Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings

University of Sussex

School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9SJ
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Departmental report

Sussex Anthropology continues to sit alongside Geography, International Development and International Relations in the School of Global Studies. The last year has seen the departure of Simon Coleman, who has moved to a Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto, and two new appointments. Dimitrios Dalakoglou was appointed to a permanent post in the Department, having previously served two terms as a temporary lecturer. Dimitrios consolidates our material culture expertise, whilst also providing a fresh and intriguing take on the issues of migration and development. Dimitrios works on roads – particularly the Greek-Albanian highway – and pipelines. Alex Aisher also joins us, as a one-year temporary lecturer. Alex’s South Asian expertise, plus his interests in religion and development, speak to well-established research themes within the Department. Meanwhile, Meike Fechter was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Department-members have been active and successful in gaining research grants from, among other sources, the ESRC, the AHRC, British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. James Fairhead continues as Chair of the ASA and Raminder Kaur has become Honorary Treasurer of the ASA.

In June 2010, the Department hosted the annual conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, organised by Nigel Eltringham, with the theme of: Genocide as Actuality and Artefact: conversations between past and present in the prevention of punishment and genocide.

Faculty Staff list

Jon Mitchell (Reader, Head of Department) Malta: history, memory, politics and national identity; religion and belief; philanthropy and charity

Alex Aisher (Lecturer) N. India: environment and economics, health, knowledge, religion, community design.

Jane Cowan (Professor) Nationalism, memory and identity; conceptualising and administering ‘difference’ in Balkan contexts; human and minority rights; gender relations; performance, embodiment and experience; Greece; southern Balkans

Dimitrios Dalakoglou (Lecturer) Greece, Albania: Material and Visual Culture, Anthropology of Roads, Flows and Spaces, Transnationalism-Migration, Borders & Cross-Border Landscapes, Heritage, Architecture, Urban Anthropology and Cityscapes, Radical Politics and Political Events.

Geert De Neve (Senior Lecturer) Labour; power; gender; industrialisation and modernity; globalisation; India; Tamilnadu

Nigel Eltringham (Senior Lecturer) Human rights; conflict; genocide; Great Lakes Region of Africa

James Fairhead (Professor) Agriculture and ecology; health and fertility; colonialism; science and medicine; Africa south of the Sahara; UK

Meike Fechter (Senior Lecturer) Transnationalism and Migration; anthropology of gender, the body and space; use of information and communication technologies; Indonesia

Katy Gardner (Professor) Transnational migration, narrative; Bangladesh; Islam and the South Asian diaspora

Ralph Grillo (Research Professor) Pluralism and the state; transnational migration and multiculturalism;  anthropology of development; linguistic anthropology; Western Europe and Africa south of the Sahara

Elizabeth Harrison (Senior Lecturer) Ghana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, UK: anthropology of development; gender relations; institutions and partnership

Raminder Kaur-Kahlon (Reader) Public culture, aesthetics and politics in Western India; the South Asian diaspora, race/ethnicity and popular culture; nuclear armament, censorship and cultural regulation in South Asia

Pamela Kea (Lecturer) Agrarian relations; female host/client relations; the politics of difference and processes of accumulation; development; The Gambia

Dr Evan Killick (Lecturer) Contemporary development of Amazonia, soybean production and levels of poverty, asylum law, anthropology of friendship; Peru, Lowland South America

Mark Leopold (Lecturer) History, conflict, political culture and public morality; Uganda, Sudan

Peter Luetchford (Lecturer): Costa Rica: economic and political processes, Fair Trade, globalisation, development

Filippo Osella (Reader) Kerala, South India: social reproduction and stratification; agrarian relations and land; popular religion (Hinduism and Islam); migration; masculinity; consumption

Jeff Pratt (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) Italy; Europe: political movements and ideologies; religious practice; rural transformations

Dinah Rajak (Lecturer) South Africa, UK; corporate social responsibility; mining

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (Reader) China, Japan, anthropology of science, nation-building,  in East Asia, socio-genetic marginalisation

Roderick Stirrat (Visiting Research Professor) Sri Lanka: aid and development; economic anthropology; Asian religions, Catholicism

Maya Unnithan (Reader) India, Rajasthan: kinship, family and gender relations; economic anthropology; popular religion; reproductive health; medical anthropology 

Ann Whitehead (Professor Emeritus) Gender relations and social transformations; economic anthropology; poverty and livelihoods; family, kinship and marriage; child and youth migration; feminist epistemology and methodology; race, gender and difference; Africa south of the Sahara; Western Europe especially Britain

Anthropologists at the Institute of Development Studies (www.ids.ac.uk)

Andrea Cornwall (PhD, London) participation and gender; meanings and practices associated with participatory rural appraisal (PRA); rights, citizenship and participation; the history of participation in development; participatory approaches to sexual and reproductive health; masculinities in gender and development

Rosalind Eyben (PhD London) Human rights and citizenship, politics of policy-making, organisational change, sociology of donor-recipient relations; Anglophone and Francophone Africa, India, Latin America

Melissa Leach (PhD London) social and institutional dimensions of environmental change; gender; knowledge, power and policy processes; health technologies, citizenship and participation; social and historical perspectives on ecology, agriculture and forestry, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean

Lyla Mehta (DPhil Sussex) Environment/development linkages and forced migration; gendered dimensions of forced displacement and resistance to dams in India; global and local responses to water scarcity in South Africa and South Asia; ‘public’ and ‘private’ aspects of water

Hilary Standing (PhD London) household level and gender aspects of health and formal and informal care systems, gender and equity in the context of health reforms, management of organisational change in health sector restructuring especially the changing roles of providers, improving greater accountability within health systems

Linda Waldman (PhD Witwatersrand) Racial classification, ethnicity, identity, ritual and gender in South Africa; asbestos environmental pollution, its socio-cultural ramifications in South Africa and international litigation