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Joe Anderson | Gun Culture,Gun Ownership,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,California,National Belonging,San Diego,Phenomenology,United States,America,Anthropology of the United States,ethnography,Anthropology of ethics,gender | s0824638@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Alan Barnard | Professor Emeritus; Honorary Professorial Fellow; formerly Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa | Southern Africa,Hunter gatherers,Human origins,Origins of language,Archaeology and anthropology,History of anthropology | A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk |
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Richard Baxstrom | Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities; Deputy Head of School and Director of Learning and Teaching - School of Social and Political Science | Urban anthropology,Cinema,Art,popular culture,Southeast Asia,Anthropology and Philosophy,Anthropology of ethics,Religion And Ritual,Witchcraft,History of anthropology,North America,Neoliberal Governmentality,Neoliberalism | 5.29 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4051 Richard.Baxstrom@ed.ac.uk; for matters pertaining to SPS Learning and Teaching: sps.dhos@ed.ac.uk |
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Tom Boylston | Lecturer | Media anthropology,Game studies,Anthropology of Religion,Anthropology of Technology,Anthropology of Ethiopia,Technology and Mental Health | 5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3909 tom.boylston@ed.ac.uk |
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Bridget Bradley | 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 | +44 (0)784 0011 224 Bridget.Bradley@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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Marina Fernández-Buil | Anthropology of History,Anthropology of the Senses,Ethnomusicology,Historicity,Temporality,Embodiment,Performing Arts,Politics of Space,Memory,Cultural Rights,Culture Commodification,Heritage,Politics of Representation and Knowledge Production,Collaborative Ethnography,Hereditary Musicians,Western Rajasthan,South Asia | s1682722@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Shruti Chaudhry | Research Fellow | 1.01 21 George Square +44 (0)1316511778 Shruti.Chaudhry@ed.ac.uk |
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Hsiao-Chiao Chiu | ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Kinship and relatedness,Kinship-related rituals,Gender,Marriage and marital preferences,Taiwan,China | G. 03 22a Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 131 6505928 Hsiaochiao.Chiu@ed.ac.uk |
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Juan Alberto Claux | Anthropology of psychiatry,Schizophrenia and other mental illnesses,Medical ethics,Biomedicine and politics | J.A.CLAUX@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Magnus Course | Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology | ethnography,Mythology and folklore,Memory,Language and Identity,Gaelic Scotland,crofting,Environment,fishing,the sea,Chile,South America | 5.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3893 Magnus.Course@ed.ac.uk |
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Jamie Cross | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange and Impact), College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | ethnography,International development,South Asia,renewable energy,Solar photovoltaics,Technology and society,Sub-Saharan Africa | Room 5.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Office: +44(0)1316515181 Mobile: +44(0)7552817310 jamie.cross@ed.ac.uk |
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Jennifer Curtis | Postdoctoral Fellow | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk |
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Leah Eades | Medical Anthropology,Applied Anthropology,Feminist Anthropology,Reproductive Health,Reproductive Politics,Abortion,Medical Abortion | leah.eades@ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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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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Jamie Furniss | Lecturer in International Development | Middle East and North Africa,Anthropology of development,Egypt,Waste and waste collectors | +44 (0)131 651 5675 jamie.furniss@ed.ac.uk |
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Alex Gapud | Memory,identity,England,Post-imperialism,Materiality,Politics of Memory,Past-presencing,Historical consciousness,heritage,colonial aphasia,Silence,Metropolitan Postcolonial Memory | +44(0)7580 268376 A.Gapud(at)ed.ac.uk |
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Alex Gapud | Teaching Fellow | Anthropology of memory,History and Memory,Anthropology of Britain,Anthropology of History,Bristol,Contested Heritage,Materiality,Secrets,Silence,colonial aphasia,Metropolitan Postcolonial Memory,Politics of Memory,British Empire | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square agapud@ed.ac.uk |
