Reader in Social Anthropology 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.
Head of College Professor Graeme Were Graeme is an anthropologist with expertise in material culture, museums and heritage. He has undertaken long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam, and conducted extensive work with museums in the UK, Australia, and across Asia. He is the Head of the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics.
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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
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
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.
Professor of Language Policy and Revitalisation Professor Julia Sallabank Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, endangered languages, revitalisation methods, multilingualism, language documentation, language and development. British Isles, Channel Islands/Guernesiais, Oceania (language policies and attitudes), Thailand (minority language support and revitalisation).
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
Senior Lecturer in International Relations of East Asia Dr 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.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Anne Booth Economic Development, Southeast Asia, Colonial Legacies, Globalisation.
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
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 Farouk Yahya Southeast Asian art, Islamic art, illustrated and illuminated manuscripts and books, magic and divination.
