Dr Youngsook Pak Korean art history (from prehistory to the 20th century), Buddhist art, Confucian elite and its culture, Text and Images
Professor Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl's research area includes classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative literature, Qur’an and Hadith studies, Islamic art, Sufism and Neoplatonism, and refugee and exile studies.
Professor Annabelle Sreberny Middle East, especially Iran; gender and democratization; diasporic cultures; ‘small media’ and political change.
Arka Chakraborty Arka is a music historian specialising in postcolonial Calcutta. Drawing from a vast array of official and personal archives, and field interviews, his multisensorial and multilingual doctoral project throws light into the musical interflows between the Anglophone and vernacular spaces that have inhabited the metropolis.
Cas Sutherland Cas Sutherland is conducting her PhD in Social Anthropology about activism and kinship among the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities in Taipei, Taiwan.