Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
Elected 2016
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
The History and Archaeology of the early Islamic Middle-East, North Africa and Spain c.600-1000 AD
Oriental and African Studies East Asia China, Japan, Korea South-East Asia Vietnam