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Centre members

The Centre for Kurdish Studies benefits from the activities of several members of staff recognised as specialists in different disciplinary areas:

NamePosition
Dr Farangis Ghaderi Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies, Lecturer in Gender and Kurdish Studies 

Prof Christine Robins

Associate Professor and holds the Ibrahim Ahmed Chair of Kurdish Studies

Dr Allan Hassaniyan

Lecturer in Middle East Politics

Dr Kawa Morad

Lecturer in Anthropology
Dr Clémence Scalbert Yücel Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics 
Prof Gareth Stansfield Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies

Sarah Wood

Centre Administrator

Honorary research fellows

NamePosition
Dr Li Bingzhong Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Omar Sheikhmous Honorary Research Fellow

Associate members

NamePositionEmail
Professor Philip Kreyenbroek Professor and Director of Iranian Studies Georg-August University of Göttingen gkreyen@gwdg.de 
Professor Hamit Bozarslan Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales Hamit.Bozarslan@ehess.fr

PhD students

You can search for previous submitted PhD thesis from our centre in the Open Research Exeter page within the library catalogue. There are over 80 doctoral texts which show the key word 'Kurdish.'