PhD supervision

Professor Sarah Green - Head of Social Anthropology

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students on the following topics:

the anthropology of borders, location and landscape
new information technologies
bodies and embodiment
gender and sexuality
personhood
urban anthropology

My regional specialisations are Europe, especially the Greek-Albanian and Greek-Turkish border regions in the Aegean, the Balkans and Britain.

Sarah's webpage

Email: sarah.green@man chester .ac.uk

Dr Rupert Cox

I am interested in supervising students in areas related to:

The theory and practice of sensory media (visual, aural, material)
the intersections of art and anthropology
the role of visual technologies(graphic and mechanical) in the history of representations of native peoples
Other areas are: the anthropology of sound and the political ecology of military technologies, particularly aircraft

My regional specialisations are in Japan, where I have worked particularly on asceticism and the Zen arts, and ideas about copying and the heritage industry.

Rupert's webpage

Email: rupert.cox@man chester .ac.uk

Professor Jeanette Edwards

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students who want to work in areas connected to my own research interests, including:

kinship (parenting, personhood, gender, families of ‘choice’, secrets and lies)
the anthropology of science and technology (bodies, biotechnology, biomedicine)
the politics of social class, community and identity

Email: jeanette.edwards@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Ian Fairweather

I am interested in supervising students in areas relating to:

Identity and representation in Southern Africa
Museums and the tourism and heritage industries.
Religious belief and expression
Memory and meorialisation in Southern Africa

Email: ian.fairweather@man chester .ac.uk

Professor John Gledhill

I am willing to supervise students interested in

globalisation and transnationalism
politics
social movements and the state
urban and rural poverty
indigenous rights
historical anthropology

My own regional specialisation is Mexico, Central America and Brazil.

John's webpage

Email: john.gledhill@man chester .ac.uk

Professor Nina Glick-Schiller

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students on the following topics:

transnational migration and diaspora (long distance nationalism; transnational kinship; social citizenship; transnational ways of being and belonging; diasporic belonging and identity)
migration and cities (migrants as urban scale makers; neoliberal urban restructuring; migrant incorporation and transnational connection; refugee resettlement; migration regimes and resistances)
global perspectives on nation-state building (critiques of methodological nationalism and the ethnic lens, beyond multiculturalism; unequal globalization and transnational processes, migration and development; racialisation)
everyday cosmopolitanism (comparative urban cosmopolitanisms; migrants as cosmopolitan; rooted cosmopolitanisms; urban socialities, convivialities and disparities; religion and cosmopolitanism).

My email is nina.glickschiller@manchester.ac.uk. Further information at the RICC website

Professor Maia Green

I am interested in supervising students working on

Development policy and categories
Poverty and destitution
East Africa
Health seeking behavior and health systems (including 'traditional' healing

Maia's webpage

Email: maia.green@man chester .ac.uk

Professor Penny Harvey

I am interested in supervising students who want to work in the following broad research areas:

Anthropology of science and technology (engineering; infrastructures such as roads, canals, railways; design and construction practices; material relations; experimentation)
Ethnographic approaches to state formation, post-colonial politics, neo-liberal regulation and public participation
Space and affect – landscape, mobility, environmental controversy, toxic economies
The politics of communication (language practice, information technologies, community radio, digital visualisation, exhibitions)

My regional specialisation is in the Andean Region, in Peru, Spain and the U.K.

http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/StaffDetails.aspx?ou=I4002&ProfileId=5034339

Email: penny.harvey@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Paul Henley

I am interested in supervising research with the indigenous peoples of Amazonia.

I am also interested in supervising students who wish to make film(s) as part of their doctoral research. This research could relate to any topic and any part of the world, though this supervision would always have to be provided in conjunction with a colleague who would take responsibility for supervising the more substantive aspects of the work.

Paul's webpage

Email: paul.henley@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Andrew Irving

I welcome PhD projects across a broad range of anthropological themes, especially those that place special emphasis on the following areas:

death
illness and medical anthropology
HIV/AIDS
interior dialogue, memory and imagination
visual, sensory and bodily perception
the anthropologyof time
art, performance and aesthetics
experimental methods andcollaborativeanthropology
existential and phenomenological anthropology
urban anthropology and spatial perception

My regional specialisations are East Africa and New York City.

Email: andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Stef Jansen

I am interested in supervising PhD projects on

home and place (displacement, entrapment, 'ethnic cleansing', the (im)possibility to cross borders)
hope and postsocialist transformations (expectation, despair, planning, cynicism, imagined futures)
everyday configurations of nationality
state transformation (state effects, borders, hegemony, resistance and compliance, senses of entitlement, ideology, socialism and neoliberalisation)
memory (remembering and forgetting, remembered normality, nostalgia as postsocialist critique)

My regional specialisation is in the post-Yugoslav states and other postsocialist states.

Stef's webpage

Email: stef.jansen@man chester .ac.uk

Dr Hannah Knox

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students in areas relating to

the knowledge economy
organizations
anthropology of technology
studies of planned social change

My regional interests are in Latin America and the UK.

Hannah's webpage

Email: hannah.knox@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Sharon Macdonald

I am interested in supervising students who want to work in areas connected to my own research interests, including:

collective identities and representation, especially in relation to national, regional and supra-national (and particularly European) identities and cultural policy
museums
cultural heritage, memory and 'history work'
tourism

Email: sharon.macdonald@manchester.ac.uk