People
Meet the team at the Department of Social Anthropology.
If you would like to contact us, please see the contact page.
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
Research Fellow
Economic Anthropology; Ethics; Energy; Finance; Resource Extraction; Economic Geography; Ethnography; Quantitative Methods
Dr Richard Irvine
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
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, 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, Epidemics, Zoonosis, Plague, Global Health, Epistemology, Medical Visual Culture, Colonial Medicine, Multispecies Anthropology
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
CEE Senior Policy Fellow
resource extraction, stakeholder engagement, mining, Papua New Guinea, social impacts, Melanesia
