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Current research students
list of students conducting research at the department of anthropology, anthropology phd destinations.
The majority of our PhD students continue to academic posts, whilst a smaller number have gone on to enjoy careers in other fields. Of the fifty four PhD students who graduated between 2016 and 2022, forty two have proceeded to either post-doctoral research or teaching fellowships, or to permanent academic appointments.
Most of those with permanent academic appointments are working in departments of Social Anthropology, though our PhD students have, in the past, also gone on to work in departments of Geography and Archaeology. These permanent posts are at Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Kent, Manchester, SOAS, Goldsmiths, Bristol, Aberystwyth and UCL. Others have appointments at the University of Hong Kong, Bogazici University in Turkey and the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin.
Post doctoral teaching and research fellowships , held at institutions across the world, are the first destination for the great majority of our PhD students. These include fellowships at the following universities and centres: LSE; Princeton University, USA; Oxford; Ghent University, Belgium; Edinburgh; Kent School of Anthropology and Conservation; Rotterdam International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands; European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen, Germany; Manchester; Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzen, China; University of Bern, Switzerland; Centre for Indigenous and Intercultural Research, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; University of Vienna, Austria; The Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Melbourne; Cambridge; the Centre for Energy Ethics at St Andrews. Named fellowships include the Evans-Pritchard Fellowship at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Smuts Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Non Academic Careers: Not all PhD students wish to pursue an academic career. Our graduates have gone on to work in publishing, in development (for example, co-ordinating gender programmes for the UN) within business and corporations, as freelance writers and as tutors in mental health trusts.
Ajibade, Kat (post-field) Area of interest: Senegal Interests: Anthropology of Catholicism, African Catholicism, Catholic inculturation and vocation [email protected]
Albrecht-Lazo, Julian (pre-field) Area of interest: Venezuela/Amazon Interests: Sovereignty, violence, frontier dynamics [email protected]
Åndahl, John Erik (pre-field) Area of interest: Panama, the Caribbean Interests: Climate change; indigenous studies; anthropology of development [email protected]
ap Gwilym, Cai (in the field) Area of interest: Alberta, Canada Interests: Anthropology of Taxation, Oil and Gas extraction, Conservative Politics [email protected]
Balan, Maria (in the field) Area of interest: Bolivia Interests: street children, responsibility, inhalant abuse [email protected]
Bazambanza, Caroline (post-field) Area of interest: United Kingdom Interests: Reproduction; race and racialisation; medicine and public health; (in)justice; the state; uncertainty [email protected]
del Gallo, Marco (post-field ) Area of interest: Indonesia Interests: Urban ecology, labour, infrastructure, small-scale fisheries [email protected]
Dillabough-Lefebvre, Dominique (post-field) Area of interest: Burma/Myanmar Interests: Environmental anthropology, political and economic anthropology, agrarian transitions [email protected]
Figueroa-De-La-Ossa, Giselle (post-field) Area of interest: UK and Colombia Interests: gold mining, financial markets, political economy of accumulation and speculation [email protected]
Gitsham, Honor (she/her) (pre-field) Area of interest: United Kingdom Interests: Queer Reproductive Practices; Gender, Sexuality and Kinship; (In)Justice; Sensory Ethnographic Methods; Creative Writing and Poetic Forms [email protected]
Jaede, Riccardo ( post - field ) Area of interest: West Bengal, India Interests: Anthropology of ethics; urban anthropology [email protected]
Jiang, Jiarong (in the field) Area of interest: Tibetan region in China Interests: interspecies and multispecies (or multi-entities) studies; pastoralism; political ecology and environment; practicing religion and Tibetan Buddhism [email protected]
Jivraj, Naseem (post-field) Area of interest: UK Interests: Gender, migration, domestic abuse, broken transnational marriages, UK immigration and asylum processes, mental health, ethical self-becoming [email protected]
Kalandadze, Mariam (pre-field) Area of interest: Georgia Interests: Political protests, affect theory, anthropology of place. [email protected]
Kong, Pengyin (post-field) Area of interest: China, Tibet Interests: Infrastructure; labor; ethnic identity [email protected]
Lai, Fred (post-field ) Area of interest: China Interests: Dementia, kinship, politics and ethics of care [email protected]
Lamare, Gertrude (post-field) Area of interest; India and Bangladesh Interests: Colonial infrastructure, ruins, roads and markets [email protected]
Li, Dan (post-field) Area of interest: China Interests: informal economy; technology; market [email protected]
Li, Yue (in the field) Area of interest: China Interests: migrant labour; gender; political and economic anthropology [email protected]
