People
Core Staff
| Name | Title | Research Interests | Contact Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gerhard Anders | Principal Investigator of the project 'Accountability through Practical Norms: Civil Service Reform in Africa from Below' funded by the British Academy and DfID; Lecturer in African Studies - International Development | Anthropology of development,Anthropology of Law,International development,International Organisations,International criminal justice,Transitional justice,Law Anthropology, institutions and State policies,Law and Development | 4.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3178 Gerhard.Anders@ed.ac.uk |
|
Barbara Bompani | Director of the Centre of African Studies, Reader in Africa & International Development. Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | African Christianity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Development, Faith-based organisations (FBOs), Religion and Sexuality, LGBTI rights in Africa, public morality, Ugandan Pentecostalism, South African politics. | 4.04 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3891 B.Bompani@ed.ac.uk |
|
Andrew Bowman | Lecturer in African Development | Energy & Infrastructure,privatisation,industrial policy,Financialization,Science and technology for development,agricultural development,accounting,Mining and the extractive industries | 3.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1617 andrew.bowman@ed.ac.uk |
|
Sidy Cissokho | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | ethnography,International Relations,norm diffusion,Policy construction,Political representation,State formation,privatisation,Roads and infrastructure,trade unions,Senegal | 4.04 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 131 6511 790 Sidy.Cissokho@ed.ac.uk |
|
Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock | Lecturer in International Development (CAS and Anthropology) | Access to justice,Social Justice,Criminal Justice,Civil Justice,civil society,police,security,African security,African studies,South African politics,South Africa | 4.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3936 s.j.cooperknock@ed.ac.uk |
|
Maggie Dwyer | Research Fellow | African politics,militaries,Security Studies,International Relations,peacekeeping,Social media,West Africa,Elections,African studies | 4.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5076 M.Dwyer@ed.ac.uk |
|
Jean-Benoit Falisse | Lecturer in African Development | African Great Lakes region,Health policy,Access to justice,Access to education,Migration and development,Fragile states,Media and conflict | 4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 1632 jb.falisse@ed.ac.uk |
|
Hazel Gray | Lecturer in African Studies and Development | 5.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)1316515534 Hazel.Gray@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
Chisomo Kalinga | Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow | African Print and Oral Literature,Oral storytelling forms and traditions,Medical Humanities,Health & Human Rights,Malawiana culture and literature,Illness narratives,Narrative Medicine,Artistic representations of illness,wellbeing and health,Disease as Metaphor,The sick body | G.3 22a Buccleuch Place +44(0)1316 515118 Chisomo.Kalinga@ed.ac.uk |
|
George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane | Lecturer in African Studies | nationalism and the post-colonial state in Africa,Zimbabwe,Colonial/imperial history,legal history,history of the legal profession,Human rights,digital research,digital publics and counterpublics,Digital humanities,Media and society,new media | 4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3206 G.karekwaivanane@ed.ac.uk |
|
Pete Kingsley | Research and Teaching Fellow | Participation,Africa,Global Health Policy,Health and Development,Sociology of health and illness,Anthropology of Love,Nigeria,South Sudan | 4.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square pete.kingsley@ed.ac.uk |
|
Hugh Lamarque | Research Fellow | African security,ethnography,Regionalism,governance,Policing,state-society relations,Territorial Politics,Non-state actors | Rm. 4.04 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)7948385942 hugh.lamarque@ed.ac.uk |
|
Jose-Maria Munoz | Lecturer in African Studies & International Development | International development,Political and economic anthropology,Law and society,Taxation and citizenship,Borderlands,Infrastructure,West and Central Africa,Cameroon | 4F1, Room 4.04 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0) 131 650 6970 j.munoz@ed.ac.uk |
|
Zoe Marks | Chancellor's Fellow (Lecturer) | Peace and conflict,Rebellion and civil war,Gender and Development,Gender and Violence,International development,African studies,IR and Security studies,Comparative Politics | 4.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 8265 zoe.marks@ed.ac.uk |
|
Louise McKenzie | Subject Academic Support Officer - CAS | 6.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3878 Louise.McKenzie@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
Albert Mkony | Tutor, Researcher and Language Assistant - African Studies and International Politics | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Albert.Mkony@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
Thomas Molony | Senior Lecturer in African Studies | African elections,African security,African politics,Tanzania,Kenya,East Africa,Swahili,Research methods in Africa,African informal economies,Mobile phones in Africa,ICT in Africa,African Studies,African history,African biography,Social media | 4.05 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6976 Thomas.Molony@ed.ac.uk |
|
Paul Nugent | Professor of Comparative African History (School of History, Classics and Archaeology) and Professor in African Studies (School of Social and Political Science), 2005-2017 | African borderlands,Wine history,Comparative African History,Taxation,African militaries and bureaucracies,Colonial/imperial history,Slavery and Slave Trade,Ghana politics and history,Trade and transport | Room 4.01, 4F1 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 3879 Paul.Nugent@ed.ac.uk |
|
Jennifer Palmer | Research Fellow, Investigating Networks of Zoonosis Innovation (INZI) | Humanitarian intervention,South Sudan,trypanosomiasis,diagnostics,elimination,Medical anthropology | 4.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square jennifer.palmer@ed.ac.uk |
|
Rick Rohde | Research Fellow and Co-investigator for the AHRC funded project focussing on the historical ecologies of the Namib and intangible cultural heritage of western Namibia. | Political ecology,Land reform,Politics of climate change science,Historical ecology,Visual ethnography | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square 0131 332 4147 and 01599 235023 Rick.Rohde@ed.ac.uk |
|
James Smith | Vice Principal International; Professor of African and Development Studies | African development,Science,technology and development,Global health policy,Neglected Zoonotic and Tropical Diseases,anthropology of development | 4.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4321 James.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
|
Sam Spiegel | Senior Lecturer in International Development and Director of Research, Centre of African Studies | B.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 19 George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3066 sam.spiegel@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
Patrycja Stys | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Poverty and Conflict | Post-conflict reconstruction (state and social),Armed conflict,Forced migration,Informal economies and social innovation,Hybrid governance,African Studies,Comparative Politics,Refugee Studies,International Development,Security Studies | 4.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1345 patrycja.stys@ed.ac.uk |
|
Emma Michelle Taylor | Research Fellow, Investigating Networks of Zoonosis Innovation (INZI) project | Health politics,International development,Global Health Policy,Ugandan Healthcare and development,Global Health,Health Policy in Developing Countries,Health and Development,health insurance,Development aid,Aid Effectiveness,Control of neglected zoonotic and tropical diseases,Neglected diseases and zoonoses | 4.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square E.M.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
|
Kate Wright | Chancellor's Fellow in the Cultural and Creative Industries Co-Investigator on AHRC Humanitarian Journalism project | Media,Global justice,Humanitarian intervention,Norms,organizations and institutions,Rights,digital publics and counterpublics | B.05 21 George Square 0131 651 5592 Kate.Wright@ed.ac.uk |
|
Wolfgang Zeller | Senior Research Fellow - African Governance and Space project (AFRIGOS) | political anthropology,political geography,African borderlands,secessionism,border towns,Policing,vigilantism,smuggling,transport corridors,Mineral extraction,Namibia,Zambia,Lozi kingdom,Uganda,port cities,'traditional' authority,Roads and infrastructure | 4.04 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 651 3134 wolfgang.zeller@ed.ac.uk |