Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
University of Kent
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Degrees offered in anthropology
Undergraduate:
Single honours: BA Social Anthropology, BSc Anthropology, BSc Biological Anthropology, BSc Medical Anthropology.
Combined honours in Social Anthropology and Archaeology, Accounting and Finance, Cultural Studies, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Policy and Sociology or with a European language.
Four-year BA degree in social anthropology with a language, including a year’s anthropological study abroad: in Finland, The Netherlands, Denmark and Japan, the language of instruction is English; in France, Spain, Italy and Germany it is the language of the country. Four-year BSc degree in anthropology with a year in Europe or Japan. Four-year BSc degree in biological anthropology with a year in the USA.
Graduate:
(Taught) MA in Social Anthropology; Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity; Social Anthropology and Computing; Visual Anthropology. MA and MSc in Environmental Anthropology. MSc in Ethnobotany; MSc in Evolution and Human Behaviour.
(Research) MA, MSc, MPhil, PhDSocial programmes.
Departmental report
The anthropology side of the School continues to expand, and first year recruitment has now reached 150, split evenly between the BA and BSc degrees. This expansion – in spite of an increased tariff for admission -- reflects an increasing interest in anthropology among school-leavers fuelled by a strong recruitment programme in the south-east region in which open days and visits to local schools have played a major part. The anthropology BA and BSc degrees with a year overseas have proved very popular, especially the degrees with a year in Japan. Denmark has now also been added to the portfolio.
We had 51 taught postgraduates registered across our Anthropology programmes in 2011-2012 The specialist MSc programmes in Ethnobotany and Environmental anthropology continue to recruit well, and the MA in Visual anthropology has been substantially strengthened with professional practical components that appeal strongly to students. A new MSc in Evolution and Human Behaviour has been launched following from staff recruitment in biological anthropology. We have very successfully launched the Anthropology programme in the South-East ESRC-Doctoral Training Consortium, winning two doctoral fellowships.
We have attracted post-doctoral research staff through Leverhulme awards and the Urgent Anthropology Research Fellowship, which we continue to host. We have healthy postgraduate research numbers. There are currently 63 students enrolled for our research degrees in Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Our vigorous research culture manifests itself in the regular Tuesday seminar research seminar with guest speakers, the annual Paul Stirling lecture – in November 2011 given by Professor Sophie Day – and in the encouragement of staff and students to present papers at and attend international conferences.
There are some staff changes to report. The Acting Head of School, appointed at the end of the tenure of Douglas Macmillan, is Glenn Bowman. The representative head on the anthropology side is Daniela Peluso. Miguel Alexiades, Judith Bovensiepen, Matt Hodges and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos have joined the programme while Professors Roger Just and David Zeitlyn as well as Peter Parkes have left the university.
Staff list
Miguel Alexiades (PhD, City U. New York): landscape, political ecology, ethnobotany, non-timber forest products, participatory mapping and video, and the broad range of issues related to environmental struggles in tropical forests.
Judith Bovensiepen (PhD LSE): East Timor, forced displacement, post conflict reconstruction and cultural revival; animism, kinship, adoption and exchange; anthropological approaches to post-colonialism.
Glenn Bowman: Palestine; Former Yugoslavia; nationalism and ethnicity; ethnic and religious relations; shrines; pilgrimage; visual anthropology (photography), anthropological theory.
Melissa Demian, (PhD Cambridge): Papua New Guinea; Kinship and exchange, gender, property theory, legality and legal pluralisms, aesthetics, temporality; Melanesian ethnography
Christine Eagle: IT technical advisor and lecturer in statistics
Professor Roy Ellen, FBA, (PhD LSE): South-East Asia, Eastern Indonesia, Ethnobiology, cognitive anthropology, classifications, ecology and environmental anthropology.
Professor Michael Fischer, (PhD Texas): South Asia, Pakistan, the South Pacific, the Cook islands. Anthropology and computing; computer modelling.
