People
Faculty
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Richard Baxstrom | Senior Lecturer; Director of the Undergraduate School - SPS; 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 For emails related to the Undergraduate School: sps.dug@ed.ac.uk - All other emails: 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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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 |
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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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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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Stefan Ecks | 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 | 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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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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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) | 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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Morteza Hashemi | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | 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 |
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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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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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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 juli.huang@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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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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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 |
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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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Maya Mayblin | Lecturer | 5.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square maya.mayblin@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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Jeevan Sharma | Lecturer in South Asia and International Development; 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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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,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, 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 |