Alumni News

D2Development Fund

Last year's MSc Anthropology and Development students Aoife McCullough, Hamid Foroughi, Michael Schaefer and Magdalena Kloss won the "D2Development Fund", a grant awarded by the DESTIN alumni network forinnovative ideas in development. 

Worldwisedevelopmentaims to address the problem that development projects are too often designed with a paucity of knowledge concerning local contexts. The website worldwisedevelopment.org |will allow development practitioners to search anthropologists by region and expertise, facilitating consultation and the permeation of anthropological knowledge and expertise in the development industry.
 
The fund's website is http://d2development.org/|  and also includes a short summary of the proposal. 

Emilie Hitch in Minneapolis Saint Paul Business Journal

Report on former MSc student Emilie Hitch's| work with a Minneapolis-based advertising firm in bringing anthropology into business in the Minneapolis Saint Paul Business Journal (Vol. 27 No. 5, July 10 2009). http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/07/13/story4.html|

MSc Anthropology & Development, Class of 2008/9

Together on a trip to Ireland. Many thanks to Agustin Diz for the photo!

Vinny Ialenti

Congratulations to Vinny Ialenti, a former MSc Law, Anthropology and Society student who has been awarded the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship grant. The grant consists of tuition fees plus a $30,000/year stipend for three years, and can be used in conjunction with four years of Cornell University / SAGE funding to finance academic studies and field research.

His NSF research proposal was an extension of dissertation research conducted in the LSE's 'Law, Anthropology & Society' MSc programme, which won the 'Isaac Schapera Dissertation Award' and drew from scholarship in anthropology, legal history, and science studies to examine the construction licensing procedure for America's potential high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. If granted the appropriate permissions, his ethnographic project at Cornell will look at Finland's nuclear waste disposal endeavors, particularly the country's attempts to imagine, represent, and render intelligible 'deep time' - that is, risk projections that extend into multi-millennial timeframes - and how they incorporate these longsighted models into the larger decision-making and regulatory apparatus.

Dr David Reubi

We are please to announce that David Reubi, a former MSc student in the Department, has successfully completed his PhD at the BIOS Centre (LSE) in which he explores the genealogy of bioethics and its influence on subjectivities in both the UK and Singapore. David, now a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE, has started publishing articles from his thesis with one due to appear as a chapter in Languages of Accountability, an collection of essays edited by Cambridge anthropologist Maryon MacDonald.

Diana Sidakis

Congratulations to Diana Sidakis a former MSc Law, Anthropology and Society student who has has a revised version of her dissertation MSc dissertation published in Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law.

Full citation:
Diana Sidakis, "Private Military Companies and State Sovereignty: Regulating Transnational Flows of Violence and Capital." Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law. Ed. Franz von Benda-Beckmann. London: Ashgate Press, 2009, pp. 61-82.