Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
Elected 2012
The Mongol Empire & its relations with the Catholic West; the Crusades & the Latin East; & the eastern Islamic world in the Middle Ages.
Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures
Contemporary Chinese government and politics; Chinese health and social policy, poverty and inequality; comparative politics