Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
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Departmental report
In 2007, much time and energy was spent preparing for two major events: the 2008 RAE and forthcoming changes in our BA degree programme. These were signalled at the end of our 2006 report. From September 2008 onwards, in accordance with changes throughout the Faculty, we shall double the number of modules we offer to first year students. This will enable us to develop new cross-disciplinary teaching collaborations with colleagues in the School, and to rethink the grounding in anthropology that we offer in our introductory courses. There have also been developments at postgraduate level, with the long-awaited agreement with the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing finally bearing fruit. In 2008 we hope to welcome the first Chinese students into our MA programme. There were no changes to permanent staff, but Fiona Magowan and Maruška Svašek were both promoted to Senior Lectureships. Early in 2007 we welcomed Dr Rosellen Roche who was funded by the EU for an eighteen-month project on young people and violence, and Dr Kala Shreen on the three-month Charles Wallace Fellowship.
Key events and activities during 2007 included the following. Fiona Magowan and Hastings Donnan completed their ESRC-funded project on walking and driving with a Symposium that attracted a broad range of participants and interest from the DOE Roads Service, Police Service of Northern Ireland, driving instructors, SUSTRANS and TRANSLINK. Donnan continued as academic adviser to the Trustees of the RUC George Cross Foundation, with whom he secured Lottery funding for a comprehensive oral history of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. In October and November he was Visiting Professor at Finnmark University College in Norway and at their outreach centre in Kirkenes on the Russian border. Kay Milton spent all but the first month of the year on sabbatical leave in Australia and New Zealand, visiting several universities. She will return to Auckland on a two-year career break from September 2008. In February, Maruška Svašek organised the conference Migrant Art, Artefacts and Emotions. A book proposal based on the conference papers has been accepted by Berghahn. With Dr Kala Shreen from MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Svašek established the Cultural Dynamics & Emotions Network (CDEN, www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CulturalDynamicsandEmotionsNetwork/ ) which aims to stimulate international and interdisciplinary research on emotions, and will establish learning/teaching links between universities across the world. Fiona Magowan gained a Queen’s University Teaching Award. As Chair of the Anthropological Association of Ireland, she initiated an annual north-south postgraduate conference, co-organised with the National University of Maynooth and Trinity College Dubin. She also convened plenary and panel sessions at the 39th International Council for Traditional Music conference in Vienna, entitled Performing Emotions, Gendering Places. Jonathan Skinner spent a semester at California State University Sacramento continuing his comparative research on migration and performance. While in the US, he was a guest speaker at the South Western Anthropology Association's Annual Conference, and an invited speaker to the UC Berkeley Tourism Working Group. He was also invited to lecture on a Royal Caribbean Cruise to Bermuda, St Maarten, St Thomas and Puerto Rico. Our weekly research seminars continued as usual, with Jonathan Skinner organising the first series on tourism and Lisette Josephides organising the second series on ‘Being human: perspectives from anthropology, philosophy and elsewhere’. After a period of illness, Graham McFarlane moved into a predominantly teaching, learning and student progress role for the School as a whole.
Full-time staff
Hastings Donnan (DPhil 1981, Sussex; Professor, MRIA, AcSS) Anthropology of frontiers, violence and conflict, Islam and Muslim identity; Pakistan, Ireland
Lisette Josephides (PhD 1984, London; Reader) Philosophy of anthropology, ethics and the field, human rights and moral philosophy, self theory and narrative, politics, gender, social change; Papua New Guinea, the Pacific
John Knight (PhD 1992, London; Reader) Migration, forestry, farming, hunting, relations with wildlife and other environmental issues; Japan
Fiona Magowan (PhD 1995, Oxford; Senior Lecturer) Song, dance and ritual; contemporary Christianity; sense and emotion; Northern Territory, Australia; Belfast
Graham McFarlane (PhD 1978, Belfast; Senior Lecturer) Economic anthropology, development, sectarianism, social structure, food and national cuisines; British Isles and Ireland, Greece
Kay Milton (PhD 1981, Belfast; Professor) Ecological and environmental anthropology, emotion, perception and cognition; Kenya, Great Britain, Ireland
Suzel Ana Reily (PhD 1990, Sao Paulo; Reader) Ethnomusicology, musical experience, subalternity, Catholicism, hypermedia; Brazil and Latin America
Rosellen Roche (PhD 2004, Cambridge; Research Fellow) Young people, violence, sexual behaviour, paramilitary punishment, reconciliation, material culture; Ireland and England
Marina Roseman (PhD 1986, Cornell; Lecturer) Healing, music, dance, ritual, in relation to historical and contemporary change; Temiar, Malaysian rainforest
Jonathan Skinner (PhD 1997, St Andrews; Lecturer) Tourism, dance communities (salsa jive), poetry and performance, modern dance and dance therapy, same sex issues; Caribbean, UK, US
Paulo Sousa (PhD 2005, Michigan; Lecturer) Folk conceptions of mind, agency and morality, religious representations and kinship relatedness; US, Brazil
Maruška Svašek (PhD 1996, Amsterdam; Senior Lecturer) Art, identity, politics, social memory, emotions, borders, migration; the Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, Northern Ireland
Other staff
Anthony D Buckley (PhD 1982 Birmingham; Senior Honorary Research Fellow) Medicine, ethnicity, religion, brotherhoods; Nigeria, N. Ireland
Rosanne Cecil (DPhil 1989 Ulster; Honorary Research Fellow) Kinship, health and care, policy and practice; British Isles, India
Maurna Crozier (PhD 1985 Belfast; Honorary Research Fellow) Cultural studies, gender, divided societies; Ireland (Community Relations Council)
Shaun Ogle (PhD 1985 Belfast; Honorary Research Fellow) Recreation, use of the countryside, young people's involvement in sport; Northern Ireland
Joyce Pettigrew (PhD 1969 Manchester; Honorary Research Fellow) Political anthropology, primary health care and development; North-west India, Pakistan
Marc Schiltz (PhD 1980 London, Honorary Senior Research Fellow) Life stories, emotion and subjectivity, oral history, politics, conflict, religion, witchcraft-sorcery; West Africa (especially Nigeria), Papua New Guinea
Elizabeth Tonkin (DPhil 1971 Oxford; Professor Emerita) History, oral history and anthropology, power and symbolism; West Africa
Anthropologists elsewhere in the university
Dominic Bryan (DPhil 1997, Ulster; Senior Lecturer, Director of the Institute of Irish Studies) Political anthropology, ritual, ethnicity, anthropology and policy; Northern Ireland
Jude Stephens (PhD 1995, Belfast; Lecturer in the Gibson Institute for Land, Food and Environment) Green politics, rural economy, sustainable technologies; Northern Ireland