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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.

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Dr Chiara Chiavaroli

Teaching Fellow

  • Environment and energy
  • Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
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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
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Victoria Gail Bacud Amos

PhD Candidate

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Intimacy
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Religion and public action
  • Religion and social movements
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Nicole Anderson

PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Technology and material culture
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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
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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
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Tom Boylston

Lecturer

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Francesca Bray

Professor Emerita

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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
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Janet Carsten

Professor Janet Carsten

Professor Emerita of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Mr Bowen Chai

PhD

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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
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Cormac Cleary

PhD Student

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Dr Jessica Cooper

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

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Professor Magnus Course

Head of Social Anthropology, Professor of Creative Anthropology

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Dr Resto Cruz

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Methods
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Livnat Konopny Decleve

British Academy International Fellow

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Dr Laurie Denyer Willis

Lecturer in Medical Anthropology

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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
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Dr Jacob Doherty

Lecturer in Anthropology of Development

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Work & Economy
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Leah Eades

PhD Student

  • Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
  • Health & Well-being
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Stefan Ecks

Senior Lecturer

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Alexander Edmonds

Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology

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Dr Alejandro Escalante

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Religion and public action
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang

Lecturer

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Methods
  • Public anthropology
  • Work & Economy
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Jamie Glisson

PhD Candidate

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Culture
  • Environment and energy
  • International development
  • Methods
  • Religion and social movements
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Anthony Good

Professor Emeritus

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Chandreyee Goswami

PhD student

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Kelsey Grubbs

PhD Candidate

  • Environment and energy
  • Health & Well-being
  • Intimacy
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Mental health and wellbeing
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Mr Neelabh Gupta

PhD Student

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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
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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
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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
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Ian Harper

Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development

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Dr John Harries

Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching - School of Social and Political Science

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Public anthropology
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Dr Naomi Haynes

Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow

  • Culture
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Religion and public action
  • Religion and social movements
  • Work & Economy
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Casey High

Senior Lecturer

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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
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Lotte Hoek

Dr Lotte Hoek

Professor of Cultural Anthropology

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Sophia Hoffinger

PhD student

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Taojiazi Hu

PhD Candidate

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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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
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Dr Delwar Hussain

Lecturer

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Public anthropology
  • Religion and public action
  • South Asian studies
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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
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Dr Chisomo Kalinga

Chancellor's Fellow in Social Anthropology

  • Health & Well-being
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Intimacy
  • Methods
  • Race and decolonial thought
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Aaron Kappeler

Lecturer in Anthropology of Development

  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
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Tobias Kelly

Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology

  • Criminal justice
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Politics and political violence
  • Public anthropology
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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
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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
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Amer Khushman

PhD Student

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Middle East Research Group
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Work & Economy