Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Elizabeth Hull South Africa; economic anthropology; anthropology of the state & institutions, bureaucracy, agriculture; livelihoods; health; nutrition; politics of food systems, food acquisition and consumption practices.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Jakob Klein China (South); anthropology of food; regional cuisines; local foods; restaurant cultures; urban Chinese society and the urban/rural divide.
Professor Nadje Al-Ali Women & gender in the Middle East; women’s movements and feminism in Middle East; secularism and Islamism; transnational migration, diaspora mobilization; gendering violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; impact of sanctions, war and occupation on Iraqi women, Iraq.
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development Dr Annabel de Frece Political ecology, Agriculture, Gender equality, Sustainable and equitable food systems, Education for sustainable development and interdisciplinary learning.
Emeritus Professor Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Chris Bramall Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire
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 the Political Economy of Development Professor Christopher Cramer Rural labour in global supply chains, High-value agriculture policy, African economic development, Extreme deprivation identification, Political economy of war to peace transitions.
Professor of International and Environmental Law Professor Philippe Cullet Law and policy concerning the environment and natural resources (in particular water, sanitation, biodiversity, climate crisis); rights of nature; social rights; sustainable development; international law; international inequality; India
Professor in Anthropology Professor Catherine Dolan East Africa. Corporations and capitalism, international development, moral economies, corporate social responsibility, enterprise and entrepreneurialism, inclusive markets, consumption and commodities, politics and practices of food governance, gender.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Ben Fine South Africa; Heterodox Economics; History of Economic Thought; Financialisation; Social Policy; Consumption; Social Capital.
Professor in the Study of Religions and Philosophies Professor Peter Flügel Jaina Studies; South Asian History and Culture; Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.
Emeritus Professor of Sinology Professor Bernhard Fuehrer Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects
Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan Dr Christopher Gerteis Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
Professor of Development Studies Professor Laura Hammond Africa; Horn of Africa; refugees and forced migration; post-conflict social integration; violence and conflict analysis; humanitarianism and humanitarian assistance; globalisation, transnationalism, diasporas and remittances; famine and food security; livelihoods in emergency contexts.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Jane Harrigan International finance for development and the economic reform programmes associated with IMF and World Bank finance to developing countries; the links between macro-economic policy and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa; the gender dimensions of economic liberalisation and globalisation; and the political economy of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Cross-cutting these subject areas are two geographical areas of specialisation, namely sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Ghana and Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Professor of Jewish Studies Professor Catherine Hezser Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late antiquity; American Jewish history and literature, Jewish identity, gender studies
Professorial Research Associate Professor Deborah Johnston Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS
Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies Dr Tania Kaiser East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
Emeritus Professor in Development Studies Professor Deniz Kandiyoti Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory
Emeritus Professor in Agrarian and Labour Studies Professor Jens Lerche Dalit discrimination, Caste and class, Racial capitalism, Labour relations, Labour migration, Agrarian change, Activism and struggles, India.
Reader in Anthropology Dr Naomi Leite Sociality, belonging, and exclusion across cultural domains and scales; identity and identification; cultural logics of kinship, relatedness, heritage, and obligation; transcultural encounter and (mis)communication (esp in tourism/travel); community, self, and wellbeing; social inequality; language and thought; psychological anthropology, person-centred ethnography, ethnographic theory & practice.
Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan) Dr Helen Macnaughtan Helen joined SOAS in 2002 and lectures on economic, business, labour and HRM issues in contemporary Japan (and within a broader East Asian context). Her research interests focus on a broad range of topics relating to gender issues, employment and sport in Japan.
Emeritus Professor Professor Elizabeth Moore Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape
Professor of Social Anthropology Professor David Mosse Anthropology of mental health and psychiatry; anthropology of organisations and activism, international development, caste, Dalit rights, anthropology of Christianity, South Asian society and popular religion, environmental history and natural resources management.
Professor of Political Economy of Development; Director of Research and REF Coordinator Professor Carlos Oya Labour, Agrarian change, Sustainability standards, Political economy of development, Research methods, Africa, China-Africa.
Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics Professor Stacey Pierson History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting and display
Professor of International Development Policy Professor Nigel Poole Research: Agri-health and nutrition, natural resources and food value chains, poverty reduction.
Emeritus Reader Mr Colin Poulton Research: Rural development and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
Emeritus Professor Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics
Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Charlotte Sanders Migration and diaspora; feminist theory (particularly Black and decolonial); critical race theory; feminist/socialist/anarchist geographies; everyday politics; housing and homelessness; community grounded research; Sudanese in the UK.
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Professor Timon Screech History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history
Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development Dr Subir Sinha South Asia; social movements; civil society; the environment; institutions; agrarian questions; Marxist and postcolonial theory; Social theory in Development studies.
Professor Julia C Strauss State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America
Research Associate Dr Kristin Surak International migration, political sociology, nationalism, culture, state and society in Japan, qualitative methods.
Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies Professor Cosimo Zene Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology; South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia, world philosophies.
Dr Monica Janowski SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.
Dr Nafsika Papacharalampous Anthropology of food; Urban anthropology; Human-animal relationships; Nationalism; Memory; Tradition; Cultural heritage; Embodiment; Oral histories; Multi-species ethnography; Ethnographic writing.
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Katharina Graf Anthropology of food, gender, urban space, material culture, knowledge reproduction, food security, risk and uncertainty, Middle East and North Africa (especially Morocco).
Emeritus Professor of Development Studies Professor Henry Bernstein East Africa and South Africa; sociology of development; agrarian political economy; social and political theory; food commodity chains; governance and development.
Emeritus Professor Professor Johan P J Pottier Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation
