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 Who's Who at LSE Sociology

 

 

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Academic staff

Mahvish-Ahmad-2020

Ahmad, Mahvish (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights
m.ahmad14@lse.ac.uk

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Ali, Suki (Professor)
Professor of Sociology (Education)
Room OLD M3.08
s.c.ali@lse.ac.uk

Robin Archer new

Archer, Robin (Dr)
On Sabbatical Leave during the 2024/25 Academic Year
Associate Professor (Reader) of Political Sociology

Room OLD 4.22
r.archer@lse.ac.uk 

Chetan Bhatt 2024

Bhatt, Chetan (Professor)
Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M2.03
c.bhatt@lse.ac.uk

Ayca Cubukcu 2020

Çubukçu, Ayça (Dr)
On Sabbatical Leave Autumn Term 2024
Associate Professor of Human Rights, Co-Director of LSE Human Rights

Rebecca Elliot

Elliott, Rebecca (Dr)
On Research Leave Autumn Term 2024
Associate Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M2.07
r.elliott1@lse.ac.uk

Janet Foster new

Foster, Janet (Dr)
On Research Leave Autumn Term 2024
Associate Professor of Sociology

j.a.foster@lse.ac.uk

Sam-Friedman-2023

Friedman, Sam (Professor)
Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M2.08
s.e.friedman@lse.ac.uk

Carrie Friese new

Friese, Carrie (Dr)
Deputy Head of Department for Research
Room OLD 3.02
c.friese@lse.ac.uk

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Hall, Suzanne (Professor)
Head of Department
Professor of Sociology

Room OLD 3.11
s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk

Cities Programme

Ursula Henz new

Henz, Ursula (Dr)
Associate Professor of Social Research Methods
Room OLD 3.04
u.henz@lse.ac.uk

Monika Krause

Krause, Monika (Professor)
Deputy Head of Department for Teaching
Professor of Sociology

Room OLD 3.01
m.krause@lse.ac.uk

David Madden (1)

Madden, David (Dr)
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Cities Programme
Room OLD 4.24
d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

Cities Programme

Pat McGovern 2024

McGovern, Patrick (Dr)
On Research Leave Autumn Term 2024
Associate Professor (Reader) of Sociology

Room OLD 4.23
p.mcgovern@lse.ac.uk

Jana

Melkumova-Reynolds, Jana (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Sociology
y.m.reynolds@lse.ac.uk

Claire Moon 2023

Moon, Claire (Dr)
On Research Leave Autumn Term 2024
Associate Professor of Sociology
c.moon@lse.ac.uk

David Pinzur

Pinzur, David (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M2.10
d.pinzur@lse.ac.uk

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Rutazibwa, Olivia Umurerwa (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics
Room OLD M3.03
o.u.rutazibwa@lse.ac.uk

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Reeves, Aaron (Professor)
Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M2.06
a.s.reeves@lse.ac.uk


Sara Salem 2

Salem, Sara (Dr)
Associate Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of LSE Human Rights
Room OLD M3.06
s.salem3@lse.ac.uk

Kristin Surak new

Surak, Kristin (Dr)
Associate Professor of Sociology
Room OLD 4.25
k.surak@lse.ac.uk

Mai Taha

Taha, Mai (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Human Rights
Room OLD M3.07
m.taha2@lse.ac.uk

Fran Tonkiss 2024

Tonkiss, Fran (Professor)
On Sabbatical Leave Autumn Term 2024 & Winter Term 2025
Professor of Sociology
Room OLD M3.05
f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk

Research staff

Sacha Hilhorst

Hilhorst, Sacha (Dr)
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
s.hilhorst@lse.ac.uk

 

LSE Fellows and Course Tutors

Maya Adereth

Adereth, Maya
Course Tutor in Political Sociology
Room OLD 3.16
m.adereth@lse.ac.uk 

Andrea Espinoza Carvajal

Espinoza Carvajal, Andrea (Dr)
Fellow in Human Rights, Politics and Gender
Room OLD 3.15
a.espinoza-carvajal@lse.ac.uk

Qilyu Hong

Hong, Qilyu (Dr)
Fellow in Quantitative Social Research Methods
Room OLD 3.16
q.hong1@lse.ac.uk

Nils Peters

Peters, Nils (Dr)
Fellow in Economic Sociology
Room OLD 3.17
n.peters1@lse.ac.uk

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Qaddumi, Dena (Dr)
Fellow in City Design and Social Science
Room OLD 3.17
d.a.qaddumi@lse.ac.uk

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Sreberny-Mohammadi, Leili (Dr)
Fellow in Culture and Society
Room OLD 3.15
l.sreberny-mohammadi@lse.ac.uk

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Professional services staff

The following email addresses are monitored by more than one staff member.

