Dr Tania Tribe Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa
Dr Hande Çayır Hande Çayır works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and filmmaker in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
Lucy Rose Waugh Lucy is a PhD student in Korean Studies who studied Korean at SOAS and continued with a Masters in Korean Studies at the University of Oxford.
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.
Shan Huang Huang Shan is a historian of material culture and sensory experience in medieval and early modern Asia. Her research explores how aromatic substances—particularly musk—shaped medical knowledge, commercial networks, and cross-cultural encounters across the Silk Road. Drawing on sources in Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic, and Persian, her work brings together sensory studies, the history of science and medicine, and global history. Her current project traces the trajectories of musk through imperial pharmacopoeias, merchant caravans, and ritual spaces, analyzing how this singular olfactory commodity became entangled in ethical, religious, and political discourses across the medieval and premodern periods.
Dr Rahul Yaduka Rahul Yaduka, a postdoctoral researcher at SOAS, School of Law, Gender and Media, studies water conflicts in South Asia under the WATCON project. With a PhD in Development Studies, he focuses on dams, river rights, and disaster governance, amplifying marginalized voices.
Dr Ning Zhang Mao-era China; the sent-down youth movement; the Cultural Revolution; global Maoism; and transnational revolutionary movements in Cold War Southeast Asia.