Dr Nicola Liscutin Development of the annual Japanese Studies Graduate Student Research Forum; gender studies; medieval literature
Dr Frances Wood Dunhuang studies, Chinese export paintings, Chinese domestic architecture, Chinese history, Chinese bibliography.
Ms Kyoko Okamoto Research interest: "Memoirs of a Japanese Ambassador" and "Birth of the Constitution after World War II: Maintaining the Emperor System".
Professor Lionel Caplan South Asia - Nepal and urban India. politics of land, religious fundamentalism, post-colonialism. Gurkhas, Anglo-Indians.
Dr James Eastwood James is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. He is interested in the relationship politics, society, and the military in Israel. James will be undertaking fieldwork in Israel in 2012-13.