Cultural Anthropology staff

Find contact details and information about Cultural Anthropology staff.

Programme director

Dr Eli Elinoff

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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

Postgraduate coordinator

Dr Grant Otsuki

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

grant.otsuki@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6132
MY 1012, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Programme staff

Prof Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich

Director
Stout Research Centre

MY 1019, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Professor
Vice-Chancellor's Office

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

Dr Eli Elinoff

Senior Lecturer
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

Social and Cultural Anthropology Political Science

Dr Lorena Gibson

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

lorena.gibson@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 5361
MY 1003, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: ◾Anthropology for liberation ◾Development and NGOs ◾Hope and temporalities ◾Youth and education ◾Ethnomusicology ◾Participatory, collaborative research... read more

Anthropology Anthropology of Development Social and Cultural Anthropology Cultural Studies Education not elsewhere classified

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

Dr Grant Otsuki

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

grant.otsuki@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6132
MY 1012, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Human/non-human relations, posthumanist theory, politics and ethics of science and technology, cybernetics, robotics, contemporary Japan... read more

Social and Cultural Anthropology Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology Studies of Asian Society Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies Asian Cultural Studies History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Lecturer in Anthropology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz

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 Cultural Studies Migration Culture, Gender, Sexuality Gender Specific Studies Middle Eastern and African History

Callan Sait

Teaching Fellow SACS
School of Social and Cultural Studies

MY 1017, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Tutor ANTH
School of Social and Cultural Studies

callan.sait@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Catherine Trundle

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

catherine.trundle@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 5134
MY 1021, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: ◾ Inequality and wellbeing ◾ Environmental Wellbeing ◾ Contested wellbeing and the politics of proof ◾ An anthropology of ethics, specifically responsibility,... read more

Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Social and Cultural Anthropology Political Science Gender Specific Studies

Tarapuhi Vaeau

Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas: Historical trauma and poverty, indigenous health, the politics of agency in vulnerable spaces, and indigenous methodologies... read more

Social and Cultural Anthropology Sociology