Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack Dr Jonathan G. Ercanbrack is a Reader at SOAS University of London and the director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL).
Dr Anne Irfan Dr Anne Irfan is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at UCL. Her work examines colonial legacies in displacement and bordering practices, focusing on Palestinian refugee history and the modern Middle East.
Professor Wendi Adamek Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist art and archaeology, network theory, phenomenolgy, environmental literature.
Dr Atef Alshaer Linguistics, Arabic Literature and history and Politics of the Arab World. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Westminster.
Rumi Dahar Rumi is a Ph.D candidate at the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS, and a Holstein Doctoral Fellow in Queer and Trans Studies in Religion at the University of California, Riverside.
Professor Jairus Banaji Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.
Kshitij Moon Kshitij Moon is a first year PhD candidate in the Department of History. His research tries to dissect and understand the intersection of caste, masculinity and gender-based violence by studying social and gender history of caste.