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.
SOAS welcomes the First Poet Laureate of Barbados this summer as Visiting Fellow Esther Phillips, the esteemed First Poet Laureate of Barbados who is renowned for her poetry that breathes life into the untold stories of the past, will be based at SOAS University of London this summer as Visiting Fellow.
Dr Lorena Lombardozzi Lorena is Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London.