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.
Reader in Marketing and Cultural Studies Dr Senija Causevic Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; Balkans; India
Professor Benjamin Fortna Modern Middle Eastern History, the late Ottoman empire, late Ottoman education and literature
Emeritus Professor Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East
Senior Lecturer in Turkish Dr Yorgos Dedes Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations Professor Gilbert Achcar Globalisation, Global Power Relations, MENA, Sociology of Religion Sociology of Revolution.
Lecturer in Comparative Literature Dr Keya Anjaria Modern Turkish Literature; Comparative Literature; World Literature; the Novel; Turkish Language and Culture
Reader in Law Dr Samia Bano Muslim Family law in the UK and Europe, Family Law, Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Islamic Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Feminist and Critical Social and Political Theories, Issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and Gender Equality.
Dr Brenna Bhandar Indigenous rights, law and colonialism, post-colonial, feminist and critical legal theories.
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia
Professor of Law Professor Matthew Craven Public international law, international legal history (particularly colonialism and decolonisation), postcolonial and critical legal theory.
Member Dr Colin Heywood Honorary Research Fellow at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull
Professorial Research Associate Professor Tom Selwyn Anthropology of tourism, pilgrimage, cultural heritage; the Mediterranean, in particular Palestine/Israel.
Reader in Israeli Studies Dr Yair Wallach Social and cultural history of modern Palestine/Israel; material, visual and urban culture; history of textuality; race and antisemitism; migration and settler colonialism in Jewish history
Emeritus Professor of Musicology of the Middle East Professor Owen Wright Music of the Islamic Middle East; historical musicology
Associate Member Dr Behar Sadriu Behar Sadriu is a Teaching Fellow for the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Senior Teaching Fellow & Research Admissions Tutor Dr Veli Yadirgi Political, Economic and Social History of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish Question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Politics and Development Economics of the Countries of the Middle East; Social Change and Social Theory.
