Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism Professor Lucia Dolce Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations
David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art Dr Christian Luczanits Premodern Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art and its context
Seiyu Kiriyama Professor in Buddhist Studies Professor Ulrich Pagel History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
Professor T H Barrett History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period
Professor in the Study of Religions and Philosophies Professor Peter Flügel Jaina Studies; South Asian History and Culture; Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.
Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics Dr Nathan W. Hill 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
Director Regional Partners, Summer Schools and Alumni Liaison, SOAS-Alphawood Group Dr Peter D Sharrock He is now focusing on the evidence in Indochina for the influence of tantric or esoteric Buddhism, developed in the great monasteries of the Ganges valley and diffused and developed in different ways through much of Asia.
Research Associate Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme Sanskrit language and literature; classical Indian religions; folklore and music of Baltistan
Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art Professor Ashley Thompson Southeast Asian arts, aesthetics, literatures and cultural histories, with a focus on Cambodia, from the Angkorian to the post-Angkorian to the contemporary; Theravadin Buddhist arts, literatures and ritual; cultural heritage; sexual difference; deconstruction; memory and textuality.
Professor of Curating and Museology Professor Louise Tythacott Chinese and Buddhist art in museums; history of Yuanmingyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) collections; museology; colonialism and material culture; post-colonial critiques of museum representations; history and theory of collecting; art and anthropology.
Research Associate Professor Wendi Adamek Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist art and archaeology, network theory, phenomenolgy, environmental literature.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Mahinda Deegalle Mahinda Deegalle is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and Professor Emeritus in the Study of Religions, Philosophies, and Ethics at Bath Spa University. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Dr Olivia Porter Dr Olivia Porter's research focuses on Tai (Shan) Buddhism practiced by communities living on the Myanmar-China border.
Mr Kulamitra David Zukas I’m interested in what material remains reveal of the life of early Buddhists. I'm revealing networks of smaller hermitages and monastic rock-shelters in-between three major early rock-cut Buddhist monasteries.
PhD researcher Ngawang Jungney (Kai-Hsiang Lin) Sakya School, Tibetan Buddhist Ritual, Tibetan Buddhism.
PhD researcher Sooyeun Yang Fine Arts (Oriental Art), History of Art and Archaeology, and Buddhist Studies