Academic staff at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Anthropology of organisations (especially parliaments and other legislatures); politicians and people in democracies; international development; relationship between research, policy and practice; UK, South Asia and Ethiopia.

East Africa. Corporations and capitalism, international development, moral economies, corporate social responsibility, enterprise and entrepreneurialism, inclusive markets, consumption and commodities, politics and practices of food governance, gender.

Neil is a lecturer in anthropology. He uses anthropological methods contribute to change in mental healthcare. 

medical anthropology; anthropology of medicine, psychiatry, science, and technology; STS; mental health, trauma, social ruptures, memory, and subjectivity; refugees and displacement; Iran; the Middle East; epidemics and pandemics; COVID19; HIV/AIDS

Turkey, Middle East, UK, political anthropology, legal anthropology, political violence, post-conflict environments and ruination, justice and reconciliation processes, ethnographies of state, memory studies, subjectivity, materiality, border, migration and refugee studies, youth studies, solidarity movements, archival activism, multi-modal ethnography.

Political and economic anthropology, resilience and sustainability, uncertainty; infrastructure- governance, finance, sustainability; alternative lifestyles and sustainable forms of dwelling; narrowboat travelling communities (Boaters); Britain.

Border crossing, identity and political institutions in Ghana and Togo; migration networks, regional mobility and return migration in West Africa. Trafficking, smuggling and migrants' mobility along the Mediterranean route and in Italy. Child trafficking, child labour and labour migration in West Africa.

Japanese society, material culture, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural history

South Africa; economic anthropology; anthropology of the state & institutions, bureaucracy, agriculture; livelihoods; health; nutrition; politics of food systems, food acquisition and consumption practices.

Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)

China (South); anthropology of food; regional cuisines; local foods; restaurant cultures; urban Chinese society and the urban/rural divide.

Sociality, belonging, and exclusion across cultural domains and scales; identity and identification; cultural logics of kinship, relatedness, heritage, and obligation; transcultural encounter and (mis)communication (esp in tourism/travel); community, self, and wellbeing; social inequality; language and thought; psychological anthropology, person-centred ethnography, ethnographic theory & practice. 

Anthropology of mental health and psychiatry; anthropology of organisations and activism, international development, caste, Dalit rights, anthropology of Christianity, South Asian society and popular religion, environmental history and natural resources management.

Chinese society (urban and rural), gender, sexuality, ethnography of organizations, family, migration, ageing and care, inequalities.

Climate Change, Post-Colonialism, Disaster Studies, Indigenous Knowledge Practices, South Asia.

The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.

Dr Alice Rudge is a Lecturer in Anthropology working at the intersection of language, science, and environmental politics.

Migration and diaspora; feminist theory (particularly Black and decolonial); critical race theory; feminist/socialist/anarchist geographies; everyday politics; housing and homelessness; community grounded research; Sudanese in the UK.

India; UK; Southern Africa; mental health; HIV; sexual and reproductive health; digital health; feminist anthropology; care; aging; inequality; Covid-19 pandemic policy; participatory and co-design methods.

Contemporary anthropological theory; critical social theory; philosophical anthropology; creative ethnographic methods (esp. literary and visual tools); gender and body politics; queer diasporas; queer pieties; racialised religions; neo-spiritual movements and subjectivities; politics of memory and secrecy

Urban anthropology; consumer cultures; masculinity studies; middle-class cultures; ethnographies of the state and capital; India.

Graeme is an anthropologist with expertise in material culture, museums and heritage. He has undertaken long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam, and conducted extensive work with museums in the UK, Australia, and across Asia. He is the Head of the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics.

Natural resource use; citizenship and identity, and the politics of development.

Anthropology of organisations (especially parliaments and other legislatures); politicians and people in democracies; international development; relationship between research, policy and practice; UK, South Asia and Ethiopia.

South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh); urban governance and politics; technology, infrastructure and urban development; political ecologies of water (and land); informality, private sector participation and public sector reform.

Uganda, East Africa; disability; mental distress; Deaf Studies; sign language interpretation; social movements, especially those operating in environments of institutional and economic precarity; embodiment and the theorisation and experience of non-normative body-minds; practices of entitlement and resource distribution; resource extraction.

Anthropology of tourism, heritage and the politics of identity, globalization, museum studies, anthropology of art; Indonesia and South East Asia. 

Anthropology of tourism, pilgrimage, cultural heritage; the Mediterranean, in particular Palestine/Israel. 

Anthropology and filmmaking.

Britain, South Asia; cultural dimensions of mental health across nations, suffering, marginalised populations in psychiatric care in London and Chennai, cultural identity of Dalit groups (formerly 'untouchable' caste) in India. Senior Clinical Lecturer, Research Department of Health Sciences, UCL.

China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance

Gender, marriage, politics, religion and secularism, neoliberalism; Turkey, Afghanistan.

Nepali society and culture; museology; social and cultural anthropology of the Himalaya; elite studies; heritage studies

Anthropology of death and life; religion and ritual; Buddhism; social study of life sciences; anthropology of biomedicine; innovative technologies and science-based entrepreneurship; market and exchange circuits; global markets and entrepreneurial diasporas; Việt Nam; Southeast Asia; Vietnamese diasporas in Eastern Europe.

Gender, body politics, sexual violence, citizenship; occupied Palestinian territories, Egypt, Syria.

Public space, ritual studies, urban violence, urban transformation; Iran, India.

South Asia - Nepal and urban India. politics of land, religious fundamentalism, post-colonialism. Gurkhas, Anglo-Indians.

Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.

Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.

Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions

South Asian rural and small town society, social and economic change

Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.

Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo: rural development, food security, ethnic conflict, post-conflict rehabilitation

Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.

Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics