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Academic staff

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Professor Catherine Allerton  
[Head of Department]
Eastern Indonesia; East Malaysia; place and landscape; houses; kinship and marriage; childhood and youth; migration; temporalities.
c.l.allerton@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.14

Rita Astuti

Professor Rita Astuti
Madagascar; cognitive anthropology; cognitive psychology; cross-cultural studies; developmental psychology; gender; identity; kinship.
r.astuti@lse.ac.uk 

 

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Dr Mukulika Banerjee
South Asia; Pakistan and India; political anthropology; election cultures, popular perceptions and democracy; citizenship and ritual; state and civil society; anthro-political histories of South Asia; Islam and Muslim societies; fashion, public culture and modernity; contemporary identity and life histories.
m.banerjee@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.5.03

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Professor Laura Bear MBE, FBA
South Asia; anthropologies of the economy; state; infrastructures, time.
l.bear@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.02

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Dr Fenella Cannell
Lowland Philippines, United States; anthropology of Christianity, healing and mediumship, gender, Mormonism and kinship.
f.cannell@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6494
OLD.5.08

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Dr Clara Devlieger
Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa, disability, rights and responsibilities, identity and difference, distribution and welfare, personhood, humour, moralities and judgement, urban anthropology, borders, uncertainty
c.devlieger@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.32

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Dr Yazan Doughan
Jordan; the Middle East; corruption; social movements; social justice; human rights; precarity; welfare; the state; bureaucracy; law; ethical life; temporality; critique; postcoloniality; semiotics; language and culture; religion and secularism.
y.doughan@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.35

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Professor Katy Gardner
Bangladesh; globalisation, migration, economic changeBangladesh; globalisation, transnational migration and diaspora, anthropology and development; resource extraction and corporate social responsibility; divorce and couples counselling in South Asia and beyond. 
k.j.gardner@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.15

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Professor Deborah James FBA
South Africa; the UK; ethnography of advice; aspiration and indebtedness; civil society, citizenship and the state; economic anthropology; ethnomusicology; land reform and property regimes; migration and ethnicity.
d.a.james@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.09

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Dr Nick Long
Indonesia and the Malay World; political change; psychological anthropology; affect; hypnosis; COVID-19; pandemic control measures; Aotearoa New Zealand.
n.j.long@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6757
OLD.3.37

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Professor Mathijs Pelkmans
Caucasus (Republic of Georgia); Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic); border studies; historical anthropology; methodology; Islam and Christianity; sociology of knowledge.
m.e.pelkmans@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.36

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Dr Andrea Pia 
China; law; collective action; water; common-pool resources; political economy; political ecology; development; critical agrarian studies; environmental humanities; climate and environmental justice; prefigurative politics; rural sociology; infrastructure; multimodal approaches; public anthropology; open access.
a.e.pia@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.12

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Professor Michael W. Scott
Oceania; Melanesia; anthropological approaches to questions of being (ontology); cosmology; religion; wonder; myth-making; indigenous Christianities; personhood, sociality, and relatedness; place-making; ethnogenesis. 
m.w.scott@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.48

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Professor Alpa Shah
India and Nepal; political and economic anthropology; the state, citizenship and revolutionary struggle; indigeneity, ethnicity, caste and class; agrarian transitions and labour; inequality and poverty.

Charles Stafford

Professor Charles Stafford FBA
Pro-Director Faculty Development (PDFD) and Professor of Anthropology
China, Taiwan and the USA; learning; schooling and child development; cognitive anthropology; the relationship between learning and economic life.
c.stafford@lse.ac.uk
CBG.11.10

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Dr Hans Steinmüller
China; political and economic anthropology, moralities and ethics, irony, ritual, gambling.
j.steinmuller@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.13

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Dr Harry Walker 
Amazonia, Latin America; subjectivity, shamanism, political morality, individualism, justice, happiness, the commons.
h.l.walker@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.34

Gisa Weszkalnys

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys
Anthropology of the economy, corporations, expertise; resource extraction; state (urban) planning; temporality, materiality, and affect; Europe, US, lusophone Africa.
g.weszkalnys@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.02

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Dr Mareike Winchell
Bolivia; environmental politics; kinship; race and property; critical Indigenous studies; inequality and ethics; post- and de-colonialisms; critical ontologies; religion; climate change.
m.winchell@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.04

Administrative staff

General enquiries: 
anthropology.enquiries@lse.ac.uk

Assessment enquiries (current students): 
anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk

As far as possible, the administrative staff in the department operate an "open door" policy: if one of us is not here, the others will try to help. 

