Dr Zidane Meriboute Currently, Zidane holds the position of Senior Consultant within the ICRC Unit in charge of the contacts with the religious leaders in Africa.His research interests are: Islamism, Sufism and Evangelism in Africa; The nature of modern Islamic States.
Professor Murray Last Medical anthropology; traditional medicine; pre-colonial history: Islamic (especially 19th century Jihad) and pre-Islamic societies of northern Nigeria; religion among non-Muslim Hausa; Islamic intellectual tradition in northern Nigeria; youth culture of urban Kano (Nigeria).
John Ryle Human rights, famine relief and conflict resolution, and a popular ethnography of the Agar Dinka of South Sudan
Dr Nicola Liscutin Development of the annual Japanese Studies Graduate Student Research Forum; gender studies; medieval literature
Professor Lionel Caplan South Asia - Nepal and urban India. politics of land, religious fundamentalism, post-colonialism. Gurkhas, Anglo-Indians.
Dr James Eastwood James is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. He is interested in the relationship politics, society, and the military in Israel. James will be undertaking fieldwork in Israel in 2012-13.