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Sandalia Genus | Medical Anthropology,Pharmaceuticals,Vaccination,Political Economy of Health,Malaria,Clinical Trials,Global Health,International development,Tanzania | s.genus@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Alysa Ghose | Feminism,gender,Religious Identity,Witchcraft,femininity and masculinity,Intersectionality,spirits and the dead,Cuba,Latin America and the Caribbean,Power (domination,authority,legitimacy),personhood,ontology,spiritual development,intergenerational relationships,Kinship,knowledge production,empathy,intuition,African diaspora religions,embodiment and materiality,race | +44 7961902513 a.e.ghose@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Anthony Good | Professor Emeritus | South Asia,Immigration,Kinship,Hinduism,Legal anthropology,Legal pluralism,asylum seekers and refugees | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square A.Good@ed.ac.uk |
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Andreas Hackl | Senior Research Fellow | 3.20 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6515357 andreas.hackl@ed.ac.uk |
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John Hagström | Anthropology of non-religion,Secular humanism,Atheism,Secularism and secularity,Ethics and morality | j.o.hagstrom@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Maythe S. Han | dog,kinship,Edinburgh,more-than-human,environment,ecology,ecological anthropology,creative ethnography,experimental research,interspecies ethnography,walking interview,veterinary anthropology,public anthropology,visual anthropology,materiality,material culture,queer theory,queer anthropology,decolonization,feminist methodologies,critical theory,linguistic anthropology,storytelling,experimental methodologies,friendship | maythe.han@ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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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,Human-animal relationships,cats | 5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk |
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Morteza Hashemi | Leverhulme ECF | Social theory,Sociology of knowledge and science,Sociology of Technology,Religion Studies,transhumanism,Immigration,postsecularism,Anthropology of Technology,Intersection of Religion and Technology | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Morteza.Hashemi@ed.ac.uk |
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Naomi Haynes | Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology | Christianity,Political economy,Southern Africa,Hierarchy,Values,Economic anthropology,Religion And Ritual | G.1 22 George Square +44(0)131 650 4052 Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk |
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Casey High | Senior Lecturer | 5.21 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square 01316515180 C.High@ed.ac.uk |
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Lotte Hoek | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology | Media anthropology,Sexuality,Visual Culture,Cinema,Urban Ethnography,South Asia,Bangladesh,Pakistan | 5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6544 lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk |
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Leo Hopkinson | Teaching Fellow | l.g.h.hopkinson@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Juli Huang | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | Pro-poor markets,Carbon markets,Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),social enterprise,Gender and Development,Science,technology and development,Corporations,Anthropology of Money,Alternative currencies,Economic anthropology,International development,South Asia,Bangladesh,Iran | 5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4269 juli.huang@ed.ac.uk |
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Delwar Hussain | Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow | ethnography,Gender and Sexuality,Borderlands,Bangladesh,Fences,South Asia,Modernisation,Decolonisation,War on terror,Political Islam,Religious Identity,labour,religion,LGBT,Spain,history,Pakistan,India | George Square +44 (0)131 651 5071 delwar.hussain@ed.ac.uk |
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Laura Jeffery | Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology | Forced displacement,Migration studies,Environmental anthropology,Indian Ocean studies,Anthropology of Britain,Mauritius,Chagos islanders,Critical heritage studies,Environment and society,Conservation and development,Human-environment relations,Maldives,Seychelles,Ethnomusicology,Migration and development,intangible cultural heritage,roads and connective infrastructure | 5.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (131) 651 3860 laura.jeffery@ed.ac.uk |
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Chisomo Kalinga | Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow | Medical Humanities,Illness narratives,Narrative Medicine,Disease as Metaphor,Arts & Humanities-based research methodologies,participatory action resarch,Oral & print literary cultures,History of Medicine in Malawi,Traditional healing practices | G.3 22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)1316 515118 Chisomo.Kalinga@ed.ac.uk |
