Staff
Academic Staff
ALEXANDER, Professor Catherine
Professor / Head of Department
Economic; state institutions; privatization; property rights; public/private sector interfaces; urbanisation; architecture; waste management.
BONACCORSO, Dr Monica ME
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow
Kinship, Gender and Sexuality; Anthropology of Media; Anthropology of Science and Medicine; Bioethics; Health Human Rights; Europe; East Africa
CASSIDY, Professor Rebecca
Professor
Gambling; betting shops; the gambling industry; luck, skill and money. Class, gender and kinship; horseracing/breeding; the bloodstock industry; training and performance; human animal relationships; domestication; Britain.
COOK, Dr Joanna
Lecturer
Buddhism; ascetic practice; anthropology of ethics and personhood; cultures of mindfulness: meditation techniques in psychology and monasticism; pilgrimage; detachment.
Professor
Britain, particularly London; the Himalayas; medical anthropology, HIV and other infectious diseases; spirit possession; sex, gender, kinship; politics of work; concepts of time.
DE GENOVA, Dr Nicholas
Senior Lecturer
Racialisation; labour subordination; the production of transnational urban space; the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship; the securitisation of human mobility on a global scale.
GODDARD, Dr Victoria
Senior Lecturer
Mediterranean anthropology, particularly Italy; Latin America, particularly Argentina; gender and kinship; nation and citizenship; work and the informal sector.
GRAEBER, Dr David
Reader
The nature of power; value theory; the principles of direct democracy and direct action; anthropology and anarchism; the history of debt.
HIGH, Dr Casey
Lecturer
History and memory; violence; indigenous rights and development; political anthropology; cosmology; gender; Latin America/Amazonia; Ecuador
LAMONT, Dr Mark
Lecturer
Age-set formation; generation; death and funerals; self-help movement and Pentecostalism; Kenya and Tanzania.
LEIZAOLA, Dr Ricardo
Visual Resources Officer
MOLLONA, Dr Massimiliano
Senior Lecturer
Economic institutions and organisations; value and labour; trade unions; technology, personhood and the state; urban; visual; Britain.
NUGENT, Professor Stephen
Professor
Brazilian Amazon; peasant economy; cognitive anthropology; anthropological theory; visual anthropology.
PINE, Dr Frances
Reader
Socialism and post socialism; anthropology of Europe; kinship; gender; economic anthropology, especially movement, migration, work, households, deindustrialisation; anthropology and history.
RENO, Dr Joshua
Lecturer
North America/Europe, political ecology, science and technology studies, climate change, environmental justice, disability studies
SANSI-ROCA, Dr Roger
Senior Lecturer
Anthropology of art, material culture and religion; Brazil and the Black Atlantic; Europe
SHAH, Dr Alpa
Senior Lecturer
South Asia, Jharkhand; adivasis and indigenous movements; the state and political anthropology; revolutionary movements and violence; democracy, development and environment; migration.
TARLO, Dr Emma
Reader
Clothing, textiles, identity politics, urban anthropology, contested histories and critical events
VON HELLERMANN, Dr Pauline
Lecturer
WASTELL, Dr Sari
Lecturer
Legal anthropology; social theory; war crimes prosecutions; post-conflict societies and 'transitional justice'; temporal idioms and time politics; African governance; The Hague, Bosnia, Swaziland and Euskadi (The Basque Country)
WRIGHT, Dr Chris
Lecturer
Visual anthropology; photography; visual culture; aesthetics; film; ethnohistory; Solomon Islands
Administrative Staff
BATH, Ms Rebecca
Departmental Secretary
E-mail: r.bath (@gold.ac.uk)
MACNICOL, Mr Hugh
Departmental Administrator
E-mail: h.macnicol (@gold.ac.uk)
Emeritus Professors
BESSON, Professor Jean
Emeritus Professor
Caribbean societies (fieldwork in Jamaica and Eastern Caribbean); peasantries; maroons; cultural history; land; law; development; kinship; gender; narratives; religion; migration.
CAPLAN, Professor Pat
Emeritus Professor
Ethics; food; gender; development; feminism; risk; voluntary organisations; social inequality; reflexive anthropology; Islam; Hinduism; East Africa; South Asia; Britain (Wales).
HART, Professor Keith
Emeritus Professor
Africa and the African diaspora; concept of the informal economy in development studies; movement and identity; money
MORRIS, Professor Brian
Emeritus Professor
Ethnobotany; ethnozoology; folk classification; herbalism; medical anthropology and psychology; human; East and Central Africa; South Asia; hunter gatherers; environment; education; philosophical anthropology.
NELSON, Dr Nici
Visiting Research Fellow
Women and Third World development; African urbanisation; ethnography; Kenya, participatory development; HIV/AIDS in East Africa; urban kinship.
Postdoctoral Fellows
DE ZORDO, Silvia
Research Staff
HARTLEY, Dr Julie
Dr. Hartley is a research fellow working on HealthGovMatters – a project which explores patients' and professionals' formal and informal involvement in governing the production and mediation of health and medical knowledge. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Her earlier work explored war-disability, disability rights and the state within the context of post-civil war Lebanon.
E-mail: j.hartley (@gold.ac.uk)
LOUSSOUARN, Dr Claire
Research Fellow
Trading, gambling and entrepreneurship; money; luck, uncertainty and risk; Chinese diaspora; migration; Britain, especially London; applied anthropology; technology; consumption
PISAC, Dr Andrea
Research Fellow
Chance, risk-taking, uncertainty, trust, entrepreneurship (particularly in post-socialist context), anthropology of industries (publishing, charities, tourism, gambling), borders (national, conceptual), former Yugoslavia