Category: People

Before migrating to London in 2005, Camille Barbagallo lived and worked in Australia and was active in trade unions, student movements and in social movements that focused on ending the mandatory detention of asylum seekers and campaigns to close the refugee camps. Since 2017, she has been one of the Sociological Review Fellows, undertaking work…

Marcus Coates is a well-known British performance artist whose work explores what it means to be human by getting into the skin of rabbits, badgers and other nonhuman personalities. Under his influence, humans in ordinary settings can be seen and heard metamorphosing into songbirds. An exhibitor at the London Tate Modern, Coates was a shortlisted…

Mark Jamieson is a social anthropologist currently working as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. He has been conducting fieldwork and working with Miskitu-speaking people for twenty-nine years studying kinship, gender, domestic organisation, language, political processes, economy, language, ritual, land rights and the contraband narcotics trade. Besides his work in Nicaragua, which has included some research…

Megan Biesele received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1975. A member of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group, her doctoral thesis was titled “Folklore and Ritual of !Kung Hunter-Gatherers”. After initial fieldwork she made 25 more trips to the Kalahari over the next 48 years, working in land rights, mother-tongue education, and language…

Morna Finnegan gained her first degree in Women Studies at University of East London. She went on to pursue a Ph.D in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, completing her thesis on women’s political position among egalitarian hunter-gatherers in Central Africa in 2009. Authored texts The Political Is Personal: Eros, Ritual Dialogue, And The Speaking Body…

Volker Sommer is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at UCL. His research focuses on the evolution of social behaviour, cognition, biodiversity conservation and animal rights. He conducts long-term field studies on monkeys and apes in the jungles of Asia and Africa. Sommer is on the scientific board of the Giordano-Bruno-Foundation, a German-based think-tank for the promotion…

Camilla Power is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Dept of Anthropology at UCL, and was Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at UCL under supervision of Leslie Aiello. Camilla has published many articles on the evolutionary origins of ritual, gender and the use of…

Anthony Auerbach is an artist.

Professor Chris Knight is at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of London with a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss’ four-volume Mythologiques. His first book, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture (1991), outlined a new theory of human evolution. Since then, his main research interest has…

Denise Y. Arnold, an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist (PhD, UCL 1988), is currently Senior Research Fellow at UCL, and directs the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara in La Paz, Bolivia. Her publications and co-publications in English include Situating the Andean colonial experience: Ayllu tales of history and hagiography in the Time of the Spanish (ARC-Humanities, Univ.…