People

Founding Director

Dr  Stavroula Pipyrou (Social Anthropology): European Minorities, Refugees, Displaced Populations (especially children), Governance, Humanitarianism.

Assistant Directors

Professor Caroline Humfress (History): Comparative History of Law and Legal Practice from Late Antiquity to the Present Day, History of Empires, Early Christian and Ecclesiastical Law.

Professor Frances Quirk (Medicine): Quality of Life, Health Systems, Health Services Research.

Dr Jeffrey Murer (International Relations): Ethnic Conflict (UK and Europe), Communal Violence, Terrorism, Youth Mobilization, Multiethnic Relations, Right-Wing Politics.

Advisory Board

Professor Alex Baldacchino (Medicine): Substance Misuse Problems, Physical and Psychological Comorbid Conditions, Minimising risk.

Dr Ale Boussalem (Human Geography): Race and Racialisation (Europe), LGBTQAI+ Geographies and Politics, Queer theory, Queer of colour critique, Intersectionality, Qualitative methods.

Dr Keru Cai (Modern Languages): Modern Chinese literary appropriations from Russian, French, and English; Literary and Filmic depictions of the ethnic, racial, and social other; Representations of poverty; Narratives of childbirth and motherhood; Science fiction as diplomacy.

Dr Hannah Dean (Management): Gender, entrepreneurship, critical management studies, oral history.

Dr  Nissa Finney (Human Geography): Ethnic Minorities, Race, Migration, Minorities (Europe), Inequalities.

Dr Kathryn Fredricks (Geography): Italian Colonialism, Eritrean Diaspora, Migrants and Refugees, Wellbeing.

Dr  Paloma Gay y Blasco (Social Anthropology): Romanies, Marginality, Adoption, Refugees, Gender, Collaboration.

Dr  Ana Paola Gutierrez Garza (Social Anthropology): Latin American migration, gender and social inequality in the UK, Spain and the United States.

Professor Dina Iordanova (Film Studies, IGCCC): Representation of Minorities in Film and Media, Romani Representation, Minorities in Eastern Europe, Migrations/ Trafficking/ Refugees/ Displacement in Cinema and Media.

Dr Alice König (Classics): intellectual history/the history of science; intertextuality, socio-literary and cross-cultural interactions; battle narratives and the representation of war.

Dr  Konrad Lawson (History): War Crimes, Political Retribution, Post-Colonial Histories.

Dr Victoria Miyandazi (History): 

Professor Fiona McCallum (International Relations): Minority Rights, Church-State Relations, Christian-Muslim Conflict, Interfaith Dialogue, Diasporic Humanitarian and Political Activism (UK).

Dr Vassilios Paipais (International Relations): International Relations theory, international political theory, critical social theory, intellectual history, biopolitics. 
 
Dr Luke Rendell (Biology): Vocal communication and learning in cetaceans, cultural learning in other species including humans, animal vocalisations and human music.
 
Simon Pereira Shorey (Disaster mitigation consultant, entrepreneur, transatlantic businessman and consultant).
 

Professor Rebecca Sweetman (Classics): Art and Architecture of Roman and Late Antique Greece, Religious architecture, Globalization and Christianization amongst others.

Visiting Scholars

Dr Ruxandra Ana (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Fellow): Cuban dance, tourism, migration, gender, bodies, feminist ethnography.

Associates

Dr Antonio Montañes Jimenez (Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford): Anthropology of Christianity, Romani people, Immigrants, Social Movements (Spain).

Dr Roujing WU (Honorary Fellow, Fujian Jiangxia University): Ethnic Minority studies and Gender Studies (China).

Emanuela Nadia Borghi (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): Medical Anthropology, Gender-based Violence, Mental Health, Narratives of Trauma, Female Migrations (Italy).

Rory Cassie (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): Minority Studies, Indigeneity, Sámi Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Northern Europe, Truth and Reconciliation, Nationalism.

Christina Chalache (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): Narrative and Storytelling, Political Anthropology, Post-War Reconciliation (Narratives of War), Anthropology of Childhood, Anthropology of the Middle East (Lebanon).

Connor Eckersall (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): Gaelic Revitalisation, Ethnic Minorities, Nationalism, Language and Identity.

Sarah Edgcumbe (PhD Candidate in International Relations): Conflict, Peacebuilding, Structural Violence, Gender, Identity, Minority in conflict-affected environments.

Manar Kawasmi (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): International Development (Middle East), Civil Society, Social Movements, Activism, Queer Politics.

Camila Ferreira Marinelli (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology): Ways of Knowing, Minorities, Education, Epistemology, Indigenous Epistemologies (Brazil).

Social Media Intern

Sophie Cooper (Undergraduate in International Relations): European Politics, the Post-Soviet Space, International Law, Global Diplomacy, War and Conflict.