Members of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus

Development Studies

Professor in Conflict and Development Studies

Professor Jonathan Goodhand

Armed conflict & violence; War economies; Transnational conflict; Borders, borderlands & brokerage; Illicit drugs & organised crime; Post war transitions; Stabilisation; Peace negotiations & peacebuilding.

Reader in Gender and Development

Dr Colette Harris

Violence and conflict, governance, post colonial state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, (reproductive) health, migration, and community development/transformative education - all explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, Latin America but currently focus mainly on West and East Africa.

Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Development

Dr Lorena Lombardozzi

International Political Economy, Development Economics, Industrial Policy, Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Food, Social Reproduction, GVCs/GPNs, Transition Economies, Central Asia.

Senior Lecturer in Development Studies

Dr Paolo Novak

Border studies & border thinking, Migration governance and migration “crisis”, Refugee regime, Infrastructure, Postcolonial and feminist geographies, Time and temporalities.

History, Religions & Philosophies

Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia

Dr James Caron

Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.

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.

Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies

Dr Seyed Ali Alavi

MA Iranian Studies, Critical Perspective on Palestine Studies, Re-mapping Area Studies, Decolonising Otherness.

Cultural, economic and political dynamics underpinning China's relations with the Middle East, with a special emphasis on nations such as Iran and the Arab States in West Asia.

Law

Reader in Laws of Central Asia

Professor Scott Newton

Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.

Music

Professor of Ethnomusicology

Professor Rachel Harris

Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics

Politics and International Studies

Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia

Dr Bhavna Davé

Geopolitics of Eurasia, Labour migration regulatory regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan, China's Belt and Road Initiative and effects on Central Asia, Politics in Central Asia, Development strategies in the Russian Far East

Research Associates

Research Associate

Dr Magsud Mammadov

Identity politics, nation branding, smart power, small state foreign policy, energy geopolitics, politics of R&D and Innovation.

Dr Galina M. Yemelianova

Islam, nationalism and ethnicity in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Volga-Urals region