Staff Profiles
| Name and Contact Details | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Nicolas Argenti Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: + 44 (0) 1895 265457 Email: nicolas.argenti@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 138 |
Childhood, youth, performance, political violence, collective memory |
| Dr Andrew Beatty Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: + 44 (0) 1895 265943 Email: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 144 |
Psychological anthropology, emotion; religion and ritual; approaches to ethnographic writing; Indonesia, Mexico |
| Dr Dominique Behague Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267309 Email: dominique.behague@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 154a |
Medical Anthropology, Medicalisation of the life-span, Psychiatry, Mental health, Adolescence, Anthropology of Biomedicine and Statistical sciences, Evidence-based Policy-making, Global Health, Inequities and class conflict, Brazil. |
| Dr Liana Chua Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 265429 Email: liana.chua@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 138 |
Religion and ritual, conversion, anthropology of Christianity, ethnic citizenship, materiality, museology, landscape, migration, environmentalism, human-animal relations, Sarawak, Southeast Asia. |
| Dr Peggy Froerer Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 265456 Email: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 145 |
Anthropology of South Asia, anthropology of education, schooling and learning, anthropology of childhood and youth, anthropology of development, inequality and social mobility, anthropology of illness and healing. |
| Dr Eric Hirsch Role: Head of Department Phone: +44 (0) 1895 265953 Email: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 147 |
historicity, landscape, myth, personhood, power, property relations, ritual, technology; Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Britain |
| Dr Barbara Knorpp Role: Visiting Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267301 Email: barbara.knorpp@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 153 |
The role of ethnographic museums in anthropology, the roles of photographs and films in anthropological knowledge, the senses of belonging, and production of history. |
| Dr Clare Melhuish Role: Visiting Research Fellow Phone: Email: clare.melhuish@brunel.ac.uk Office: |
Anthropology of architecture and built environment; urban anthropology; Modern Movement architectural heritage and social identity; domestic space and cultures; ethnographic research and urban design/regeneration; ethnography of architectural design practice. |
| Dr Isak Niehaus Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267413 Email: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 150 |
Cosmology, witchcraft, politics, violence, gender and sexuality, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, violence, crime, in southern Africa |
| Judith Okely Role: Visiting Research Fellow Phone: Email: sss-enquiries@brunel.ac.uk Office: |
Her research interests include: Fieldwork Practice, Gypsies, Feminism, Autobiography, Visualism, Landscape Representations and the Aged, mainly within Europe. |
| Dr Alexandra Ouroussoff Role: Visiting Research Fellow Phone: +44(0)7947198269 Email: Alexandra.Ouroussoff@brunel.ac.uk Office: |
Anthropology of political economies, methodology, psychoanalytic theory |
| Dr Melissa Parker Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266049 Email: melissa.parker@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 152 |
The Anthropology of Global Health; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Maternal Health; Mental Health, Well-being and healing in the aftermath of war; HIV/AIDS; Geographical areas of interest include: UK, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. |
| Dr William Rollason Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 265041 Email: william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 158 |
Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, race, ethnicity, development and the post-colony, the future, post-structural and post-colonial theory methodology. |
| Ana Santos Role: Leach/RAI Research Fellow Phone: Email: ana.santos@brunel.ac.uk Office: |
Research interests include: anthropological perspectives on ethnicity, violence and history, understanding the structure and processes of political and ethnic violence. |
| Dr James Staples Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267412 Email: james.staples@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 137 |
South Asia (especially Telugu speaking South India); medical anthropology (leprosy, disability, anthropology of the body and pain); suicide; begging; charity; anthropology of food. |
