Affiliated Academic Staff
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Dr Ray G Abrahams, Retired. Fellow, Churchill College: Kinship, politics, law, neighbourhood, age organisation; East Africa (Tanzania and Uganda), North and East Europe (Finland, Estonia). Dr Abrahams’ webpage
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Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Affiliated Lecturer, Clare Hall (email: fb205 [at] cam.ac.uk): medical anthropology and shamanism; ethnography of childbirth; ethnobotany. Amazonia (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia).
Dr Sandra Brunnegger, Junior Research Fellow, St Edmund’s; Marie Curie Fellow: Anthropology of human rights; legal discourse, indigenous peoples and the state; identity formation; conflict resolution (Nicaragua; Colombia).
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Dr Liana Chua, Affiliated Social Anthropologist focusing on the conversion to Christianity, ethnic citizenship and cultural consciousness among rural Bidayuh communities. Forthcoming monograph, “The Christianity of Culture” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Dr Simon Cohn, Affiliated Lecturer, Girton College, Magdalene College: Medical Anthropology; anthropology of science & STS; bioethics; cultural constructions of the self; applied and collaborative work; Britain, Europe.
Dr Paul Connerton: Body, space and memory; anthropological theory.
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Dr Sabina Deiringer, Junior Research Fellow, Girton: Social organisation in Europe, Hawai’i, transnational arenas; the self-conscious organisation of knowledge and relationships, and the quality of connections and divisions regarding alterity, development, education, law, formal and informal organisations, management, place, time.
Dr Susan Drucker-Brown: Kingship; ritual; ethnic conflict; ethnic relations and the history of anthropology in Mexico. (Ghana, Mexico)
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Dr Mark Elliott, Assistant Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (email mje29 [at] cam.ac.uk).
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Dr Alex Flynn, ESRC Postdoctoral Research fellow:Political anthropology; radical social movements; cultural politics; anthropology of mass media; race and ethnicity; Latin America (Brazil) and United Kingdom. Website http://cambridge.academia.edu/AlexFlynn
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Dr Esther N Goody, Retired. Reader Emeritus in Social Anthropology; Fellow, Murray Edwards: Comparative studies, domestic organisation, socialization, learning and authority, immigrants in the UK; West Africa (N. Ghana).
Professor Jack R Goody, Retired. Emeritus Professor; Fellow, St John’s College: West Africa; comparative and historical anthropology; Eurasia and Africa; communication; family; myth.
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Dr Holly High, Research Associate: Anthropology of the state; everyday politics; economic anthropology; poverty and development; resource conflicts; agrarian studies; mainland Southeast Asia; Laos. Website: http://usyd.academia.edu/HollyHigh/About
Dr Susanne M Hoelgaard: Social policy and administration; substitute child care; socialisation and personal identity. (Britain, Colombia)
Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones, Honorary Emeritus Associate; Fellow, King’s (email: sh116 [at] cam.ac.uk): Cosmology and systems of thought; language and linguistics; economy, exchange and materiality; architecture; human-animal and human-plant relations; food and drugs; the comparative anthropology of Amazonia; Tibet and Bhutan.
Professor Caroline Humphrey FBA, Director of Research; Fellow, King’s college (email: ch10001 [at] cam.ac.uk): Siberia and Mongolia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods; India, Nepal and China (Inner Mongolia and Manchuria); shamanism and Buddhism; theories of ritual; socialist/ post-socialist economy and society; political forms; and the political imagination in east Asia; the post-socialist city, cosmopolitanism and migration. Website: http://www.innerasiaresearch.org/CHsite/index.html.
Dr A Hürelbaatar, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit: The changing language of politics in Mongolia.
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Dr Richard Irvine, Department Assisted Teacher for Social Anthropology and Research Associate for Climate Histories project, MIASU. Active with CORE, Creative Research into the Environment, and CRASSH.
