Prof Christos Lynteris awarded grant to study Imperial Endemic Cartographies
Collaborative project comparing French and British colonial mapping of disease endemics awarded BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant.
Department news
St Andrews-Gaza Virtual Fellowships 2026/27
We are inviting applications for three Virtual Fellowships for Palestinian scholars from Gaza, to join us for one term each during the Academic Year 2026/27.
Professor Christos Lynteris awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Christos Lynteris has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project Zoonosis Before Bacteriology.
Endemic Transformations Workshop
Workshop on "Endemic Transformations" to be held on July 9-10.
Just and Sustainable Plastic Waste Management Workshop
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews will host an international research policy workshop on Just and Sustainable Plastic Waste Management on 13–14 June 2026.
New book by Christos Lynteris: How Plague Got Rats
Christos Lynteris has published his new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026).
Peter Gow Memorial Lecture 2026
“‘Nothing is simple'. An ethnographic theory and its history”. Prof Marcio Goldman (Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). 5pm, Thursday 16 April 2026.
CFP Colonial Medical Ennui Workshop
Paper proposals are invited for the Colonial Medical Ennui Workshop, deadline April 30.
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
The Department of Social Anthropology seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Social Anthropology.
Departmental Seminars 2025-6 Semester 2
The 2025-6 Departmental Seminar programme for Semester 2 has been announced.