POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS

More documents

Recommendations

Info

78DEPARTMENT OFHISTORYThe History Department is recognised internationallyas a centre of excellence for postgraduate studies inthe history of Africa and Asia.NUMBER OF STAFF 23RAE 5*DEPARTMENT WEBSITEwww.soas.ac.uk/historyFACULTY Arts and HumanitiesTAUGHT MASTERS DEGREESMA HISTORY: ASIA/AFRICAMA HISTORICAL RESEARCHMETHODSHISTORYIn the 1996 and 2001 Research AssessmentExercises, it achieved the highest grade. With23 full-time members of staff – and a varyingcorps of research associates and distinguishedvisiting scholars – the Department provides arich research environment, much of it centred onits five research seminar series on African, SouthAsian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and SouthEast Asian history. With around 20 or morenew students a year joining the History PhDprogramme, it has a large and active communityof research scholars.RESEARCH DEGREESResearch supervision is provided for a wide rangeof topics within Africa’s and Asia’s vast past,although it has particular strength in economic,social, religious, and political history, and in thehistory of medicine, science, and technology.New research students are required to attend,during their first year, a weekly seminar onresearch methods which provides training forresearch specifically in the history of Africaand Asia. In addition, research students attenda weekly regional history seminar – on Africa,South Asia, the Near and Middle East, EastAsia, or South East Asia – and often specialworkshops on themes related to their research.Close links are maintained with the nearbyInstitute of Historical Research and the Instituteof Commonwealth Studies, which run their ownresearch seminars.Although some theses rely mainly on materialsin English and other European languages, amajor advantage of taking a research degree inhistory at SOAS is that the School can provideinstruction in many African and Asian languages.Students requiring such instruction are advised tomention it at the time of application, and to discussarrangements with prospective supervisors as earlyas possible after receiving an offer. In addition,research students in history whose work extends intoother disciplines are encouraged to seek advice fromstaff in other departments, notably Anthropologyand Sociology, and the Study of Religions.In addition to the resources of the SOAS Library,historians at the School benefit from easy accessto the British Library (including the India Officeand Oriental Collections), to the British LibraryNewspaper Library at Colindale, to the NationalArchives, and to the large number of otherrelevant archives and libraries in central London.SOME RECENT RESEARCH THESESIzabela Orlowska – Re-Imagining Empire: EthiopianPolitical Culture under Yohannis IV (1872–89)George Barei – Britain and Algeria 1945–1965Sara Koplik – The Demise of the Jewish Community inAfghanistan (1933–1951)Nilanjan Sarkar – The Political Identity of the DelhiSultanate, 1200–1400ACADEMIC STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH AREASProfessor Ravi Ahuja PHD(HEIDELBERG)Modern South Asian HistoryDr Daud Ali BA(WILLIAM & MARY) MA PHD(CHICAGO)History of medieval South India: courtly culture in earlymedieval IndiaProfessor Ian Brown BA(BRISTOL) MA PHD(LONDON)The modern economic and political history of SouthEast Asia; the economic impact of the inter-wardepression on South East AsiaDr James R Brennan BA(ILLINOIS) MA(ALABAMA)PHD(NORTHWESTERN)History of urbanisation and nationalism in modern EastAfrica; Indian ocean diasporasProfessor William Gervase Clarence-Smith MA(CANTAB)DIPPOL(PARIS) PHD(LONDON)The modern economic history of the Third World; SouthEast Asian history; tree crops; Asian trading diasporas;alternative transport technologies
