Dr Quan Wei Modern Chinese Literature, Old-styled poems and essays of the literati during the 19th to 20th century
Dr Patrizia Pacioni South East Asian linguistics; classifiers, syntax and semantics, syntax semantic interface; Cantonese, Chinese, Khmer
Dr Rhiannon Stephens Early African History, gender, kinship, reproduction, poverty, Uganda, Great Lakes, historical linguistics.
Professor Cristobal Kay Latin American theories of development, political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods, farming systems, land reform, peasant movements, historical comparative analyses of the European and Latin American rural economy and society
Dr Mehri Honarbin-Halliday Dr Honarbin-Holliday is a practicing artist and works interdisciplinary exploring the intersections of gender, identity, and education. She is the author of Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society (2008). She has exhibited her video and fired clay installations in Iran, Britain, Mexico, and the United States and is the recipient of the 2007 national award from the Art and Culture Secretariat at Tehran Municipality. Dr Honarbin-Holliday is currently working on a new book for I.B. Tauris titled Masculinities in Urban Iran.