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Amelia Wood is a PhD candidate in the SOAS Department of History, Religions and Philosophies. Research interests include the history of modern yoga, Spiritual Abuse, feminist perspectives on yoga, and representations of women in yoga.

A historian of the Turco-Persianate world, M.A.H. Parsa (“Amir”) is currently engaged in researching the coalescence of Arabic, Persian, and Turkic traditions in the Islamic world from the beginning of the medieval period to the rise of nation-states in the twentieth century.

After a career of more than forty years in international finance, Abdulkader has returned for his doctorate at SOAS.

Dr Muin Boase is a Research Associate and teaches international law at SOAS.

Music of South Asia; Hindustani classical music; historical ethnomusicology; cultural history; historical musicology and musical aesthetics; lyric, song, and musical literature; music and gender; music and religion; history of emotions

Michela Siuni is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on the taste of/for Korean food in Greater London

John Gittings was foreign leader-writer and East Asia editor at The Guardian for many years, retiring in 2003, and covered major events in the area from the late 1970s onwards.

Ulrich Pagel is the Seiyu Kiriyama Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of the Centre of Yoga Studies at SOAS University of London.

Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem is a provenance researcher and cuneiformist.