Current Research Projects, Grants and Networks
Security for All in the Age of Securitization? Major Research Fellowship granted by the Leverhulme Trust for 36 months from 2010 - 2013 to Professor John Gledhill . The fellowship takes him to Brazil and Mexico for ethnographic research. A project summary can be found on Professor Gledhill's website. (136,995. GBP)
Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe: a network exploring social moral and material relocations of Europes Eastern Peripheries a COST action project of the European Science Foundation (IS0803) awarded for four years beginning in early 2009 to Professor Sarah Green approximately This is a major transnational network of researchers who have collectively amassed 5 million EURO in terms of time and resources for study of the borders of the eastern peripheries of Europe (see EastBordNet Site ). (The minimum total award to operate the network is 400,000. EURO.)
Transforming borders: a comparative anthroplogy of post-Yugoslav home A research grant fom the Leverhulme Trust running from 2008 - 2011 to Dr Stef Jansen. Details can be found at his research website. (124,622. GBP)
Race, Genomics and Mestizaje in Latin America: A Comparative Approach (RES 062 23 1914) Professor Peter Wade was awarded an ESRC grant for the project . For more details about the award that runs for 18 months begining in January 2010 see the project website. (FEC 459,156. GBP)
The Domestic Moral Economy: An ethnographic study of value in the Asia-Pacific region (RES 062 23 2561) awarded by the ESRC for four years from 2010 - 2015 to Professor Karen Sykes in collaboration with Professor Chris Gregory (Manchester/ANU), Dr. Fiona Magowan (QUB) and project partner Professor Jon Altman (ANU). For more information see the project website. (FEC with two studentships, 472,664. GBP)
Unsettling the State: A Collaborative Ethnography of Ambiguity and Experimentation in Regional Government in Peru is an ACLS funded collaboration between Professor Penny Harvey and Professor Deborah Poole of The Johns Hopkins University to run 18 mos over 2011 - 2012. (Total: 140,000. USD)
Scale, Ambiguity and Experimentation: A Collaborative Ethnography of Regional Government in Peru. A joint project funded by the AHRC and NSF awards to Professor Harvey and Professor Deborah Poole from 2010 - 2011. (NSF award 109,855 USD; AHRC 126,230. GBP).
Experimental States - Law, Engineering & Regional Government in Cusco, a research grant made by The Wenner Gren Foundation from 2010 to 2011 to Professor Penny Harvey. (35,000. USD)
Makers of Gods a Research Fellowship granted by the Leverhulme Trust 2009- 2010 to Dr. Soumhya Venkatesan. This project is also funded by a Wenner-Gren Individual Research Grant from 2006-9
"My exhibition": designing for affective communication, personalisation and social experience is an AHRC grant made under the call for research for 'Designing the 21st century' to Professor Sharon Macdonald for 30 mos between 2007 - 2009 (FEC Total: 328,321 GBP; Manchester share, £5,540. GBP )
New York Stories is grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation for research with AIDs sufferers to be carried out between 2010 and 2011 by Dr. Andrew Irving. website. (18,000. USD)
Immigrant Pathways and Barriers to Health Care is a pilot study carried out by Nina Glick-Schiller with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation between 2008 - 2009. (20,000. EUR). Nina is also a Consulting Researcher on a large multi-researcher project which is funded by a Danish National Strategic Research Grant during 2010 - 2014, entitled "Social Cohesion and Ethnic Diversity: National Values, Local Implications" and is the holder of a University of New Hampshire President's Excellence Award during 2006 - 2008.
Projects of Emeritus Professors and Research Fellows
Richard Werbner, Professor (Emeritus) is currently engaged in making a trilogy of films, related to his new book, Holy Hustlers, forthcoming in 2011 from The University of California Press.
Michele Obeid, CASAW Research Fellow, 2008-12
Madeleine Reeves, CRESC RCUK Fellow, 2008-13
Gillian Evans, CRESC RCUK Fellow, 2008-13
Andrew Irving, GCVA RCUK Fellow, 2008-13
Jack Taylor: University of Manchester Simon Research Fellow, 2006-9
Sue Brook: AHRC Research Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts, 2006-9
For information on the activities of our current research fellows, listed above, see information about individual members of staff.