Professor Anna Contadini graduated (Laurea cum laude) in Arabic and Islamic Art at the Oriental Institute of Venice University with a thesis on Arabic illustrated manuscripts of the Mamluk period. She ...

Rai, Shirin M., (eds.), Gluhovic, Milija, (eds.), Jestrovic, Silvija, (eds.) and Saward, Michael, (eds.) (2021). New York: Oxford University Press. View this book Law ...

Professor Rachel Harris’s research is centered on China and Central Asia, with a particular focus on the Uyghurs. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan over ...

Jonathan Goodhand is a Professor of Conflict and Development Studies in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the Director of CIVAD. He is also an Honorary ...

Michael Buehler is a Reader in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London specialising in Southeast Asian politics, his teaching and ...

Surbhi Kesar is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. Her recent and ongoing work focusses on labour and informal economy and the reproduction of the structure of economic dualism ...

Arka Chakraborty researches popular music, Anglophone subcultures and ephemeral histories in South Asia. As a music historian, he specialises in recovering the vanished musical worlds of postcolonial ...

My research explores the intersection between what we call philosophy and mysticism/spirituality and the ways in which European colonialism has influenced (and continues to influence) modern ...

Mariano Errichiello is a scholar of Zoroastrianism specialising in modern communities. His research combines textual analysis with ethnographic insight, with particular interest in mobility, migration ...

Zoë Marriage is Professor of Security and International Development at the Department of Development Studies of SOAS University of London. All Zoe's research has at its core the enquiry into how ...