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 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.
Dr Hanne-Ruth Thompson Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
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.