Dr Artour Mitski Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city.
Professor Lucy Durán Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.
Dr Orsolya Szakaly Teaching: Understanding the Modern World; Introduction to Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Research: Early Modern History; the Enlightenment; International Networks; Professionalisation and the History of Applied Science.
Professor Richard Tapper Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.
Professor Stephen Hopgood International politics of human rights; humanitarianism and international justice; and theories of the state