People

Professor Catherine Allerton  
[Head of Department]
Eastern Indonesia; East Malaysia; place and landscape; houses; kinship and marriage; childhood and youth; migration; temporalities.
c.l.allerton@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.14

Professor Rita Astuti
Madagascar; cognitive anthropology; cognitive psychology; cross-cultural studies; developmental psychology; gender; identity; kinship.
r.astuti@lse.ac.uk 

Professor Mukulika Banerjee
South Asia; Pakistan and India; political anthropology; election cultures, popular perceptions and democracy; citizenship and ritual; state and civil society; anthro-political histories of South Asia; Islam and Muslim societies; fashion, public culture and modernity; contemporary identity and life histories.
m.banerjee@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.5.03

Professor Laura Bear MBE, FBA
South Asia, Japan and the United Kingdom; economics, psychology, gender, racialisation, health.
l.bear@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.02

Dr Fenella Cannell
Lowland Philippines, United States; anthropology of Christianity, healing and mediumship, gender, Mormonism and kinship.
f.cannell@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6494
OLD.5.08

Dr Yazan Doughan
Jordan; the Middle East; corruption; social movements; social justice; human rights; precarity; welfare; the state; bureaucracy; law; ethical life; temporality; critique; postcoloniality; semiotics; language and culture; religion and secularism.
y.doughan@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.35

Professor Katy Gardner FBA
Bangladesh; globalisation, transnational migration and diaspora, anthropology and development; resource extraction and corporate social responsibility; divorce and couples counselling in South Asia and beyond. 
k.j.gardner@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.15

Professor Deborah James FBA
South Africa; the UK; ethnography of advice; aspiration and indebtedness; civil society, citizenship and the state; economic anthropology; ethnomusicology; land reform and property regimes; migration and ethnicity.
d.a.james@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.09

Dr Nick Long
Indonesia and the Malay World; Aotearoa New Zealand; psychological anthropology; affect; hypnosis and consciousness; COVID-19; achievement; motivation; political change.
n.j.long@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6757
OLD.3.37

Professor Mathijs Pelkmans
Caucasus (Republic of Georgia); Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic); border studies; historical anthropology; methodology; Islam and Christianity; sociology of knowledge.
m.e.pelkmans@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.20

Dr Andrea Pia 
China; law; collective action; water; common-pool resources; political economy; political ecology; development; critical agrarian studies; environmental humanities; climate and environmental justice; prefigurative politics; rural sociology; infrastructure; multimodal approaches; public anthropology; open access.
a.e.pia@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.12

Professor Michael W. Scott
Oceania; Melanesia; anthropological approaches to questions of being (ontology); cosmology; religion; wonder; myth-making; indigenous Christianities; personhood, sociality, and relatedness; place-making; ethnogenesis. 
m.w.scott@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.48

Professor Charles Stafford FBA
[Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Faculty Development)]
China, Taiwan and the USA; learning; schooling and child development; cognitive anthropology; the relationship between learning and economic life.
c.stafford@lse.ac.uk
CBG.11.10

Dr Hans Steinmüller
China; political and economic anthropology, moralities and ethics, irony, ritual, gambling.
j.steinmuller@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.13

Dr Harry Walker 
Amazonia, Latin America; subjectivity, shamanism, political morality, individualism, justice, happiness, the commons.
h.l.walker@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.34

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys
Anthropology of the economy, corporations, expertise; resource extraction; state (urban) planning; temporality, materiality, and affect; Europe, US, lusophone Africa.
g.weszkalnys@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.02

Dr Mareike Winchell
Bolivia; environmental politics; kinship; race and property; critical Indigenous studies; inequality and ethics; post- and de-colonialisms; critical ontologies; religion; climate change.
m.winchell@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.04

Professor Sylvia Yanagisako 
[Centennial Professor]
Italy, U.S.; kinship; gender; capitalism; property.
s.yanagisako@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.33

Dr Anjana Bala [LSE fellow]
India; psychological anthropology; art; embodiment; ecology; religion; trauma.
a.bala@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.18

Dr Gareth Breen [LSE fellow]
Christianity and other Religiosities in China and Taiwan; Chinese Medicine; Anthropological Theory; Essence; Culture and Therapy.
g.p.breen@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.6.16

