Staff Profiles
Social Anthropology
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Richard Baxstrom | Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities; Deputy Head of School and Director of Learning and Teaching - School of Social and Political Science | 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; for matters pertaining to SPS Learning and Teaching: sps.dhos@ed.ac.uk |
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Yirmeyâhû Arturo Delano Beckles | African/Africana philosophy,Visual Culture,Forgiveness,Popular Culture,Motherhood,Feminism,Philosophical Anthropology,Politics of Skin,Feminist Film Theory,Gendered Sexuality,Opera,Theatre Anthropology,Afro-pessimism,History of Film,Cinéma Vérité,Black Jews,Deconstruction,Equine-assisted therapy,Subalternity,Black Masculinity,Haute Couture,Surrealism,Transatlantic Slavery,Modern Slavery,Primatology,Innovation,Journalism,Antiques,Poetics,Divinity,Ousmane Sembène,Cheikh Anta Diop,Mariama Bâ,John Outterbridge,Marlon Riggs,Nelson Mandela,Myles Munroe,Elsa Schiaparelli,Oscar Micheaux,Queer Anthropology | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square ybeckles@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Suriyah Bi | Teaching Fellow | British Muslims,Migration and Diaspora Studies,Transantional Migration,Masculinity Studies,Anthropology of Policy and Practice,Education,inequality and social mobility,Equality Act,ethnography,Gender studies,Intersectionality,Panopticons,Social Capital,Decolonisation | sbi2@ed.ac.uk |
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Tom Boylston | Lecturer | Media anthropology,Game studies,Anthropology of Religion,Anthropology of Technology,Anthropology of Ethiopia | 5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3909 tom.boylston@ed.ac.uk |
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Francesca Bray | Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology | Material Culture,China and East Asia,Gender regimes,Agriculture and the politics of food,Technology and society,Global history,history of technology | francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk |
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Janet Carsten | Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology | 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3935 J.carsten@ed.ac.uk |
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Jessica Cooper | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | care,ethics,affect theory,madness,law,governance,psychoanalysis,Theories of Punishment,the state,ethnographic methods,Anthropology of the United States | Jessica.Cooper@ed.ac.uk |
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Magnus Course | Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology | ethnography,Mythology and folklore,Memory,Language and Identity,Gaelic Scotland,Environment,fishing,the sea,Chile,South America,Death,religion and ritual,Italy | 5.24 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3893 Magnus.Course@ed.ac.uk |
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Jamie Cross | Professor of Social and Economic Anthropology | Renewable energy and green politics,Climate change,Science and technology,Design,International development | Room 5.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Office: +44(0)1316515181 Mobile: +44(0)7552817310 jamie.cross@ed.ac.uk |
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Resto Cruz | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | Kinship and relatedness,social mobility,life course research,Intergenerational relations,personhood,personal lives,Archives,Data Studies,Philippines,Southeast Asia,Britain,Youth,ageing,Inequality,class,bioinformation | 3.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 655 11715 resto.cruz@ed.ac.uk |
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Jennifer Curtis | Postdoctoral Fellow | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk |
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Agustin Diz | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | Indigenous Peoples,Political Economy,Labour,Unemployment,Welfare,Extractive industries,Oil and Gas,Latin American Culture and Society,Argentina,Economic Anthropology,International development,Applied Anthropology,Sovereignty,ethnography,Growth and Degrowth,Gran Chaco | 4.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 6503079 adiz@ed.ac.uk |
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Jacob Doherty | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | Urban anthropology,Environmental anthropology,Development studies,African studies,Waste,Mobility,infrastructure,Informal economies,Work & Labour,Capitalism,Race & Racism,Visual Culture,Social Reproduction | 4.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)1316513785 jacob.doherty@ed.ac.uk |
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Stefan Ecks | Senior Lecturer; Director PGT | 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 |
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Alexander Edmonds | Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology | Anthropology of health and medicine,War veterans,Mental health,Military cultures,Military psychiatry,Plastic surgery,gender and beauty,Health and international development,Ethnicity and race | 4.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 650 9920 alex.edmonds@ed.ac.uk |
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Jiazhi Fengjiang | Lecturer | humanitarianism,charity and philanthropy,Rural development and change,social welfare,Mobility,gender,ethics,Political and economic anthropology,late socialism,visual anthropology,graphic anthropology,China and East Asia | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Jiazhi.Fengjiang@ed.ac.uk |
