People
Meet the team at the Department of Social Anthropology.
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Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya
Lecturer
Conflict, Civil War, Political Violence, Ethno-nationalism, Resistance, State, Citizenship, Visual Culture, Photography, Cinema, Everyday Technologies, Infrastructure, 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 Richard Irvine
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 Aimée Joyce
Senior Lecturer
History, Borderlands, Hauntology, Trauma, Death and the dead, Material Culture, Religious Pluralism, Genealogy, Heritage and Post-Conflict societies.
Prof Daniel Knight
Professor
Philosophical Anthropology, History and Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of the Future, Anthropology of Crisis, Time and Temporality, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Modern Greece, European (especially Balkan and Mediterranean) Anthropology, Michel Serres
Prof Christos Lynteris
Director of Research
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, Medical History, Historical Anthropology, Zoonosis, Plague, Epidemics, Global Health, Epidemiology, Epistemology, Medical Visual Culture, Colonial Medicine, Multispecies Relations, Biopolitics
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
Dr Huon Wardle
Senior Lecturer
Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, creolization, common-sense, comedy, adventure, epoché, existential anthropology, reparatory ethics and aesthetics. Area specialities: Jamaica, the Caribbean.
