School of Social and Cultural Studies Te Kura Mahinga Tangata

Cultural Anthropology staff

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Programme director

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Dr Eli Elinoff

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator

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Dr Grant Otsuki

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Programme staff

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Prof Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich

Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

  • MY1019, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Council Member
Vice-Chancellor's Office

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

Anthropology Social and Cultural Anthropology Cultural Studies Migrant Cultural Studies
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Dr Eli Elinoff

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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
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Dr Lorena Gibson

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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
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Corinna Howland

Teaching Fellow
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Dr Grant Otsuki

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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
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Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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
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Dr Jeff Sissons

Adjunct Professor

Teaching Fellow SACS

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Dr Catherine Trundle

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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
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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

Adjunct research fellows

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Caroline Bennett

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Pauline Herbst

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Dr Graeme Whimp

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Social and Cultural Studies