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Jamie Furniss | Lecturer in International Development | Middle East and North Africa,Anthropology of development,Egypt,Waste and waste collectors | +44 (0)131 651 5675 jamie.furniss@ed.ac.uk |
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Alysa Ghose | Lecturer | Decolonisation,Feminism,gender,Sexuality,Religious Identity,Religious practices,race,spirits,Cuba,Anthropology of Knowledge,Kinship and motherhood,Senses and sensuality | aghose@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Anthony Good | Professor Emeritus in Social Anthropology | South Asia,Immigration,Kinship,Hinduism,Legal anthropology,Legal pluralism,asylum seekers and refugees | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square A.Good@ed.ac.uk |
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Andreas Hackl | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | 3.20 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6515357 andreas.hackl@ed.ac.uk |
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Sophie Haines | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | Environmental anthropology,Knowledge production and practices,Anthropology of Development,Science and technology studies,infrastructure,Weather and Climate,Forecasting practices,Conservation and development,Political ecology,Science,technology and development,Belize,water | 4.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1717 Sophie.Haines@ed.ac.uk |
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Ian Harper | Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development | International development,South Asia,Medical Anthropology,Global Health Policy | 5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3816 ian.harper@ed.ac.uk |
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John Harries | More-Than-Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience and Engagement (DSEE) for the School of Social and Political Science | time and temporality,indigeneity and identity (particularly in postcolonial settler societies),matter and materiality,the senses and the environment,Canada,Newfoundland,the Beothuk,social memory,contentious heritage,Human-animal relationships,cats | 5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk |
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Morteza Hashemi | Honorary Fellow | Global Social Theory,Decoloniality,Sociology of Immigration,Sociology of Religion,Sociology of Technology,Intersection of Religion and Technology,Race and Identity,Social Integration in Britain,Ethnography,Fortress Europe,Neo-Khaldunian Social Theory,Blood and Organ Donation,Grassroots Movements,Medical Sociology,Philanthropy | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Morteza.Hashemi@ed.ac.uk |
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Naomi Haynes | Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow | Christianity,Political economy,Southern Africa,Hierarchy,Values,Economic anthropology,Religion And Ritual | G.1 22 George Square +44(0)131 650 4052 Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk |
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Casey High | Senior Lecturer | Violence History and memory Language Indigenous rights and development Cosmology and social change Collaborative anthropology Amazonia,Latin America and Ecuador,violence,history,memory,gender,Cosmology and social change,Indigenous rights and development,Environment,collaborative anthropology,Amazonia,Latin America,and Ecuador,language | 5.21 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square 01316515180 C.High@ed.ac.uk |
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Lotte Hoek | Head of Subject; Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology | Media anthropology,Visual Culture,Cinema,South Asia,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Film studies,Art | 5.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6544 lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk |
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Juli Huang | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | social enterprise,technology and development,Anthropology of Money,Alternative currencies,Economic anthropology,International development,South Asia,Bangladesh,Iran,Big data | 5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4269 juli.huang@ed.ac.uk |
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Delwar Hussain | Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow | ethnography,Gender and Sexuality,Borderlands,Bangladesh,Fences,South Asia,Modernisation,Decolonisation,War on terror,Political Islam,Religious Identity,labour,religion,LGBT,Spain,history,Pakistan,India | delwar.hussain@ed.ac.uk |
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Laura Jeffery | Professor of Anthropology of Migration | Forced displacement,Migration studies,Conservation and development,Human-environment relations,Migration and development,Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH),Arts-Based Research Methods,Migration and Health,Sexual and Gender-Based Violence,Indian Ocean studies,Chagos,Mauritius | 5.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (131) 651 3860 laura.jeffery@ed.ac.uk |
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Chisomo Kalinga | Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow | Medical Humanities,Illness narratives,Narrative Medicine,Disease as Metaphor,Arts & Humanities-based research methodologies,participatory action resarch,Oral & print literary cultures,History of Medicine in Malawi,Traditional healing practices | G.3 22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)1316 515118 Chisomo.Kalinga@ed.ac.uk |
