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Vikki Bell BA PhD

Professor in Sociology

Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.

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Dr Bernadette Buckley

Lecturer in International Politics

Bernadette is interested in the complex relationships between art, war and terrorism.

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Francisco Carballo

Lecturer in Politics

Francisco addresses Latin American politics from below, decolonial and postcolonial theory and rough politics.

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Professor Simon Dein

Visiting Professor in Anthropology

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

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Dr Simon Griffiths

Head of Subject (History, Politics and International Relations)

Simon teaches, writes about, and comments on, contemporary British politics, the history of political thought in the UK, and public policy.

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Michael Guggenheim

Senior Research Fellow in Sociology

Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.

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Dr Paul Gunn

Lecturer in Political Economy and Public Policy

Paul’s work looks at political complexity, error, and ignorance, and the institutional mechanisms available in contemporary political economy that can address these problems.

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David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD

Professor in Sociology

David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.

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Dr Maria N Ivanova

Lecturer in Economics

Maria Ivanova’s research interests include social theory and political economy, theories of money and finance, crisis theories, international and comparative political economy, and the political economy of the United States.

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Dr Kesewa John

Lecturer in Black British History, Convenor MA Black British History
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Dr Mark Johnson

Professor in Anthropology, Dean of the Graduate School

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

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Dr Jeremy Larkins

Lecturer in International Relations

Jeremy’s primary research area is in the cultural and intellectual history of international political theory.

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Dr David L Martin

Lecturer in Visual and International Politics

David’s expertise is in the fields of postcolonial theory, cultural geography, medical humanities and the history of religion.

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Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc. Ph.D. MAOT.

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.

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Dr Justin Woodman

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

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

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Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

Lecturer in Sociology

Yesim’s research focuses on political violence and human rights. She is currently working on confessional forms of truth-telling in the aftermath of state-led atrocities.

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