Professor Julia Sallabank Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, endangered languages, revitalisation methods, multilingualism, language documentation, language and development.
Professor Ayman Shihadeh Professor Ayman Shihadeh is an intellectual historian of the Islamic world, whose research focuses on the history of theology, philosophy and wider intellectual and religious culture.
Dr Jakob Klein China (South); anthropology of food; regional cuisines; local foods; restaurant cultures; urban Chinese society and the urban/rural divide.
Professor Alessandra Mezzadri Alessandra Mezzadri Professor in Global Development and Political Economy.
Emeritus Professor Francesca Orsini Professor Francesca Orsini is a literary historian working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials and interested in exploring how multilingualism worked and continues to work within the literary cultures of South Asia.
Professor Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl's research area includes classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative literature, Qur’an and Hadith studies, Islamic art, Sufism and Neoplatonism, and refugee and exile studies.