Professor Richard Fardon Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.
Professor Bassam Fattouh Management in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), managerial systems and management of renewable and non-renewable resources in the Middle East (MSc), and Islamic banking and finance.
Professor Dafydd Fell Dafydd’s main research focus is on Taiwan’s political parties and electoral politics.
Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Professor Angela Impey Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development
Professor Salwa Ismail Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS and Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Professor Nigel Poole Research: Agri-health and nutrition, natural resources and food value chains, poverty reduction.