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Joseph Anderson | Anthropology of the United States,Gun Culture,Gun Ownership,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,California,Intergenerational Transmission,History,Kinship,National Belonging,San Diego | s0824638@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Sebastien Bachelet | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Morocco,illegality,arts,advocacy,Political participation,sub-Saharan migration,Migration Studies,Forced displacement | Seb.Bachelet@ed.ac.uk |
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Sebastien Bachelet | Morocco,political anthropology,Human rights,Migration studies,illegality,advocacy,creative arts | Seb.Bachelet@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 | Senior Lecturer; Co-Director, Atelier: Creative Arts and the Social Sciences network; Co-Editor, Visual Culture in Britain | 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 |
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Tom Boylston | Lecturer | Ethiopia,the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,Anthropology of Christianity,Media anthropology,Game studies | 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 of Social Anthropology | Material Culture,China and East Asia,Gender regimes,Agriculture and the politics of food,Technology and society | 3.18 18 Buccleuch Place 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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Lucy Bull | Childhood and Youth Studies,ethnography,national identity,organizations and institutions | n.l.bull@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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Dr Evangelos Chrysagis | Ethics and morality,Music and sound,Do-it-Yourself / DiY | ||
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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 | Britain,ethnography,Mythology and folklore,Memory,Language and Identity,Gaelic Scotland,crofting,Environment,fishing,the sea | 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 | ethnography,International development,South Asia,renewable energy,Solar photovoltaics,Technology and society,Economic anthropology | 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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Resto Cruz | Kinship and relatedness,Siblingship,personhood,Work,social mobility,Middle class,Inequality,Inheritance,Education,Professions,Transnational labour migration,Care,Intergenerational relations,Philippines,Southeast Asia,Austronesia | R.S.Cruz@sms.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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Don Duprez | 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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Stefan Ecks | Programme Director Medical Anthropology | 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 | 3.24 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 9920 alex.edmonds@ed.ac.uk |
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Joost Fontein | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | 5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3861 J.Fontein@ed.ac.uk |
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Daisy Fung | anthropology at home,chronic illness,chronicity,ordinary ethics,friendship,London,biography,citizenship,medical anthropology | dfung@ed.ac.uk / d.fung@ed-alumni.net | |
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Jamie Furniss | Lecturer in International Development | Middle East and North Africa,Anthropology of development,Egypt,Waste and waste collectors | 5.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +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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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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Véronique Gilbert | Sexuality,Seduction,Material Culture,Witchcraft,Anthropology of emotions,Gender,Marriage and polygamy,Anthropology of food,Anthropology of Love,Feminism,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body,Senegal | veronique.gilbert@ed.ac.uk | |
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Chrissie Wanner | multispecies ethnography,medical and veterinary anthropology,Kinship,Human-animal relationships,Britain | chrissiewanner@gmail.com | |
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Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez | Symmetric Anthropology,Anthropology of Knowledge,Amerindian Studies,Ethnicity and Identity,Indigenous Epistemologies | +44 (0)131 650 4203 m.i.gonzalez-galvez@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Anthony Good | Professor Emeritus; Professorial Fellow | Family and kinship | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square A.Good@ed.ac.uk |
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Chandra Gurung | c.s.gurung@sms.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Andreas Hackl | Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) | 4.03 21 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 6511730 andreas.hackl@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 | Social memory,time and temporality,indigeneity and identity (particularly in postcolonial settler societies),matter and materiality,the senses and the environment,Canada,Newfoundland,the Beothuk | 5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk |
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Gaia von Hatzfeldt | Politics of transparency and accountability, governance, anti-corruption activism,Social movements, civil society,Anthropology of democracy, India | s0928325@exseed.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 | 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square +44(0)131 650 4052 Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk |
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Luke Heslop | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 3.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building George Square  Luke.Heslop@ed.ac.uk |
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Luke Heslop | Sri Lanka; class; kinship; families; business; politics; politicking; merchants and traders; markets; work; protests; performance; and vegetables. | ||
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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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Delwar Hussain | Chrystal Macmillan Fellow | Elections,ethnography,State building,Storytelling and ethnography,Gender and Sexuality,Borderlands,Bangladesh,Fences,South Asia,Modernisation | Rm 3.17, 3F2 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 651 5071 dhussain@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Laura Jeffery | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Associate Dean (Research Ethics), College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences | Forced displacement,Migration studies,Environmental anthropology,Environmental Sociology,Indian Ocean studies,Anthropology of Britain,Mauritius,Chagos islanders,Critical heritage studies,Environment and society,Conservation and development,Human-environment relations,Maldives,Seychelles,Roads and infrastructure,connective infrastructure | 5.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (131) 651 3860 laura.jeffery@ed.ac.uk |
