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Contributing to the mitigation and adaptation efforts against devastating natural hazards in the Yangtze River Delta region.

Persian Intermediate course at SOAS University of London

BA History and... (combined degree) at SOAS University of London

This study examines the role of literary adaptations in pre-revolutionary Iran during the late Qajar period. It demonstrates how Persian intellectuals transformed translated European works into dynamic sites of political thought, language reform, and social critique.

Rahul Yaduka, a postdoctoral researcher at SOAS, School of Law, Gender and Media, studies water conflicts in South Asia under the WATCON project. With a PhD in Development Studies, he focuses on dams, river rights, and disaster governance, amplifying marginalized voices.

Mao-era China; the sent-down youth movement; the Cultural Revolution; global Maoism; and transnational revolutionary movements in Cold War Southeast Asia. 

Sonia Phalatse is a PhD candidate in the joint Wits–SOAS Programme in Applied Development Economics. She is also a Researcher on Climate Change and Inequality at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa

Join us on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on 2 December for the event, Slavery in Africa today: an unfinished business.

Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.