Chair - Dr David Taylor
Dr David Taylor is a former Pro-Director SOAS. His research interest focuses on the recent history and politics of South Asia; development of the party political system, beginning with the elections of 1937; Hindu nationalism in India and on the political history of Pakistan; the role of the mass media in the political process.
Dr Farid Panjwani
Associate Professor, UCL – IOE
Director, Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education
He works in four areas: interfaces between religion, citizenship and education; role of imagination in education; teaching about Islam in schools; and contemporary Muslim thought.
Prof Stephen Lyon
Professor of Anthropology, Aga Khan University London
Convenor annual Pakistan Workshop
Dr Nichola Khan
Professor in Human Geograph, School of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh
Tariq Suleman
He specialises in History & International Relations
SOAS, University of London
Dr Farooq Bajwa
Author of the books on the history of Pakistan’s foreign policy, India Pakistan 1965 War and the Pakistan Studies textbook for GCSE
Dr Najam Abbas
His research focuses on Central and South Asia
Dr Najam Abbas’s homepage
Nadir Cheema
Teaching Economics at SOAS, University of London
He specialises in economics and socio-political issues of Pakistan.
Dr Maria Rashid
Research Fellow, UCL Social Research Institute IOE
Book: Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
Dr Ayaz Qureshi
Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Homepage
Zulfiqar Khimani
PhD Scholar in Sociology of Religion at the University of Cambridge
Focuses on the construction of transnational religious authority
AFFILIATES
Dr Kaveri Qureshi, University of Edinburgh
Lecturer, Global Health Policy Unit, Department of Social Policy
Dr Umair Javed, LUMS
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
PhD thesis at LSE: Profit, Power, and Patronage: Bazaar Politics in Urban Pakistan
Dr Sameen Mohsin, LUMS
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
PhD thesis at SOAS: Staffing the State: The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan.
Dr Tayyab Safdar, University of Cambridge
Post-doctoral research looks at CPEC
PhD thesis at Cambridge: Impact of globalisation on agro-industrial value chains in developing countries, focusing on sugarcane value chain in Punjab, Pakistan
Dr Salman Rafi, LUMS
PhD thesis at SOAS: Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of De-centralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study
Dr Fatima Burney, University of California MERCED
Assistant Professor, Department of English: Language and Literature
Post-doctoral research at SOAS
PhD thesis at UCLA: Compares Anglophone and Urdu literary romantic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, particularly in their reception and representation of ghazal poetry.
Dr Najia Mukhtar
PhD thesis at SOAS: Approaching Religious Difference Differently: Counter-dominant Actors in Contemporary Pakistan