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.
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Dr Cat Acheson
Research Associate
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Global health policy
- Science, knowledge and policy
Dr Alana Sa Leitao
MSCA Fellow
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
Dr Beatrice Bonami
Research Fellow (Planetary Networks of AI Systems - WP1)
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- International development
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture
Tom Boylston
Lecturer
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
Dr Chiara Chiavaroli
Teaching Fellow
- Environment and energy
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Dr Jess Cooper
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Professor Magnus Course
Professor
Dr Resto Cruz
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Cultural Heritage
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Work & Economy
Dr Livnat Konopny Decleve
British Academy International Fellow
Dr Laurie Denyer Willis
Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
Dr Jacob Doherty
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Cities
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Work & Economy
Stefan Ecks
Senior Lecturer
Alexander Edmonds
Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology
- Health & Well-being
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Politics and political violence
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Alejandro Escalante
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Race and decolonial thought
- Religion and public action
Dr Meredith Evans
Wellcome Trust Fellow
- Culture
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Public anthropology
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang
Lecturer
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Methods
- Public anthropology
- Race and decolonial thought
- Work & Economy
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
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- 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 John Harries
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sabbatical Fellow, Institute of Advances Studies in the Humanities (2026-27)
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- 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
Dr Casey High
Senior Lecturer
Professor Lotte Hoek
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
- Culture
- South Asian studies
Dr Juli Huang
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Data & Digital
- Energy & Sustainability
- Finance and economic sociology
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Public anthropology
- Science, technology and innovation
- South Asian studies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
Dr Delwar Hussain
Lecturer
- Cities
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Public anthropology
- Religion and public action
- South Asian studies
Professor Laura Jeffery
Professor of Anthropology of Migration; Dean of Research
- Cultural Heritage
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Health & Well-being
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Public anthropology
Dr Chisomo Kalinga
Chancellor's Fellow in Social Anthropology
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Methods
Aaron Kappeler
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Culture
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- Work & Economy
Professor Tobias Kelly
Director of IASH, Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology
- Criminal justice
- Data & Digital
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Intimacy
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Dr Abby King
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DARE Home)
- Data & Digital
- Health & Well-being
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Technology and material culture
Giulia Liberatore
Lecturer
Lucy Lowe
Head of Social Anthropology
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Siobhan Magee
Lecturer in Social Anthropology; Programme Director: MSc Social Anthropology
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Religion and social movements
- Work & Economy
Dr Rebecca Marsland
Senior Lecturer
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Health & Well-being
Maya Mayblin
Senior Lecturer
Dr Zeynep Oguz
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Cultural Heritage
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Middle East Research Group
- Nationalism and political action
- Not just energy futures
- Politics and political violence
- Science, knowledge and policy
Ayaz Qureshi
Senior Lecturer
- Culture
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Public anthropology
- Religion and public action
- South Asian studies
Dr Lotte Segal
Senior Lecturer; SPS Co-Director of Research
- Children, families and relationships
- Culture
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
Professor Jeevan R. Sharma
Chair of South Asia and International Development
- Childhood & Youth
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Global health policy
- International development
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy
Alice Street
Professor of Anthropology and Health
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Studies of the life sciences
Dr Marlee Tichenor
Chancellor's Fellow
- Data & Digital
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Studies of information and communication technology
Dr Miranda Tuckett
Teaching Fellow
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Public anthropology
- Science, knowledge and policy
Dr Joel White
Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow
Dr Grace H. Zhou
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
- Cultural Heritage
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Middle East Research Group
- Work & Economy