Staff profiles
Head of Department
Dr Mark Harris
Reader
Phone: (01334) 462981
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Email: mh25@st-andrews.ac.uk
Identity, ecological anthropology, the anthropology of embodiment and experience, social science methodology, and the ethnography of the Brazilian Amazon and South America.
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Academic staff
Dr Stephanie Bunn
Lecturer
Phone: (01334) 462997
Office: Room 57, United College
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) 462818
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
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/Dean of Arts
Phone: (01334) 462984
Office: Room 21, United College
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) 462979
Office: Room 1, 71 North Street
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
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) 462950
Office: Room 2, United College
Email: pgyb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Feminist Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Gypsies, Memory, Marginality.
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Prof Peter Gow
Professor
Phone: (01334) 462817
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Email: pgg2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research on myth, history, kinship, aesthetics. Area Speciality: Amazonia.
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Dr Pedram Khosronejad
The Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for Anthropology of Iran
Phone: (01334) 461968
Office: Room 48, United College
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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Dr Craig Lind
Module Co-ordinator
Office: Room 58, United College
Email: ctl3@st-andrews.ac.uk
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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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Prof Tristan Platt
Professor
Phone: (01334) 462983
Office: Room 1, United College
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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Prof Nigel Rapport
Professor
Phone: (01334) 462978
Office: Room 3, United College
Email: njr2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Individuality, globalism, semantics, literary anthropology, consciousness and narrative, and the ethnography of the England, Newfoundland, Israel and Scotland.
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Dr Adam Reed
Senior Lecturer
Phone: (01334) 462974
Office: Room 56, United College
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 Module Co-ordinator
Office: Room 58, United College
Email: jps5@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Prof Christina Toren
Professor
Phone: (01334) 462973
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
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) 462982
Office: Room 20, United College
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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Research fellows
Dr Stephanie Garling
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: (01334) 462980
Office: 2nd Floor, 71 North Street
Email: sjg10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Pacific and Australian archaeology; archaeological and anthropological models of human colonisation, mobility, social interaction and exchange in island environments; causes and mechanisms of cultural transformation and continuity; the uses of style and imagery; Pacific rock-art; characterisation and sourcing of archaeological materials (pottery, obsidian, ochre); residue analysis; indigenous cultural heritage management; indigenous governance.
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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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Support staff
Mrs Mhairi Aitkenhead
Departmental Secretary
Phone: (01334) 462972
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Email: socanth@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Ms Helena Ingram
Departmental Secretary
Phone: 2977
Office: Departmental Office, 71 North Steet
Email: socanthadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Mrs Lisa Neilson
Departmental Secretary
Phone: (01334) 462977
Office: 1st Floor, 71 North Street
Email: socanthadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
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