Core Academic Staff
Dr Susan Bayly (sbb10 [at] cam.ac.uk) South and Southeast Asia (India, Vietnam); empire, nationalism and post-colonial transformations.
Dr Barbara Bodenhorn (bb106 [at] cam.ac.uk): The Americas (the Arctic, Mexico); ‘Fourth World’ politics, anthropology and economic relations, names and naming, grass-roots organisational processes.
Dr Uradyn E. Bulag (ueb10 [at] cam.ac.uk) East and Inner Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, Tibet); comparative colonialism and imperialism, diplomacy, ethnicity and nationalism, socialist/post-socialist political forms and imagination.
Dr Hildegard Diemberger (hgmd2 [at] cam.ac.uk) Tibet, Mongolia; local-state dynamics, landscape, space and time, local history and memory, power and kinship, continuity, tradition and modernity.
Dr Harri Englund (hme25 [at] cam.ac.uk) South-Central Africa; human rights and the moral imagination; liberal governance and socio-economic inequality; African-language media and literature; African Christianities; displacement and migration; translation and poetry.
Dr Paola Filippucci (pf107 [at] cam.ac.uk): war remembrance; social memory and the cultural construction of the past; the relationship between anthropology and archaeology; kinship and life narratives; anthropology of space, place and landscape (France, Italy, Europe).
Dr Anita Herle (Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; email: ach13 [at] cam.ac.uk).
Dr Leo Howe (leh1000 [at] cam.ac.uk) South-east Asia, Indonesia and Europe (Bali, Northern Ireland); hierarchy, religion and politics (Indonesia), unemployment, local labour markets, the welfare state, bureaucracy, ethnicity (Northern Ireland).
Dr James Laidlaw (jal6 [at] cam.ac.uk) South and East Asia (India, Taiwan, Inner Mongolia); anthropology and ethics, religion and ritual: Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Dr Sian Lazar (sl360 [at] cam.ac.uk) Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina); the state, democracy, citizenship, social movements, gender, the city, politics and development.
Dr Nicholas Long (email njl34 [at] cam.ac.uk): anthropology of democracy, devolution, and political reform; anthropology of achievement; theories of sociality; the uncanny; ‘spirit beliefs’; market trading; Malay identity; ‘human resources’ discourse; urbanism; Indonesia (especially the Riau Archipelago), Malaysia, and Singapore.
Dr Nayanika Mathur (nm289 [at] cam.ac.uk): anthropology of the state, development and neo-liberalism/capitalism; human-big cat conflict; bureaucracy and documentary practices; ethnography of institutions. (India and the Himalayas).
Dr Maryon McDonald (mem26 [at] cam.ac.uk): language and linguistics; nationalism and supra-nationalism; medical anthropology; ‘bio-’ and ‘psycho-’technologies; accountabilities, management and bureaucracy; EU institutions and policies (Europe).
Dr Perveez Mody (pm10012 [at] cam.ac.uk) South Asia (India), Europe (UK); kinship, marriage, urban sexuality, castes, ‘communities’, religious nationalism, law, human rights, intimacy.
Professor Henrietta L. Moore (wyse1 [at] socanth.cam.ac.uk) Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zambia); sexuality, gender, social transformation, ethics, new forms of self-fashioning, cosmopolitanism, culture and globalisation. Website: www.henriettalmoore.com.
Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin (yn213 [at] cam.ac.uk) Europe, Middle East (Turkey, Cyprus); politics, the state, law, bureaucracies, administration, and documentary practices, affect and subjectivity, space and the built environment.
Dr David Sneath (ds114 [at] cam.ac.uk) Inner and Central Asia (Inner Mongolia (China), Mongolia); pastoralism, land use and the environment, post-socialist social transformations, political culture, economic institutions and development. (Head of Division)
Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (ns267 [at] cam.ac.uk). Russia; the state, socialist modernity and post-socialism, exchange theory, aesthetics, history of anthropology, and globalisation.