Dr Seraphin Kamdem Dr Kamdem returns to SOAS as a Research Associate, having previously taught in the Linguistics Department and Africa Section.
Dr Somnath Batabyal Somnath Batabyal is Lecturer in Media in Development and International Journalisms at SOAS.
Professor David Parkin Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.
Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Dr Gus Casely-Hayford is the inaugural Director of V&A East, appointed in March 2020. He is a curator and cultural historian who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on culture, having presented a number of series for Sky, BBC radio and television and other channels.
Dr Melanie Green Descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, information structure, syntactic typology, West African languages, especially Hausa and Kenyang.
Dr Sutha Nadarajah International security; peacebuilding; securitized development; civil wars; North-South relations.