People
Meet the team at the Department of Social Anthropology.
If you would like to contact us, please see the contact page.
Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya
Lecturer
Conflict, Civil War, Political Violence, Nationalism, Resistance, State, Citizenship, Visual Culture, Photography, Cinema, Sri Lanka, Southasia
Dr Melissa Demian
Senior Lecturer
Socio-legal studies; legal and colonial history; disputing systems; gender; space; temporality; property theory; kinship; cooperatives and mutualism; Pacific ethnography.
Dr Sean Field
Director of Policy
Sustainability; Energy; Finance; Ethics; Climate Change; Sustainability; Resource Extraction; Transition; Net Zero; Markets; Economic Anthropology
Dr Mette High
Director of Research
Reader
Energy ethics and climate change, economic and religious life.
Dr Richard Irvine
Director of Teaching
Senior Lecturer
Religious life; rationalisation, disenchantment, and unknowing; environmental change; and the relationship between human life and deep time in the UK and Mongolia.
Dr Aimee Joyce
Senior Lecturer
History, Borderlands, Hauntology, Trauma, Death and the dead, Material Culture, Religious Pluralism, Genealogy, Heritage and Post-Conflict societies.
Dr Daniel Knight
Reader
History and Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of the Future, Anthropology of Crisis, Time and Temporality, Philosophical Anthropology, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Modern Greece, European (especially Balkan and Mediterranean) Anthropology, Michel Serres
Dr Karen Lane
Evening Degree Co-ordinator (Social Anthropology)
Urban anthropology; anthrozoology; anthropology of performance, literature and the senses
Prof Christos Lynteris
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, Medical History, Historical Anthropology, Epidemics, Zoonoses, Plague, Global Health, Epidemiology, Epistemology, Medical Visual Culture, Colonial Medicine, Multispecies Anthropology, Critical Theory
Dr Caroline Mburu
Research Fellow (Developing Effective Rodent Control Strategies to Reduce Disease Risk)
Dr Stavroula Pipyrou
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Political Anthropology, Minorities, Displacement, Equality and Diversity, Children, Governance, Civil Society, Violence and Crime, Cold War, Silence, Performance and Dance, Death, Italy, Greece, Brazil, Turkey
Dr Emilka Skrzypek
Lecturer in Energy Ethics
resource extraction, stakeholder engagement, mining, Papua New Guinea, social impacts, Melanesia