Dr Agathe Faure [LSE fellow]
Indigenous groups of Lowland South America; migration and mobility; economic anthropology; care; kinship and gender; emotion; body and personhood.
a.faure@lse.ac.uk
OLD.6.10

Dr Anishka Gheewala [ESRC postdoctoral fellow]
Hindu movements, Hindu-isms, bhakti, religion, kinship, childhood, India, diaspora, play, landscape, emotion, digital Hindu life.
a.gheewala-lohiya@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.07

Dr Wesam Hassan [LSE fellow]
Economic anthropology, medical anthropology, gambling, anthropology of time, HIV and AIDs, violence and the state, womanhood, biopolitics of global healthcare and economics, material culture, Turkey, Egypt.
w.a.hassan@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.06

Dr Jo Krishnakumar [LSE fellow]
India; Caste; Care and Kinship; Sex; Labour; Social Movements; Feminist, Queer and Trans Activism.
j.krishnakumar@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.36

Dr Johanna Perez Gomez [LSE fellow]
Latin America; anthropology of sorcery, armed violence, collective action, ethnographic methods.
j.perez-gomez@lse.ac.uk

Dr Silvia Pergetti [ESRC postdoctoral fellow]
South Asia; energy transitions and justice, development, technology and infrastructure, technical expertise, cultures of repair, care, labour, masculinities.
s.pergetti@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.07

Dr Fahad Rahman [LSE fellow]
United Kingdom; British Muslims; Anthropology of Religion; Faith-based social justice activism; Intersectionality; Gender; Sexuality; Securitisation; Restorative Justice.
f.rahman8@lse.ac.uk
OLD.3.32

Dr Sofía Ugarte [British Academy postdoctoral fellow]
Chile and Latin America; care and gender; racism; migration; capitalism; kinship and the life course; intersectionality; decolonial methods. 
a.s.ugarte@lse.ac.uk
OLD.5.07 

Dr Frederick Wojnarowski [British Academy postdoctoral research fellow]
The Middle East, Jordan, corruption, environmental justice, water scarcity, political economy, protest, history, colonialism, empire, non-state politics, land settlement.
f.wojnarowski@lse.ac.uk 
OLD.5.07

Professor Tim Allen [Department of International Development]
East Africa (especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya); international criminal justice, non-formal accountability mechanisms, forced migration, reintegration following displacements, war and conflict, aid programs, witchcraft and social healing, tropical diseases, HIV/AIDS and health programs. 
t.allen@lse.ac.uk

Dr Ayça Çubukçu [Department of Sociology]
Radical Social Movements, Human Rights, Political Violence, Internationalism, Postcolonial Studies.
a.cubukcu@lse.ac.uk

Professor Ernestina Coast [Department of International Development]
Sexual, Reproductive, Health, Abortion, Rights, Justice, Evidence, Gender.
e.coast@lse.ac.uk

Dr Ivan Deschenaux [Department of Methodology]
Ethnography & mixed methods; Social Norms; Inequality; Caste; South Asia.
i.deschenaux@lse.ac.uk

Dr Shalini Grover [International Inequalities Institute]
Marriage; love; kinship; legal pluralisms; labour relations; globalized care; domestic service; British Empire.
s.grover4@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sohini Kar [Department of International Development]
South Asia, India; Urban Poverty, Financialization, Microfinance, Financial Inclusion, Labour, Activism.
s.kar1@lse.ac.uk

Dr Emrah Karakuş [Department of Gender Studies]
Gender, Political Violence, Affective Politics, Kurds, Middle East.
E.Karakus@lse.ac.uk

Dr George Kunnath [International Inequalities Institute]
Inequality, Peacebuilding, Social Theory, Qualitative Methodologies.
g.kunnath@lse.ac.uk

Professor David Lewis [Department of International Development]
South Asia, Bangladesh; civil society; non-governmental organizations (NGOs); development aid; rural development; anthropology of policy. 
d.lewis@lse.ac.uk

Dr Tanya Matthan [Department of Geography and Environment]
Risk; Agrarian change; Environment; Financialization; Caste; South Asia.
t.r.matthan@lse.ac.uk

Dr Eleanor Power [Department of Methodology]
Social network analysis; Ethnography; Religion; South Asia; Signaling theory; Social capital.
e.a.power@lse.ac.uk