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Aaron Kappeler | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | International development,Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods,Food Security,labor,Environment,Political ecology,Capitalism and its critics,indigeneity,mestizaje,sovereignty,State formation,populism,Latin American Culture and Society | 5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square akappele@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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Lucy Lowe | Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology | Feminism,gender,Reproductive Health,Somalia,Migration and Displacement,Refugee studies,,Motherhood,Reproductive Justice,Diaspora and transnationalism,Gender and Health,Kenya,sexuality | 5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4286 Lucy.Lowe@ed.ac.uk |
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Siobhan Magee | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | Kinship and relatedness,Marriage,History and Memory,Gender and Sexuality,Material Culture,United States,Poland,Political and economic anthropology,Legal anthropology | 4.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square siobhan.magee(at)ed.ac.uk |
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Rebecca Marsland | Senior Lecturer | Medical Anthropology,Tanzania,East Africa,Funerals,International development,HIV and AIDS,Witchcraft,Human-animal relationships,Bees,Veterinary Anthropology | 5.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3864 R.Marsland@ed.ac.uk |
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Rebecca Moody | Subject Academic Support Officer | 3.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3878 Rebecca.Moody@ed.ac.uk |
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Ayaz Qureshi | Lecturer in Medical Anthropology | ethnography,Pakistan,Public health,Bureaucracy,HIV/AIDS,Gender and Development,Neoliberal Governmentality | 5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5361 ayaz.qureshi@ed.ac.uk |
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Lotte Buch Segal | PhD | ethnography,Political violence,Israel-Palestine,Anthropology of the Middle East,gender,Kinship and relatedness,Trauma,Anthropology of ethics,Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Scandinavia | 5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square 07306505666 lotte.segal@ed.ac.uk |
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Jeevan Sharma | Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development | 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 | 6.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 6511760 jeevan.sharma@ed.ac.uk |
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Jonathan Spencer | Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society | Religion and Politics,Sri Lanka,South and Southeast Asia,Buddhism,War and peace | 3F1, 3.24 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 3944 jonathan.spencer@ed.ac.uk |
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Alice Street | Senior Lecturer | Anthropology of Melanesia,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies,hospital ethnography,State building,International development,Bureaucratic Power,nutraceuticals | G.1 22 George Square +44 (0)131 6515573 Alice.Street@ed.ac.uk |
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Michelle Taylor | Senior Research Fellow, DiaDev | Global Health,International development,Control of neglected zoonotic and tropical diseases,diagnostics,drug discovery and development,Development aid,Evidence | 1.01 21 George Square +44 (0)131 6504081 E.M.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
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Neil Thin | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Director of Undergraduate Teaching (Social Anthropology) | happiness,wellbeing and the good life,appreciative research,aspirational social planning | 5.27 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3880 n.thin@ed.ac.uk |
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Dimitri Tsintjilonis | Lecturer | Death,sacrifice,personhood,spirit possession,monsters,Indonesia,Greece | 5.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3934 D.Tsintjilonis@ed.ac.uk |
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Eva Vernooij | Research Fellow | HIV and AIDS,Medical Anthropology,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,health care systems,policy and interventions,diagnostics,hospital ethnography,sub-Saharan Africa | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +31(6)24542534 Eva.Vernooij@ed.ac.uk |
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Ann-Christin Zuntz | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development; Programme Director of the MSc International Development | Return / transnational migration,Refugee studies,Transnational labour migration,Reproductive Health,Research ethics,Iraq and Middle East,East Africa,Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods | 4.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 7112 ann-christin.zuntz@ed.ac.uk |
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Kath Weston | British Academy Global Professor | Kinship,Political ecology,Anthropology of Finance,Science and technology,Historical anthropology,identity politics,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,Disasters,Climate change,water,environmental politics,ethnographic writing | 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Kath.Weston@ed.ac.uk |
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Emilija Zabiliute | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow | South Asia,India,diabetes,Medical Anthropology,care,kinship,vulnerability,urban poor,neighbours,gender,gendered violence,Gender and Development,International development | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk |