People
Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.
Staff content
People content
Dr Chiara Chiavaroli
Teaching Fellow
- Environment and energy
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Mr Armaan Mullick Alkazi
PhD Student
- Cities
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- Science, technology and innovation
- South Asian studies
Victoria Gail Bacud Amos
PhD Candidate
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Religion and public action
- Religion and social movements
Nicole Anderson
PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology
- Cultural Heritage
- Identities & Inequalities
- Race and decolonial thought
- Technology and material culture
Richard Baxstrom
Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities
- Cities
- Culture
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- Work & Economy
Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
PhD candidate
- Culture
- Global health policy
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Public anthropology
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- South Asian studies
- Technology and material culture
Tom Boylston
Lecturer
Francesca Bray
Professor Emerita
Dr Gwen Burnyeat
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- British politics research
- Culture
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
Professor Janet Carsten
Professor Emerita of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Mr Bowen Chai
PhD
Dr Moyukh Chatterjee
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Governance & Democracy
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- Religion and public action
- Religion and social movements
- South Asian studies
Cormac Cleary
PhD Student
- Cultural Heritage
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
Dr Jessica Cooper
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Professor Magnus Course
Head of Social Anthropology, Professor of Creative Anthropology
Dr Resto Cruz
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Work & Economy
Dr Livnat Konopny Decleve
British Academy International Fellow
Dr Laurie Denyer Willis
Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
Dr Agustin Diz
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Not just energy futures
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- Work & Economy
Dr Jacob Doherty
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Cities
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Work & Economy
Leah Eades
PhD Student
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Science, knowledge and policy
Stefan Ecks
Senior Lecturer
Alexander Edmonds
Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology
Dr Alejandro Escalante
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Identities & Inequalities
- Race and decolonial thought
- Religion and public action
- Work & Economy
Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang
Lecturer
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Methods
- Public anthropology
- Work & Economy
Jamie Glisson
PhD Candidate
- Childhood & Youth
- Culture
- Environment and energy
- International development
- Methods
- Religion and social movements
Anthony Good
Professor Emeritus
Chandreyee Goswami
PhD student
Kelsey Grubbs
PhD Candidate
- Environment and energy
- Health & Well-being
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Mental health and wellbeing
Mr Neelabh Gupta
PhD Student
Dr Andreas Hackl
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Cities
- Data & Digital
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Work & Economy
Dr Sophie Haines
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Data & Digital
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Not just energy futures
- Public anthropology
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Technology and material culture
Dr Maythe S.-W. Han
Tutor
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Public anthropology
- Race and decolonial thought
- Technology and material culture
Ian Harper
Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development
Dr John Harries
Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching - School of Social and Political Science
- Cultural Heritage
- Public anthropology
Dr Naomi Haynes
Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow
- Culture
- Nationalism and political action
- Religion and public action
- Religion and social movements
- Work & Economy
Casey High
Senior Lecturer
Dr Lioba Hirsch
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Identities & Inequalities
- Race and decolonial thought
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Lotte Hoek
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Sophia Hoffinger
PhD student
Taojiazi Hu
PhD Candidate
- Childhood & Youth
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Identities & Inequalities
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Dr Juli Huang
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Data & Digital
- Energy & Sustainability
- Finance and economic sociology
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Public anthropology
- South Asian studies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
Dr Delwar Hussain
Lecturer
- Identities & Inequalities
- Public anthropology
- Religion and public action
- South Asian studies
Laura Jeffery
Professor of Anthropology of Migration; Dean of Research
- Cultural Heritage
- Health & Well-being
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Public anthropology
Dr Chisomo Kalinga
Chancellor's Fellow in Social Anthropology
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought
Aaron Kappeler
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- International development
- International Development Cluster
Tobias Kelly
Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology
- Criminal justice
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
Giorgia Kerr
PhD Student
- Health & Well-being
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- Public anthropology
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Ismail Khan
PhD Student & Tutor
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Public anthropology
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy
Amer Khushman
PhD Student
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Work & Economy