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

Prof Mette High

Professor

Energy ethics and climate change, economic and religious life.

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 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

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

Dr Karen Lane

Evening Degree Coordinator (Social Anthropology)

Urban anthropology; anthrozoology; anthropology of performance, literature and the senses

Prof Christos Lynteris

Director of Research

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 Cecilia McCallum

Dr Cecilia McCallum

Professorial Fellow in Amerindian Studies

Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

Director of Impact

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

DDDRRN

Dillys Daniela Del Rosario Rodríguez Neira

IA

Ms Israa Aljaish

Postgraduate Administrator

KA

Mrs Kareen Anderson

School Administrator

NB

Miss Natalie Bone

Senior Undergraduate Administrator

IB

Mr Iain Brocklebank

Centre for Energy Ethics Manager

SF

Miss Sarah Frankowski

Senior Research Administrator (External Grants)

SG

Miss Stroma Galbraith

Senior Research Administrator (Centres and Institutes)

KM

Miss Kirstin McCarle

Senior Postgraduate Administrator

RP

Mrs Rhona Paterson

Senior Undergraduate Administrator