The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university located in London,England,and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb,Beatrice Webb,Graham Wallas,and George Bernard Shaw,LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901. LSE began awarding its degrees in its own name in 2008,prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. It became a university in its own right within the University of London in 2022.
SOAS University of London is a public research university in London,England,and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916,SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London.
Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News,and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998),before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News,and Reporters,a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC.
Hugh Nigel Kennedy is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East,Muslim Iberia and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007,he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. Since 2007,he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS,University of London.
The University of London Worldwide is the central academic body that manages external study programmes within the federal University of London. All courses are branded as simply "University of London",having previously been "University of London International Programmes" and earlier "University of London External Programmes". It claims to be the world's oldest distance and flexible learning body,established under the University of London's royal charter of 1858,although academics have disputed whether it offered distance learning at that time.
Shula Eta Marks,OBE,FBA is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. She has written at least seven books and a WHO monograph on Health and Apartheid,concerning experiences and public health issues in South Africa. Some of her current public health work involves the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in contemporary South Africa.
Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Brazilian Marxian economist.
Bernhard Fuehrer is a Professor of Sinology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). As well as teaching classes on Classical Chinese,he has co-authored a series of textbooks on Southern Hokkien with Yang Hsiu-fang. In 1999,SOAS became the first institution in the United Kingdom to teach a course in Hokkien. Professor Fuehrer has advocated that the study of Taiwan should include the study of Hokkien,as without it the student would be "lacking an important aspect of this field".
Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist,post-colonial theorist and prolific writer on topics ranging from human rights,Adivasi issues,rights of non-citizens,refugees,and stateless people,common forms of discrimination,government in everyday life,media,democracy,and the state-society relations in Bangladesh and South Asia. Uddin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chittagong.
Henry Bernstein is a British sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of London:School of Oriental and African Studies. He has worked for several decades on the political economy of agrarian change,social theory,peasant studies,land reform,and the rural economy in South Africa.
Shirin M. Rai,is an interdisciplinary scholar who works across the political science and international relations boundaries. She is known for her research on the intersections between international political economy,globalisation,post-colonial governance,institutions and processes of democratisation and gender regimes. She was a professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick,and is the founding director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID).
Stephen Chan is an author and Professor of World Politics at SOAS,University of London. He was appointed an OBE for "services to Africa and higher education" in 2010. He has published number of books on international relations and articles and reviews in the academic and specialist press,as well as journalistic feature articles.
Suisheng Zhao is a professor of Chinese politics and foreign policy at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies. He serves as director of the school's Center for China–US Cooperation,and is the founding editor and the editor-in-chief of the multidisciplinary Journal of Contemporary China.
Liu Xiaofeng is a contemporary Chinese scholar and a professor at Renmin University of China. He has been considered the prototypical example of what is called a cultural Christian,meaning a believer who may lack a specific church identification or affiliation,and was,along with He Guanghu,one of the main forerunners of the academic field of Sino-Christian Theology. However,in recent years,his interest has shifted from studies in Christian theology to the political theories of Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt.
Joyce Chi-Hui Liu is Professor of Critical Theory,Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at National Chiao Tung University,Taiwan. Liu is the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies that she founded in 2002. She is also the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan.
Victor B. Lieberman is an American historian of early modern Southeast Asia and Eurasia. He presently serves as the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Asian and Comparative History at the University of Michigan,where he began teaching in 1984. That year he published a seminal work,Burmese Administrative Cycles:Anarchy and Conquest,c.1580-1760,which profoundly impacted scholarship on mainland Southeast Asia through an analysis of alternating governance patterns in 16th- to 18th-century Burma. Totaling some 1500 pages,his more recent two-volume study Strange Parallels:Southeast Asia in Global Context,c. 800-1830 argued that in terms of basic dynamics,chronology,and trajectory,patterns of political and cultural integration in mainland Southeast Asia over several centuries resembled those in much of Europe and Japan,and to a lesser extent,in China and South Asia. A lead featured review in the principal journal of history,The American Historical Review, in 2012 claimed that "Lieberman's two-volume magnum opus is the most important work of history produced so far this century." Two international conferences,in London and Osaka,have been held to discuss Lieberman's scholarship,and each of the two chief journals of Asian studies,Modern Asian Studies (1997) and The Journal of Asian Studies (2011),has devoted a special edition to his work. His books have won prizes from the World History Association and the Association for Asian Studies. In 2014 he won the Golden Apple Award,conferred by student ballot,as the best teacher at the University of Michigan.
Elisabeth Joan "Lisa" Croll,was a New Zealand anthropologist. She is known as the first anthropologist to visit Chinese villages in a period when political actions made access into the country for foreigners difficult. Croll published books on the subject and held several short-term fellowships at various educational institutions. She also worked for United Nations agencies and international non-government organisations.
Adam Hanieh is a development studies academic based in the United Kingdom. He is Professor in Development Studies at SOAS,University of London,a founding member of the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies,and a former member of the Council for British Research in the Levant. He is noted for his research on Marxism,the political economy of the Middle East,labour migration,class and state formation in the Gulf Cooperation Council,and Palestine studies.
Dafydd J. Fell is a British political scientist who has written extensively on politics of Taiwan. He is a professor in comparative politics and the director of the Center of Taiwan Studies (CTS) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),University of London. Fell is the convenor of the MA Taiwan Studies programme of the SOAS. Under his direction,this school’s Taiwan-related courses,conferences and publications on Taiwan increased. He is the book series editor for the Routledge Research on Taiwan Series and an editor of International Journal of Taiwan Studies.
Ming-Yeh Tsai Rawnsley is a Taiwanese media scholar,writer,and former journalist and TV screenwriter. Since 2013,she has been a Research Associate at Centre of Taiwan Studies,SOAS University of London. She is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute,University of Nottingham (2014–present),Research Fellow at the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT),University of Tübingen (2015–present),and Research Associate at Academia Sinica,Taiwan (2018–present). M-Y T. Rawnsley is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Taiwan Studies and associate editor of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2013–present).