Matt Hodges (PhD Goldsmiths): France, Euskadi, Europe; time, historical consciousness, modernity, rural social transformation, cultural and heritage tourism; science and technology; continental philosophy; public anthropology, creative writing
Patrick Mahony, (PhD Sheffield): Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, osteology, bioarcheology in the prehistoric Levant.
Sarah Johns, (PhD Bristol): Hominin evolution and behaviour; history of evolutionary theory; evolutionary psychology; human sexual behaviour.
Stephen Lycett, (PhD Cambridge): Biological anthropology and palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, cultural transmission theory and the evolution of material culture
Nicholas Newton-Fisher (PhD Bristol): Primates, especially chimpanzees, behavioural ecology and the evolution of social systems.
Daniela Peluso, (PhD Columbia University): Lowland South America, indigenous urbanisation, gender kinship, , medical anthropology, anthropology of business.
Raj Puri, (PhD University of Hawaii): South-east Asia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Europe. Environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, historical ecology, methods, conservation, development, water, climate change.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (PhD LSE): Panama, Embera; Political and Environmental Activism; Stereopypes; Attitudes towards animals and the natural world; tourism, culture commodification and authenticity.
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, (PhD Cambridge): Biological anthropology; evolutionary anthropology; palaeolithic stone tools; craniometric variation
Anna Waldstein, (PhD University of Georgia): Mexico, British Isles. Medical anthropology, ethno-pharmacology, medical ecology, self-care, popular medicine, cannabis.
Emeritus Professors
Professor Roger Just (PhD Oxford): Greece, north Mediterranean; Ethnicity and Nationalism; kinship; fishing communities, anthropological theory; philosophy
Visiting Scholars
Dr Pablo Dominguez (PhD, EHESS Paris): social uses of the environment, holistic eco-anthropology.
Researchers
Dr Dario Novellino (PhD Kent): Southeast Asia; Ethnobotany; environmental anthropology.
Dr Metin Eren, Leverhulme Early Career Researcher (PhD Dallas): Human Evolution and Paleolithic/Paleoindian Archaeology; Human-Forager colonization mechanics and adaptations; Stone tools; Flintknapping
Honorary members
Dr Cameron Adams, Honorary Research Associate, (PhD Georgia): Ecological/environmental anthropology, Mesoamerica, medical anthropology, and cognitive anthropology.
Dr Mary Adams, Honorary Research Associate, (PhD Kent): Health and social care organisations (Southern Africa and UK); health, illness and ageing (Southern Africa and UK)
Dr Janet Bagg, Honorary Research Fellow, (PhD Kent): History and anthropology, computing applications; Britain (Weald of Kent), Corsica.
Dr Francine Barone, Honorary Research Associate (PhD Kent): Spain/Catalonia/ Mediterranean, urban anthropology, social media, ethnicity, nationalism, borderlands, consumerism.
Dr Stefanie Belharte, Honorary Research Associate
Michaela Benson, Research Fellow
Mr Alan Bicker, Honorary Research Fellow: Pakistan; Africa; Polish resistance in northern France; indigenous knowledge
Professor Hugh Brody, Honorary Professor
Ms Mary Butcher, Honorary Research Associate: Europe; basket-making
Dr Cathy Cantwell, Honorary Research Fellow (PhD Kent): Tibetan speaking communities; Buddhist ritual texts and practices; religious authority, textual revelations and traditional scholarship.
Dr Nevill Colclough, Honorary Senior Research Fellow (PhD LSE): History and anthropology, political systems; Italy.
Dr Bruce Connell, Honorary Research Fellow (PhD Edinburgh): Linguistics; Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon.
Dr Kayhan Delibas, Honorary Research Associate (PhD Kent): Islam; Middle East politics; globalisation; modernisation
Dr Christina Deter, Honorary Research Associate (PhD UCL): Biological Anthropology, Human Osteology and Palaeopathology, Dietary Reconstruction through stable isotope analysis
Professor Jerry Eades, Honorary Senior Research Fellow (PhD Cambridge): Urban anthropology, development; West Africa, Japan, China
Dr Peter Giovannini, Honorary Research Associate (PhD UCL): Amazonian and Mesoamerican Ethnobotany, Medical Anthropology, Medical Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacy,.