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Dr Manpreet K Janeja, Research Associate; Jesus College: Anthropology of food and hospitality; collaborative anthropology; material culture; anthropology of place; legal anthropology; trust; ‘multiculturalism’; popular Hinduism and Islam. (India (Bengal), Bangladesh, UK). Website: http://cambridge.academia.edu/ManpreetJaneja
Dr Beatrice Jauregui, Research Fellow; Emmanuel College: Political and Legal Anthropology; violence and the state; bureaucracy, governance and security; police and soldier subjectivity; memory; ethnography of institutions; contemporary social theory and historiography; political philosophy; postcolonial theory; military theory and practice; South Asia (northern India); United States. Website: http://cambridge.academia.edu/BeatriceJauregui/About
Reverend Dr Tim D Jenkins, Fellow, Jesus; Department of Theology and Religious Studies: Theory, religion and ritual. Western Europe (France and Britain).
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Dr Chris Kaplonski, Senior Research Associate, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit: Memory; narrative; political violence; representation of violence; post-socialism; political anthropology. (Mongolia) Project Manager for “The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia”. Website: http://www.chriskaplonski.com/
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Dr Christos Lynteris, Mellon/Newton Fellow CRASSH (email: cl537 [at] cam.ac.uk): Transbaikalia, Manchuria and Mongolia; epidemiology, pneumonic plague, zoonosis, marmot hunting; biopolitics, socialist medicine, event theory, state formation.
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Professor Alan Macfarlane, Retired. Fellow, King’s (email: am12 [at] cam.ac.uk): works in England, China, Japan, and Nepal, and also has research interests in Burma and India. He has done research on English society of the 14th to 19th centuries; the Gurungs of central Nepal; and the Nagas of the Burma-India border. He is interested in information retrieval systems and audio-visual media. His ongoing research includes the origins and consequences of capitalism in comparative perspective, individualism, and social theory. Alan Macfarlane’s website
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Dr Irene Peano, Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher: Bonded labour, sex work, human trafficking, undocumented migration, subjectivities, affect, political economy (Nigeria, Italy).
Dr Karma Phuntsho, Research Associate, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit: Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice; socio-cultural issues in contemporary Bhutan; Younghusband collection of Tibetan books. (Tibet, Bhutan)
Dr Anastasia Piliavsky, Zuckerman Fellow, King’s: India, particularly western India; rank and hierarchy; patron-client relations; persons and gifts; gossip and secrecy; ‘criminal castes’ in colonial India; the history & ethnography of policing and judicial institutions in South Asia; ‘political criminalisation’ in South Asia. Website: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/anastasia-piliavsky.html
Dr Ruth Prince, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Smuts Postdoctoral Fellow, African Studies Centre: AIDS and anti-retroviral therapy, biomedicine, religion, identity, kinship and gender relations. (Kenya and East Africa)
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Dr Susanna E Rostas, Research Associate (email: ser12 [at] cam.ac.uk): Art and performance; ethnicity, invented ethnicity and identity; popular culture; religion and religious conversion (Mexico: Chiapas, Mexico City).
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Professor Marilyn Strathern FBA, Retired. Fellow, Girton College: Gender theory; English kinship; reproductive technology; bioethics; intellectual and cultural property; issues in interdisciplinarity, the Pacific (Papua New Guinea), Europe (Britain).
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Dr Mark Turin, Research Associate & Visiting Scholar: Fellow, Hughes Hall: Director of the Digital Himalaya Project and World Oral Literature Project: Linguistic anthropology; anthropological linguistics; visual anthropology; ethnicity; digital technology in anthropology; archival practices; cultural property; Nepal; Tibet; Sikkim; Himalayas. Recent publications
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Dr Piers Vitebsky, Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies, Scott Polar Research Institute: Anthropology, psychology and religion; shamanism; psychotherapy; subsistence economy and ecology. Asia (Siberia, tribal India). http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars/magiccircle/
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Dr Helen E Watson, Fellow/ Director of Studies, St John’s: Migration and conflict; gender, development and war; experiences of exile and political-religious conflict. (Egypt, France, Ireland)
Dr Alice Wilson, Junior Research Fellow, Homerton: Statehood, tribes and sovereignty; revolutionary and liberation movements; refugees and exile; legal anthropology; anthropology of taxation; anthropology of aid and development; North Africa and the Middle East; Western Sahara. Website: www.alicewilson.com.
Dr Lee Wilson, Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher: Anthropology of the state, civil militarisation and securitisation, martial arts and nationalism in Indonesia, political violence, anthropology of knowledge, ICTs and development. More information about Dr Wilson’s current research can be found at http://www.stateofanxiety.org/.