Professor Barbara Harriss-White Markets and capitalism; rural development; poverty and social welfare; South Asian political economy; field economics
Dr K Ravi Raman Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Seraphin Kamdem Dr Kamdem returns to SOAS as a Research Associate, having previously taught in the Linguistics Department and Africa Section.
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 Nandini Nayak India, gender, development, civil society, social movement, social policy, employment, rural economy.
Dr Hassan Hakimian Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.