Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings

University of Hull

Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX
Tel: 01482 466213; Fax: 01482 466088
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.