Jens Augspurger Jens Augspurger is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies and a doctoral fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Foundation).
Professor Stacey Pierson Dr Stacey Pierson is Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London.
Dr Barbara Pizziconi Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness
Dr Kostas Retsikas The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.
Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE, is the King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at SOAS.