People
Core Staff
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Gerhard Anders | Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development | Anthropology of development,Anthropology of Law,International criminal justice,Transitional justice,Law Anthropology, institutions and State policies,Law and Development | 4.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3178 Gerhard.Anders@ed.ac.uk |
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Mohammad Amir Anwar | Lecturer in African Studies and International Development | Globalisation,Economic Geography,African Political Economy,Digital Economy,Digital Value Creation,Future of Work,Humans of the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,Digital Labour,Gig Economy,Employment/Unemployment,Inequality and Poverty,Global Governance,Digital Work,Digital ethnography,digital methodologies,Labour and labour movements,Mixed methods research in social sciences,information economy,Social media and internet technologies,Storytelling and ethnography,Identity Politics,Development studies | 5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +441316511731 mohammad.anwar@ed.ac.uk |
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Barbara Bompani | 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. | 1.08 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3891 B.Bompani@ed.ac.uk |
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Andrew Bowman | Lecturer in Africa and International Development | Political economy,industrial policy,agricultural development,agro-processing,value chains,Mining and the extractive industries,Financialization,energy politics,Science and technology for development,infrastructure | 2.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1617 andrew.bowman@ed.ac.uk |
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SJ 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 |
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Rama Salla Dieng | Lecturer, Programme Director MSc Africa and International Development | Political economy of agrarian transformation,Land,Capital and Labour,Gender and Development,African economies,African feminisms,Social Reproduction,Research methodology | 4.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1636 rdieng@ed.ac.uk |
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Kevin Donovan | Lecturer, African Studies & International Development | African history,Political and economic anthropology,STS | 4.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square kevin.donovan@ed.ac.uk |
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Maggie Dwyer | Lecturer in Africa and International Development | African politics,International Relations,peacekeeping,Social media,West Africa,African security,International development,African studies,militaries | 4.14 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5076 M.Dwyer@ed.ac.uk |
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Jean-Benoit Falisse | Lecturer in Africa and International 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 |
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Hazel Gray | Senior Lecturer in African Studies and Development | Political economy of development,Political economy of institutions,Industrialization,Industrial policy,Heterodox economic theory,Social provisioning and economic change,Tanzania | 5.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)1316515534 Hazel.Gray@ed.ac.uk |
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Akin Iwilade | Lecturer in African Studies | Natural Resource Politics and Governance,Social Anthropology of Youth,Nigerian Politics and Society,Regional Security in West Africa | 4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square a.iwilade@ed.ac.uk |
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George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane | Lecturer in African Studies, Programme Director MSc 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 | 4.05 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3206 G.karekwaivanane@ed.ac.uk |
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Hugh Lamarque | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Borderlands,African borderlands,Territorial borders,Policy tools in global governance,cross-border mobility of health workers,bilateral agreements,social dialogue and industrial relations,Migration and development,Urban Ethnography,Police & Policing in Africa,Political Theory | 4.01 18 Buccleuch Place +44(0)7948385942 Hugh.Lamarque@ed.ac.uk |
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Robert Macdonald | Teaching Fellow in African Studies and International Development | Elections,Voting,African politics,Tanzania,Election observation,Social media and politics | 5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Robert.Macdonald@ed.ac.uk |
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Jose-Maria Munoz | Senior Lecturer in African Studies & International Development | Political and economic anthropology,Law and society,Taxation and citizenship,Borderlands,Infrastructure,West and Central Africa,Cameroon | 2.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 650 6970 j.munoz@ed.ac.uk |
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Albert Mkony | Researcher & Senior Tutor | Social media in Africa,Governance and leadership in Africa,African politics,Swahili,International cooperation,International development,African Union,Intelligence studies,Regional cooperation and integration,Tanzania,East Africa,Diaspora and race | Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Albert.Mkony@ed.ac.uk |
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Thomas Molony | Senior Lecturer in African Studies & Director, Centre of African Studies (CAS) | African elections,African security,African politics,Tanzania,Kenya,East Africa,Swahili,Research methods in Africa,Mobile phones in Africa,ICT in Africa,African Studies,African history,African biography,Social media,security | 4.04 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6976 Thomas.Molony@ed.ac.uk |
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Rebecca Moody | Subject Academic Support Officer (Centre of African Studies) | 3.16 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3878 Rebecca.Moody@ed.ac.uk |
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Paul Nugent | Professor of Comparative African History (School of History, Classics and Archaeology) & African Studies (School of Social and Political Science) | African borderlands,Wine history,Comparative African History,African militaries and bureaucracies,Colonial/imperial history,Slavery and Slave Trade,Ghana politics and history,Trade and transport,Customs and Taxation | Room 4.01, 4F1 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 3879 Paul.Nugent@ed.ac.uk |
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Nelson Oppong | Lecturer in African Studies and International Development | African security,Global justice,Institutions and institutional change,Norms,Politics of oil,Participation,organizations and institutions,Social movements,Theories of democracy,theories of global justice,Sustainability,governance,Civic engagement,Development studies,civil society | 5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)1316517112 nelson.oppong@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |
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Sam Spiegel | Senior Lecturer in International Development | Major research themes - Theories of Social Justice and Rights - Governance, Global Institutions and Policymaking - Decolonisation, Dispossession, Alienation, Displacement and Migration, Epistemic Erasure, Storytelling and Social Change - Theorising Environments, Institutions, Values and Spaces - Community-Based Research, Ethnographic Approaches, Community-Engaged and Policy-Engaged Mixed Methods Approaches - Global Governance, Health, Development Politics - Anti-Racist and Feminist Appraoches to Knowledge Construction - Activism, Social Movements, Protest and Solidarity-Building (globally, and particularly in Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Canada/First Nations territory) - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Conceptualisations of Nature-Society Relations, Relational Histories and Connections to Place | B.02 19 George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3066 sam.spiegel@ed.ac.uk |
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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 |