SOAS World Languages Institute Members at SOAS University of London

Ms Jenny Martin

Co-ordinator & Administrative Officer

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4292
Email: jm83@soas.ac.uk
Room: 346

Women & gender in the Middle East; women’s movements and feminism in Middle East; secularism and Islamism; transnational migration, diaspora mobilization; gendering violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; impact of sanctions, war and occupation on Iraqi women, Iraq.

Mr Ahmad Alkhashem

Member

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4208
Email: aa40@soas.ac.uk
Room: 434
Academic Support Hours: Arabic 4 A&B: Mon 11-12 / Arabic 5 A&B: Thu 11-12

Dr Monik Charette

Phonology, morpho-phonology, stress systems, vowel harmony, syllabic structure, word-structure, Altaic languages, Turkish, French

Email: mc@soas.ac.uk

Dr Alexander Cobbinah

Member

Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 4591
Email: ac115@soas.ac.uk
Room: T309

Professor Lucia Dolce

Member

Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations

Tel: 020 7898 4217
Email: ld16@soas.ac.uk
Room: 342
Academic Support Hours: Mon 9-10 (online), Thurs 1-2 (342), or appointment

Professor Richard Fardon

Member

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.

Email: rf@soas.ac.uk

Ms Narguess Farzad

Member

Persian language and literature. Organiser of SOAS-Cambridge Undergraduate workshops

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4346
Email: nf1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 440
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1-2pm

Professor Peter Flügel

Jaina Studies; South Asian History & Culture; Anthropology & Sociology of Religion

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4776
Email: pf8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 341
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment only

Professor Andrew R George

Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies

Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk

Dr Christopher Gerteis

Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4093
Email: cg24@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: On leave 2019-2024

Professor Chege Githiora

Member

Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora.

Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk

Dr Hassan Hakimian

Emeritus Professor (former Director, LMEI)

Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.

Email: hh2@soas.ac.uk

Mr Yussuf Hamad

Member

Email: yh24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 411
Academic Support Hours: Monday 12-1pm, Thursday 3-4pm

Dr Abbie Hantgan

Member

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4592
Email: ah104@soas.ac.uk
Room: T309

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

The Malay manuscript tradition; Islam in South East Asia; gender in the Malay world; modern literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4253
Email: mh86@soas.ac.uk
Room: 454
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-2.30pm; Friday 4.15-5pm

Dr Nathan W. Hill

Member

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; historical, descriptive and corpus linguistics, in particular with reference to Tibetan or other Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese minorities; Mongolian

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512
Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Academic Support Hours: On leave until 2022

Professor Almut Hintze

Member

Professor Hintze takes an interest in all aspects of Zoroastrianism, the religion of pre-Islamic Iran.

Tel: 020 7898 4598
Email: ah69@soas.ac.uk
Room: 329
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Dr David W Hughes

Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music

Email: dh6@soas.ac.uk

Professor Michael J Hutt

Member

Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees.

Email: mh8@soas.ac.uk

Dr Noriko Iwasaki

Second language acquisition (grammatical and pragmatic development, impact of study abroad), language pedagogy, psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), Japanese linguistics.

Email: ni3@soas.ac.uk

Mr Jack Joy

Jack Joy is an Associate Tutor with the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy.

Email: jj13@soas.ac.uk
Room: 221
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 5pm - 6pm

Dr Christopher Lucas

Member

Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, Maltese linguistics, Arabic dialectology, language contact, linguistic variation, contact-induced language change, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages, English

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4318
Email: cl39@soas.ac.uk
Room: 447
Academic Support Hours: Online by appointment

Dr Naomi Leite

Sociality, belonging, and exclusion across cultural domains and scales; identity and personhood; cultural models and conceptual schemas; transcultural encounter and interaction (esp in tourism); kinship and relatedness; community and well being; social inequality; psychological anthropology, person-centred ethnography, institutional ethnography, ethnographic theory & method.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4407
Email: nl15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 591
Academic Support Hours: T 1-2.30pm; online F 10-12pm. See bio for details

Dr Christian Luczanits

Member

Premodern Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art and its context

Tel: 020 7898 4162
Email: cl46@soas.ac.uk
Room: 585
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am and 3:00pm-4:00pm

