Staff profiles
Head of Department
Dr Mark Harris
Reader
Phone: (01334 46) 2981
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: Thursday 3 - 5pm
Email: mh25@st-andrews.ac.uk
Ethnohistory, historical anthropology, ecological anthropology, the anthropology of embodiment and experience, social science methodology, anthropology of religion, Brazilian Amazon and South America.
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Academic staff
Dr Stephanie Bunn
Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2997
Office: Room 57, United College
Availability: Thursday 2 - 4pm
Email: sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk
Pastoral nomadism, material culture, human-environment relationships, learning and skill, childhood, space and perception, vernacular architecture
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Dr Tony Crook
Senior Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2818
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: Friday 12 - 2pm
Email: tc23@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research on Knowledge practices, ritual, gardening, mining, property rights. Papua New Guinea.
Anthropology of Melanesia, knowledge-practices, 'secrecy', male initiation ritual, taro horticulture, anthropological epistemology, impacts of and responses to the Ok Tedi mine (see here for a detailed description) , machine-thinking, perpetual motion, genetic engineering, climate change.
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Prof Roy Dilley
Professor
Phone: (01334 46) 2984
Office: Room 21, United College
Availability: Wednesday 2 - 4pm
Email: rmd@st-andrews.ac.uk
Economic anthropology, cosmologies, crafts and artisans, politics and power, and the ethnography of West Africa, Ireland and Scotland.
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Dr Stan Frankland
Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2979
Office: Room 1, 71 North Street
Availability: Thursday 2 - 4pm
Email: mcf1@st-andrews.ac.uk
East Africa and Uganda, Hunter Gatherers, Tourism & Development, Myths, Representation
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Dr Mattia Fumanti
Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2990
Office: Room 19, United College, St Salvators Quad
Availability: Thursday 10am - 12pm
Email: mf610@st-andrews.ac.uk
Regional focus: Namibia, Ghana and African Diaspora in Britain, London. Topical interests include postcolonial studies, the state, citizenship, governance, elites and education, youth and popular culture, masculinities and femininities, morality, civil society and public spaces, religion, diaspora and transnationalism.
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Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco
Senior Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2950
Office: Room 2, United College
Availability: Wednesday 4.15 - 5.30pm
Email: pgyb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Feminist Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Gypsies, Memory, Marginality.
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Prof Peter Gow
Professor
Phone: (01334 46) 2817
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: Tuesday 12 - 2pm
Email: pgg2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research on myth, history, kinship, aesthetics. Area Speciality: Amazonia.
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Dr Sabine Hyland
Reader
Phone: (01334 46) 2980
Office: Top Floor, 71 North Street
Email: sph@st-andrews.ac.uk
Andes, Peru, Inkas; ethnopoetics; historical anthropology; literacy, writing and politics; ancient scripts.
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Dr Pedram Khosronejad
The Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for Anthropology of Iran
Phone: (01334 46) 1968
Office: Room 48, United College
Availability: Friday 9 - 11am
Email: pk18@st-andrews.ac.uk
Visual piety, Devotional Artefacts and Religious Material Culture in Iran, Persianate
societies and the Middle East more generally.
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Prof Joanna Overing
Emeritus Professor
Email: jo1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Egalitarianism, gender, linguistics, philosophical anthropology, indigenous cosmologies, aesthetics, and the ethnography of Amazonia.
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Dr Stavroula Pipyrou
Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 1960
Office: First Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: Thursday 1 - 3pm
Email: sp78@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research Interests
Italy, Greece, Turkey, Linguistic Minorities, Mafia and 'Illegal' Organisations, Civil Society, Power and Governance, Kinship and Relatedness, Refugee Identity, Anthropology of Dance
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Prof Tristan Platt
Professor
Phone: (01334 46) 2983
Office: Room 1, United College
Availability: Thursday 11am - 1pm
Email: tp@st-andrews.ac.uk
South America, Andes, Bolivia; Language, writing and politics; history and anthropology; liberalism and rebellion; textuality and silence; myth, memory and archive; colonialism, postcolonialism and ethnogenesis; mining, metallurgy and money; migration
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Professor Nigel Rapport
Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies
Phone: (01334 46) 2978
Office: Room 3, United College
Email: rapport@st-andrews.ac.uk
Individuality, globalism and cosmopolitanism, symbolic interactionism and conversation analysis, literary and philosophical anthropology, consciousness, identity and narrative; human rights and liberalism; the ethnography of the England, Newfoundland, Israel and Scotland.
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Dr Adam Reed
Senior Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2974
Office: Room 56, United College
Availability: Friday 12 - 2pm
Email: ader@st-andrews.ac.uk
Melanesia, incarceration, literature and reading, new media and the city, London
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Dr Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
Evening Degree Co-ordinator
Phone: (01334 46) 1961
Office: Room 58, United College
Availability: Wednesday 11am - 1pm, Room 58, United College
Email: jps5@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Prof Christina Toren
Professor
Phone: (01334 46) 2973
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: Friday 2 - 4pm
Email: ct51@st-andrews.ac.uk
Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia. Theoretical interests include: exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as a historical process.
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Dr Huon Wardle
Senior Lecturer
Phone: (01334 46) 2982
Office: Room 20, United College
Availability: Monday 9.30 - 10.30am, Friday 2 - 3pm
Email: hobw@st-andrews.ac.uk
The West Indies and modernity, cosmopolitanism, creolisation, comedy and mischief, imagination and perception. Kingston Jamaica.
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Teaching and postdoctoral fellows
Dr Jara Hulkenberg
Post-doctoral research fellow funded by the Pacific Fund through the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds in The Netherlands
Email: jh86@st-andrews.ac.uk
Current research project: Life 'in the Fijian way' in transnational settings (Great Britain). The project examines how Fijians overseas are able to continue to live according to the Fijian way (vakaViti or vakavanua). Special attention will be given to the establishment and confirmation of hierarchical kinship relations and associated obligations in ceremonial and daily life whilst living in Britain.
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Research fellows
Dr Nina Holm Vohnsen
Email: etnnhv@hum.au.dk
Anthropology of the absurd, the non-linearity of social life, knowledge mutation, bureaucracy, policy-driven development, policy-making, the civil service, organisational anthropology, pragmatism, speculative realism. Regional focus: Primarily Denmark, also UK.
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Dr Craig Lind
Research Fellow in the Centre for Pacific Studies
Phone: (01334 46) 2963
Office: Room 59, United College
Availability: Thursday 2 - 4pm
Email: ctl3@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Support staff
Mrs Mhairi Aitkenhead
Departmental Secretary
Phone: (01334 46) 2972
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: The department office is open Monday to Friday 8.45am to 5pm.
Email: socanth@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Ms Nichola Barrett
Departmental Secretary
Phone: (01334 46) 2977
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: The department office is open 8.45am - 5pm Monday to Friday
Email: socanthadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Mrs Lisa Neilson
Departmental Secretary
Phone: (01334 46) 2977
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Availability: The department office is open Monday to Friday 8.45am to 5pm.
Email: socanthadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
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