Professor Jairus Banaji Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.
Dr Monica Janowski SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.
Professor Timon Screech History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski Buddhist Studies; philosophical and religious doctrines; literature; iconography Buddhist iconography; Buddhist rituals; Buddhist doctrines; Buddhist history
Dr Hannah Bennett Hannah Bennett (she/her) is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Anthropology BA Programme Convenor, and the project coordinator for Mursi: Encountering the Other.
Dr Michael W Thomas Michael Thomas is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethiopian Screen Worlds on the ERC-funded project “African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies”.
Dr Stephen Biggs Political economy of rural and agrarian change, Patterns of rural and agricultural mechanization, Fairer trade, Politics of global agricultural Science and Technology assessments, Rural development, Research methods. Mainly worked in Nepal, Bangladesh and India.