Staff in the Department of Anthropology

Dr. Emma Abotsi

I work on youth, education, migration and development with a geographical focus on the UK and West Africa.

Dr Audrey Allwood

I specialise in researching the Caribbean community in Britain focusing on inter-generation connections and belonging.

Louise Boer

Professor Rebecca Cassidy

I am a social anthropologist working on horseracing, gambling and fruit.

Professor Sophie Day MA PhD

I work on health - or living – as a distributed and a distributive process.

Professor Simon Dein

Simon researches religious healing in Pentecostalism, mental health and Islam, prophecy and Jewish Millennialism

Dr Henrike Donner

I am an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, class and urban politics.

Dr Alice Elliot

I work in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, kinship and intimacy

Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA

I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.

Dr Adom Philogene Heron

Adom's ethnographic practice is concerned with hurricanes, spectral geographies and fatherhood across Caribbean worlds

Dr Mark Johnson

Mark’s interests are on the issues of gender/sexuality, landscape and material culture, migration and transnationalism.

Dr Kuldip Kaur

Dr Ricardo Leizaola PhD

Ricardo is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist specialising in visual anthropology and ethnobotany.

Dave Lewis

Connecting the practices of ethnography and photography, Dave explores the social conditions of belonging.

Siobhán McGuirk

I specialise in gender and sexuality, migration, social justice movements, and arts-based research methods.

Professor Cris Shore

Political anthropology; Europe; Corruption; Organisations; Higher Education; Anthropology of Policy; Audit culture.

Julia Sauma

Julia's work reflects on how collective life is maintained within and against violent political structures.

Dr Pauline von Hellermann

Combining historical and political ecology perspectives, Pauline researches the landscapes and politics in Africa.

Dr Martin Webb

Active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability, urban governance, citizen-state interfaces.

Dr Martyn Wemyss

Martyn is interested in the relationship between law and time, aesthetics of justice and the material lives of norms.

Dr Justin Woodman

Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.

Dr Chris Wright MA, PhD

I am a visual anthropologist and artist and I’m concerned with the politics and aesthetics of representation.

Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp

I am interested in questions relating to present coloniality, future imagining, Pentecostal Christianity and museums.

Professor Jean Besson MA PhD

Jean has researched in the Caribbean, publishing on cultural history, peasantry, land, law and development.

Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD

Brian has published on the anthropology of religion, conceptions of the self and on herbalism in Malawi.

Professor Pat Caplan MA PhD

A founding member of the department, Pat has researched gender, social inequality and food, health and risk.

Dr Frances Pine BA, MPhil Phd

Frances’ research in eastern Europe has led to work on kinship and gender, place, history and memory, and work.

Professor Victoria Goddard BSc PhD

Victoria has worked in the fields of economic and political anthropology, with an emphasis on gender and class.

Professor Emma Tarlo

Emma specialises in the anthropology of material culture with reference to dress, fashion, textiles, the body and hair.