Emilia-Borowska-new

Borowska, Emilia
Department Research Manager
Room OLD 3.19
020 7955 7523
e.borowska@lse.ac.uk

For MPhil/PhD Programme enquires: sociology.phd@lse.ac.uk
For research enquires: sociology.research@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Research | Grant Proposals | PhD Programme Administration | Department’s Research Committee | Academic Visitors

Andy Christofferson

Christofferson, Andrew
Finance and Operations Officer
Room OLD 3.19
020 7107 5029
sociology.finance@lse.ac.uk 

Ask me about: Finance | Department Resources | Hourly paid contracts | Health and Safety

Evie Clarke

Clarke, Evie
Deputy Department Manager (Teaching) (Maternity Cover)
Room OLD 3.19
sociology.teaching@lse.ac.uk 

Ask me about: Teaching Policy | The Department’s Teaching Committee | Teaching Resourcing

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Giles, Maddie
Communications and Events Manager
Room OLD 3.19
020 7955 7309
sociology.media@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: The Communications and Events Team | Social Media | Public Events | Blogs | Website 

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Lawrence, Louisa
Department Manager
Room OLD 3.18
020 7849 4938
l.m.lawrence@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Department Strategy | Department Operations | Department Resources | Department Meetings | EDI Committee | British Journal of Sociology

CL new

Lyons, Clara
Deputy Department Manager (Teaching)
Room OLD 3.19
020 7106 1426
sociology.teaching@lse.ac.uk 

Ask me about: Teaching Policy | The Department’s Teaching Committee | Teaching Resourcing

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Nasr, Sahra
Undergraduate Programme Manager
Room OLD 3.19
020 7955 6593
sociology.ug@lse.ac.uk 

Ask me about: BSc Programme Administration | BSc Course Selection | The Department's USSLC | The BSc Exam Sub-Boards | BSc Exams and Assessments | Undergraduate Admissions

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O'Keefe, Mina Denize
Communications and Events Officer
Room OLD 3.19
020 7955 7309
sociology.media@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Social Media | Public Events | Blogs | Sociology Matters Newsletter | Website

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Parvez, Adeel
MSc Programme Manager: Economy and Society; Human Rights; Human Rights and Politics; Political Sociology
Room OLD 3.19
020 7955 6076
sociology.msc@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc Programme Administration | MSc Course Selection | MSc Assessments and Exams | The Department's GSSLC | The Taught Postgraduate Committee | MSc Exam Sub-Boards

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Rahman, Yadna
Department Administrator
Room OLD 3.19
0207 955 6793
y.rahman2@lse.ac.uk

Tes

Thomas, Tess
Department Senior Student Adviser 
Contact details: available here. 

Ask me about: Getting advice and support

Claire-Tomlinson-1

Tomlinson, Claire
Service Delivery Manager (Taught Programmes)
Room OLD 3.19
sociology.teaching@lse.ac.uk 

Ask me about: The Programmes Team | BSc and MSc Taught Programmes | Exams and Assessments | Student Support | Student Policies |GTA Recruitment

Research students

Current students | Past students

Current students

Christiana Ajai-Thomas

Ajai-Thomas, Christiana 
Anti-Blackness as Internationalism: Theorising anti-Blackness through Black diasporic movements 
c.ajai-thomas@lse.ac.uk

Aksakal Ozgün

Aksakal, Özgün
Meanings and Legitimation of Violence in Situations of Political Contestation: The Case of the Turkish-Right
o.aksakal@lse.ac.uk

Nitzan Amitay

Amitay, Nitzan
Utopian Spaces, Affect and Political Potential
n.amitay@lse.ac.uk

Nicolas Arenas BW

Arenas Osorio, Nicolás
Mediating the Non-Rational: Branding Consultants and the Role of Emotions in Marketing
n.a.arenas-osorio@lse.ac.uk

