Academic Staff

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.

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.

DE GENOVA, Dr Nicholas
Reader
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.

DONEGAN, Dr Brendan
Lecturer
India; anthropology of development and the environment; NGOs, social movements and civil society; citizenship; land acquisition; health and human rights; narrative analysis; ethics and anthropology; anthropology and activism.

GODDARD, Professor Victoria
Professor
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.

JOY, Dr Charlotte
Lecturer
Mali; UNESCO; Cultural Heritage; Development. 

LAMONT, Dr Mark
Lecturer
Age-set formation; generations; death and funerals; road safety and injurability; morality and ethics; religion and secularity; 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.

SANSI-ROCA, Dr Roger
Senior Lecturer
Anthropology of art, material culture and religion; Brazil and the Black Atlantic; Europe

TARLO, Professor Emma
Professor
Clothing, textiles, identity politics, urban anthropology, contested histories and critical events

VON HELLERMANN, Dr Pauline
Lecturer
Political and historical ecology; Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya; anthropology of science, policy, and the state; resource politics and corruption; patrons and youth; landscapes; memory; repeat photography; multi-sited ethnography

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)

WESTON, Dr Gavin
Lecturer
Vigilantism, violence, Guatemala, Latin America, political anthropology, legal anthropology and comic book vigilantes/superheroes among many other things.

WOODMAN, Dr Justin
Lecturer
Anthropology of religion; contemporary esotericism and paganism; speculative fiction and popular culture; the anthropology of evil; moral panics; cognition and the supernatural

WRIGHT, Dr Chris
Lecturer
Visual anthropology; photography; visual culture; aesthetics; film; ethnohistory; Solomon Islands