Mayukh Chakrabarty Mayukh is a Felix Scholar and doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London, exploring how life insurance transformed Indian society from 1800 to 2000. His PhD project, titled "Cashing Lives: A History of Indian Life Insurance (1800–2000)," offers a comprehensive institutional history of life insurance in India, tracing its evolution from a colonial financial instrument to a post-independence state monopoly.
Dr Matthew Phillips Thai history and politics, with a focus on how Thai diplomacy in the Cold War drew from historic principles of Buddhist kingship.
Dr Lori Allen Palestine and the Middle East; human rights; nationalism; the United Nations; investigative commissions; political epistemologies; international law; anthropology of violence; political anthropology; historical anthropology
Dr Polly Savage History of African Art; Modern and contemporary art and curating in Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean, with particular focus on Haiti and Lusophone Africa; art and the Cold War in Africa; art education and cultural policy; post-colonial theory and trans-national exhibition practice.
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London.
Dr. Wen-Chi Li Dr. Wen-Chi Li is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at the University of Oxford.