Dr Raphael Susewind [Department of Methodology]
North India; religious innovation, local politics, masculinities, aspirations and development, spatial methods, segregation.
r.susewind@lse.ac.uk

Dr Noah Walker-Crawford [Grantham Research Institute]
Andes; climate change; environment; legal anthropology; litigation; justice; evidence; knowledge.
n.walker-crawford@lse.ac.uk

Dr Austin Zeiderman [Department of Geography and Environment]
Cities, Environment, Security, Race, Capitalism, Latin America.
a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sergen Bahceci [Visiting Fellow]
Violence; Sovereignty; Nationalism; Insecurity; Crime; Digital Anthropology; Research methods.
s.bahceci@lse.ac.uk

Professor Karin Barber [Visiting Professor]
Yoruba; Western Nigeria; Texts, performance, popular culture, yoruba language, print culture, oral genres, religion.
k.barber1@lse.ac.uk

Dr Hélène Bloch [Visiting fellow]
China; Sichuan; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; sinology; Daoism; capitalism; prosperity; fortune; ritual.
helenebloch93@gmail.com

Dr Rebecca Bowers [Visiting fellow]
India; UK; gender; informal labour; the household; inequality; precarity; Covid-19; labour migration; pragmatism.
r.e.bowers@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sanda Caracentev [Visiting fellow]
Moldova, UK, Eastern Europe; social and cultural anthropology; migration, transnationalism, migration infrastructure; material culture, anthropology of food, ICTs; personhood, kinship, sociality; immateriality, temporality, mapping. 
s.caracentev@lse.ac.uk

Dr Chris Chaplin [Visiting fellow]
Maritime Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Islam; Citizenship; Social Movements; Solidarity; Human Rights; Political Identities; Southeast Asian International Politics.
c.chaplin@lse.ac.uk

Dr Hannah Cottrell [Visiting fellow]
UK & Japan. Anthropology of education; schooling & international education; aspirational subjectivities; social mobility; educational migration; intersectional inequalities; globalisation; cosmopolitanism; global education markets; public health; youth violence; health inequalities. 
h.cottrell@lse.ac.uk

Dr Clara Devlieger [Visiting fellow]
Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa, disability, rights and responsibilities, identity and difference, distribution and welfare, personhood, humour, moralities and judgement, urban anthropology, borders, uncertainty
c.devlieger@lse.ac.uk

Professor Harriet Evans  [Visiting professor]
China; gender and sexuality; feminist movements of the twentieth century; political posters, visual culture and legacies of the Mao era; oral history, memory and urban neighbourhood life; localities, cultural transmission and gendered contestations of heritage.
h.evans5@lse.ac.uk

Dr Luis Garcia Briceno [Visiting fellow]
Amazonia, Christianity, perception.
l.garcia-briceno@lse.ac.uk

Dr Charlotte Hawkins [Visiting fellow]
Uganda; UK; mental health; care work; morality; critical global health; health inequalities; engaged anthropology.
c.hawkins2@lse.ac.uk

Dr Carrie Heitmeyer [Visiting Senior fellow]
India; evidence-based policy; sociology of science; citizen science; anthropology of emerging technologies; sociotechnical futures; community health; disaster response and preparedness; infectious disease; Covid.
c.m.heitmeyer@lse.ac.uk 

Dr Mathilde Heslon [Visiting fellow]
Mayotte, Comoros, France; postcolonization; youth; migration; kinship; affliction; pain; care; islamic and spirit possession rituals; marriage and other cycle life rituals.
m.heslon@lse.ac.uk

Professor Insa Koch [Visiting professor]
Anthropology of Britain and Europe, political and legal anthropology, class inequalities, criminal justice, welfare, modern slavery, Empire, post-colonialism, populism, democratic crisis.
i.l.koch@lse.ac.uk

Professor Adam Kuper [Visiting professor]
South Africa, intellectual history of anthropology, kinship, Southern Africa.
adam.kuper@gmail.com

Dr Megan Laws [Visiting fellow]
Namibia, Botswana, South Africa; informal economies and egalitarianism; communal lands, biodiversity, and climate change; trust and uncertainty; shamanism; language; digital ethnography; citizen science.
m.laws1@lse.ac.uk 

