Members of the Centre of South East Asian Studies

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Dr Kostas Retsikas

The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.

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Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art

Dr Stephen A Murphy

Curating, museology, and history of collections, especially in Southeast Asia and Asia more generally; debates surrounding the decolonising of museums. Buddhist and Hindu art and archaeology of Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Laos. Indian Ocean World maritime networks and shipwrecks.

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.

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Reader in Labour, Social Movements and Development

Dr Tim Pringle

East Asia, labour relations in China and Vietnam, trade union reform in China and Vietnam, labour and social movements in China, labour migration in China.

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Professor of Economics

Professor Mushtaq Khan

Institutional economics, Rent-seeking economics, Corruption and clientelism, Industrial policy and state intervention in developing countries. South and South-East Asian economic development, Indian subcontinent.

Professor of Economics

Professor Ulrich Volz

International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets

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Professor of Asian and Military History

Professor Michael W. Charney

The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia

Senior Lecturer in the History of China

Dr Lars Laamann

Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)

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Dr Peter D Sharrock

Peter Sharrock experienced the American war in Indochina for 4-years as the Reuters correspondent and discovered how, as the French said, Indochina ‘attaches to the skin’.

Lecturer in Curating and Museology

Dr Heidi Tan

Dr Heidi Tan was a founding member of the curatorial team at the Asian Civilisations Museum, one of Singapore’s national museums that was launched in 1997.

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Professor of Thai Cultural Studies

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Modern Thai Cultural Studies, Cinema and Literature; gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia

Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese

Dr Dana Healy

Modern Vietnamese cultural studies (literature, film, gender); Vietnamese social and cultural history (the Vietnam War; art and politics); the sociology of contemporary Vietnamese literature; the Vietnamese diaspora

Reader in South East Asian Studies

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

Senior Lecturer in Indonesian

Dr Soe Tjen Marching

Indonesian language

Research Fellow in Philippine Studies

Dr Cristina Martinez-Juan

Philippine Post-colonial and Comparative Literature Studies; British Occupation of Manila; Philippine languages and linguistics; Ethnography of Communication; Writing systems; Southeast Asian Studies; Gender and Migration..

Reader in Indonesian and Malay

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; representation of HIV in Indonesian culture

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Reader in Law, History and Anthropology

Dr Vanja Hamzić

Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.

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Professor of Language Policy and Revitalisation

Professor Julia Sallabank

Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, endangered languages, revitalisation methods, multilingualism, language documentation, language and development.

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Senior Lecturer in Politics of Southeast Asia

Dr Carlo Bonura

Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.

Reader in Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia

Dr Michael Buehler

Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia, Public Policy

Professor in International Relations of East Asia

Professor Ralf Emmers

International Relations Theory; International Security; Multilateralism; Middle Powers; International Institutions in Asia; International Security and Politics of Southeast Asia; Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia

Senior Lecturer in Global Energy & Climate Policy

Dr Harald Heubaum

Climate and energy policy and governance; climate and sustainable finance; economic analysis and evaluation of climate adaptation and resilience-building interventions; political economy of energy transitions; risk and policy analysis.

Lecturer in International Relations

Dr Maya Nguyen

Dr Maya Nguyen is a Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS University of London.

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Teaching Fellow in Vietnamese

Mrs Thu Trang Tran

Teaching Fellow in Burmese

Tha Zin

Burmese language

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Emeritus Professor of Economics

Professor Anne Booth

Economic Development, Southeast Asia, Colonial Legacies, Globalisation.

Emeritus Professor

Professor Ian Brown

The modern economic and political history of South East Asia; the economic impact of the inter-war depression on South East Asia

Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith

History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia

Emeritus Professor of Law

Professor Carol G. S. Tan

Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law

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Dr Pierre Echaubard

Biodiversity, health and infectious diseases ecology and evolution.

Research Associate

Dr Nick Gray

Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay; composition; improvisation; analysis; music and religion

Research Associate

Dr Mizuho Ikeda

The material and visual cultures of Myanmar’s diaspora communities in the UK: Media of remembering and identity.

Dr Fiona Kerlogue

Material culture of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian textiles; the relationship between material culture and memory; the history of museum collecting; the role of material heritage in society.

Research Associate, SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies

Dr Matthew Phillips

Thai history and politics, with a focus on how Thai diplomacy in the Cold War drew from historic principles of Buddhist kingship.

Research Associate

Dr Ponpavi Sangsuradej

Postcolonial history with a focus on Myanmar and Southeast Asia.

Research Associate

Dr Natasa Thoudam

Gendered Military History of the Meiteis in Manipur (in India’s Northeast) and Burma.

Members of the Centre of South East Asian Studies

Anthropology

Dr Kostas Retsikas

Arts

Dr Stephen A Murphy

Professor Ashley Thompson

Professor Louise Tythacott

Development Studies

Dr Tim Pringle

Economics

Professor Mushtaq Khan

Professor Ulrich Volz

History, Religions and Philosophies

Professor Michael W. Charney

Dr Lars Laamann

History of Art and Archaeology

Dr Peter D Sharrock

Dr Heidi Tan

Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Dr Dana Healy

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

Dr Soe Tjen Marching

Dr Cristina Martinez-Juan

Dr Ben Murtagh

Law

Dr Vanja Hamzić

Linguistics

Professor Julia Sallabank

Politics and International Studies

Dr Carlo Bonura

Dr Michael Buehler

Professor Ralf Emmers

Dr Harald Heubaum

Dr Maya Nguyen

Teaching Fellows

Mrs Thu Trang Tran

Tha Zin

Emeritus Research Associates

Professor Anne Booth

Professor Ian Brown

Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Professor Carol G. S. Tan

Research Associates

Dr Pierre Echaubard

Dr Nick Gray

Dr Mizuho Ikeda

Dr Fiona Kerlogue

Dr Matthew Phillips

Dr Ponpavi Sangsuradej

Dr Natasa Thoudam

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