Professor Christopher Shackle FBA

Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

Past appointments

Soas, University Of London Pro-Director for Academic Affairs

1997 - 2003

University of London Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia

1985 - 2008

Soas, University Of London Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

1985 -

Birkbeck College University of London Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia

1979 - 1985

Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi

1969 - 1979

Publications

The Siriaki language of central Pakistan 1976

A Guru Nanak glossary 1981

Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

History, African Languages and Literature, Social History in Africa, Economic History in Africa, History of Medicine in Africa.

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Professor Charles Tripp FBA

Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.

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Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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