Professor Chris Hann, Honorary Professor (PhD Cambridge): Economic and political anthropology, ethnicity; Eastern Europe, Turkey, China especially Central Asia
Professor Michael Heinrich (PhD Freiburg, Germany): ethnopharmacology, history of medicinal and food plant usage, use of botanical resources in immigrant communities.
Professor Patricia Howard, Honorary Professor, (PhD Wisconsin): Central America; ethnobotany, political ecology, food commodity systems
Dr Sarah Keeler, Honorary Research Fellow (PhD Kent): Middle East, Europe, medical anthropology, mental health, gender and violence, post-conflict reconstruction, migration and identity.
Mr Mark Kingston-Jones, Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Maria Kokolaki, Honorary Research Associate (Kent): Greece, anthropology of food, ritual and religion, myth, gender, indigenous knowledge.
Dr Wenonah Lyon, Honorary Research Fellow (PhD Texas): Cognitive anthropology, gender, development, medical anthropology; Pakistan.
Dr Gary Martin, Honorary Research Fellow, (PhD Berkeley): Mexico; Sabah; Morocco. Ethnobotany; Applied ethnobiology in relation to integrated development and wildlife conservation.
Mr Ian Martin, Honorary Research Associate: medicinal plants, tree species for fruit and woodlots in semiarid and sub-humid climates. Domestication of wild plants by local communities.
Dr Robert Mayer, Honorary Research Fellow, (PhD Leiden): Revelation in Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan textual culture. rNying ma school of Tibetan Buddhism
Mr Gerald McCormack, Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Mark Nesbitt, Honorary Research Fellow. Centre for Economic Botany, Kew (PhD UCL): ethnobotany, archaeobotany, museums, history of botany, medicine and empire.
Dr Andrew Ormerod, Honorary Research Associate (PhD Reading): Economic Botany – Exhibit Research Eden Project – relating to plant use around the globe.
Dr Yoshi Ota, Honorary Research Associate (PhD UCL)
Dr Italo Pardo, Honorary Reader (PhD London): Political and legal anthropology, urbanism, elites, legitimacy; Italy.
Dr Simon Platten, Honorary Research Fellow (PhD Kent); Indonesia and the British Isles. Small-scale cultivation and socio-cultural change. Ethnobotany of food crops. Home Gardens.
Dr Guiliana Prato, Honorary Research Fellow, (PhD London): Italy, UK, Albania. Political and economic systems; environmentalism; migration; urban research; regime change and legal reforms.
Dr Sonia Vougioukalou, Honorary Research Associate (PhD: Kent): medical ethnobotany, public health, evaluation, ethnographic methods in health and social care
Executive Officer: Joanne Matthias
Anthropology Secretaries: Emma Spiller (undergraduate), Nicola Kerry-Yoxall (postgraduate), Shelley Malekia (postgraduate/admissions), Caroline Grundy (reception), Chris Williams (finance).
Requirements for taught MA: Six written pieces of coursework, 10,000-word dissertation
Requirements for PhD: Three years’ registration, 80,000-word dissertation
Academic year system: Two 12-week terms and one 6-week term
Special resources and facilities
Visual Anthropology Laboratory; Ethnobiology laboratory; Biological Anthropology Laboratory; Black and White Darkroom. Undergraduate microcomputer laboratory and graduate research room with Macintosh and IBM-compatible machines; laser printing and optical reading/scanning capability. Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (four Sun servers maintained by the department). Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE). Links with Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington. CSAC Monograph Series, Ethnographics Gallery at http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/ and Experience Rich Anthropology at http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/
For prospectus write to:
Undergraduate: Admissions Office, Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ.
Graduate: Graduate Office, Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS.
For further information, write to: Anthropology Secretary, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR.