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Aaron Kappeler | Lecturer in Anthropology of Development | International development,Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods,Food Security,labor,Environment,Political ecology,Capitalism and its critics,indigeneity,mestizaje,sovereignty,State formation,populism,Latin American Culture and Society | 5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square akappele@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Tobias Kelly | Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology | Political and legal anthropology,Political violence,Pacifism,Human rights,Anthopology of Britain,Historical Anthropology,Israeli-Palestinian conflict | 3.23 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (131) 650 3986 Toby.Kelly@ed.ac.uk |
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Lilian Kennedy | Memory,Subjectivity and Personhood,Dementia,Care,Love,time and temporality,Family relationships,Kinship and relatedness,STS,GPS tracker technology,NHS | lilian.kennedy@ed.ac.uk | |
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Justin Kenrick | Honorary Fellow | Climate Change and Sustainability: Can community responses in the Global North and South enable the politically possible to be reshaped by the ecologically necessary?,Central Africa: Is it possible to reconceptualise and reshape conservation and development projects so that they support rather than devastate local people's lives?,Commons Regimes, Indigenous Peoples Rights and Life Projects: | |
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Henrietta Lidchi | H.Lidchi@nms.ac.uk | ||
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Lucy Lowe | Deputy Director Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology | Feminism,gender,Reproductive Health,Somalia,Migration and Displacement,Refugee studies,,Motherhood,Reproductive Justice,Diaspora and transnationalism,Gender and Health,Kenya,sexuality | 5.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4286 Lucy.Lowe@ed.ac.uk |
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Siobhan Magee | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | Kinship and relatedness,Marriage,History and Memory,Gender and Sexuality,Material Culture,United States,Poland,Political and economic anthropology,Legal anthropology,Food and clothing industries | G.3 22a Buccleuch Place siobhan.magee(at)ed.ac.uk |
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Mairi O'Gorman | Values,Indian Ocean,Seychelles,Youth,Return / transnational migration,intimacy | s1259259@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Roslyn Malcolm | 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 | +44 (0)131 623 2860 Roslyn.Malcolm@.ed.ac.uk |
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Q. Adam Marshall | Cambodia,Phnom Penh,Religion And Ritual,Khmer Buddhism,Khmer Evangelical Christianity,belief,the 'heart',ethics,Space,place and the city,Subjectivity and Personhood,nationalism,Modernity,Anthropology of the state | q.a.marshall@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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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 |
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Sidharthan Maunaguru | Newton Fellow | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square |
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Maya Mayblin | Senior Lecturer | 5.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square maya.mayblin@ed.ac.uk |
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Hannah McInnes-Dean | Maternity,Paternity,Parents and parenthood,Gender and parenting,Sex & Gender,Reproductive Health,Kinship,Medical Anthropology,Childbearing,Perinatal care and support,Parental Leave | h.j.mcinnes-dean@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Alice Nagle | 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 | 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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Agathe C. Mora | Anthropology of Law,Bureaucracy,property restitution,Transitional justice,Anthropology of institutions,Evidence,Kosovo,Europe | a.mora@ed.ac.uk | |
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Declan Murray | Electricity,Rubbish,Trash,Solar,Energy,Waste,Power,Design,Repair,Photovoltaics,E-waste,Maintenance,Infrastructure | s0804505@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Pia Noel | 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 | Pia.Noel@ed.ac.uk | |
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R. Elliott Oakley | Environmental anthropology,Amazonia,Guyana,Indigenous Peoples,Conservation and development,Waiwai people,personhood | r.e.oakley@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Katarina Ockova | Kinship and relatedness,History and Memory, especially as explored through intergenerational relations,Jewishness,Diaspora and transnationalism,Marriage and marital preferences,Community Belonging,Religion And Ritual,gender,Slovakia | K.Ockova@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic | Senior Research Fellow (Ancon, ERC funded) | Sovereignty,Cosmopolitics,Anti-Zionism,Jewish Left,Russia,Anthropology of Religion,Macedonia,Failure,Cultures of atheism | 4.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square G.Oustinova-Stjepanovic@ed.ac.uk |
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Eirini Papadaki | ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Kinship,adoption,,motherhood,gender,Sexuality,marriage,ethics,unwed pregnancy,Greece | G.03 22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)1314678081 e.papadaki@ed.ac.uk |
