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.
Honorary 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.
Professor Lucy Fife Donaldson (Film Studies): videographic criticism, film and television style, audiovisual design and ‘below-the-line’ labour, performance and the body.
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 (Law): Constitutional Law, Equality Law, Human Rights, Administrative Law, Electoral Law, Property Law, Public International Law, and Comparative Law.
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.
Dr Qingqing Yang (Ethnology): Space, Ethnic Minorities, Migrant Workers.
Professor Rebecca Sweetman (Classics): Art and Architecture of Roman and Late Antique Greece, Religious architecture, Globalization and Christianization amongst others.
Simon Pereira Shorey Disaster mitigation consultant, entrepreneur, transatlantic businessman and consultant.
Visiting Scholars
Dr Ruxandra Ana (Social Anthropology): Cuban dance, tourism, migration, gender, bodies, feminist ethnography.
Associates
Dr Antonio Montañes Jimenez (Social Anthropology): Anthropology of Christianity, Romani people, Immigrants, Social Movements (Spain).
Dr Roujing WU (Honorary Fellow, Fujian Jiangxia University): Ethnic Minority studies and Gender Studies (China).
Dr Emanuela Nadia Borghi (Social Anthropology): Medical Anthropology, Gender-based Violence, Mental Health, Narratives of Trauma, Female Migrations (Italy).
Rory Cassie (Social Anthropology): Minority Studies, Indigeneity, Sámi Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Northern Europe, Truth and Reconciliation, Nationalism.
Christina Chalache (Social Anthropology): Narrative and Storytelling, Political Anthropology, Post-War Reconciliation (Narratives of War), Anthropology of Childhood, Anthropology of the Middle East (Lebanon).
Dr Connor Eckersall (Social Anthropology): Gaelic Revitalisation, Ethnic Minorities, Nationalism, Language and Identity.
Dr Sarah Edgcumbe (Social Anthropology): Conflict, Peacebuilding, Structural Violence, Gender, Identity, Minority in conflict-affected environments.
Dr Manar Kawasmi (Social Anthropology): International Development (Middle East), Civil Society, Social Movements, Activism, Queer Politics.
Dr Camila Ferreira Marinelli (Social Anthropology): Ways of Knowing, Minorities, Education, Epistemology, Indigenous Epistemologies (Brazil).
Social Media Intern
Amara Eden Doshi (Social Anthropology): Anthropology of the Future, Creative Industries, Artificial Intelligence, Science and Technology Studies, Technological Futures.