Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
University of Hull
Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX
T: 01482 466213; F: 01482 466088
W: http://www.hull.ac.uk/socsci
Departmental report
Teaching
Anthropology at Hull is now part of a multidisciplinary department that also houses criminology, gender studies, sociology, social policy and social work. While there are no single honours degrees in Anthropology, the discipline is taught as a major component in several degree streams that include the following: Single Honours Sociology, Sociology and Anthropology with Gender Studies, Sociology and Anthropology with a Modern Language (options include Spanish, German, French and Italian) and Sociology and Anthropology with Geography. At the postgraduate level, we offer the MSc in Applied Social Research in Sociology and Anthropology. The programme was awarded recognition under Anthropology for the ESRC 3 + 1 training programme. We have also introduced a new MA in Diversity, Culture and Identity, in which Anthropology features prominently. In addition to our undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses, we also have 15 MPhil/PhD students, including 1 student who holds an ESRC scholarship and 3 who hold departmental bursaries.
Research
The key principle guiding the organisation of research is the encouragement of individual and collaborative scholarship that contributes to core contemporary debates. This has fostered a diverse research environment encompassing work on a wide range of issues and areas. At present, major research projects are being carried out on postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, development, modernity and post-modernity, migration and religion and religious revival. Current research projects have been sponsored by the AHRC, the ESF and the Leverhulme Trust.
Full-time anthropologists
Vassos Argyrou (PhD) Social and cultural theory, postcolonialism, postmodernism, environmentalism, religious revival and radicalism, Mediterranean ethnography
Suzanne Clisby (PhD) Sociology and anthropology of development, gender and development, sexuality; Latin America and the UK
Mark Johnson (PhD) Social anthropology, sexuality, gender, nationalism, ethnicity, material culture, heritage, landscape; South-East Asia and Latin America