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Silvia Pergetti | Anthropology of development,Materiality,Infrastructure,Imagination,Modernity,Solar energy,Energy transition,Distributed generation,India,Rural electrification,International development | silvia.pergetti@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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Rishabh Raghavan | Citizenship,Criminality,Bureaucracy,Police,Energy & Infrastructure,illegality,thermal power plants,Tamil Nadu | rishabh.raghavan@ed.ac.uk | |
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Lindsay Randall | Gender,,Kinship,Islam,International development,Ethiopia,Marriage and polygamy,Anthropology of time,Feminist Theory,Political Anthropology,Ecnomic Anthropology,Anthropology of Childhood,Agency and Subjectivity | +44 07397812730 lindsay.randall@ed.ac.uk |
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Koreen Reece | ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Kinship,Marriage,Care,Crisis,HIV and AIDS,Children and childhood,International development,Humanitarianism,NGOs,Social work,Botswana,Southern Africa | G.3 22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)131 650 6889 Koreen.Reece@ed.ac.uk |
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Lotte Buch Segal | Dr | ethnography,Political violence,Israel-Palestine,Anthropology of the Middle East,gender,Kinship and relatedness,Trauma,Anthropology of ethics,Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Scandinavia | 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square + 45 29 40 30 55 lotte.segal@ed.ac.uk |
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Jeevan Sharma | Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development & Director of Research (School of Social and Political Science) | 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 |
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Ting Ting Shum | China,Infectious Disease,Tuberculosis,Public Health Practice and Policy,Care,Subjectivity and Personhood,Value | t.shum@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Jonathan Spencer | Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society | Religion and Politics,Sri Lanka,South and Southeast Asia,Buddhism,War and peace | 3F1, 3.24 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 3944 jonathan.spencer@ed.ac.uk |
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Mally (Malgorzata) Stelmaszyk | Teaching Fellow in Social Anthropology | Witchcraft,curses,Post-socialist transformation,music and sound,alcohol addiction,shamanism,spirit possession | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square mstelmas@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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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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Michelle Taylor | Senior Research Fellow, DiaDev | Global Health,International development,Control of neglected zoonotic and tropical diseases,diagnostics,drug discovery and development,Development aid,Evidence | 1.01 21 George Square +44 (0)131 6504081 E.M.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
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Emma Teale | Christianity,Scotland,Prophecy,Spiritual territorialisation,Temporality,Celticism,Religious heritage,Leadership and Organisation | Emma.Teale@ed.ac.uk | |
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Neil Thin | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Director of Undergraduate Teaching (Social Anthropology) | 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 |
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Dimitri Tsintjilonis | Lecturer | Death,sacrifice,personhood,spirit possession,monsters,Indonesia,Greece | 5.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3934 D.Tsintjilonis@ed.ac.uk |
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Eva Vernooij | Research Fellow | HIV and AIDS,Medical Anthropology,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,health care systems,policy and interventions,diagnostics,hospital ethnography,sub-Saharan Africa | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +31(6)24542534 Eva.Vernooij@ed.ac.uk |
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Catherine Whittaker | Gender,and Violence,Mexico,Mesoamerica,Nahuatl,cosmology,Intersectionality,Catholicism,Marginality,Religion And Ritual,Politics of Indigeneity,affect and emotion,love | s1355862@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Inna Yaneva-Toraman | Anthropology of the body,personhood,death,Melanesia,Material Culture,Masks,Religion And Ritual,Christianity,Economic anthropology,land ownership,indigenous rights,Conservation and development | i.yaneva-toraman@ed.ac.uk | |
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Emilija Zabiliute | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow | South Asia,India,diabetes,Medical Anthropology,care,kinship,vulnerability,urban poor,neighbours,gender,gendered violence,Gender and Development,International development | 5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk |
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Ritti Soncco | Medical Anthropology,Veterinary Anthropology,Zoonoses,zoonotic disease control,Environmental anthropology,Science and technology,visual anthropology,anthropology of landscape,art | Ritti.Soncco@ed.ac.uk |