Dr Costanza Torre Costanza Torre is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Michela Siuni Michela Siuni is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on the taste of/for Korean food in Greater London
Ms Brandi Simpson Miller Brandi Simpson Miller is a Ph.D. student in the History, Religions, and Philosophy Department at SOAS. Her research interests include the foodways of the Gold Coast in the 19th and 20th centuries, and explore the historical basis for the cultural changes in what would later become Ghana in 1957. She holds a Master’s Degree in World History, with a dual emphasis on Latin American and West African History from Georgia State University in the U.S. She currently is working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the H110 History of Africa Course
My travel photos: SOAS language learners abroad Learning a language comes to life when immersed in a country where it is spoken. SOAS Language Centre students share their photos from their time abroad.
Book Launch: 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific' Professor Niki Alsford and Dr Ti-Han Chang share the new edited volume, 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific.'
SOAS Impact Acceleration Account SOAS has successfully secured a 5-year £1.25 million Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) from 2023-2028, to develop impact in the areas of migration, displacement, minorities and marginalisation.
Africa neglects women's property rights at its own economic peril - but it's not the only culprit Women in Africa own less than 10% of the land. Transformation can only be achieved through legal awareness raising and bottom-up legal change strategies to facilitate economic empowerment.
Agrarian Change and Development Cluster Focusing on the role of agriculture in development processes; capitalist development and agrarian transitions; rural labour markets and poverty; globalisation and agrarian change; land dispossession; movements of agrarian resistance; dynamics of agrarian accumulation in the neoliberal order; rural migration among other questions.
Senses of Mourning: Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era 'Senses of Mourning: Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era', is a multisensory approach to the study of Shiʿi Iran that examines how devotional Moharram performances changed over time.