Social Anthropology
The Durham Anthropology Department is home to one of the UK's largest group of social anthropologists with a vibrant community of postgraduate, postdoctoral and associated researchers.
Staff members in Social anthropology
For full staff list go to Staff page
- Dr Sandra Bell, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Ben Campbell, Lecturer
- Dr Matei Candea, Lecturer
- Prof Michael B. Carrithers, Professor
- Dr Peter J. Collins, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Iain Edgar, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Yulia Egorova, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Charles Gullick, Lecturer (part time)
- Dr Kate Hampshire, Reader
- Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Lecturer
- Prof Robert H. Layton, Professor
- Dr Stephen M. Lyon, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Claudia Merli, Lecturer
- Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- Dr Andrew J. Russell, Senior Lecturer
- Prof Paul Sillitoe, Professor
- Prof Bob Simpson, Professor and Chair of BoS
- Dr Jamie Tehrani, Lecturer
- Dr Thomas Yarrow, Lecturer
For full list of research groups go to Research Groups page.
Modern Muslims Use Dream to Make Major Life Decisions
Dr Iain Edgar's research showed "Dream interpretation in Islam is a spiritual way of divining the future and submitting oneself to the personal unconscious and the will of Allah".