Staff in the Department of Anthropology
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Staff list
Dr. Emma Abotsi
e.abotsi (@gold.ac.uk)
I work on youth, education, migration and development with a geographical focus on the UK and West Africa.
Dr. Audrey Allwood
a.allwood (@gold.ac.uk)
I specialise in researching the Caribbean community in Britain focusing on inter-generation connections and belonging.
Professor Rebecca Cassidy
r.cassidy (@gold.ac.uk)
I am a social anthropologist working on horseracing, gambling and fruit.
Dr Suzanne Clisby, FRSA
s.clisby (@gold.ac.uk)
I specialise in Gender Studies, Anthropology and International Development.
Dr Helen Cornish
h.cornish (@gold.ac.uk)
Anthropology of history; British magical subcultures; museum ethnography
Dr Gabriel Dattatreyan
g.dattatreyan (@gold.ac.uk)
Gabriel's ethnographic research grapples with gender, place, and race in the digital age.
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Professor Sophie Day MA PhD
s.day (@gold.ac.uk)
I work on health - or living – as a distributed and a distributive process.
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)
I am an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, class and urban politics.
Dr Alice Elliot
a.elliot (@gold.ac.uk)
I work in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, kinship and intimacy
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.
Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA
e.gonzalez-polledo (@gold.ac.uk)
I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.
Dr Adom Philogene Heron
a.heron (@gold.ac.uk)
Adom's work is concerned with questions of gender, kinship and hurricanes in the Caribbean.
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 Charlotte Joy
c.joy (@gold.ac.uk)
My research explores the politics of heritage management and global responses to heritage destruction.
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 Massimiliano Mollona MSc PhD
m.mollona (@gold.ac.uk)
Filmmaker, writer, curator Mao investigates art, activism and the political economy through the lens of social anthropol
Dr Nici Nelson MA PhD
n.nelson (@gold.ac.uk)
Nici has published on urban anthropology, gender and development and approaches to development.
Dr Minou Norouzi
mnoro002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Minou is a filmmaker, film curator and writer based in London (UK) and Athens (GR).
Professor Cris Shore
c.shore (@gold.ac.uk)
Cris’s work engages with issues in political anthropology, European ethnography and the study of organisations, partic
Julia Sauma
j.sauma (@gold.ac.uk)
Julia's work reflects on how collective life is maintained within and against violent political structures.
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. Shireen Walton
shireen.walton (@gold.ac.uk)
I am a digital-visual anthropologist, interested in media and social change, migration, and visual and digital cultures
Dr Martin Webb
m.webb (@gold.ac.uk)
Active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability, urban governance, citizen-state interfaces.
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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)
I am a social anthropologist interested in violence, non-state justice, controversies and staff/student collaboration.
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)
I am a visual anthropologist and artist and I’m concerned with the politics and aesthetics of representation.
Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp
t.zetterstromsharp (@gold.ac.uk)
I am interested in questions relating to present coloniality, future imagining, Pentecostal Christianity and museums.
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 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.