Dr Michael Charney BA(MICHIGAN-FLINT)MA(MICHIGAN & OHIO) PHD(MICHIGAN)The social and cultural history of early modern SouthEast Asia, with particular reference to BurmaProfessor Frank Dikötter BA MA(GENEVA) PHD(LONDON)Social and cultural history of modern ChinaDr Wayne Dooling BA MA(CAPE TOWN) PHD(CANTAB)Early colonial South African history; slavery andemancipation in the Cape ColonyDr Benjamin Fortna BA(YALE) MA(COLUMBIA)PHD(CHICAGO)Head of DepartmentModern Middle Eastern History; the late Ottomanempire, late Ottoman education and literatureDr Nelida Fuccaro MA(VENICE) PHD(DURHAM)MA ConvenorModern Middle Eastern history, especially Iraq, PersianGulf and Syria; urban social history; colonialism,ethnicity and nationalism; Kurdish historyProfessor G R Hawting BA PHD(LONDON)Pre-modern Islamic and Middle Eastern history; theorigins and early development of Islam in the Middle EastDr Konrad Hirschler MA PHD (LONDON)History of the Middle East; Islam in the Middle EastDr Andrea Janku MA PHD(HEIDELBERG)China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press andthe History of Communication; Environmental HistoryDr Angus Lockyer BA(CANTAB) MA(WASHINGTON)PHD (STANFORD)Modernisation and modernity in Japan; world’s fairs,international and industrial exhibitionsProfessor Tom McCaskie MA PHD(CANTAB)Research TutorHistory and culture of Asante and Africa; comparativehistory; history of ideas; historiographyDr James McDougall MA DPHIL (OXON)Politics of Northern AfricaDr John Parker BA PHD(LONDON)Early modern and modern West African history,especially social and political history of GhanaDr Avril A Powell MA(CANTAB) PGCE PHD(LONDON)Islam in South Asia; Mughal history; Muslim-ChristianrelationsDr Richard Reid BA(STIRLING) PHD(LONDON)History of AfricaProfessor Peter G Robb BA(WELLINGTON) PHD(LONDON)FRHISTSThe history of modern South Asia; Indian agrarianhistory, especially Bihar and Eastern India; Europeansurveys in India, c. 1780–1830; early CalcuttaDr Shabnum Tejani BA (OBERLIN COLL)MA MPHIL PHD (COLUMBIA)Nineteenth and twenieth-century social and intellectualhistory, particularly of the Bombay Presidency;communalism and nationalism in India; debates aroundsecularism and religious intoleranceProfessor Tom Tomlinson MA PHD(CANTAB)Economic HistoryDr Heidi Walcher BA(TÜBINGEN) MA PHD(YALE)Political and social history of 19th-century Iran;Qajar urban historyEchoes of power – palatial architecture of the MughalEmpire, Rajasthan, India79HISTORY
Page 1 and 2:
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUD
Page 3 and 4:
CONTENTS2 LIFE AND STUDY AT SOAS4 A
Page 5 and 6:
3LIFE AND STUDY AT SOAS
Page 7 and 8:
LOCATION5SOAS is based in the heart
Page 9 and 10:
POSTGRADUATE STUDY AT SOAS7EXCELLEN
Page 11 and 12:
FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCEST
Page 13 and 14:
degree from a UK university, or equ
Page 15 and 16:
Applications will also be judged on
Page 17 and 18:
DISTANCE LEARNINGSOAS runs an extre
Page 19 and 20:
17SOAS’s well-stocked library she
Page 21 and 22:
FACULTY AND DEPARTMENTAL CENTRES19F
Page 23 and 24:
Blackboard platform, the BLE provid
Page 25 and 26:
CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY CENTRALASIA
Page 27 and 28:
conferences on the GCC States, conv
Page 29 and 30: STUDENTS’ UNIONAll SOAS students
Page 31 and 32: SOAS STUDENT SOCIETIES29• ABACUS
Page 33 and 34: UNIVERSITY OF LONDONINTERCOLLEGIATE
Page 35 and 36: INTERCOLLEGIATE RESIDENCES FEE PER
Page 37 and 38: additional support, according to th
Page 39 and 40: 37• Welfare sessions (student sup
Page 41 and 42: 39ON-CAMPUS DEGREES
Page 43 and 44: Dr Tanya Kai Easton BA(GETTYSBURG)
Page 45 and 46: SOME RECENT RESEARCH THESESNigel El
Page 47 and 48: The dissertation (approximately 10,
Page 49 and 50: - Intellectual Property Rights and
Page 51 and 52: The degree is suitable for students
Page 53 and 54: Students must take the equivalent o