Ms Yanina Hinrichsen
Department Manager
Y.Hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 7202 
OLD.6.03

Ms Chloe Davies 
Administrative Officer (Quality Assurance and Year Abroad)
C.Davies7@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5867
OLD.6.04A

Ms Megan Garry-Evans
Administrative Officer (Engagement and Outreach)
M.Garry-Evans@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 7215
OLD.6.04A

Mr Tomas Hinrichsen
Administrative Officer (Research)
[Monday and Wednesday]
T.A.Hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6775
OLD.5.07

Mr James Johnston
Deputy Department Manager
J.E.Johnston@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5037
OLD.6.04A

Ms Renata Todd
Administration and Communications Officer
anthropology.enquiries@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7852 3709
OLD.6.04A

Affiliated Anthropologists 

 

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Dr Noah Walker-Crawford [Grantham Research Institute]
Andes; climate change; environment; legal anthropology; litigation; justice; evidence; knowledge.
n.walker-crawford@lse.ac.uk

 


 

Research and LSE Fellows

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Dr Anjana Bala [LSE fellow]
India; psychological anthropology; art; embodiment; ecology; religion; trauma.
a.bala@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.47

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Dr Gareth Breen [LSE fellow]
Christianity and other religiosities in China and Taiwan; Chinese medicine; anthropological methods; secularism; theology.
g.p.breen@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.6.16

Agathe Faure

Dr Agathe Faure [LSE fellow]
Colombia; Colombia; Indigenous groups of Lowland South America; migration and mobility; economic anthropology; care, kinship and gender; emotion; body and personhood.
a.faure@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.10

Jan David Hauk

Dr Jan David Hauck [Newton International fellow]
Lowland South America; Paraguay; hunter-gatherers; language socialization; anthropology of childhood; ethics and morality; cooperation; phenomenology; conversation analysis; narrative; language ideologies; language contact and change.
jandavidhauck(at)protonmail.com
OLD.5.07

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Dr Mayanka Mukherji [LSE fellow]
London, New Delhi; housing, emptiness, waste, plastics, infrastructure, precarity, care and belonging, death and grieving, material practices, landownership in the UK, "community", ethnographic fiction.
m.mukherji@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.18

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Dr Stephanie Postar [British Academy postdoctoral fellow]
Tanzania; environment; natural resources; energy; social studies of science in Africa; precarity and uncertainty; gender.
s.postar@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.07

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Dr Sofía Ugarte [British Academy postdoctoral fellow]
Chile and Latin America; care and gender; racism; migration; capitalism; kinship and the life course; intersectionality; decolonial methods. 
a.s.ugarte@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.07

 

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Dr Frederick Wojnarowski [British Academy postdoctoral research fellow]
The Middle East, Jordan, corruption, environmental justice, water scarcity, political economy, protest, history, colonialism, empire, non-state politics, land settlement.
f.wojnarowski@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.5.07

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Dr Teodor Zidaru [LSE fellow]
Kenya; East Africa; UK; trust; emotion; religion; welfare; microfinance and financial inclusion; redistributive politics; patronage and the state; linguistic and economic anthropology; the anthropology of technology, big data and machine-learning.
t.m.zidaru-barbulescu@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.06

Visiting staff

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Professor Karin Barber [Visiting Professor]
Yoruba, Western Nigeria: Anthropology of texts, performance, popular culture, Yoruba language, print culture, oral genres, religion
k.barber1@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Eona Bell [Visiting fellow]
Chinese diaspora/ Overseas Chinese; Hong Kong; Britain; childhood and childcare; race and ethnicity; migration; diversity and inclusion
emb91@cam.ac.uk

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Dr Hélène Bloch [Visiting fellow]
China; Sichuan; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; sinology; Daoism; capitalism; prosperity; fortune; ritual
helenebloch93@gmail.com

 

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Dr Rebecca Bowers [Visiting fellow]
India; UK; gender; informal labour; the household; inequality; precarity; Covid-19; labour migration; pragmatism.
r.e.bowers@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Sanda Caracentev [Visiting fellow]
Moldova, UK, Eastern Europe; social and cultural anthropology; migration, transnationalism, migration infrastructure; material culture, anthropology of food, ICTs; personhood, kinship, sociality; immateriality, temporality, mapping. 
s.caracentev@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Chris Chaplin [Visiting fellow]
Maritime Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Islam; Citizenship; Social Movements; Solidarity; Human Rights; Political Identities; Southeast Asian International Politics.
c.chaplin@lse.ac.uk

Harriet Evans

Professor Harriet Evans  [Visiting professor]
China; gender and sexuality; feminist movements of the twentieth century; political posters, visual culture and legacies of the Mao era; oral history, memory and urban neighbourhood life; localities, cultural transmission and gendered contestations of heritage.
h.evans5@lse.ac.uk

Luis Garcia Briceno

Dr Luis Garcia Briceno [Visiting fellow]
Amazonia, Christianity, perception.
l.garcia-briceno@lse.ac.uk

 

Charlotte Hawkins

Dr Charlotte Hawkins [Visiting fellow]
Uganda; UK; mental health; care work; morality; critical global health; health inequalities; engaged anthropology.
c.hawkins2@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Carrie Heitmeyer [Visiting Senior fellow]
India; evidence-based policy; sociology of science; citizen science; anthropology of emerging technologies; sociotechnical futures; community health; disaster response and preparedness; infectious disease; Covid.
c.m.heitmeyer@lse.ac.uk

 

