Dr Loreley Hahn Herrera Loreley has a BA in Communication Sciences (UNAM), an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (SOAS), and a PhD in Media Studies SOAS.
Dr Jason Birch Jason Birch (DPhil, Oxon) is a Research Associate and a founding member of the Centre of Yoga Studies SOAS and the Journal of Yoga Studies.
Miho Zlazli Miho is originally from Okinawa Island in the Ryukyus, Japan. She is in the writing up stage of their PhD thesis, which sheds light on unspoken voices of new speakers and other people in the context of language revitalization of Ryukyuan languages through (collaborative) autoethnography and ethnography. Miho changed the original action research plan of Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative (MAI-Ryukyus.com) to autoethnography due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith William Gervase Clarence-Smith is Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at SOAS.
Professor Cosimo Zene Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology; South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia, world philosophies.
Professor Johan P J Pottier Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation