Staff Profiles

Social Anthropology

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Sebastien Bachelet	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Morocco,illegality,arts,advocacy,Political participation,sub-Saharan migration,Migration Studies,Forced displacement	Seb.Bachelet@ed.ac.uk
	Richard Baxstrom	Senior Lecturer; Co-Director, Atelier: Creative Arts and the Social Sciences network; Co-Editor, Visual Culture in Britain	Urban anthropology,Cinema,Art,popular culture,Southeast Asia,Anthropology and Philosophy,Anthropology of ethics,Religion And Ritual,Witchcraft,History of anthropology,North America,Neoliberal Governmentality,Neoliberalism	5.29 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4051 Richard.Baxstrom@ed.ac.uk
	Tom Boylston	Lecturer	Ethiopia,the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,Anthropology of Christianity,Media anthropology,Game studies	5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3909 tom.boylston@ed.ac.uk
	Francesca Bray	Professor of Social Anthropology	Material Culture,China and East Asia,Gender regimes,Agriculture and the politics of food,Technology and society	3.18  18 Buccleuch Place francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk
	Janet Carsten	Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology		5.24 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3935 J.carsten@ed.ac.uk
	Jacob Copeman	Senior Lecturer	South Asia,Gurus,Atheism,Blood Donation,Tissue Economies,Social Reform,Media,Technology and society,India,Medical Anthropology,Names and Naming	5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 6506860
	Magnus Course	Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology	Britain,ethnography,Mythology and folklore,Memory,Language and Identity,Gaelic Scotland,crofting,Environment,fishing,the sea	5.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3893 Magnus.Course@ed.ac.uk
	Jamie Cross	Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology	ethnography,International development,South Asia,renewable energy,Solar photovoltaics,Technology and society,Economic anthropology	Room 5.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Office: +44(0)1316515181 Mobile: +44(0)7552817310 jamie.cross@ed.ac.uk
	Jennifer Curtis	Postdoctoral Fellow		Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk
	Stefan Ecks	Programme Director Medical Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Medical pluralism,Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals,Anthropology of food,Transcultural psychiatry	4.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6969 Stefan.Ecks@ed.ac.uk
	Alexander Edmonds	Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology		3.24  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 9920 alex.edmonds@ed.ac.uk
	Joost Fontein	Lecturer in Social Anthropology		5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3861 J.Fontein@ed.ac.uk
	Jamie Furniss	Lecturer in International Development	Middle East and North Africa,Anthropology of development,Egypt,Waste and waste collectors	5.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5675 jamie.furniss@ed.ac.uk
	Anthony Good	Professor Emeritus; Professorial Fellow	Family and kinship	Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square A.Good@ed.ac.uk
	Andreas Hackl	Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)		4.03  21 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6511730 andreas.hackl@ed.ac.uk
	Ian Harper	Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development; Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA)	International development,South Asia,Medical Anthropology,Global Health Policy	6.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3816 ian.harper@ed.ac.uk
	John Harries	Senior Teaching Fellow	Social memory,time and temporality,indigeneity and identity (particularly in postcolonial settler societies),matter and materiality,the senses and the environment,Canada,Newfoundland,the Beothuk	5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk
	Naomi Haynes	Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology	Christianity,Political economy,Southern Africa,Hierarchy,Values,Economic anthropology,Religion And Ritual	4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square +44(0)131 650 4052 Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk
	Casey High	Senior Lecturer		5.21 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square 01316515180 C.High@ed.ac.uk
	Lotte Hoek	Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology	Media anthropology,Sexuality,Visual Culture,Cinema,Urban Ethnography,South Asia,Bangladesh,Pakistan	5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6544 lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk
	Delwar Hussain	Chrystal Macmillan Fellow	Elections,ethnography,State building,Storytelling and ethnography,Gender and Sexuality,Borderlands,Bangladesh,Fences,South Asia,Modernisation	Rm 3.17, 3F2  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 651 5071 dhussain@exseed.ed.ac.uk
	Laura Jeffery	Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Associate Dean (Research Ethics), College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences	Forced displacement,Migration studies,Environmental anthropology,Environmental Sociology,Indian Ocean studies,Anthropology of Britain,Mauritius,Chagos islanders,Critical heritage studies,Environment and society,Conservation and development,Human-environment relations,Maldives,Seychelles,Roads and infrastructure,connective infrastructure	5.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (131) 651 3860 laura.jeffery@ed.ac.uk
	Tobias Kelly	Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology	Political and legal anthropology,Political violence,Pacifism,Human rights,Anthopology of Britain,Historical Anthropology,Israeli-Palestinian conflict	3.23  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (131) 650 3986 Toby.Kelly@ed.ac.uk
	Siobhan Magee	ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Kinship and relatedness,Marriage,History and Memory,especially as explored through intergenerational relations,Gender and Sexuality,Material Culture,United States,Poland	B.31  19 George Square siobhan.magee@ed.ac.uk
	Laura Major	Career Development Fellow, Social Anthropology	Ethnography,Memory,Material Culture,Conflict and Post-Conflict Politics,Museum Studies,Anthropology of Death,Anthropology of the body	3.20, 3F1  18 Buccleuch Place 0131 6511 329 l.major@ed.ac.uk
	Rebecca Marsland	Head of Social Anthropology; Senior Lecturer	Medical Anthropology,Tanzania,East Africa,Funerals,International development,HIV and AIDS,Witchcraft,Human-animal relationships,Bees,Veterinary Anthropology	5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3864 R.Marsland@ed.ac.uk
	Alex Nading	Lecturer in Social Anthropology; Deputy Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Programme Director, MSc Medical Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Environmental anthropology,Science and technology studies,Latin American Culture and Society	4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)131 651 5120 Alex.Nading@ed.ac.uk
	Jeevan Sharma	Lecturer in South Asia and International Development; Programme Director- MSc International Development; Deputy Director, Graduate School of Social and Political Science (Director PGT); Deputy Director- Global Development Academy	Migrant labor,Migration and development,livelihoods,Gender and Development,Youth,human rights,Development and Humanitarian Aid,Global Health,Reproductive & child health,Monitoring and Evaluation,Nepal and the Himalaya,South Asia	5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 6511760 jeevan.sharma@ed.ac.uk
	Leila Sinclair-Bright	Career Development Fellow (Research and Teaching)	Politics of belonging,Citizenship,Political and legal anthropology,Zimbabwe,Land Reform,Human rights,Humanitarianism,ethnography,postcolonial state and civil society	3.22  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 131 6506630 Leila.Sinclair-Bright@ed.ac.uk
	Jonathan Spencer	Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society	Religion and Politics,Sri Lanka,South and Southeast Asia,Buddhism,War and peace	5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3944 jonathan.spencer@ed.ac.uk
	Alice Street	Senior Lecturer; Chancellors Fellow	Anthropology of Melanesia,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies,hospital ethnography,State building,International development,Bureaucratic Power,nutraceuticals	4.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +33 (0)131 6515573 Alice.Street@ed.ac.uk
	Neil Thin	Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience)	happiness,wellbeing and the good life,social planning,appreciative (positive) research and planning	5.27 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3880 n.thin@ed.ac.uk
	Dimitri Tsintjilonis	Lecturer	Death, religion and ritual,Indigenous cosmologies,personhood,Sacred violence,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body	5.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3934 D.Tsintjilonis@ed.ac.uk
	Grit Wesser	Career Development Fellow (teaching and research)	history and memory,kinship and gender,ritual and personhood,Eastern Germany,Anthropology of the state,Migration and citizenship,Anthropology of Europe,Cold War and post-Cold War studies,Secularity	3.20, 3F1  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 4681 Grit.Wesser@ed.ac.uk