Rajesh Bhattacherjee

Bhattacherjee, Rajesh
Understanding the Changing Formations of Race and Racism in Contemporary Britain through the Prism of Anti-Racist Organising
r.bhattacherjee@lse.ac.uk

Amani Bhobe

Bhobe, Amani
The Social Value Act: A Sociological Perspective on its Origins, Application, and Effects 
a.bhobe@lse.ac.uk

Dan Brown

Brown, Dan
The Contested Role of Human Rights in Anti-Systemic Resistance: A Case-Study of Human Rights Discourse and Practice in UK Kurdish Solidarity Networks
d.brown7@lse.ac.uk

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Brundu-Gonzalez, Benjamin
Mixing and mingling in French liberal art colleges 
b.brundu-gonzalez@lse.ac.uk

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Butt, Asif
Social mobility into elite occupations and micro-class reproduction in Germany
 a.i.butt@lse.ac.uk

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Carmichael, Donna
Challenges and Opportunities in the British Private Equity Industry
d.carmichael@lse.ac.uk

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Círigo-Jiminez, Rodrigo
Governing victimhood in contemporary Mexico: the genealogy and the social life of a category of politics 
r.a.cirigo-jimenez@lse.ac.uk

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Corry, Sigrid
Islands of Empire: On rightlessness and return in the Indian Ocean 
s.s.corry@lse.ac.uk

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Cutts, Danielle
d.cutts1@lse.ac.uk

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Davids, Sherelle
‘Race’ & Ethnicity in Widening Participation policy and policy enactment in England
s.davids@lse.ac.uk

Dogukan Dere

Dere, Doğukan
Self-managed recovered factories as grassroots working-class politics: Cases from Turkey, Greece, and Argentina
d.dere@lse.ac.uk

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Dyer, Shanae
The domestic timescape: a practical approach to making sense of personal space in shared housing 
s.n.dyer@lse.ac.uk

Lucy Garbett

Garbett, Lucy
Palestinian life, land and property in Jerusalem 
l.garbett@lse.ac.uk

Jan Gilles

Gilles, Jan
The Social Life of Carbon Dioxide Removal 
j.b.gilles@lse.ac.uk

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Gray, Selena
Understanding girl’s perspectives on child sexual exploitation
s.gray1@lse.ac.uk

Adam Greenfield

Greenfield, Adam
Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual Care in the Long Emergency 
a.greenfield1@lse.ac.uk

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Gronwald, Victoria
Boundary work in international tax governance
v.gronwald@lse.ac.uk

David-Ilkiw

Ilkiw, David
Hazy Atmospheres: Forest Fire Smoke, Air Sensing, and Everyday Life within Climate Change
d.ilkiw@lse.ac.uk

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Jayaram, Pratap
Envisioning community safety through tenant organizing
p.jayaram@lse.ac.uk

Will Kendall new

Kendall, Will
Labour and logistics in the Fens: A study of work across the food chain in South Lincolnshire
w.kendall@lse.ac.uk

Yasmine Kherfi

Kherfi, Yasmine
y.kherfi@lse.ac.uk

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Xingzhi Ma
Classed and internationalised space: exploring how Chinese transnational elite students negotiate class identities at British elite universities 
x.ma42@lse.ac.uk

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Mackreath, Helen
Landscapes of dispossession: Policing, Property and Labour in Istanbul
h.m.mackreath@lse.ac.uk

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Mahmoudzadeh, Mina
The role of wealth and inheritance in social mobility
n.mahmoudzadeh@lse.ac.uk

 

Hobeth Martinez Carrillo

Martinez Carrillo, Hobeth
Landed elites perceptions and representations on land inequalities in Colombia in the midst of redistributive pressures
h.i.martinez-carrillo@lse.ac.uk

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May, Babette
Living and labouring reproductive (in)justice: lifestories, histories, & fictions of epistemic disobedience
b.may1@lse.ac.uk

Jack McGinn new

McGinn, Jack
Decentralised anti-hierarchical organising in the Syrian and Palestinian uprisings
j.mcginn@lse.ac.uk

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Nasser, Noura
Racialized Subjectivities and Migratory Food Routes: Food Cultures and Urban Sensemaking in Beirut, Lebanon 
n.nasser1@lse.ac.uk 

 

Georgia Nichols

Nichols, Georgia
g.nichols@lse.ac.uk

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Persu, Maria
Re-Entangling Postsocialism with Postcolonialism and the Posthuman through a Diffractive Ethnography of Museum Sites in Bucharest 
m.persu@lse.ac.uk

