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.
Professor Christopher Cramer Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London.