Professor Friederike Lüpke

Language documentation and description, contact linguistics, anthropological linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structure, Ajami writing in Africa, Niger-Congo languages, Mande languages, Atlantic languages, Jalonke (Fuuta Jalon, Guinea), Bainouk (Casamance, Senegal)

Email: fl2@soas.ac.uk

Dr James Mallinson

Tel: 020 7898 4368
Email: jm63@soas.ac.uk
Room: 458
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Professor Lutz Marten

Member

Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4653
Email: lm5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 426
Academic Support Hours: By appointment online

Dr Nima Mina

Classical and Modern Persian literature, Orientalism in 18th-20th century Europe, Middle Eastern minority writers in Europe, Diaspora studies, music performance, translation studies

Tel: +447946119264
Email: nm46@soas.ac.uk

Dr Ben Murtagh

Modern Indonesian cinema and literature; queer studies and sexuality in Indonesia; representation of genders and sexuality in Southeast Asian film and literatures; traditional Malay literature

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4248
Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 466
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 3-4; Friday 11-12

Professor Irina Nikolaeva

Member

Syntax, morphology, information structure, typology, lexicalist theories of grammar, Construction Grammar, documentation of endangered languages, Palaeosiberian linguistics, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Tundra Nenets (northwestern Siberia)

Tel: 020 7898 4250
Email: in3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 428a
Academic Support Hours: See information outside rm 428a/or by appointment

Dr Elisabeth Norcliffe

Member

Mayan languages, Barbacoan languages, morphosyntax, lexical semantics, linguistic typology, variation, historical linguistics, language production and comprehension.

Email: en6@soas.ac.uk

Professor Francesca Orsini

Member

Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu.

Email: fo@soas.ac.uk

Dr Martin Orwin

Somali language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry; translation of poetry; the relationship between language and music.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4376
Email: mo1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 405
Academic Support Hours: See office hours on door, or email

Professor Anne Pauwels

Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics

Email: ap62@soas.ac.uk

Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Member

Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4225
Email: bp3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 362
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm

Professor Alena Rettová

Member

Swahili literature; African philosophy; Afrophone philosophical discourses; literatures in African languages

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4372
Email: ar42@soas.ac.uk
Room: 413
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 14.30-16.30

Professor Itesh Sachdev

Social psychology of language and intergroup relations, intercultural communication, identity (minority and majority), bi-multilingualism, multiculturalism, language attitudes and motivations

Email: i.sachdev@soas.ac.uk

Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg

Member

History of Translation Studies in Japan, Intergeneric translations (manga to film), Translation of oral narratives or orality, Cultural translation, The relationship between translation and power.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4224
Email: ns27@soas.ac.uk
Room: 380
Academic Support Hours: By appointment/email

Mr Naresh Sharma

Urdu and Hindi language

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4296
Email: ns19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 452
Academic Support Hours: Monday 3-4pm, Thursday 3-4pm

Dr Sarah Stewart

Member

Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, with particular reference to the living tradition in Iran and India.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4270
Email: ss7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 331
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 14:00-16:00

Professor Charles R H Tripp

Member

Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought

Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk

Dr Yair Wallach

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4337
Email: yw11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 415
Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave

Professor Justin Watkins

Member

Burmese languages and Burmese linguistics; language policy in Burma; experimental and acoustic phonetics; computer lexicography; minority languages of South East Asia; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto Burman languages; tone languages. Sign languages in Burma and South East Asia.

Tel: 020 7898 4254
Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 462
Academic Support Hours: On leave until Feb 2022; online by appointment

Jay Latarche

Jay Latarche is the team coordinator and coder at SOAS University, London, and particularly enjoys coding Sino-Tibetan languages. They are interested in conducting further research on logogram amnesia in Mainland China.

Email: J.latarche@soas.ac.uk

Biu Rainey

Biu Rainey is a Grambank coder and BA student at SOAS. Outside of coding languages with Grambank, his study focusses on language and identity on the internet, particularly the orthography of memes and online/offline code-switching.

Jemima Goodall

Jemima Goodall is a Grambank coder based at the SOAS university team in London. She is currently a Linguistics BA student at UCL.

Maisie Yong

Maisie Yong is a BA Japanese and Linguistic student at SOAS, University of London and is a language coder for Grambank. Versed in both Mandarin and English, she codes mostly for Sino-Tibetan languages whose grammars are written in Mandarin. She inadvertently speaks Singlish when exasperated.