Dr Lars Laamann Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)
Professor Jens Lerche Dalit discrimination, Caste and class, Racial capitalism, Labour relations, Labour migration, Agrarian change, Activism and struggles, India.
Professor Trevor H J Marchand Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.
Professor Shane McCausland Shane McCausland is an historian and curator of visual arts and material culture with interests ranging across the arts produced in China over the last two millennia as well as arts of Mongol-ruled Eurasia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.