Departmental staff
Academic Staff
 Dr Catherine Allerton
Eastern Indonesia; place and landscape, houses, kinship and marriage, childhood and schooling.
(c.l.allerton@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7208 Office A615)
Dr Rita Astuti
Madagascar; kinship, gender, anthropology of death, cognitive development and cultural transmission; ethnographic and experimental research methods.
(r.astuti@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7206 Office A612)
Dr Laura Bear
[On sabbatical leave 2008]
South Asia; historical anthropology, industrialisation, nationalism, modernity.
(l.bear@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Fenella Cannell
Lowland Philippines, United States; anthropology of Christianity, healing and mediumship, gender, Mormonism and kinship.
(f.cannell@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6306 A610)
Dr Henrike Donner
India; gender and kinship, education, reproductive change, middle class lifestyles, urban space and politics.
(f.h.donner@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7107 5064 Office A506)
Dr Matthew Engelke
Zimbabwe; anthropology of Christianity, ritual and texts, history of anthropology, human rights.
(m.engelke@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6494 Office A609)
Professor Stephan Feuchtwang
China and Taiwan, Germany; Chinese popular religion, the anthropology of history, life stories, family myths and responses to catastrophic loss, comparison of civilisations and empires.
(s.feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6241 Office A613)
Professor Chris Fuller
[Head of Department 2008-2009]
South Asia; India and Hinduism, South Indian temples, religion and politics, globalisation and information technology, Tamil Brahman society and history.
(c.fuller@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7213 Office A505)
Professor Olivia Harris
[On sabbatical leave 2008-2009]
Latin America, the Andes; indigenous politics, anthropology of history, temporality, free and forced labour, kinship, gender, religion.
(o.harris@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7614 Office A608)
Professor Deborah James
[On sabbatical leave 2007-2008]
South Africa; political economy, civil society and the state, land reform and property regimes, development and migration, ethnicity, ethnomusicology, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health.
(d.a.james@lse.ac.uk)
Professor Michael Lambek
Madagascar, Mayotte, Switzerland; ritual, spirit possession, historicity, moral practice, curers, culture and selfhood.
(m.lambek@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7107 5070 Office A611)
Professor Henrietta Moore
[On secondment: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2007-2010]
East and Central Africa; gender, sexuality, anthropology and epistemology, psychoanalysis and subjectivity, social theory.
(henrietta.moore@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7013 Office M106)
Professor Martha Mundy
Arab societies; law, agrarian systems, sociology of Islam, historical anthropology, kinship.
(m.mundy@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6242 Office A507)
Professor Jonathan Parry
South Asia; sociology of Hinduism, caste and other forms of inequality, industrialisation, labour and the anthropology of work.
(j.p.parry@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7213 Office A505)
Dr Mathijs Pelkmans
Caucasus (Republic of Georgia), Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic); anthropology of borders, political anthropology, anthropology of religion.
(m.e.pelkmans@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7862 Office A614)
Dr Michael W. Scott
Melanesia; ontology, comparative cosmology, models of sociality, Christianity, ethnogenesis and postcolonial transformations of the nation-state, space and place.
(m.w.scott@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7107 5142 Office A616)
Professor Charles Stafford
China and Taiwan; learning, schooling and child development, cognitive anthropology, the relationship between learning and economic life.
(c.stafford@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7214 Office A601)
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Research and LSE Fellows
Dr Amit Desai [Research Fellow]
India; anthropology of religion, conversion, nationalism, witchcraft, food and eating, friendship.
(a.a.desai@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6696 Office K308)
Dr Geoffrey Gowlland [Research Fellow]
China; learning and skill acquisition, art and material culture.
(g.k.gowlland@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6696 Office K308)
Dr Annu Jalais [Research Fellow]
India, West Bengal; the environment, gender, the anthropology of animals.
(a.jalais@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Fraser G. McNeill [LSE Fellow]
South Africa; HIV/AIDS, music, poisonings, traditional leadership and female initiation, knowledge and experience.
(f.g.mcneill@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 7955 7200 Office H613)
Dr Lucia Michelutti [Research Fellow]
India, Venezuela; caste and race, religion, popular politics and socialism, historical anthropology and comparative colonialism.
(l.michelutti1@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7750 Office PS400)
Dr Haripriya Narasimhan [Research Fellow]
India; medical pluralism, globalisation, nationalism.
(h.narasimhan@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7750 Office PS400)
Dr Goncalo Santos [LSE Fellow]
China (South China in particular); kinship and sociality, modernity and social change, wet-rice farming and material culture, relation between culture, political economy and cognition.
(g.d.santos@lse.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7955 6241 Office A613)
Dr Clarinda Still [LSE DART Fellow]
India; education, gender, caste, Dalit politics.
(c.l.still@lse.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7107 5103 Office A504)
Dr Ilana van Wyk [LSE Fellow]
South Africa; religion, pentecostalism, witchcraft, money.
(i.van-wyk@lse.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7955 7435 Office Z323)
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Visiting Fellows
Dr Véronique Bénéï
Western India, Columbia; education and nationalism, civil society, violence.
(v.benei@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Laurent Berger
Madagascar, Mali; Politics and Religion, Kinship, Cognition, Globalisation, Sacred Kingship, Possession Cults, Initiatory Societies, History of Anthropology
(l.berger@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Luke Freeman
Madagascar; education, concepts of knowledge, social differentiation, human-animal relations, animal symbolism.
(l.e.freeman@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Evan Killick
Peru, Amazonia; Ashéninka society, sociality and self-identification, relatedness and friendship.
(e.killick@lse.ac.uk)
Dr Jerome Lewis
Congo, Central Africa; hunter-gatherer societies, religion, politics, learning and indigenous rights.
(j.d.lewis@lse.ac.uk)
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Retired Academic Staff
 Professor Maurice Bloch
Madagascar; religion and politics, cognitive anthropology, kinship.
(m.e.bloch@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7207 Office A611)
Professor Jean La Fontaine
East Africa, United Kingdom; kinship (children), incest, ritual, witchcraft and Satanism.
(j.la-fontaine@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7708 4496)
Professor Ioan Lewis
Somalia and the Horn of Africa; shamanism, Islam and traditional societies, witchcraft and cannibalism.
(ioanlewis2@btinternet.com Tel/fax: +44 (0) 20 7272 1722)
Professor Peter Loïzos
Cyprus; Greco-Turkish relations, refugee adaptation/health, ethnographic film.
(p.loizos@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7107 5171 Office K309)
(mobile: +44 (0) 7976 555862)
Dr James Woodburn
Sub-Saharan Africa; hunting and gathering societies, egalitarian political systems.
(jameswoodburn@talk21.com)
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Administrative Staff
Ms Yanina Hinrichsen
Departmental Manager
(y.hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 7202 Office A603)
Ms Camilla Griffiths
Administrator
(c.b.griffiths@lse.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7955 6775 Office A605)
Ms Joanna Stone
Administration and Communications Officer
(j.f.stone@lse.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7852 3709 Office A605)
As far as possible, the administrative staff in the department operate an "open door" policy: if one of us is not here, the other will try to help. ^
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