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
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Dr Alana Sa Leitao
MSCA Fellow
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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 G. 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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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
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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
- UK and Comparative Politics
- Culture
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
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Professor Janet Carsten
Professor Emerita of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Mr Bowen Chai
PhD
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Yuzhu Chang
PhD Student
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Social studies of biology and medicine
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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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Dr Chiara Chiavaroli
Teaching Fellow
- Environment and energy
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
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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 Jess Cooper
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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Professor Magnus Course
Professor
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Dr Resto Cruz
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Cultural Heritage
- 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
Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
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Dr Alexandra Dmitrieva
Research Staff
- Criminal justice
- Global health policy
- Politics and political violence
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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
- Health & Well-being
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Politics and political violence
- Social studies of biology and medicine
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Dr Alejandro Escalante
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Race and decolonial thought
- Religion and public action
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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
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Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang
Lecturer
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Methods
- Public anthropology
- Race and decolonial thought
- 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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Professor Anthony Good
Professor Emeritus
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Religion and social movements
- South Asian studies
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Hannah Gormley
PhD Student
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Chandreyee Goswami
PhD student
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Kelsey Grubbs
PhD Candidate
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Governance & Democracy
- Health & Well-being
- Intimacy
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Not just energy futures
- Public anthropology
- Religion and public action
- Religion and social movements
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Work & Economy
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Neelabh Gupta
PhD Student
- South Asian studies
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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
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
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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
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development
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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
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Tyler Harvey
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- Health & Well-being
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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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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Dr Casey High
Senior Lecturer
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Professor Lotte Hoek
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
- Culture
- South Asian studies
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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
- Science, technology and innovation
- South Asian studies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
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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
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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