Dr Arthur Mason [Visiting Senior fellow]
Global north, energy politics; the anthropocene; event ethnography; cultures of expertise; arctic late industrialism.
a.mason2@lse.ac.uk

Dr William Matthews [Visiting fellow]
China (contemporary and Warring States to Han); cosmology; divination; cognition; cultural transmission; empire; ontology; comparison; politics of knowledge.
w.matthews1@lse.ac.uk

Dr Claire Moll-Namas [Visiting fellow]
Trust, El Salvador, Migration, Violence, NGO, Evangelical Christianity, Anthropology of the Good, Anthropology of Values, Language.
c.e.moll-namas@lse.ac.uk

Dr Mayanka Mukherji [Visiting fellow]
London, New Delhi; housing, emptiness, waste, plastics, infrastructure, precarity, care and belonging, death and grieving, material practices, landownership in the UK, "community", ethnographic fiction.
m.mukherji@lse.ac.uk

Dr Fuad Musallam [Visiting fellow]
Middle East; Lebanon; activism; social movements; political subjectivity; migrant and precarious labour organising; time and temporality; affect and emotion; narrative and storytelling; the political imagination; space and the city; participatory archiving.
f.m.musallam@lse.ac.uk

Dr Giulio Ongaro [Visiting fellow]
Laos; upland Southeast Asia; medical anthropology; shamanism; animism; ritual efficacy; placebo effects; magic; healing; rationality; global history of psychiatry; psychiatry; history of science; cognitive science; philosophy of mind.
g.ongaro@lse.ac.uk

Dr Ottavia Paternò [Visiting fellow]
Argentina; anthropology of Christianity; ritual; kinship; reciprocity; gender; imagination.
o.paterno@lse.ac.uk

Dr Stephanie Postar [Visiting fellow]
Tanzania; environment; natural resources; energy; social studies of science in Africa; precarity and uncertainty; gender.
s.postar@lse.ac.uk

Dr Dagna Rams [Visiting fellow]
Ghana; Extractive economies; Waste and Resource Management; Economies of Technological Innovation; Global Metal Markets and Supply Chains
d.rams@lse.ac.uk

Zimran Samuel [Visiting Professor in Practice]
Children law, mental capacity law, human rights, public international law, anthropology & law
z.samuel@lse.ac.uk
z.samuel@doughtystreet.co.uk

Dr Marina Sapritsky-Nahum [Visiting fellow]
Ukraine; Jewish identity; religion; migration; philanthropy; urban culture.
m.sapritsky@lse.ac.uk

Dr Mitchell W Sedgwick  [Visiting Senior fellow]
Japan (mainland SE Asia, France, Tex-Mex border); economic anthropology, globalisation; anthropology of organisations, multinational corporations, cross-cultural relations/ethnicity and work; minorities and marginality in Japan; disaster anthropology, post-tsunami Japan.
m.sedgwick@lse.ac.uk

Dr Imani Strong [Visiting fellow]
Racial inequality; bureaucracy; entrepreneurship; political and legal anthropology.
i.strong@lse.ac.uk

Dr Teodor Zidaru [Visiting fellow]
Kenya; East Africa; UK; trust; emotion; religion; welfare; microfinance and financial inclusion; redistributive politics; patronage and the state; linguistic and economic anthropology; the anthropology of technology, big data and machine-learning.
t.m.zidaru@lse.ac.uk

Professor Maurice Bloch FBA
Madagascar; religion and politics, cognition and culture, kinship.

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang
China and Taiwan, Germany; Chinese popular religion, the anthropology of history, life stories, family myths and responses to catastrophic loss, comparison of civilisations and empires.
s.feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk

Professor Jean La Fontaine
East Africa, United Kingdom; kinship, children, incest, ritual, witchcraft and Satanism.
j.la-fontaine@lse.ac.uk

Professor Chris Fuller FBA
South Asia; India and Hinduism, South Indian temples, religion and politics, globalisation and information technology, Tamil Brahman society and history.
c.fuller@lse.ac.uk

Professor Martha Mundy
Arab societies; law, agrarian systems, sociology of Islam, historical anthropology, kinship.
m.mundy@lse.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan Parry FBA
South Asia; sociology of Hinduism, caste and other forms of inequality, industrialisation, labour and the anthropology of work.
j.p.parry@lse.ac.uk