The history and politics of modern China, with special attention to traditions of rebellion and revolution and their influence on contemporary patterns of protest and governance
Elected 2016
The state and society relations in Europe since the late-20th century; majority and minority relations in Europe; migration-refugee studies; studies on neoliberal forms of governmentality: nationalism, multiculturalism, populism, Islamophobism
Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra
