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Trans_feminism; Racism, Migratism and Constructions of Europeanness; Critical European Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Critical Migration Studies; Interdependencies/Intersectionality; Diaspora Studies.

Dr. Sophie Chamas is grounded in anthropology, her work focussing on the study of social movements, counter-culture, and political theory and discourse rooted in, focused on or related to the Middle East. 

My research focuses on how law and gender interacts with national/international instruments and institutions in the protection of (Congolese) refugees against sexual and gender based violence in Angola.

Dr Abeera Khan is a writer and educator whose knowledge production and pedagogy is concerned with the interrelatedness between empire, gender, race and sexuality.

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.

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.

Economic development, Macroeconomic and Social policies, Social reproduction, Feminist political economy, Care, Feminist economics, Economics pedagogy.

Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist and the author of Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran.

Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; Balkans; India

Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in gender/sexuality, Modernism and translation studies

Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating

Military law, criminal law, international criminal law, peace and security, peacekeeping, critical legal theories

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.

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.

Violence and conflict, governance, post colonial state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, (reproductive) health, migration, and community development/transformative education - all explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, Latin America but currently focus mainly on West and East Africa.

Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; Silk Road narratives; cultural and heritage policy, Islamic soundscapes; gender; minority rights and identity politics

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

Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.

Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development

Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS

East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions

Middle East and Central Asia: gender and development; the state and social policy; feminist theory

Jieyu Liu is Professor of Sociology and China Studies at SOAS University of London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, family and generation.

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.

Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions

Social Reproduction, Supply-Chains Capitalism, Modern Slavery, Informality.

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

History of modern South Asia, particularly the transition to independence; gender, family and law in colonial and post-colonial India

Professor Francesca Orsini is a literary historian working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials and interested in exploring how multilingualism worked and continues to work within the literary cultures of South Asia.

Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.

Bordering processes, Gender and intersecting inequalities, Reproductive justice, Culture and the creative economy.

International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queertheory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia

Anti-terror laws (particularly of South Asia); law and anthropology; legal theory (particularly on theories of emergency legality); sexuality and gender identity in South Asia.

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

Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance.

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.

Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics

Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law

Arabic language and literature, modern Islamic studies