People

The Committee

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Stefan Ecks	Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director (PG Taught)	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; Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA)	International development,South Asia,Medical Anthropology,Global Health Policy	6.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3816 ian.harper@ed.ac.uk
	Sumeet Jain	Senior Lecturer in Social Work; International Director, 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	Medical Anthropology Teaching Fellow; Deputy Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Programme Director for MSc in International Development (Incoming Students)	Reproduction,Diaspora,Migration & Transnationalism,Maternity,Somalia,Kenya,Urban Refugees,Gender,Medical Anthropology,Islam,Kinship and motherhood	5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0131) 651 5574 Lucy.Lowe@ed.ac.uk
	Laura Major	Career Development Fellow (Lecturer), Social Anthropology	Ethnography,Memory,Material Culture,Conflict and Post-Conflict Politics,Museum Studies,Anthropology of Death,Anthropology of the body	3.20, 3F1  18 Buccleuch Place 0131 6511 329 l.major@ed.ac.uk
	Rebecca Marsland	Head of Social Anthropology; 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
	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
	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

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
	Bridget Bradley	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Diagnosis,Classification,identity,Beauty,Hair,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,gender,femininity and masculinity,shame and stigma,Mental Health,Self Care,Medicalisation and Expertise,Activist Anthropology,Silence,Trichotillomania,Body Focussed Repetitive Behaviours,Anthropology of Britain	Chrystal MacMillan Building, EH8 9LD +44 (0)784 0011 224 Bridget.Bradley@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	francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk
	Janet Carsten	Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology		5.24 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3935 J.carsten@ed.ac.uk
	Jacob Copeman	Senior Lecturer	South Asia,Gurus,Atheism,Blood Donation,Tissue Economies,Social Reform,Media,Technology and society,India,Medical Anthropology,Names and Naming	5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building +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 - 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 Africa 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	Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow	Patient experiences,Cyborgs,Sociology of health and illness,Medical sociology,Qualitative Research Methods,embodiment,public engagement	2.87 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0) 131 650 2389 gill.haddow@ed.ac.uk
	John Harries	Senior Teaching Fellow and Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience)	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	5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@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	Room 2, 22A Buccleuch Place  +44 (0)131 650 3976 R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk
	Anuj Kapilashrami	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	2.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 1316511929 anuj.kapilashrami@ed.ac.uk
	Lilian Kennedy	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Memory,Subjectivity and Personhood,Dementia,Care,Love,time and temporality,Family relationships,Kinship and relatedness,STS,GPS tracker technology,NHS	5.16 lilian.kennedy@ed.ac.uk
	Pete Kingsley	Student Development Coordinator, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program		4.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4082 pete.kingsley@ed.ac.uk
	Roslyn Malcolm	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Autism,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Embodiment,Empathy,Intersubjectivity,Human-animal relationships,Science and technology studies,History of science and medicine,Sociality,Kinship,sensorium,Phenomenology,Interdisciplinary Research,Energy	Office 5.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 623 2860 Roslyn.Malcolm@.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
	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
	Pia Noel	PhD Student, Social Anthropology	Medical Anthropology,Mental Health,Humanitarian intervention,Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM),Body Work,Poverty,International development,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,Nepal,Buddhism,Hinduism,Yoga,Social Determinants of Health,Discourses of Health and Wellness,Neo and Post-Colonial Studies,Resilience,Global Health,South Asia	Pia.Noel@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	5.01 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; Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience)	happiness,wellbeing and the good life,political bilingualism,virtue signalling and conspicuous compassion,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