Category: People

Robin Halpin has been an active member of the Radical Anthropology Group for ten years since returning to London after a career in Vienna and Thessaloniki as an EFL teacher specialising in adult learners in business and academia. He was born in London in 1955 and read Philosophy and Economics at UCL. He is currently…

Wendy James is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford and past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She has carried out research in several countries of N.E. Africa, especially the Sudan (where she also taught in the University of Khartoum) and Ethiopia. Trained in Oxford, she has pursued long-standing interests in social anthropology,…

Martin Holbraad’s main field research is in Cuba. There, he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Having completed in 2002 his doctoral thesis on the role of oracles and money within the diviner cult of Ifà in socialist Cuba, his research since has focused on such topics as the relationship between myth and action,…

Guilherme Orlandini Heurich has worked with Amerindian groups for the past 13 years, more intensively with the Araweté in Eastern Amazonia. He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Museu Nacional (Brazil) is currently the British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at UCL.

Shivani Kaul is a research student in the department of anthropology at UCL and in psychodynamic-systemic training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is interested in the psychological impacts of neoliberalization, with fieldwork in north India, eastern Bhutan, and England. Her present research integrates her interdisciplinary training in political science, South Asia studies,…

Monica Janowski is a social anthropologist who has been carrying out research in Sarawak for more than 30 years. Her research interests focus on indigenous cosmology and the relationship between humans and the natural environment. She has recently completed a one-year research fellowship at the Sarawak Museum assisting in planning the content of galleries in…

Gabriel Levy is a political activist and historian of science with a special interest in the history of climate science.

Les Levidow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University with a special interest in controversial agricultural technologies, especially agbiotech and bioenergy, as well as alternatives to agri-industrial systems. He edits the journal Science as Culture, which critically analyses the underlying frameworks, assumptions and terms of reference of science and its impact on modern…

An archaeologist and ethnohistorian working with computing scientists Dr Alicia Colson collaborates with indigenous peoples, NGOs and governments in Canada, UK, US, and Antigua to understand our pasts. She trained at the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and Southampton University (Depts of Archaeology & Computing Science). She obtained her PhD from McGill University under the late…

Algis Kuliukas is currently a PhD student at University of Western Australia in Perth, studying the evolution of human bipedality. Specifically he is investigating the role that water might have played in the early adoption of facultative bipedalism in hominids in the late Miocene. This apparently rather modest idea is, in fact, loaded with controversy…