Staff
Permanent Academic Staff
ALEXANDER, Dr Catherine
Reader
Economic; state institutions; privatization; property rights; public/private sector interfaces; urbanisation; architecture; waste management.
BESSON, Professor Jean
Professor
Caribbean societies (fieldwork in Jamaica and Eastern Caribbean); peasantries; maroons; cultural history; land; law; development; kinship; gender; narratives; religion; migration.
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.
DARLING, Dr Eliza
Lecturer
US/UK, political ecology, environmental justice, housing, rural gentrification, urban social theory, the production of nature, class conflict over landscape.
DAY, Professor Sophie
Professor
Britain, particularly London; the Himalayas; medical anthropology, HIV and other infectious diseases; spirit possession; sex, gender, kinship; politics of work; concepts of time.
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
Currently under taking postdoctoral research. Dr High will take up his lectureship in September 2010
Lecturer
Age-set formation; generation; death and funerals; self-help movement and Pentecostalism; Kenya and Tanzania.
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 / Head of Department
Socialism and post socialism; anthropology of Europe; kinship; gender; economic anthropology, especially movement, migration, work, households, deindustrialisation; anthropology and history.
SANSI-ROCA, Dr Roger
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
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
Research Fellows
RENO, Dr Joshua
A research fellow working with the HealthGovMatters project, focusing on the role of professional and patients groups in the development of new medical technologies in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan for his research on landfills, social pollution, and waste trading based in the U.S. and Canada.
Email: j.reno
KUNNATH, Dr George
A research fellow working on Adivasi youth culture, education and employment in Jharkhand, India. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from SOAS, University of London. His earlier work focused on Dalits, caste and class relations in Bihar, India.
Email: g.kunnath
Administrative Staff
BATH, Ms Rebecca
Departmental Secretary
E-mail: r.bath
KELLY, Mr Sam
Postgraduate Secretary
E-mail: s.m.kelly
MACNICOL, Mr Hugh
Departmental Administrator
E-mail: h.macnicol
Emeritus Professors
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
BRYER, Dr Alice
Accounting, alienation, cooperatives, class, control, labour process, social economy
CROSS, Dr Jamie
Anthropology of South Asia; South India; industrial work and labour; men and masculinities; management and technology; transnational organisations; global production networks; offshore economies; emerging markets and social enterprise
FORBESS, Dr Alice
Anthropology of Romania and Eastern Europe; post-socialist political, religious and economic transformations; Orthodox Christianity and its monastic tradition.
West Indies, garment production, neoliberalism, illicit and informal economies, gender, embodiment, medical anthropology, occupational health and safety
Visiting Fellows
BARBER, Dr Gill
COLE, Dr Anna
Anna is working on an historical anthropology of the systematic removal of Indigenous children from their families during the 'Stolen Generations' in Australia. Anna is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow funded by the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Australia.
Email: a.cole@griffith.edu.au
CURRAN, Dr John
Email: j.curran
EVE, Dr. Val
Visiting Fellow involved in a multidisciplinary project aiming to identify a feasible integrated monitoring system for pesticide usage in the Amazon region. She is part of a team researching nutrition and health, funded by the Brazilian Research Council.
HORVATH, Ms Aniko (Central European University)
Marie Curie Fellow
LEWIS, Mr. Dave
Visiting Research Fellow. An artist with a long history of engaging with anthropological issues. In 1996 he collaborated with Dr. Chris Wright on the exhibition “The Impossible Science of Being: dialogues between anthropology and photography” and has contributed a photographic essay in the publication:‘Contemporary Art and Anthropology’, ed. Schneider/Wright 2006. He is currently involved in researching and developing new work in anthropology using both still photography and the moving image.
Email: dave@vida-image.demon.co.uk
LEWIS, Mr Nico
Nico is a filmmaker currently working with the Gughe Indigenous Art and Music Association, Ethiopia. Since 2005, he has documented music and performance cultures in southwest Ethiopia. In December 2007, he provided workshops, collaborating with local organisers/performers in developing an archive centre. His work is supported by the Christensen Fund.
MCKEVITT, Dr Christopher
Research interests: chronic diseases; the application of anthropological theories and methods to health research; ethnography and evaluation; development and evaluation of complex interventions; 'public participation' in research and service development; local and global health systems; health and spirituality.
Email: christopher.mckevitt@kcl.ac.uk
NAROTZKY, Prof. Susana
SHAKERIFAR, Elhum
I am a filmmaker and visual artist, working essentially around the themes of the status and rights of social marginalities, responsibility and representation in visual mediums, the use of participatory mediums, and gender in Islamic settings.
Email: elhum@postcodefilms.com