Anthropology staff

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Rebecca Cassidy

Rebecca’s work on gambling and horseracing explores class, kinship, gender, risk, money and work.

Dr Helen Cornish

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

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

Sophie is a social anthropologist working largely in health, currently on 'personalisation' in medicine and with reference to Ladakhi houses.

Professor Simon Dein

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

Dr Henrike Donner

Henrike is an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, class and urban politics.

Dr Alice Elliot

Alice works in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, kinship and gender.

Professor Victoria Goddard BSc PhD

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

Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA

Elena is a social anthropologist whose work often pushes boundaries between traditional academic disciplines.

Dr Adom Philogene Heron

Adom's work concerns questions of gender, kinship, the life-course and hurricanes in the Caribbean.

Dr Jason Hickel

Jason specialises in development, finance, democracy, violence, and global political economy.

Dr Mark Johnson

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

Dr Vicky Johnson

Vicky’s key focus of research and publication is in the field of children and young people’s participation.

Dr Charlotte Joy

Charlotte’s research focuses on international approaches to the protection of African cultural heritage

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.

Claire Loussouarn

Claire’s interests are slow cinema, the intersections of reality and fiction, the dialogue of moving images and bodies.

Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón

Isaac is interested in how activism and aesthetic practices may contribute to creating new conditions of possibility for collectives.

Dr Massimiliano Mollona MSc PhD

Massimiliano’s background in economics and anthropology has informed his research on art, activism and political economy.

Dr Nici Nelson MA PhD

Nici has published on urban anthropology, gender and development and approaches to development.

Dr Gabriela Nicolescu

Gabriela is interested in what visual and material culture perspectives can bring to migration studies.

Dr Dominique Santos

Dominque’s research interests are in play and children's access to the city in Johannesburg and London.

Professor Emma Tarlo

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

Dr Pauline von Hellermann

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

Dr Martin Webb

Martin engages with active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability and urban governance.

Dr Martyn Wemyss

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

Dr Gavin Weston

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

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

Dr Chris Wright MA, PhD

Chris’ research centres on visual anthropology, including photography, visual culture, aesthetics and film.

Professor Jean Besson MA PhD

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

Professor Pat Caplan MA PhD

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

Professor Stephen Nugent BA PhD

Stephen’s interests lie in historical anthropology, cognitive anthropology and anthropology’s relationship with science.

Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD

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

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.