Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
University of Sussex
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Departmental report
The last year has seen the retirement of a number of long-serving faculty members (Jeff Pratt, Ann Whitehead and Jock Stirrat), though happily all remain active within the department. In addition, Paul Basu moved to a post in London. At the time of writing we are in the process of replacing these staff, but have already appointed Evan Killick as a new lecturer (from a Nuffield Foundation New Career Fellowship at the LSE). Evan brings fresh perspectives on the anthropology of development to the department, as well as regional interests in Latin America. In addition, two members of staff have been promoted: Katy Gardner to a Professorship and Nigel Eltringham to a Senior Lectureship.
Department-members have been active and successful in gaining research grant s from, among other sources, the ESRC, the AHRC and the Nuffield Foundation. James Fairhead has become Chair of the ASA and Simon Coleman continues as Hon. Editor of JRAI.
The beginning of the 2009-10 academic year sees the Department move into a new ‘School of Global Studies’, along with Geography, International Relations and Development Studies, and the new School should help to create considerable research and teaching links across these disciplines.
Faculty Staff list
Simon Coleman (Professor and Head of Department) Sweden, UK, Nigeria: charismatic Christianity; pilgrimage; aesthetics; space and place; architecture; tourism and leisure; history and heritage; ideologies of science (creationism, biomedicine); mobilities; globalisation
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
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
Anne-Meike Fechter (Lecturer) Transnationalism and Migration; anthropology of gender, the body and space; use of information and communication technologies; Indonesia
Katy Gardner (Professor, Deputy Head) 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
Jon Mitchell (Reader) Malta: history, memory, politics and national identity; religion and belief
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
Colette Harris (PhD Amsterdam) gender, identity, power relations, conflict and violence, refugee services, public health (particularly issues of reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition and aflatoxins), development of innovative (grass-roots) pedagogical methodologies
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
Celestine Nyamu (SJD, LLM Harvard) Rights-based approaches to development, integrating participatory approaches into rights advocacy, access to justice at the local level, local implementation of international human rights standards, overlap between formal and informal legal regulation of land relations, gender equality in property relations and in governance reforms
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