Sussex Anthropology – 2021
Sussex Anthropology was established in 1963, as a Department specialising in Social and Cultural Anthropology. It has always had an interdisciplinary agenda, and currently sits within the School of Global Studies, alongside Geography, International Development and International Relations. It has a particular responsibility for International Development (ID), and is home to both Anthropology and ID faculty. Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/
The Department currently has 28 faculty, across Anthropology and International Development; 6 postdoctoral fellows; 20 doctoral researchers; 30 Masters students and around 250 undergraduates. The current Head of Department is Jon Mitchell.
In the last year, three faculty have taken retirement: Jane Cowan, Mark Leopold and Peter Luetchford. We have made two new faculty appointments: James McMurray in Social Anthropology and Demet Dinler in International Development.
The Department makes important contributions to Sussex Asia Centre (Magnus Marsden is Director), Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (Maya Unnithan is Director), the Centre for New Economies of Development (Dinah Rajak is Co-Director). We also have close research links to the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre, and the Institute of Development Studies.
Current major grants include: The Making of an Integrated Landscape of Conservation: Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and the Politics of Territory in the Amazon (PI: Evan Killick); Forecasting with fishers: co-producing knowledge for early warning of extreme weather events on the coast of South India (PI: Filippo Osella); Son preference and sex selection against females in the UK: Evidence, causes, trends & implications (PI: Maya Unnithan).
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner is currently BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow, with her project: Regulatory Brokerage and Performance – Shaping the World of Regenerative Medicine.
12 April 2021