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Department of Anthropology

Research Staff

NamePositionTelephoneEmailResearch Interests
Dr Susana Carro-Ripalda Senior Research Fellow 41637 susana.carro-ripalda@durham.ac.uk
  • Children's experiences of parental migration
  • Personal and inter-personal processes in transnational migration
  • Selfhood and personhood
  • The rhetorical and constitutive power of emotions
Dr Gillian Cooper Research Associate 40466 Contact Gillian Cooper
  • Appetite and Body Weight Regulation
  • Hormone Research
  • Reproductive Ecology
Mr Peter Dixon Research Associate 41617 Contact Peter Dixon -
Dr Philip Garnett Research Associate philip.garnett@durham.ac.uk -
Dr Leslie Jessop Official Visitor 41617 Contact Leslie Jessop -
Ms Ellis Judson Research Associate Contact Ellis Judson -
Dr Aneesa Kassam Research Associate 41617 Contact Aneesa Kassam
  • anthropological linguistics
  • anthropology of development
  • indigenous systems of thought among the East and Northeast African peoples
  • nomadic pastoralists in Africa
  • Oromo culture, language, myth, ritual and history
Dr Daniel M. Knight Addison Wheeler Fellow daniel.knight@durham.ac.uk
  • Crisis Experience and Polytemporality
  • Economic Anthropology
  • European (especially Balkan and Mediterranean) Anthropology
  • European Politics
  • History and Anthropology
  • Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
  • Social Status and Mobility
  • The Work of Michel Serres
Dr Frances Larson Honorary Research Fellow Contact Frances Larson -
Dr Papreen Nahar Post-Doctoral Research Associate papreen.nahar@durham.ac.uk
  • Health and Wellbeing of the Diaspora Community
  • Health Security in Relation to Environmental Disaster
  • M-Health
  • Reproductive Health Issues of Both Males and Females (Infertility, Maternal Health, Family Planning, Pregnancy Behaviour, Sexuality)
Dr Raymond Nichol Visiting Scholar Contact Raymond Nichol
  • Indigenous Pedagogy and Education
  • Ethnographic and action research, in Australia, Japan and South-East Asia.
  • Citizenship education
  • Primary social studies: planning, implementation and evaluation
Dr Gina Porter Senior Research Fellow 43309 r.e.porter@durham.ac.uk -
Dr Alanna Rudzik International Junior Research Fellow alanna.rudzik@durham.ac.uk -
Dr Charlotte Russell Research Associate 40796 Contact Charlotte Russell -
Professor Paul Sant Cassia Honorary Research Fellow Contact Paul Sant Cassia
  • anthropology of Mediterranean societies
  • art and commoditisation
  • family, household, marriage and property in Greece and Malta
  • political anthropology
  • resistance movements, kinship and politics
Dr Ernesto Schwartz-marin Research Fellow Contact Ernesto Schwartz-marin -
Dr Thomas Scott-Phillips Contact Thomas Scott-Phillips
  • Cultural evolution
  • Evolutionary anthropology
  • Origins and evolution of language
  • Origins of the human mind
Mrs Janet Starkey Honorary Research Associate j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk
  • Middle East, North Africa and Sudan
  • Eighteenth-Century Natural History
  • Islam
  • Red Sea area esp. Beja and Bedouin
  • Study of Travellers in the Middle East
  • Material Culture and Museum Studies
  • Islamic Burials
Mr Steven Wilson Durham Industrial Bridging Fellow Contact Steven Wilson -