People

Faculty

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Morteza Hashemi	Leverhulme ECF	Social theory,Sociology of knowledge and science,Sociology of Technology,Religion Studies,transhumanism,Immigration,postsecularism,Anthropology of Technology	5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Morteza.Hashemi@ed.ac.uk
	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
	Casey High	Senior Lecturer		5.21 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square 01316515180 C.High@ed.ac.uk
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Lucy Lowe	Programme Director MSc Medical Anthropology, 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
	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
	Maya Mayblin	Lecturer		5.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square maya.mayblin@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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Dimitri Tsintjilonis	Lecturer	Death,sacrifice,personhood,spirit possession,Indonesia,Greece	5.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3934 D.Tsintjilonis@ed.ac.uk