Category: People

Marek Kohn is a science writer on evolution, biology and society. His first two books were on drugs, their cultural history, and their politics. He is the author of seven books and hundreds of articles. He holds an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of Sussex, a PhD from the University of Brighton and…

Lauren Gawne is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at SOAS, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is interested in documenting and analysing how people speak and gesture. Lauren’s research focuses specifically on speakers of Tibetic varieties in Nepal, but she is interested in gesture across different cultures. Lauren blogs about language…

Sergey Gavrilets is a mathematical modeller interested in the dynamics of sexual conflict and the origins and evolution of distinctively human cognition, kinship and social organisation.

Andrew Fowler is a field primatologist. He has studied chimpanzees in the Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria, under the supervision of Professor Volker Sommer (University College London). His research interests include the origins of language, chimpanzee nesting behaviour and the politics of primate conservation.

Elena Fejdiova completed her PhD. in Social Anthropology at the University of East London with Camilla Power and Mark Jamieson. In her research she looks at women’s collective rituals, bonding and reciprocity. She is also interested in researching women’s networks and cooperation.

Morgan Feeney-Beaton is a long-standing member of the Radical Anthropology Group. She has recently conducted postgraduate research at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David on cosmic aspects of spinning and weaving.

Mark Dyble is a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in Biological Anthropology. His research focuses on the evolution of both human and non-human social systems and their relationship with reproduction, kinship, cooperation, and conflict. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork with a community of hunter-gatherers in the Philippines and, more recently,…

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,…