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Heid Jerstad | Climate change,Weather,HImalaya,India | 4.03 21 Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 13165513997 heid.jerstad@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 | s1361404@sms.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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Dr László Lajtai | Psychiatric Anthropology,Anthropological Linguistics,Mauritius,Indian Ocean,Inequality,Caste,Slavery and Slave Trade | +44 (0)131 6504688 l.lajtai@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Dr. Jenny Lawy | Anthropology of Botswana,Indigenous Peoples,higher education,identity politics,Power,minority politics,minority rights,Advocacy,recogntion,voice,democracy,Citizenship | +44 (0)7432423105 j.lawy@ed.ac.uk or jennylawy@gmail.com |
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Hannah Lesshafft | 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 | H.Lesshafft@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Henrietta Lidchi | H.Lidchi@nms.ac.uk | ||
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Lucy Lowe | Refugee studies,Reproductive Health,Maternity,Medical Anthropology,Immigration and asylum policy,Humanitarianism,Legal anthropology,Somalia,Kenya,Urban anthropology,Fertility | ||
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Siobhan Magee | ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Kinship and relatedness,Marriage,History and Memory,especially as explored through intergenerational relations,Gender and Sexuality,Material Culture,United States,Poland | B.31 19 George Square siobhan.magee@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, 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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Diego Malara | the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,spirit possession,divination,art and healing,personhood,orthodoxy and heterodoxy,fasting and ascetism,passions and passiones | diegomalara@hotmail.it | |
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Roslyn Malcolm | Autism,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Embodiment,Emergent Forms of Life,Empathy,Intersubjectivity,Medical Anthropology,Human-animal relationships | +44 (0)131 623 2860 R.C.Malcolm@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Iris Marchand | Iris.Marchand@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 | 5.10 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 | Lecturer | 5.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square maya.mayblin@ed.ac.uk |
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Stephen McConnachie | Uganda,Buganda,East Africa,Happiness,Conceptions and pursuit of the good life,Well-being,Values,Morality | s.mcconnachie-3@sms.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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Tine | Armed Forces,Military cultures,Medical anthropology,Mental Health,Ethnicity and culture,Violence,Trauma and PTSD | t.molendijk@sms.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,Mapping,Visualisation,Solar,Energy,Waste,Power,Design,Repair,Photovoltaics,E-waste,Maintenance | s0804505@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Alex Nading | Lecturer in Social Anthropology; Deputy Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Programme Director, MSc Medical Anthropology | Medical Anthropology,Environmental anthropology,Science and technology studies,Latin American Culture and Society | 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)131 651 5120 Alex.Nading@ed.ac.uk |
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Pia Noel | 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 | |
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R. Elliott Oakley | Amazonia,Numeracy,Guyana | 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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Takamasa Osawa | Indonesia, Sumatra, Indigeneity, ethnicity, tribal identity, post-foragers | T.OSAWA-2@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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Dr Tristan Partridge | Value,Collective Action,Work & Labour,Indigenous Life Projects,Energy & Infrastructure,Fracking | tristan.partridge@ucsb.edu | |
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Tania Porqueddu | Medical Anthropology,Population movement/migration and health,Medical pluralism,Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals,Anthropology of food,Transcultural psychiatry | tania.porqueddu@ed.ac.uk | |
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Annie Ramirez | Scottish Catholicism,Popular Religion and Institutional Religion,Community Belonging,Scottish Hebrides | A.K.Ramirez@sms.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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Liz Ravalde | e.ravalde@sms.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Jeevan Sharma | Lecturer in South Asia and International Development; Programme Director- MSc International Development; Deputy Director, Graduate School of Social and Political Science (Director PGT); Deputy Director- Global Development Academy | 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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Kimberly Sigmund | Natural Medicine,Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM),Mexico,Latin American Culture and Society,Healthcare,Medical Anthropology,Power (domination, authority, legitimacy) | S0898226@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Leila Sinclair-Bright | Career Development Fellow (Research and Teaching) | Politics of belonging,Citizenship,Political and legal anthropology,Zimbabwe,Land Reform,Human rights,Humanitarianism,ethnography,postcolonial state and civil society | 3.22 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 131 6506630 Leila.Sinclair-Bright@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 | 5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3944 jonathan.spencer@ed.ac.uk |
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Alice Street | Senior Lecturer; Chancellors Fellow | Anthropology of Melanesia,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies,hospital ethnography,State building,International development,Bureaucratic Power,nutraceuticals | 4.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +33 (0)131 6515573 Alice.Street@ed.ac.uk |
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Neil Thin | Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology; Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience) | happiness,wellbeing and the good life,social planning,appreciative (positive) research and 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, religion and ritual,Indigenous cosmologies,personhood,Sacred violence,Embodiment and the anthropology of the body | 5.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3934 D.Tsintjilonis@ed.ac.uk |
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Grit Wesser | Career Development Fellow (teaching and research) | history and memory,kinship and gender,ritual and personhood,Eastern Germany,Anthropology of the state,Migration and citizenship,Anthropology of Europe,Cold War and post-Cold War studies,Secularity | 3.20, 3F1 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 4681 Grit.Wesser@ed.ac.uk |
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Catherine Whittaker | Gender,and Violence,Mexico,Mesoamerica,Nahuatl,morality,cosmology,Narrative,Texts and Discourse,Intersectionality,Catholicism,Marginality,Democracy,Religion And Ritual,Politics of Indigeneity,Cosmopolitics,Testimony and memory | 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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Candice Hiu-Yan Yu | UK,Citizenship,Marriage and Intimate Relationships,Chinese would-be-permanent migrants,Social Mobility | s1554512@sms.ed.ac.uk |