Madden, Rhys (post-field ) Area of interest: UK, Guyana, Mauritius Interests: Ambivalence, uncertainty and doubt; migration histories; flooding; coastal habitat restoration; material culture [email protected]
Mandal, Apala (pre-field) Area of interest: Indian Diaspora in the UK Interests: Motherhood, Reproduction, Migrant experiences, Faith [email protected]
McMahon, Tierra (post-field) Area of interest: Morocco; Academic Knowledge Production Sites Interests: Biopolitics; animal sacrifice; kinship; conceptions of nature; religion in practice; exile [email protected]
McNamara-Peach, Catherine-Ann (post-field) Area of interest: UK Interests: Anthropocene subjectivities; hospicing modernity; regenerative cultures; imaginative horizons; decoloniality and spirituality [email protected]
Mohd Nizal, Sarah (in the field) Area of interest: Sarawak/Malaysian Borneo Interests: memory and affect, houses, temporal landscapes, material culture [email protected]
Osborn, Nick (post-field) Area of interest: Guatemala Interests: christianity; ethics; memory and migration, anthropology of plantations [email protected]
Pradhan, Sagarika (in the field) Area of interest: India Interests: Disability; Schooling; Self-Identity and Personhood [email protected]
Rose, Rahul (post-field) Area of interest: India, UK Interests: attention; attention economy; hinduism; history of yoga; COVID-19 response in India [email protected]
Ruzol, Clarissa (post-field ) Area of interest: Philippines Interests: pragmatic knowledge; dam and development; Chinese funding [email protected]
Seagrave, Jacob (in the field) Area of interest: Andalucía, Spain Interests: agricultural cooperatives, rural trade unionism, ecology, politics of land [email protected]
Shehata, Eman (post-field) Area of interest: France Interests: professional training; work; affect theory [email protected]
Sollie, Kaia (in the field) Area of interest: Europe Interests: migrant labour; seasonality; Europe and the EU [email protected]
Stahl, Laura (post-field) Area of interest: China, Taiwan Interests: Economic subjectivity, information technology, artificial intelligence, software, entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity [email protected]
Tiilila, Taru ( in the field ) Area of interest: Kenya Interests: mentalization / Theory of Mind, psychological and cognitive anthropology [email protected]
Yan, De (in the field) Area of interest: China Interests: Political anthropology; Urban bureaucracy; Formalism [email protected]
Yang, Peter ( post-field ) Area of interest: Cuba; the post-Soviet worldInterests: mobilisation, consciousness, Leninism, passion, hurricanes, the State [email protected]
Zhou, Yufei (post-field) Area of interest: Tibetan areas in China Interests: Ethics; human-animal relations; ethnicity; ontology and cosmology; value; pastoralism; consumerism; dogs [email protected]
Zhu, Tongyue (post-field ) Area of interest: China Interests: scarcity and insecurity, presence and absence, good life, refrigerator [email protected]
Zohar, Daniel (in the field) Area of interest: Ecuadorian Amazonia Interests: human-plant relations; animism; ontology; multispecies ethnography [email protected]
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- Welcome to the Department of Anthropology!
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Anthropology PhD Destinations
The majority of our PhD students continue to academic posts, whilst a smaller number have gone on to enjoy careers in other fields. Of the fifty four PhD students who graduated between 2016 and 2022, forty two have proceeded to either post-doctoral research or teaching fellowships, or to permanent academic appointments.
Most of those with permanent academic appointments are working in departments of Social Anthropology, though our PhD students have, in the past, also gone on to work in departments of Geography and Archaeology. These permanent posts are at Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Kent, Manchester, SOAS, Goldsmiths, Bristol, Aberystwyth and UCL. Others have appointments at the University of Hong Kong, Bogazici University in Turkey and the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin.
Post doctoral teaching and research fellowships , held at institutions across the world, are the first destination for the great majority of our PhD students. These include fellowships at the following universities and centres: LSE; Princeton University, USA; Oxford; Ghent University, Belgium; Edinburgh; Kent School of Anthropology and Conservation; Rotterdam International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands; European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen, Germany; Manchester; Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzen, China; University of Bern, Switzerland; Centre for Indigenous and Intercultural Research, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; University of Vienna, Austria; The Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Melbourne; Cambridge; the Centre for Energy Ethics at St Andrews. Named fellowships include the Evans-Pritchard Fellowship at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Smuts Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Non Academic Careers: Not all PhD students wish to pursue an academic career. Our graduates have gone on to work in publishing, in development (for example, co-ordinating gender programmes for the UN) within business and corporations, as freelance writers and as tutors in mental health trusts.
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