Page 55 and 56: The degree is designed to acquaint
Page 57 and 58: Dr Charlotte Horlyck BA MA PHD (LON
Page 59 and 60: - Historical and Contemporary persp
Page 61 and 62: DEPARTMENT OFCHINA AND INNER ASIATh
Page 63 and 64: texts in the original as well. Stud
Page 65 and 66: DEPARTMENT OFDEVELOPMENT STUDIESThe
Page 67 and 68: MSC DEVELOPMENT STUDIESMSC DEVELOPM
Page 69 and 70: DEPARTMENT OFECONOMICSThe Departmen
Page 71 and 72: Professor Mushtaq Khan BA(OXON) MPH
Page 73 and 74: MSC ECONOMICS PROGRAMMESNot all cou
Page 75 and 76: Hot stuff - Indian chilli pepper ve
Page 77 and 78: Mr Norman Flynn BA(ECON)(SUSSEX)MA(
Page 79: MSC INTERNATIONALMANAGEMENT (MIDDLE
Page 83 and 84: - Locating China I: China and Other
Page 85 and 86: CENTRE FORINTERNATIONAL STUDIESAND
Page 87 and 88: STRUCTURE AND REQUIREMENTSThe sched
Page 89 and 90: Ms Grace Koh BA(AMERICAN UNIV. PARI
Page 91 and 92: of undergraduate Korean language st
Page 93 and 94: The Department has long enjoyed ren
Page 95 and 96: function of human rights and humani
Page 97 and 98: MASTER OF LAWS (LLM)DURATIONOne cal
Page 99 and 100: - Justice, Reconciliation and Recon
Page 101 and 102: MA INTERNATIONAL ANDCOMPARATIVE LEG
Page 103 and 104: 8) MA LAW, DEVELOPMENT ANDGLOBALISA
Page 105 and 106: ACADEMIC STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH A
Page 107 and 108: STRUCTUREStudents attend the three
Page 109 and 110: This is a unique programme, in a po
Page 111 and 112: ACADEMIC STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH A
Page 113 and 114: - Christianity and Social Change in
Page 115 and 116: MA GLOBAL MEDIAAND POSTNATIONALCOMM
Page 117 and 118: DEPARTMENT OFMUSICThe Department of
Page 119 and 120: - Music of East Africa- Pop Music a
Page 121 and 122: Professor Andrew R George BA PHD(BI
Page 123 and 124: STRUCTURECourses are taught in Engl
Page 125 and 126: DEPARTMENT OFPOLITICS ANDINTERNATIO
Page 127 and 128: to make a student eligible for admi
Page 129 and 130: - Islam in South Asia- Japanese Mod
Page 131 and 132:
DEPARTMENT OFSOUTH ASIANUMBER OF ST
Page 133 and 134:
most appropriate level of study. Pa
Page 135 and 136:
MA LANGUAGES ANDLITERATURES OF SOUT
Page 137 and 138:
ACADEMIC STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH A
Page 139 and 140:
- Buddhist Scriptures: Mahåyåna a
Page 141 and 142:
• Those coming out of particular
Page 143 and 144:
STUDENTS MAY TAKE ONE LANGUAGE FROM
Page 145 and 146:
Indian Religions- Texts and Context
Page 147 and 148:
- Media in Africa- Media and Perfor
Page 149 and 150:
centric space in which comparative
Page 151 and 152:
OPTIONAL COURSESStudents must choos
Page 153 and 154:
MA JAPANESE STUDIESDEPARTMENTJapan
Page 155 and 156:
MA KOREAN STUDIESDEPARTMENTJapan an
Page 157 and 158:
- Politics and Society of the Middl
Page 159 and 160:
and seminars, and in addition stude
Page 161 and 162:
encouragement is given to students
Page 163 and 164:
Language- Taiwanese (Hokkien)- Basi
Page 165 and 166:
163DISTANCE LEARNING DEGREES
Page 167 and 168:
on the professional aspirations of
Page 169 and 170:
challenges in this field; and to de
Page 171 and 172:
169COMING TO SOAS
Page 173 and 174:
Please be advised that, in common w
Page 175 and 176:
SCHOOL POLICIES173ADMISSIONS POLICY
Page 177 and 178:
the outcome of the application is b
Page 179 and 180:
are not awarded more than once to a
Page 181 and 182:
for which awards are tenable. Furth
Page 183 and 184:
www.marshallscholarship.org or writ
Page 185 and 186:
183MMus and other MA degrees £1,95
Page 187 and 188:
TERM DATES AND OPEN DAYS1852008-200
Page 189 and 190:
OTHER USEFUL CONTACTS187KING’S CO
Page 191 and 192:
A-Z OF POSTGRADUATEDEGREES AND DIPL
Page 193 and 194:
INDEX191Academic resources 16Accomm
Page 195 and 196:
This prospectus is a guide for appl
show all

POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?