Emeritus Professor Louis Brenner Louis Brenner is Emeritus Professor of the History of Religion in Africa at SOAS.
Dr Mujge Kucukkeles Mujge Kucukkeles is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
Professor Helen Giunashvili Helen Giunashvili is a researcher at G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University in Tbilisi and is also affiliated to the Graduate School of the Methodology of the Humanities in Paris.
Dr Xu Peng Dr. Xu Peng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Illicit Economies, Violence, and Development (CIVAD) at SOAS University of London.
Professor Lutz Marten Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa
Professor Shane McCausland Shane McCausland is an historian and curator of visual arts and material culture with interests ranging across the arts produced in China over the last two millennia as well as arts of Mongol-ruled Eurasia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Feven Cofré Eyob Feven Eyob is a London-based anthropologist and spoken-word artist. Holding a BA in African Studies and Anthropology and an MRes in Social Anthropology, Feven is continuing into doctoral research as a PhD student in Anthropology. Feven's research lies in the intersection between language reclamation efforts, counter-memory and the borderlands of Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia.
Sophie Joseph Murray Sophie Joseph Murray is a doctoral researcher in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology. Her research examines modernism in the Arab world, focusing on gender dynamics, transnational networks, and institutional structures.
Ling Fung Shum Ling Fung is a dedicated trade unionist and researcher focused on alternative forms of resistance within social movements. They are committed to bridging the gap between theory and practice by bringing their extensive lived experience in organising directly into the research field.