Anthropology staff
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Staff list
Rebecca Cassidy
r.cassidy (@gold.ac.uk)
Rebecca’s work on gambling and horseracing explores class, kinship, gender, risk, money and work.
Dr Helen Cornish
h.cornish (@gold.ac.uk)
Helen Cornish is interested in the anthropology of history and the past, British Witchcraft and Paganism, and regional British ethnography, in particular Cornwall.
Gabriel Dattatreyan
g.dattatreyan (@gold.ac.uk)
Gabriel is interested in how smart phones and social media shape how young migrants recall, imagine, and inhabit multiple geographies.
Professor Sophie Day MA PhD
s.day (@gold.ac.uk)
Sophie is a social anthropologist working largely in health, currently on 'personalisation' in medicine and with reference to Ladakhi houses.
Professor Simon Dein
s.dein (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon researches religious healing in Pentecostalism, mental health and Islam, prophecy and Jewish Millennialism
Dr Henrike Donner
h.donner (@gold.ac.uk)
Henrike is an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, class and urban politics.
Dr Alice Elliot
a.elliot (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice works in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, kinship and gender.
Professor Victoria Goddard BSc PhD
v.goddard (@gold.ac.uk)
Victoria has worked in the fields of economic and political anthropology, with an emphasis on gender and class.
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA
e.gonzalez-polledo (@gold.ac.uk)
Elena is a social anthropologist whose work often pushes boundaries between traditional academic disciplines.
Dr Adom Philogene Heron
a.heron (@gold.ac.uk)
Adom's work concerns questions of gender, kinship, the life-course and hurricanes in the Caribbean.
Dr Jason Hickel
j.hickel (@gold.ac.uk)
Jason specialises in development, finance, democracy, violence, and global political economy.
Dr Mark Johnson
m.johnson (@gold.ac.uk)
Mark’s interests are on the issues of gender/sexuality, landscape and material culture, migration and transnationalism.
Dr Vicky Johnson
V.Johnson (@gold.ac.uk)
Vicky’s key focus of research and publication is in the field of children and young people’s participation.
Dr Charlotte Joy
c.joy (@gold.ac.uk)
Charlotte’s research focuses on international approaches to the protection of African cultural heritage
Dr Ricardo Leizaola PhD
r.leizaola (@gold.ac.uk)
Ricardo is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist specialising in visual anthropology and ethnobotany.
Dave Lewis
ans01dl (@gold.ac.uk)
Connecting the practices of ethnography and photography, Dave explores the social conditions of belonging.
Claire Loussouarn
c.loussouarn (@gold.ac.uk)
Claire’s interests are slow cinema, the intersections of reality and fiction, the dialogue of moving images and bodies.
Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
i.marrero (@gold.ac.uk)
Isaac is interested in how activism and aesthetic practices may contribute to creating new conditions of possibility for collectives.
Dr Massimiliano Mollona MSc PhD
m.mollona (@gold.ac.uk)
Massimiliano’s background in economics and anthropology has informed his research on art, activism and political economy.
Dr Nici Nelson MA PhD
n.nelson (@gold.ac.uk)
Nici has published on urban anthropology, gender and development and approaches to development.
Dr Gabriela Nicolescu
g.nicolescu (@gold.ac.uk)
Gabriela is interested in what visual and material culture perspectives can bring to migration studies.
Dr Dominique Santos
dominique.santos (@gold.ac.uk)
Dominque’s research interests are in play and children's access to the city in Johannesburg and London.
Professor Emma Tarlo
e.tarlo (@gold.ac.uk)
Emma specialises in the anthropology of material culture with reference to dress, fashion, textiles, the body and hair.
Dr Pauline von Hellermann
p.vonhellermann (@gold.ac.uk)
Combining historical and political ecology perspectives, Pauline researches the landscapes and politics in Africa.
Dr Martin Webb
m.webb (@gold.ac.uk)
Martin engages with active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability and urban governance.
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Dr Martyn Wemyss
m.wemyss (@gold.ac.uk)
Martyn is interested in the relationship between law and time, aesthetics of justice and the material lives of norms.
Dr Gavin Weston
g.weston (@gold.ac.uk)
Gavin is interested in vigilantism and the anthropology of violence, the intersections between anthropology and popular culture, and student/staff collaborative research.
Dr Justin Woodman
j.woodman (@gold.ac.uk)
Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.
Dr Chris Wright MA, PhD
c.wright (@gold.ac.uk)
Chris’ research centres on visual anthropology, including photography, visual culture, aesthetics and film.
Professor Jean Besson MA PhD
j.besson (@gold.ac.uk)
Jean has researched in the Caribbean, publishing on cultural history, peasantry, land, law and development.
Professor Pat Caplan MA PhD
p.caplan (@gold.ac.uk)
A founding member of the department, Pat has researched gender, social inequality and food, health and risk.
Professor Stephen Nugent BA PhD
s.nugent (@gold.ac.uk)
Stephen’s interests lie in historical anthropology, cognitive anthropology and anthropology’s relationship with science.
Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD
b.morris (@gold.ac.uk)
Brian has published on the anthropology of religion, conceptions of the self and on herbalism in Malawi.
Dr Frances Pine BA, MPhil Phd
f.pine (@gold.ac.uk)
Frances’ research in eastern Europe has led to work on kinship and gender, place, history and memory, and work.