Leif Andrew Garinto Leif is a cultural, print, and literary historian, and currently a PhD student at the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS University of London, with a research focus on South East Asia.
Professor Ayman Shihadeh Professor Ayman Shihadeh is an intellectual historian of the Islamic world, whose research focuses on the history of theology, philosophy and wider intellectual and religious culture.
Anne-Marie Misconi Orientalism, Knowledge production and transmission, Education, culture and society, History of Iraq.
Miki Hosaka-Green Miki Hosaka-Green is a doctoral researcher in Japanese Studies focusing on Japan inspired Western theatre performances, as well as working full time as a game localisation project manager.
Mayukh Chakrabarty Mayukh is a Felix Scholar and doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London, exploring how life insurance transformed Indian society from 1800 to 2000. His PhD project, titled "Cashing Lives: A History of Indian Life Insurance (1800–2000)," offers a comprehensive institutional history of life insurance in India, tracing its evolution from a colonial financial instrument to a post-independence state monopoly.
Rodi Yilmaz Rodi Yilmaz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the social democratic parties in Turkey within the broader contexts of party politics, local governments and democratic backsliding in comparative politics.
Dongzhu Xu Dongzhu Xu is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research examines the political economy of mineral wealth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with broader interests in critical minerals, new institutional economics, conflict dynamics, the resource curse and development in the Global South.
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh Massoumeh Torfeh, has been appointed UN Director of Strategic Communication and Spokesperson for Afghanistan and is a former senior producer in BBC World Service, specializes on the politics and media of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.