Members

Members

Alicia Davis

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Lecturer in Global Health (School of Political and Social Science/Sociology & Institute of Health and Wellbeing)

Research Interests: Global Health and One-Health; Zoonotic Diseases; Pastoralist Livelihoods, health and wellbeing; Environment, Conservation, and Climate Change; Land use change, Policy, Impacts; Anthropology of Antimicrobial Resistance; Participatory and Action-Oriented Methodologies

Field-site: Tanzania

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/aliciadavis/

Elizabeth Hodson

Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies (School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art)

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen 

Research interests: Art; Materiality; Abstraction; Drawing; Art history; Painting; Imagination

Field sites: Iceland and Scotland

Web Page: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/research/fine-art-critical-studies-profiles/h/hodson,-elizabeth-a/

Robert Gibb

PhD Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Lecturer in Sociology (School of Social and Political Sciences/Sociology)

Research interests: Asylum Procedures; the State; Language and Learning and Multilingual Research; Contemporary Social Theory; Translation; Interpretation and Transcription

Field-sites: France and Bulgaria

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/robertgibb/

Marian Krawczyk

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Research Interests: Prognostic Uncertainty; The History of Palliative Care; Total Pain; End of Life/Death Doulas; Affective Labour and Affect Theory; The Human Macrobiome

Field-sites: Canada and UK

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/mariankrawczyk/

David Lundie

PhD in Education, University of Glasgow

Senior Lecturer in Education (School of Education)

Research Interests: School Values, Ethos and Cultures; Religion and Education; Religious Identities and Multiculturalism; Extremism and Counter-Narratives; Digital Values and Identities; Liminality and Borders

Field-sites: England; Scotland; Ireland; and Cyberspace

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/davidlundie/

Diego Maria Malara

PhD Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Global Religion (School of Political and Social Sciences/Sociology)

Research interests: Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity; Embodiment and Personhood; Kinship and Relatedness; Spirit Possession, Exorcism and Ritual Healing; Religious Pluralism and Change; Mental Health; Ethics, Care and Vulnerability; Food and Commensality; Secrecy, Ambiguity and Transgression; Visual Anthropology

Field-site: Ethiopia

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/diegomariamalara/

Donald MacLeod

D.Phil Social Anthropology, University of Oxford

Senior Lecturer (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Research Interests: The anthropology of Tourism; Globalization and Cultural Change; Ecotourism; Sustainable Development; Identity and Branding; Cultural Heritage

Field-sites: Scotland; Canary Islands; and Dominican Republic

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/donaldmacleod/

Lucy Pickering

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

Senior Lecturer (School of Social and Political Sciences/Sociology & Institute of Health and Wellbeing)

Research Interests: Bodies and Embodiment; Dirt, Waste and Pollution; Drug Use and Recovery; Counterculture; One Health

Field-sites: Uganda; Hawai’i; and the UK

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/lucypickering/

Naomi Richards

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in End of Life Studies (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Research Interests: Cultural Attitudes to Death and Dying; Assisted Dying; Social determinants of Dying; Suffering; Testimony, Witnessing and Narrative at the End of Life; Dementia; Visual methods

Field-site: UK

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/naomirichards/

Jude Robinson

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Durham

Deputy Head of the College of Social Sciences; Professor in Health & Wellbeing (School of Political and Social Sciences/Institute of Health & Wellbeing)

Research interests: Gender, Poverty and Inequalities; Health, Wellbeing and Illness; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; Participatory Research Methods

Field-sites: Ethiopia; Eritrea; Kenya; Rwanda; Somalia; Uganda; and the UK

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/juderobinson/

Philip Tonner

PhD in Archeology/Anthropology, University of Oxford

Lecturer in Education (School of Education)

Research Interests: Museum and Heritage; Philosophy of Education; Learning; Dwelling; Folk and Fairy Tales; Death and Mortuary Practices

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/philiptonner/

Giovanna Vitelli

PhD in Archeology, University of Reading

Head of Collections and Curatorial (The Hunterian Museum)

Research Interests: Museum Anthropology; Theoretically Informed Museum Praxis; Research and Teaching with Material Culture and Museum Collections; Methodologies of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Co-creation; Anthropology of 18th and 19th Century Consumerism; Colonial-Indigenous Knowledge Exchange

Field-sites: UK; France; US; and Canada

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/about/contactus/giovannavitelli/

Danny Wight

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Senior Researcher (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit)

Research Interests: Early Prevention of Gender Based Violence; Parent-Child Relationships; Social Status and Respectability; Gender; Intervention Development and Evaluation; Behavioral Change.

Field-Sites: Tanzania; Uganda; and Scotland.

University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/dannywight/