Academic Staff
Dr Catherine Allerton|
Eastern Indonesia; place and landscape, houses, kinship and marriage, childhood and schooling.
c.l.allerton@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7207 ¦ OLD 6.08
Professor Rita Astuti|
Madagascar; kinship, gender, anthropology of death, cognitive development and cultural transmission; ethnographic and experimental research methods.
r.astuti@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7206 ¦ OLD 6.11
Dr Mukulika Banerjee|
[on sabbatical leave LT&ST 2012]
South Asia; political anthropology, popular perceptions of democracy and the culture of elections, fashion and public culture, Muslim societies.
m.banerjee@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7213 ¦ OLD 5.09
Dr Laura Bear
|[on sabbatical leave LT 2012]
South Asia: anthropology of the state, temporality, neo-liberalism, globalisation, labour.
l.bear@lse.ac.uk| ¦ POR 4.01
Dr Fenella Cannell
|[on sabbatical leave LT 2012]
Lowland Philippines, United States; anthropology of Christianity, healing and mediumship, gender, Mormonism and kinship.
f.cannell@lse.ac.uk|
Dr Matthew Engelke|
Zimbabwe, England; Christianity and the Bible, semiotics, materiality, public religion, history of anthropology, human rights.
m.engelke@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6494 ¦ OLD 6.10
Professor Deborah James|
[Head of Department 2009-12]
South Africa; political economy, civil society and the state, land reform and property regimes, development and migration, ethnicity, ethnomusicology, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health.
d.a.james@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7215 ¦ OLD 5.08
Professor Martha Mundy|
[special leave 2012]
Arab societies; law, agrarian systems, sociology of Islam, historical anthropology, kinship.
m.mundy@lse.ac.uk|
Dr Mathijs Pelkmans|
Caucasus (Republic of Georgia), Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic); anthropology of borders, political anthropology, anthropology of religion.
m.e.pelkmans@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7862 ¦ OLD 6.13
Dr Michael W. Scott|
Oceania; Melanesia; ontology; cosmology; place-making; myth-making; Christianity; 'cargo cults'; historical anthropology.
m.w.scott@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7107 5142 ¦ OLD 6.16
Professor Charles Stafford|
China and Taiwan; learning, schooling and child development, cognitive anthropology, the relationship between learning and economic life.
c.stafford@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6306 ¦ Office OLD 6.02
Dr Hans Steinmuller
|China; political and economic anthropology, moralities and ethics, irony, ritual, gambling.
j.steinmuller@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7214 ¦ OLD 6.07
Dr Harry Walker|
Lowland South America; personhood and relatedness, language ideologies, exchange, justice.
h.l.walker@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0) 20 7955 7208 ¦ OLD 6.14
Research and LSE Fellows
Dr Alonso Barros| [LSE Fellow in the Anthropology of Modern Law]
Mesoamerica, Latin America; historical anthropology of law, indigenous peoples' human rights, time politics and historicities, territorialities, world anthropologies, cultural commodity fetishism and communal ontologies.
a.barros@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6242 ¦ OLD 5.07
Dr Thomas Grisaffi| [LSE Fellow]
Andes: anthropology of democracy, community radio, the cocaine trade, social movements.
t.grisaffi@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7614 ¦ KGS 1.06
Dr Jason Hickel| [LSE Fellow]
South Africa: democracy, development, political conflict, vigilante violence, xenophobia, labor and migrancy, ritual and witchcraft.
j.e.hickel@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7107 5064 ¦ SHF 3.01
Dr Mette High| [British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow]
Mongolia; economic transformations, illegality, gendered hierarchies, cosmology and landscape.
m.m.high@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6696 ¦ KGS 3.06
Dr Ronald Jennings| [Newton International Fellow]
Cosmopolitan spaces and subjectivities; global criminal tribunals; political and legal anthropology; cosmopolitanism, tradition and modernity; the concept of the political. r.jennings@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6696 ¦ KGS 3.06
Dr Nicolas Martin| [LSE Fellow]
Pakistan; Landlords; domination; Islam.
n.e.martin@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7200 ¦ KGS 3.07
Dr Andrew Sanchez| [LSE Fellow]
South Asia; class and labour, trade unions, organised crime and corruption.
a.sanchez1@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7435 ¦ KGS 2.09
Dr George St Clair| [LSE Fellow]
Brazil, Latin America; Christianity, Pentecostalism, utopian religion and urban life, anthropology of religion, identity.
g.st.clair@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7212 ¦ OLD 6.09
Visiting Staff
Dr Ruy Blanes| [Visiting Fellow]
Africa; Angola; prophetic Christianity; memory; mobility and transnationalism; knowledge and rationality.
r.blanes@lse.ac.uk|
Dr Emmanuel de Vienne| [Visiting Fellow]
Lowland South America; shamanism; sickness; cultural transmission; pragmatics.
E.De-Vienne@lse.ac.uk|
Dr Henrike Donner| [Visiting Senior Fellow]
India; gender and kinship; education; reproductive change; middle class lifestyles; urban space and politics.
f.h.donner@lse.ac.uk|
Dr Dena Freeman| [Visiting Fellow]
Ethiopia; cultural transformation; happiness and wellbeing; culture, cognition and emotion; international development; Pentecostalism.
d.g.freeman@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7849 4637
Professor Adam Kuper| [Visiting Professor]
South Africa.
Dr Will Norman| [Visiting Fellow]
Social innovation, social enterprise and public policy.
will.norman@youngfoundation.org|
Dr Eve Zucker| [Visiting Fellow]
Anthropology of Cambodia and the topics of social change, post-conflict recovery, memory and morality.
e.m.zucker@lse.ac.uk|
Retired Academic Staff
Professor Maurice Bloch|
Madagascar; religion and politics, cognition and culture, kinship.
m.e.bloch@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6241 ¦ OLD 6.12
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| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6241 ¦ OLD 6.12
Professor Jean La Fontaine
East Africa, United Kingdom; kinship, children, incest, ritual, witchcraft and Satanism.
j.la-fontaine@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7708 4496
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|
Professor Ioan Lewis
Somalia and the Horn of Africa; shamanism, Islam and traditional societies, witchcraft and cannibalism.
ioanlewis2@btinternet.com| ¦ Tel/fax: +44 (0)20 7272 1722
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|
Dr James Woodburn
Sub-Saharan Africa; hunting and gathering societies, egalitarian political systems.
james@woodburn.org.uk|
Administrative Staff
Ms Yanina Hinrichsen
Departmental Manager
y.hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 7202 ¦ OLD 6.03
Ms Camilla Griffiths
Administrator (Tuesday - Thursday)
anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6775 ¦ OLD 6.04A
Mr Tomas Hinrichsen
Administrator (Monday & Friday)
anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk| ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6775 ¦ OLD 6.04A
Mr Rory Macqueen
Administrator (Maternity cover) (Tuesday - Thursday)
anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk ¦ +44 (0)20 7955 6775 ¦ OLD 6.04A
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.