Category: People

Marisa Carnesky is a magical performance artist. Inspired by the ideas of anthropologists Camilla Power and Chris Knight, her experimental research focuses on the ritual, emotional and other conditions necessary if women are to synchronise their menstrual cycles. She has recently completed a practice based PHD at Middlesex University, London.

Hilary Callan has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. From 1993 to 2000 she was Director of the European Association for International Education, based in Amsterdam. An anthropologist by training and graduate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford), she has held academic appointments at…

Professor Joe Cain is Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies.

Born in Utqiaġvik, Alaska and raised on the Kenai Peninsula, Kathleen Bryson received her PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UCL in 2017, and previously was awarded her MA in Independent Film from what is now UAL, with two BA degrees in Anthropology and Swedish, respectively, from the University of Washington. She additionally studied a year…

Daša Bombjaková is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Comenius University Bratislava and a chief state adviser at the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic on science and education evaluation. Recently, she has been elected President of the Slovak Association of Social Anthropologists – major aim of this NGO is…

Based in the Department of Anthropology at Sussex University, Matthew Doyle is conducting fieldwork in Bolivia with a special focus on political activism and indigenous rights.

Daiara Tukano, of the Tukano indigenous nation of the Upper Rio Negro, is an indigenous activist and artist. With a Masters Degree in human rights at the University of Brasilia, she is a researcher on the right to memory and truth of indigenous peoples. She is an independent communicator and coordinator of Radio Yandê, the…

Frederique Darragon is an economist by training who has spent many years in rural China and Tibet. Since 1998, she has been researching the extraordinary ancient skyscrapers that are found in Kham. She is Professor Honoris at Causa at Sichuan University.

Rosalyn Bold is currently a Research Associate at the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability (CAOS), University College London.

Julien d’Huy, of the Pantheon–Sorbonne University in Paris, is pioneering the use of evolutionary theory and computer modeling to compare and analyze magical myths and folktales.