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Cultural Anthropology staff

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Programme director

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Dr Lorena Gibson

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator

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Dr Amir Sayadabdi

Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Programme staff

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Dr Faisal Al-Asaad

Teaching Fellow SACS
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Prof Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich

Director
Stout Research Centre

  • WR12 1019, 12 Waiteata Road

Council Member
Vice-Chancellor's Office

  • MY 1019, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

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 Environmental anthropology Urban and regional planning Architecture Design anthropology Studies of Asian society Citizenship Environmental politics Anthropology of development Urban design
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Jacs Forde

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges) Social and cultural anthropology
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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 Higher education Music education Political economy and social change
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Dr Corinna Howland

Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Social and cultural anthropology
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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 Migration Cultural studies Middle Eastern and North African history
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Dr Paola Tine

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas:  Social Anthropology; Visual Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Ethnography; Creative Research Methods; Kinship, Family and Gender Studies; Higher Education... read more

Adjunct Professor

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Jeff Sissons

Adjunct Research Fellows

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Dr Caroline Bennett

Supervisor

Visiting Scholar

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James Urry

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Dr Graeme Whimp

Adjunct Research Fellow

School of Social and Cultural Studies