Staff in African Studies and Anthropology 

I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in youth studies, religion (especially Pentecostalism), insecure livelihoods, and aspects of popular culture (fashion, beauty pageants, mobile phones). My doctorate thesis focused on young women’s livelihoods in Calabar, southeastern Nigeria.

Marginality, development, the politics of existence and the right to the city  

I am a social anthropologist whose research interests include transnational migration, kinship, belonging, and religion (especially Pentecostalism). I have pursued these interests in the United Kingdom and Kenya and in the context of migration between the two countries.  

I am a social anthropologist specialising in Southern Africa, with a particular focus on the anthropology of gender and law in Malawi.

I am a historian of Southern Africa with a special interest in various forms of African orality as they are expressed by different communities in rendering their experiences over time and space. I work mainly on Zimbabwe where I have used predominantly oral methods to trace ‘pre-colonial’ identities, nationalism, liberation memories and land restitution struggles.

I am a social anthropologist who focuses on activism, labour, the imagination, and how people come together to form community. I have done most of my research in Lebanon's capital city, Beirut, where I work with Lebanese political activists challenging the political system and with migrant workers building solidarity in the face of racialised inequality.

I am a social anthropologist with interests in economy, politics, digital technology, societal transformation and the future. I have done research in Papua New Guinea, the UK and the USA. My published work is often about gambling, but also anthropological theory, corruption, spreadsheets, markets, money and even pockets. I am currently working on a project about political gamblers influence on ...

I am an interdisciplinary scholar in African Studies focusing on West African history, anthropology and politics. My research interests include belonging, citizenship, authoritarianism, transnationalism and borders. My work focuses more specifically on the making and unmaking of belonging and citizenship in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, cross-border voting and elections, and transnational ...