 

Daniela Perez-Aguilar

Pérez Aguilar, Daniela
Wage inequality in the Chilean labour market: Beyond human capital in a neoliberal economy
d.c.perez-aguilar@lse.ac.uk

Matt Reynolds

Reynolds, Matt
High-end domestic services in 21st century Britain
m.f.reynolds@lse.ac.uk

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Rivera Blanco, Carla
The Right to Stay: A Natural Politics of Space
c.rivera-blanco@lse.ac.uk

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Salama, Zaina
Social Class and Gender: A study of bodily practices and everyday consumption in Egypt
z.h.salama@lse.ac.uk

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Twahirwa, Rémy-Paulin
On Ghostly Lives: Life Inside Immigration Detention Centre in the UK and Canada
r.twahirwa@lse.ac.uk

Hannah Wilson new

Wilson, Hannah
A Bar of all and for all? Examining the financial and professional impacts of upward social mobility at the independent Bar
h.wilson3@lse.ac.uk

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Jack Winterton
A critical analysis of the tools and practices of the impact investing industry
j.winterton@lse.ac.uk

 


Past students

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Akdag, Muhammed
Social Determinants of International Competitive Advantage: The Case of Turkish Contractors
m.akdag1@lse.ac.uk 

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Al Sudairy, Jawaher
Urban and social regeneration: The case of Makkah’s Redevelopment
j.al-sudairy@lse.ac.uk

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Born, Anthony Miro
Placing meritocracy: urban marginality and the ideal of social mobility
a.m.born@lse.ac.uk 

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Harris, Gabrielle (Gaby)
Negotiating complex senses of self: a study of girlhood and privilege through the lens of fashion
g.j.harris@lse.ac.uk

 

Sacha Hilhorst

 Hilhorst, Sacha
Afterlives of legitimacy: A political ethnography of two post-industrial towns in England
s.hilhorst@lse.ac.uk

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Kampmann, David
Imagined futures of Artificial Intelligence 
d.kampmann@lse.ac.uk

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Lally, Amraj
A study of SA MSM in HIV Prevention
a.lally@lse.ac.uk

Neil Warner new

 Warner, Neil
The road to no alternative: the failure of projects for the socialisation of investment in Western Europe, 1970-1991
n.warner@lse.ac.uk

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White, Tim
Living in the flexible city: understanding the socioeconomic implications of corporate co-living 
t.white2@lse.ac.uk

Academic visitors

Bordonaro, Elettra (Dr)
Visiting Senior Fellow, Configuring Light project
e.bordonaro@lse.ac.uk
Configuring Light webpage

Butler, Rose (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
r.butler1@lse.ac.uk

Farris, Sara (Dr)
Visiting Senior Fellow
s.farris@gold.ac.uk

Glucksmann, Miriam (Professor)
Visiting Professor
M.A.Glucksmann@lse.ac.uk

Gouseti, Ioanna (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
I.Gouseti1@lse.ac.uk

Hen-Smith, May (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
Hmh46@cam.ac.uk

Kampmann, David (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
d.kampmann@lse.ac.uk

Kaur, Baljit (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
b.kaur4@lse.ac.uk

Klug, Francesca (Prof)
Visiting Professor 
F.M.Klug@lse.ac.uk

Kramer, Maria (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
m.kramer@lse.ac.uk

Nash, Kate (Professor)
Visiting Professor
k.nash@lse.ac.uk

Perolini, Marco (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
mpero002@gold.ac.uk

Rhys-Taylor, Alex (Dr)
Visiting Senior Fellow
a.rhystaylor@gold.ac.uk

Rossier, Thierry (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
t.rossier@lse.ac.uk

Taylor, Emma (Dr)
Visiting Fellow
e.s.taylor@lse.ac.uk

Watt, Paul (Prof)
Visiting Professor
p.watt1@lse.ac.uk

Afilliated Research Fellows

Born, Anthony Miro (Dr)
Afilliated Research Fellow
a.m.born@lse.ac.uk

Hilhorst, Sacha (Dr)
Afilliated Research Fellow
Sacha.h.hilhorst@gmail.com

White, Tim (Dr)
Afilliated Research Fellow
T.white2@lse.ac.uk