Category: People

Geoffrey Hughes is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan.

Dor Shilton is a PhD student in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas in Tel Aviv University. He studies the interactive roots of music and the relationship between participatory musicking and social organization.

Malvika Gupta is a D.Phil. candidate in the international development department at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis focuses on Indigenous politics, statehood, and intercultural education in Ecuador and India. She has worked on the issue of Indigenous education in India as a practitioner and researcher, and has published several articles on it. Her…

Jacob Fishel is a performing artist residing in New York City.  A graduate of The Juilliard School, he has performed on and off Broadway and on stages across the United States.  In 2013, he was the recipient of the Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award from the New York Shakespeare Society.

Lionel Sims is retired head of Anthropology, International Politics, International Development and Refugee Studies at the University of East London and retired Vice President of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. For the last thirty years I have been conducting research into prehistoric monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury, prehistoric Basque culture and European…

Darcia Narvaez is professor of psychology emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing. She blogs for Psychology Today (“Moral Landscapes”) and hosts the webpage EvolvedNest.org.

Matt Pope is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.

Graeme Warren is a Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland, where he has worked since 2002. He is a specialist in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, with a particular research interest in the Mesolithic of Europe. His major research projects have been in Ireland and Scotland.

Helga Vierich lived with Kua hunter-gatherers of Botswana for the better part of two and a half years and then went on to do a further six months in a drought consultancy that included them while Botswana went through the worst drought of its history in 1979. Richard Lee was her thesis supervisor.

Tam Burn Dean is an actor, cultural producer and activist currently based in Glasgow. He has taken part in a wide range of activities about Robert Burns over the years, not least as singer of the Burnsian band The Bum-Clocks https://vimeo.com/374426738 https://thebum-clocks. bandcamp.com/track/tree-o-liberty.