Jens Augspurger Jens Augspurger is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies and a doctoral fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Foundation).
Ms Erin A. Freas-Smith I am a third year PhD student finishing up my field work in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Ms Brandi Simpson Miller Brandi Simpson Miller is a Ph.D. student in the History, Religions, and Philosophy Department at SOAS. Her research interests include the foodways of the Gold Coast in the 19th and 20th centuries, and explore the historical basis for the cultural changes in what would later become Ghana in 1957. She holds a Master’s Degree in World History, with a dual emphasis on Latin American and West African History from Georgia State University in the U.S. She currently is working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the H110 History of Africa Course
Shan Siping I am interested in global history, environmental history and frontier history of China in early modern period.