Academic Staff
Follow individual staff links for research profiles, publication lists and contact details
For administrative enquiries contact the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry office.
Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory
Professor Ghassan Hage - Comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, racism and migration, incorporating political economy, phenomeonological and psychoanalytic approaches.
Head of School
Associate Professor Mary Patterson - Sorcery, political anthropology, kinship, cosmology, and gender relations.
Undergraduate coordinator
Dr Monica Minnegal - Ecological and economic anthropology, symbolic and political ecology, social change.
Honours coordinator
Dr Tamara Kohn - Socio-Cultural anthropology, identity, nationalism, tourism and leisure, food, body, transcultural practice. Europe, USA Nepal.
Research coordinator
Professor Andrew Dawson - Postmodernism, community, identity, policy, migrancy (especially former Yugoslavs in Europe and Australia).
Dr Douglas Lewis - Ethnology of Austronesian societies.
Research Fellows
Dr Peter Dwyer - (Senior research fellow) Ecology, social behaviour, classification and change. Papua New Guinea, Australia.
Dr Emma Kowal - (Postdoctoral research fellow) Cultural and medical anthropology, Indigenous-state relations, health and medicine, technoscience, postcolonial and critical race theory.
Senka Bozic-Vrbancic – McArthur Research Fellow.