Staff Profiles

Social Anthropology

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Jacob Copeman	Senior Lecturer	South Asia,Gurus,Blood Donation,Tissue Economies,Social Reform,Media,Technology and society,India,Medical Anthropology,Names and Naming,Secularism	3.17  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6506860
	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
	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
	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
	Jennifer Curtis	Postdoctoral Fellow		Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Andreas Hackl	Lecturer in Anthropology of Development		3.20  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6515357 andreas.hackl@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	Morteza Hashemi		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
	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
	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
	Lotte Hoek	Head of Subject; Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology	Media anthropology,Sexuality,Visual Culture,Cinema,Urban Ethnography,South Asia,Bangladesh,Pakistan	5.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6544 lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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	5.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (131) 651 3860 laura.jeffery@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	Shona Jane Lee	Research Fellow	Neglected diseases and zoonoses,diagnostics,Global Health Policy,Medical Anthropology,Science and technology studies,Social Epidemiology	Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square shona.lee@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	Rebecca Moody	Subject Academic Support Officer		3.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3878 Rebecca.Moody@ed.ac.uk
	Eirini Papadaki	ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Kinship,adoption,,motherhood,gender,Sexuality,marriage,ethics,unwed pregnancy,Greece	G.03  22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)1314678081 e.papadaki@ed.ac.uk
	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
	Koreen M. Reece	ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Kinship,Marriage,Care,Crisis,HIV and AIDS,Children and childhood,International development,Humanitarianism,NGOs,Social work,Botswana,Southern Africa	G.3  22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)131 650 6889 Koreen.Reece@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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