Staff in the Department of Anthropology

Dr. Emma Abotsi

I work on youth, education, migration and development with a geographical focus on the UK and West Africa.

Dr Audrey Allwood

I specialise in researching the Caribbean community in Britain focusing on inter-generation connections and belonging.

Louise Boer

Professor Rebecca Cassidy

I am a social anthropologist working on fruit, particularly apples and orchards.

Professor Simon Dein

Simon researches religious healing in Pentecostalism, mental health and Islam, prophecy and Jewish Millennialism

Dr Henrike Donner

I am an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, reproduction, class and urban politics.

Sultan Doughan

I research religious difference, race, citizenship and memory within secularism in Europe & the Middle East.

Lee Douglas

A ethnographer, image-maker, and curator, my work considers memory and forgetting in post-violence contexts.

Dr Alice Elliot

I work in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, politics and intimacy

Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA

I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.

Dr Mark Johnson

Mark’s interests are on the issues of gender/sexuality, landscape and material culture, migration and transnationalism.

Dr Kuldip Kaur

Dr Ricardo Leizaola PhD

Ricardo is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist specialising in visual anthropology and ethnobotany.

Dave Lewis

Connecting the practices of ethnography and photography, Dave explores the social conditions of belonging.

Professor Cris Shore

Political anthropology; Europe; Corruption; Organisations; Higher Education; Anthropology of Policy; Audit culture.

Julia Sauma

Julia's work investigates how collective life is maintained within and against violent extractive structures.

Dr Martin Webb

Active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability, urban governance, citizen-state interfaces.

Dr Martyn Wemyss

Martyn is interested in the relationship between law and time, aesthetics of justice and the material lives of norms.

Dr Justin Woodman

Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.

Professor Jean Besson MA PhD

Jean has researched in the Caribbean, publishing on cultural history, peasantry, land, law and development.

Professor Sophie Day MA PhD

I work on health - or living – as a distributed and a distributive process.

Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD

Brian has published on the anthropology of religion, conceptions of the self and on herbalism in Malawi.

Professor Pat Caplan MA PhD

A founding member of the department, Pat has researched gender, social inequality and food, health and risk.

Dr Frances Pine BA, MPhil Phd

Frances’ research in eastern Europe has led to work on kinship and gender, place, history and memory, and work.

Professor Victoria Goddard BSc PhD

Victoria has worked in the fields of economic and political anthropology, with an emphasis on gender and class.

Professor Emma Tarlo

Emma specialises in the anthropology of material culture with reference to dress, fashion, textiles, the body and hair.