Staff Profiles


**indicates staff willing/able to supervise PhD students

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 Room 138
  • Memory, commemoration, and embodiment

    Youth and childhood
  • Performance and politics

    Political violence
  • Materiality

    Anthropology and time
  • Cameroon, Greece and the Balkans.

Dr Andrew Beatty**
Role: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265943
Email: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 141
  • Psychological and psychiatric anthropology
  • Emotion
  • Religion and ritual
  • Indonesia and Mexico
  • New approaches to ethnographic writing
Dr Liana Chua
Role: Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265429
Email: liana.chua@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 140
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Materiality and museology
  • Development and conservation
  • Human-animal relations
Dr Amit Desai
Role: Lecturer

Phone: 01895266279
Email: amit.desai@brunel.ac.uk
Office: MJ138
  • Anthropology of India
  • Religion
  • Art and creativity
Dr Peggy Froerer**
Role: Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265456
Email: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 143
  • South Asia
  • Anthropology of education, learning & schooling
  • Children, childhood and youth
  • International development
  • Inequality and social mobility
Dr Eric Hirsch**
Role: Head of Department

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265953
Email: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 134
  • Historicity and landscape
  • Myth, personhood and ritual
  • Power and property relations
  • Papua New Guinea, Britain
Dr Isak Niehaus**
Role: Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 267413
Email: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 139
  • Southern Africa
  • Political anthropology
  • Witchcraft and cosmology
  • HIV / AIDS
  • Masculinity and sexuality
  • History of anthropology
Dr Melissa Parker**
Role: Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049
Email: melissa.parker@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 136
  • Anthropology of global health
  • Neglected tropical diseases
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Anthropology of war
  • Anthropology of international development
Dr William Rollason**
Role: Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265041
Email: william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 135
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Rwanda
  • Development and the post-colony
  • The future
Dr Ana Margarida Sousa Santos
Role: Leach-RAI Research Fellow

Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049
Email: ana.santos@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 152
  • East and Southern Africa
  • 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 Room 137
  • South Asia
  • Medical anthropology (leprosy, disability, the body and pain)
  • Suicide
  • Anthropology of food
  • Biography and life history

Emeritus and Visiting Staff

Name and Contact Details Research Interests
Dr Barbara Knorpp
Role: Visiting Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1895 267301
Email: barbara.knorpp@brunel.ac.uk
Office: Marie Jahoda Room 153
  • Visual anthropology
  • World cinema & documentary film
  • Media anthropology / global media
  • Museums / archives
Dr Siew-Peng Lee
Role: Visiting Research Fellow

Phone:
Email: Siew-peng.lee@brunel.ac.uk
Office:
  • ageing, ethnicity and migration
  • anthropology of business
welfare state
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 of architectural heritage and social identity
Judith Okely
Role: Visiting Research Fellow

Phone:
Email: sss-enquiries@brunel.ac.uk
Office:
  • Fieldwork practice
  • Gypsies
  • Landscape representations and the aged
Dr Alexandra Ouroussoff
Role: Visiting Research Fellow

Phone: +44 (0)1895 265962
Email: Alexandra.Ouroussoff@brunel.ac.uk
Office:
  • Anthropology of political economies
  • Methodology of the social sciences
  • Anthropology & psychoanalysis

Page last updated: Tuesday 17 July 2012