People
Meet the researchers, lecturers and support staff who make up our Social Anthropology department.
Head of subject
- Professor Soumhya Venkatesan
Professor of Social Anthropology
Research interests: Craft, development and paradoxes, Freedom and the Right, Decolonisation, Philosophy in the world and worldly philosophy.
Academic staff
- Dr Sébastien Bachelet
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Jennifer Cearns
Lecturer in AI Trust and Security - Dr Rupert Cox
Senior Lecturer and Director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology - Dr Sonja Dobroski
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Meghan Rose Donnelly
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Lorenzo Ferrarini
Lecturer in Visual Anthropology - Dr Guilherme Fians
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Professor Maia Green
Professor of Social Anthropology - Professor Penny Harvey
Professor of Social Anthropology - Professor Andrew Irving
Professor of Anthropology - Dr David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Professor Hannah Knox
Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology - Dr Mateusz Laszczkowski
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Andy Lawrence
Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology and Film-maker in Residence - Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Michelle Obeid
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Jolynna Sinanan
Senior Lecturer in Digital Anthropology - Dr Constance Smith
UKRI Future Leader Fellow - Dr Katherine Smith
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Professor Karen Sykes
Professor of Social Anthropology - Dr Judy Thorne
Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Dr Angela De Souza Torresan
Lecturer In Visual Anthropology - Dr Olga Ulturgasheva
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology - Professor Peter Wade
Professor of Social Anthropology - Dr Chika Watanabe
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Key staff
- Teaching & Learning Lead: Dr Sonja Dobrowski
- Undergraduate Lead: Dr Sébastien Bachelet
- Master's in Social Anthropology (MASA) Lead: Dr Michelle Obeid
- Master's in Visual Anthropology (MAVA) Lead: Dr Jolynna Sinanan
- Research Lead: Professor Hannah Knox
- Postgraduate Research (PGR) Lead: Dr Chika Watanabe
- Dr Morgan Jenatton
Hallsworth Research Fellow - Dr Nina Kruglikova
Research Associate - Dr Jeferson de Lara Scabio
Bicentenary Research Fellow - Dr Peter Lockwood
Hallsworth Research Fellow - Dr Sarah O'Brien
Research Associate - Dr Piyush Pushkar
Research Fellow and NIHR Clinical Lecturer - Dr Caterina Sartori
Research Associate - Dr Malgorzata Stelmaszyk
Research Associate - Dr Valentina Zagaria
Research Fellow
- Carlos Correa Angulo
Honorary Research Associate - Prof Stef Jansen
Honorary Professor - Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias
Honorary Research Associate - Dr Tony Simpson
Honorary Research Fellow - Dr Ana Vivaldi Pasqua
Honorary Research Associate - Jérémie Voirol
Honorary Research Fellow
Support
For student queries:
- All UGT queries (apart from wellbeing): ugsoss@manchester.ac.uk
- All PGT queries (apart from wellbeing): studentsupportpgsoss@manchester.ac.uk
- Wellbeing: soss.wellbeing@manchester.ac.uk
- Mitigating Circumstances and Extension requests: soss.mitcircs@manchester.ac.uk
For staff and student queries:
- Study Abroad and International Study queries: soss.exchanges@manchester.ac.uk
- Queries about year in Industry for 3rd year students where applicable as this programme specific: sossprofessionalexperience@manchester.ac.uk
- PGR - PGR queries can be directed to: HUMS.doctoralacademy@manchester.ac.uk