People

The Committee

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Jessica Cooper	Lecturer in Social Anthropology	care,ethics,affect theory,madness,law,governance,psychoanalysis,Theories of Punishment,the state,ethnographic methods,Anthropology of the United States	Jessica.Cooper@ed.ac.uk
	Leah Eades	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	medical anthropology,politics of reproduction,gender,social movements,medico-legal nexuses,authoritative and contested knowledge,medical humanities	15a George Square leah.eades [@] ed.ac.uk
	Stefan Ecks	Senior Lecturer; Director PGT	Medical Anthropology,Medical pluralism,Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals,Anthropology of food,Transcultural psychiatry	4.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6969 Stefan.Ecks@ed.ac.uk
	Alexander Edmonds	Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology	Anthropology of health and medicine,War veterans,Mental health,Military cultures,Military psychiatry,Plastic surgery,gender and beauty,Health and international development,Ethnicity and race	4.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 650 9920 alex.edmonds@ed.ac.uk
	Ian Harper	Professor of Anthropology of Health and Development	International development,South Asia,Medical Anthropology,Global Health Policy	5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3816 ian.harper@ed.ac.uk
	Sumeet Jain	Senior Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social and Political Science	community mental health,culture and health,ethnography,well being,South Asia,'global mental health'	2.29 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)131 651 1463 sumeet.jain@ed.ac.uk
	Hannah Lesshafft	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,art and healing,self-and-other,Imagination,care,self-care,Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM),Faith healing,Social Movements,Health inequalities,Ethnography,Mixed methods research,Brazil	Rm. 5.13, Chrystal Macmillan Building 15A George Square H.Lesshafft@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Lucy Lowe	Director of EdCMA	Reproduction,Diaspora,Migration & Transnationalism,Maternity,Somalia,Kenya,Urban Refugees,Gender,Medical Anthropology,Islam,Sex,Motherhood,Sexuality,Reproductive Justice,Reproductive rights	5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0131) 650 4286 Lucy.Lowe@ed.ac.uk
	Rebecca Marsland	Senior Lecturer	Medical Anthropology,Tanzania,East Africa,Funerals,International development,HIV and AIDS,Witchcraft,Human-animal relationships,Bees,Veterinary Anthropology	5.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3864 R.Marsland@ed.ac.uk
	Pia Noel	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Global Mental Health,Nepal and the Himalaya,Medical pluralism,Development and Humanitarian Aid,Transcultural psychiatry,Anthropology of psychiatry,International development,Public health,Disability Studies	4.15 Pia.Noel@ed.ac.uk
	Ayaz Qureshi	Lecturer in Medical Anthropology	ethnography,Pakistan,Public health,Bureaucracy,HIV/AIDS,Gender and Development,Neoliberal Governmentality	5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5361 ayaz.qureshi@ed.ac.uk
	Lotte Buch Segal	PhD	ethnography,Political violence,Israel-Palestine,Anthropology of the Middle East,gender,Kinship and relatedness,Trauma,Anthropology of ethics,Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Scandinavia	5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square 07306505666 lotte.segal@ed.ac.uk
	Ritti Soncco	Postdoctoral Researcher
	Alice Street	Senior Lecturer	Anthropology of Melanesia,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies,hospital ethnography,State building,International development,Bureaucratic Power,nutraceuticals	G.1  22 George Square +44 (0)131 6515573 Alice.Street@ed.ac.uk
	Marlee Tichenor	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics		marlee.tichenor@ed.ac.uk
	Iona Walker	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Antimicrobial resistance,Russia,Post-Socialism,Interdisciplinary Research,Art,multispecies ethnography,microbes	iona.walker@ed.ac.uk

