Cultural Anthropology staff

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Programme director

Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1017, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Postgraduate coordinator

Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1017, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Programme staff

Prof Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich

Professor of Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

brigitte.bonisch-brednich@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Cultural anthropology, narrative analysis and storytelling, migration, academic mobility, ethnography, ritual... read more

Dr Eli Elinoff

Associate Professor

School of Social and Cultural Studies

eli.elinoff@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1023, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Political anthropology including questions about citizenship, rights, and democracy. Environmental anthropology, including question related to development,... read more

Jacs Forde

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

jacs.forde@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 886 4570
MY 1018, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: My research interests center on Indigenous epistemologies within the Pacific region, exploring how traditional knowledge systems inform understanding of hu... read more

Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges) Social and cultural anthropology

Dr Lorena Gibson

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

lorena.gibson@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1003, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Anthropology for liberation Development and NGOs Hope and temporalities The anthropology of education Educational technologies Participatory, collaborative r... read more

Anthropology Anthropology of development Social and cultural anthropology Higher education Political economy and social change Educational technology and computing Gender, sexuality and education Sociological methodology and research methods Feminist methodologies

Dr Corinna Howland

Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

corinna.howland@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6747
MY 1005, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Social and cultural anthropology

Sumin Myung

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

sumin.myung@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1012, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Anthropology and history of science and technology, environmental anthropology, environmental humanities, field sciences, forest regeneration, anthropogenic la... read more

Environmental anthropology Sociology and social studies of science and technology History and philosophy of science Social and cultural anthropology Political theory and political philosophy Environmental history Forest ecosystems Forestry sciences Forest biodiversity Climate change impacts and adaptation Studies of Asian society Asian cultural studies

Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1017, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Anthropology of food; cultural history of food; diaspora; migration; ethnicity and nationalism; gender (and sexuality) studies; Middle East; Iran.... read more

Social and cultural anthropology Migration Cultural studies Middle Eastern and North African history Cultural studies of agriculture, food and wine

Dr Paola Tiné

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas: My research interests are centred around discovering the roots of psychophysical well-being and distress from a social and relational perspective, and ar... read more

Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management) Medical anthropology Social and cultural anthropology