Dr Owen Miller Modern Korean history and society; Korean historiography; social and economic history of 19th and 20th century Korea
Professor Keith Howard Ethnomusicology; anthropology; Korean music; music traditions in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Thailand, and Siberia; studies of religion; composition; education; shamanism; early keyboard instruments, players and restorers
Dr Mohamad El-Merheb Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow working on the history of premodern political thought, professional mobility in Islamic societies & the Crusades.
Dr Mark Laffey International Relations Theory; International Security; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Political Sociology; Global History; Postcolonialism; Hierarchy; Violence; Culture and Ideas.
Professor Trevor H J Marchand Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.
Hossein Bastani Hossein Bastani is an academic researcher and investigative journalist with BBC Persian, specialising in Iranian political affairs. Over the past two decades, he has produced dozens of investigative television programmes and authored more than two thousand in-depth reports and analytical articles on Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.