Mr Craig Ryder Craig Ryder is a researcher at the Anthropology department. His research is about social media and activism in Sri Lanka. Craig is an expert in digital-approaches to ethnography.
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.
Amir Massoumian Amir Massoumian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS University of London.
Dr Ida Hadjivayanis Swahili studies, African Studies, Translation Theory and Practice, Indian Ocean Networks
Dr Somnath Batabyal Somnath Batabyal is Lecturer in Media in Development and International Journalisms at SOAS.
Dr Susanne Jaspars Susanne is a Senior Research Fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, and was a Research Associate (RA) at the Centre prior to this.