studies) at SOAS University of London.
Dr Dana Healy Modern Vietnamese cultural studies (literature, film, gender); Vietnamese social and cultural history (the Vietnam War; art and politics); the sociology of contemporary Vietnamese literature; the Vietnamese diaspora
Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.