General Membership

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Sudeepa Abeysinghe	Lecturer in Global Health Policy	Global Health Policy,Infectious Disease,Risk,sociology of scientific knowledge	2.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 6515471 Sudeepa.Abeysinghe@ed.ac.uk
	Radha Adhikari	Research Associate CSAS		radhaadhikari@yahoo.com
	Debbie Aitken	Senior Lecturer in Medical Education & Director of Clinical Educator Programme		0131 242 6651 debbie.aitken@ed.ac.uk
	Maxine Blackburn	Research Fellow		0131 650 3247 m.blackburn@ed.ac.uk
	Francesca Bray	Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology	Material Culture,China and East Asia,Gender regimes,Agriculture and the politics of food,Technology and society,Global history,history of technology	francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk
	Janet Carsten	Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology		4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3935 J.carsten@ed.ac.uk
	Jacob Copeman	Senior Lecturer	South Asia,Gurus,Blood Donation,Tissue Economies,Social Reform,Media,Technology and society,India,Medical Anthropology,Names and Naming,Secularism	3.17  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6506860
	Don Duprez	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Indigenous cosmologies,kinship and gender,Reproductive Health,Anthropology of time,Refugee studies,Urban anthropology,Religious practices,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies,Diaspora and transnationalism,Subjectivity and Personhood,organizations and institutions,ethnography,China and East Asia,Southeast Asia	1-720-980-6382 DonDuprez@gmail.com
	Lukas Engelmann	Chancellor's Fellow, Senior Lecturer - History and Sociology of Biomedicine	Medical history,Medical Anthropology,Medical sociology,digital culture,Epidemiology	2.92 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)1316506367 Lukas.Engelmann@ed.ac.uk
	Jean-Benoit Falisse	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	African Great Lakes region,Health policy,Access to justice,Access to education,Migration and development,Fragile states,Media and conflict	4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 1632 jb.falisse@ed.ac.uk
	Lydie Fialova	Archie Duncan Fellow in Medical Ethics		lydie.fialova@ed.ac.uk
	Sandalia Genus	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Pharmaceuticals,Vaccination,Political Economy of Health,Malaria,Clinical Trials,Global Health,International development,Tanzania	Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square s.genus@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Chrissie Wanner	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	multispecies ethnography,medical and veterinary anthropology,Kinship,Human-animal relationships,Britain	George Square chrissiewanner@gmail.com
	Gill Haddow	Senior Lecturer	Patient experiences,Cyborgs,Sociology of health and illness,Medical sociology,Qualitative Research Methods,embodiment,public engagement,Balance of power	2.87 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0) 131 650 2389 gill.haddow@ed.ac.uk
	John Harries	Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience and Engagement (DSEE) for the School of Social and Political Science	time and temporality,indigeneity and identity (particularly in postcolonial settler societies),matter and materiality,the senses and the environment,Canada,Newfoundland,the Beothuk,social memory,contentious heritage,Human-animal relationships,cats	5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk
	Morteza Hashemi	Leverhulme ECF	Global Social Theory,Decoloniality,Sociology of Immigration,Sociology of Religion,Sociology of Technology,Intersection of Religion and Technology,Race and Identity,Social Integration in Britain,Ethnography,Fortress Europe,Neo-Khaldunian Social Theory,Blood and Organ Donation,Grassroots Movements,Medical Sociology,Philanthropy	5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4273 (direct line) Morteza.Hashemi@ed.ac.uk
	Michael Heneise	PhD Student, South Asian Studies	Indigenous healing,personhood,vision,and the state,Cosmopolitics,Anthropology of dreaming,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Medical Anthropology,Himalaya,South Asia,Amazonia and Latin America,Sacred ecology	Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +91 708 596 1330 heneise@gmail.com
	Roger Jeffery	Professor of Sociology of South Asia; Associate Director, Edinburgh India Institute	Health policy,Emerging economies and global health,Health systems and global health,Political Economy of India,The Sociology of Scotland,Environment	Room 2, 22A Buccleuch Place  +44 (0)131 650 3976 R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk
	Anuj Kapilashrami	Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy; Associate Director, Global Development Academy	ethnography,Health policy,South Asia,Social movements,privatisation,commercial sector engagement / trade in health policy,global governance,gender inequalities	anuj.kapilashrami@ed.ac.uk
	Lilian Kennedy, PhD	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Memory,Subjectivity and Personhood,Dementia,Care,Love,time and temporality,Family relationships,Kinship and relatedness,STS,GPS tracker technology,NHS,synchronicity	lilian.kennedy@ed.ac.uk
	Fadhila Mazanderani	Chancellor's Fellow	Social movements,Patient experiences,Public health,Health policy,Sociology of Knowledge,Medical sociology,Social media and internet technologies,Chronic illness,Care ethics	1.66 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards f.mazanderani@ed.ac.uk
	Alice Nagle	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Performativity,Sexuality,Religious Identity,Childbearing,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,Christianity,Comedy and Humour,gender,marriage,Religion And Ritual,Kinship,Anthropology of the United States,Subjectivity and Personhood,agency,East Africa,life cycles,ethics and ideology,pregnancy,Pregnancy Loss,social reproduction	Crystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square a.e.nagle@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Kate Milosavljevic	Post-doctoral research fellow	Science and technology studies,Human-animal relationships,Bees,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Agriculture and the politics of food,new scientific and medical technologies,,Urban Ethnography,Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods,prostheses,Technology and society	3.22  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 6630 k.milosavljevic@ed.ac.uk
	Martyn Pickersgill	Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine		0131 650 3202 martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk
	Emily Ross	Research Fellow		0131 650 3233 emily.ross@ed.ac.uk
	Jeevan Sharma	Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development	Migrant labor,Migration and development,livelihoods,Gender and Development,Youth,human rights,Development and Humanitarian Aid,Global Health,Reproductive & child health,Monitoring and Evaluation,Nepal and the Himalaya,South Asia	6.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 6511760 jeevan.sharma@ed.ac.uk
	Devi Shridar	Professor of Global Public Health		0131 650 6194 devi.sridhar@ed.ac.uk
	Ting Ting Shum	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	China,Infectious Disease,Tuberculosis,Public Health Practice and Policy,Care,Subjectivity and Personhood,Value	t.shum@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Judith Sim	Lecturer, Biomedical Teaching Organisation (BMTO), School of Biomedical Sciences		jsim1@exseed.ed.ac.uk
	Pam Smith	Professor of Nursing Education, School of Health and Social Science
	Felix Stein	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics		felix.stein@ed.ac.uk
	Steve Sturdy	Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge	History of science and medicine,Medical sociology,sociology of scientific knowledge,genomics,Historical sociology	2.82 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 651 4741 S.Sturdy@ed.ac.uk
	Samuel Taylor-Alexander
	Neil Thin	Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Director of Undergraduate Teaching (Social Anthropology)	happiness,wellbeing and the good life,appreciative research,aspirational social planning	5.27 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3880 n.thin@ed.ac.uk
	Laura Winterton	PhD Student		s1267542@sms.ed.ac.uk

Associate Membership

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Hannah Brown	Lecturer; Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing		hannah.brown@durham.ac.uk
	Joseph Long	Research Manager for Scottish Autism and Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology, University of Aberdeen		joseph.long@abdn.ac.uk