People
The Committee
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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 |
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Leah Eades | PhD Student, Social Anthropology | medical anthropology,politics of reproduction,gender,social movements,medico-legal nexuses,authoritative and contested knowledge | 15a George Square leah.eades [@] ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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,Disasters | Pia.Noel@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ritti Soncco | Postdoctoral Researcher | ||
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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 |
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Marlee Tichenor | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics | marlee.tichenor@ed.ac.uk | |
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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
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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 |
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Radha Adhikari | Research Associate CSAS | radhaadhikari@yahoo.com | |
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Debbie Aitken | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education & Director of Clinical Educator Programme | 0131 242 6651 debbie.aitken@ed.ac.uk |
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Maxine Blackburn | Research Fellow | 0131 650 3247 m.blackburn@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lydie Fialova | Archie Duncan Fellow in Medical Ethics | lydie.fialova@ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Chrissie Wanner | PhD Student, Social Anthropology | multispecies ethnography,medical and veterinary anthropology,Kinship,Human-animal relationships,Britain | George Square chrissiewanner@gmail.com |
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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 |
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John Harries | More-Than-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 |
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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 |
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Roger Jeffery | Professorial Fellow in Sociology; 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Martyn Pickersgill | Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine | 0131 650 3202 martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk |
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Emily Ross | Research Fellow | 0131 650 3233 emily.ross@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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Devi Shridar | Professor of Global Public Health | 0131 650 6194 devi.sridhar@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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Judith Sim | Lecturer, Biomedical Teaching Organisation (BMTO), School of Biomedical Sciences | jsim1@exseed.ed.ac.uk | |
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Pam Smith | Professor of Nursing Education, School of Health and Social Science | ||
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Felix Stein | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics | felix.stein@ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Samuel Taylor-Alexander | |||
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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 |
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Laura Winterton | PhD Student | s1267542@sms.ed.ac.uk |
Associate Membership
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Hannah Brown | Lecturer; Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing | hannah.brown@durham.ac.uk | |
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Joseph Long | Research Manager for Scottish Autism and Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology, University of Aberdeen | joseph.long@abdn.ac.uk |