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Anthropology

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Nicola Ansell Professor Nicola Ansell
Professor - Human Geography
Since I arrived at Brunel in 1999, my interests have focused on social and cultural change in the li...
T: +44 (0)1895 266085
E: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266085 nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 204
Dr Andrew Beatty Dr Andrew Beatty
Reader in Anthropology
I became interested in anthropology after spending a couple of years travelling in Asia; conducted s...
T: +44 (0)1895 265943
E: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265943 andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 141
Dr Devanshi Chanchani Dr Devanshi Chanchani
Lecturer in Global Futures
T: +44 (0)1895 266551
E: devanshi.chanchani@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266551 devanshi.chanchani@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda TBA
Professor Peggy Froerer Professor Peggy Froerer
Professor of Anthropology
I found my way into anthropology after studying politics, completing my PhD in Social Anthropology a...
T: +44 (0)1895 265456
E: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265456 peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 143
Dr Luke Heslop Dr Luke Heslop
Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Challenges
I trained in anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (PhD 2015) and was a Fellow at the London S...
T: +44 (0)1895 266252
E: luke.heslop@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266252 luke.heslop@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 140
Professor Eric Hirsch Professor Eric Hirsch
Divisional Lead / Deputy Head of Department / Professor - Anthropology
I initially trained as an engineer but later found that anthropology was what really interested me. ...
T: +44 (0)1895 265953
E: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265953 eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 226
Dr Maria Kastrinou Dr Maria Kastrinou
Lecturer in Anthropology
Maria Kastrinou is a social anthropologist with fieldwork experience in South-Eastern Mediterranean,...
T: +44 (0)1895 265059
E: maria.kastrinou@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265059 maria.kastrinou@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 219
Dr Nibedita Mukherjee Dr Nibedita Mukherjee
Senior Lecturer in Global Development and Sustainability
Nibedita Mukherjee is  interested in how decisions are shaped in conservation. Her current rese...
E: nibedita.mukherjee@brunel.ac.uk
nibedita.mukherjee@brunel.ac.uk
Dr Isak Niehaus Dr Isak Niehaus
Senior Lecturer
After attending school in Oudtshoorn (a semi-desert town which is the centre of South Africa’s ostri...
T: +44 (0)1895 267413
E: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 267413 isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 139
Dr Will Rollason Dr Will Rollason
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
My research is motivated by the question of how to talk about other people in a way that recognises ...
T: +44 (0)1895 265041
E: william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265041 william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 226
Professor James Staples Professor James Staples
Professor - Anthropology
After completing a first degree in anthropology in 1990 I worked for nearly ten years as a journalis...
T: +44 (0)1895 267412
E: james.staples@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 267412 james.staples@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 137
Dr Anna Tuckett Dr Anna Tuckett
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Dr. Anna Tuckett received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2014. She specialises in p...
T: +44 (0)1895 266195
E: anna.tuckett@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266195 anna.tuckett@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 154a
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