UK Fellow, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, elected in 1990
Professor Christopher Shackle FBA
About this Fellow
Oriental and African Studies
Appointments
Current post
- Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London
Past Appointments
- Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi, Soas, University Of London, 1969 - 1979
- Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia, Birkbeck College University of London, 1979 - 1985
- Pro-Director for Academic Affairs, Soas, University Of London, 1997 - 2003
- Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London, 1985 - 2008
- Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London, Soas, University Of London, 1985
British Academy Appointments
- Member of Council | previously Member of Council 1995 - 1996, 2001 - 2004
Publications
A Guru Nanak glossary 1981
Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996
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Professor Simon Swain
Culture and history of the Greek world under Rome; History of Medicine in antiquity and the middle ages; the legacy of Greek thought in medieval Islam
Professor Richard Widdess
Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions
Professor Andrew Gerstle
The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Medieval Hebrew manuscripts from the East and the West: palaeographical, codicological and historical studies