Mathilde Heslon

Dr Mathilde Heslon [Visiting fellow]
Mayotte, Comoros, France; postcolonization; youth; migration; kinship; affliction; pain; care; islamic and spirit possession rituals; marriage and other cycle life rituals.
m.heslon@lse.ac.uk

Insa Koch

Professor Insa Koch [Visiting professor]
Anthropology of Britain and Europe, political and legal anthropology, class inequalities, criminal justice, welfare, modern slavery, Empire, post-colonialism, populism, democratic crisis.
i.l.koch@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Adam Kuper [Visiting professor]
South Africa, intellectual history of anthropology, kinship, Southern Africa.
adam.kuper@gmail.com

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Dr Megan Laws [Visiting fellow]
Namibia, Botswana, South Africa; informal economies and egalitarianism; communal lands, biodiversity, and climate change; trust and uncertainty; shamanism; language; digital ethnography; citizen science.
m.laws1@lse.ac.uk 

Loretta Lou

Dr Loretta Lou [Visiting fellow]
Environment, well-being, morality and ethics, social movements, responsibility, victimhood, technologies of the self, China, Hong Kong.
l.lou@lse.ac.uk

Arthur Mason

Dr Arthur Mason [Visiting Senior fellow]
Global north, energy politics; the anthropocene; event ethnography; cultures of expertise; arctic late industrialism.
a.mason2@lse.ac.uk

 

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Dr William Matthews [Visiting fellow]
China (contemporary and Warring States to Han); cosmology; divination; cognition; cultural transmission; empire; ontology; comparison; politics of knowledge.
w.matthews1@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Claire Moll-Namas [Visiting fellow]
Trust, El Salvador, Migration, Violence, NGO, Evangelical Christianity, Anthropology of the Good, Anthropology of Values, Language.
c.e.moll-namas@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Fuad Musallam [Visiting fellow]
Middle East; Lebanon; activism; social movements; political subjectivity; migrant and precarious labour organising; time and temporality; affect and emotion; narrative and storytelling; the political imagination; space and the city; participatory archiving.
f.m.musallam@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Giulio Ongaro [Visiting fellow]
Laos; upland Southeast Asia; medical anthropology; shamanism; animism; ritual efficacy; placebo effects; magic; healing; rationality; global history of psychiatry; psychiatry; history of science; cognitive science; philosophy of mind.
g.ongaro@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Ottavia Paternò [Visiting fellow]
Argentina; anthropology of Christianity; ritual; kinship; reciprocity; gender; imagination.
o.paterno@lse.ac.uk

 

Dagna Rams

Dr Dagna Rams [Visiting fellow]
Ghana; Extractive economies; Waste and Resource Management; Economies of Technological Innovation; Global Metal Markets and Supply Chains
d.rams@lse.ac.uk

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Zimran Samuel [Visiting Professor in Practice]
Children law, mental capacity law, human rights, public international law, anthropology & law
z.samuel@lse.ac.uk
z.samuel@doughtystreet.co.uk

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Dr Marina Sapritsky-Nahum [Visiting fellow]
Ukraine; Jewish identity; religion; migration; philanthropy; urban culture.
m.sapritsky@lse.ac.uk

Mitch Sedgwick

Dr Mitchell W Sedgwick  [Visiting Senior fellow]
Japan (mainland SE Asia, France, Tex-Mex border); economic anthropology, globalisation; anthropology of organisations, multinational corporations, cross-cultural relations/ethnicity and work; minorities and marginality in Japan; disaster anthropology, post-tsunami Japan.
m.sedgwick@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Imani Strong [Visiting fellow]
Racial inequality; bureaucracy; entrepreneurship; political and legal anthropology.
i.strong@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Kelzang Tashi [Visiting fellow]
Bhutan; the Himalayas; religion; society; kinship and gender; health and healing; migration; the environment.
k.tashi@lse.ac.uk

Sylvia Yanagisako

Professor Sylvia Yanagisako [Centennial Professor]
Italy, U.S.; kinship; gender; capitalism; property.
s.yanagisako@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.33

 

Retired academic staff

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Professor Maurice Bloch
Madagascar; religion and politics, cognition and culture, kinship.

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Professor Stephan Feuchtwang
China and Taiwan, Germany; Chinese popular religion, the anthropology of history, life stories, family myths and responses to catastrophic loss, comparison of civilisations and empires.
s.feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Jean La Fontaine
East Africa, United Kingdom; kinship, children, incest, ritual, witchcraft and Satanism.
j.la-fontaine@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Chris Fuller
South Asia; India and Hinduism, South Indian temples, religion and politics, globalisation and information technology, Tamil Brahman society and history.
c.fuller@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Martha Mundy
Arab societies; law, agrarian systems, sociology of Islam, historical anthropology, kinship.
m.mundy@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Jonathan Parry
South Asia; sociology of Hinduism, caste and other forms of inequality, industrialisation, labour and the anthropology of work.
j.p.parry@lse.ac.uk

Current research students

Read a detailed list of current research students.