Members
Alicia Davis
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Lecturer in Global Health (School of Political and Social Science/Sociology & Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
Research Interests: Global Health and One-Health; Zoonotic Diseases; Pastoralist Livelihoods, health and wellbeing; Environment, Conservation, and Climate Change; Land use change, Policy, Impacts; Anthropology of Antimicrobial Resistance; Participatory and Action-Oriented Methodologies
Field-site: Tanzania
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/aliciadavis/
Elizabeth Hodson
Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies (School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art)
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
Research interests: Art; Materiality; Abstraction; Drawing; Art history; Painting; Imagination
Field sites: Iceland and Scotland
Web Page: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/research/fine-art-critical-studies-profiles/h/hodson,-elizabeth-a/
Robert Gibb
PhD Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.
Lecturer in Sociology (School of Social and Political Sciences/Sociology)
Research interests: Asylum Procedures; the State; Language and Learning and Multilingual Research; Contemporary Social Theory; Translation; Interpretation and Transcription
Field-sites: France and Bulgaria
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/robertgibb/
Marian Krawczyk
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)
Research Interests: Prognostic Uncertainty; The History of Palliative Care; Total Pain; End of Life/Death Doulas; Affective Labour and Affect Theory; The Human Macrobiome
Field-sites: Canada and UK
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/mariankrawczyk/
David Lundie
PhD in Education, University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in Education (School of Education)
Research Interests: School Values, Ethos and Cultures; Religion and Education; Religious Identities and Multiculturalism; Extremism and Counter-Narratives; Digital Values and Identities; Liminality and Borders
Field-sites: England; Scotland; Ireland; and Cyberspace
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/davidlundie/
Diego Maria Malara
PhD Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in Global Religion (School of Political and Social Sciences/Sociology)
Research interests: Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity; Embodiment and Personhood; Kinship and Relatedness; Spirit Possession, Exorcism and Ritual Healing; Religious Pluralism and Change; Mental Health; Ethics, Care and Vulnerability; Food and Commensality; Secrecy, Ambiguity and Transgression; Visual Anthropology
Field-site: Ethiopia
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/diegomariamalara/
Donald MacLeod
D.Phil Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
Senior Lecturer (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)
Research Interests: The anthropology of Tourism; Globalization and Cultural Change; Ecotourism; Sustainable Development; Identity and Branding; Cultural Heritage
Field-sites: Scotland; Canary Islands; and Dominican Republic
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/donaldmacleod/
Lucy Pickering
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Senior Lecturer (School of Social and Political Sciences/Sociology & Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
Research Interests: Bodies and Embodiment; Dirt, Waste and Pollution; Drug Use and Recovery; Counterculture; One Health
Field-sites: Uganda; Hawai’i; and the UK
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/lucypickering/
Naomi Richards
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in End of Life Studies (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)
Research Interests: Cultural Attitudes to Death and Dying; Assisted Dying; Social determinants of Dying; Suffering; Testimony, Witnessing and Narrative at the End of Life; Dementia; Visual methods
Field-site: UK
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/naomirichards/
Jude Robinson
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Durham
Deputy Head of the College of Social Sciences; Professor in Health & Wellbeing (School of Political and Social Sciences/Institute of Health & Wellbeing)
Research interests: Gender, Poverty and Inequalities; Health, Wellbeing and Illness; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; Participatory Research Methods
Field-sites: Ethiopia; Eritrea; Kenya; Rwanda; Somalia; Uganda; and the UK
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/juderobinson/
Philip Tonner
PhD in Archeology/Anthropology, University of Oxford
Lecturer in Education (School of Education)
Research Interests: Museum and Heritage; Philosophy of Education; Learning; Dwelling; Folk and Fairy Tales; Death and Mortuary Practices
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/philiptonner/
Giovanna Vitelli
PhD in Archeology, University of Reading
Head of Collections and Curatorial (The Hunterian Museum)
Research Interests: Museum Anthropology; Theoretically Informed Museum Praxis; Research and Teaching with Material Culture and Museum Collections; Methodologies of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Co-creation; Anthropology of 18th and 19th Century Consumerism; Colonial-Indigenous Knowledge Exchange
Field-sites: UK; France; US; and Canada
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/about/contactus/giovannavitelli/
Danny Wight
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Senior Researcher (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit)
Research Interests: Early Prevention of Gender Based Violence; Parent-Child Relationships; Social Status and Respectability; Gender; Intervention Development and Evaluation; Behavioral Change.
Field-Sites: Tanzania; Uganda; and Scotland.
University Page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/dannywight/