Dr Paul Anderson
Social anthropology, relating to Islam, and the sociality of trade. Trading networks connecting China to markets in West Asia and Arabic-speaking countries
Dr Katherine Hodgson
Katherine Hodgson’s research interests include syntax, information structure, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, dialectology, and language documentation, particularly in connection with Armenian and Greek. She is currently working on the ERC-funded project Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: a Linguistic History of Minorities in the Middle East. She has also carried out an ELDP-funded project documenting Zok, an endangered variety of Armenian, as well as extensive fieldwork on other dialects of Armenian and Greek, including Pontic Greek as spoken in Armenia.
Professor Geoffrey Khan
Semitic philological and linguistic studies, particularly of Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. Also endangered dialects of Neo-Aramaic and the history of Judaeo-Arabic, including modern spoken varieties.
Dr John Nilsson-Wright
Cold War relationship between the USA & NE Asia, particularly Japan & the two Koreas; contemporary regional security issues, foreign policy & domestic politics
