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- Associate Lecturer (teaching) in Social Anthropology
- Dept of Anthropology
- Faculty of S&HS
I am a social anthropologist who studies decolonisation, state reform and indigenous politics in Latin America. I am currently Programme Lead for the MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology at UCL and was previously a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton and a School Tutor at the University of Sussex. I completed my ESRC funded PhD in Social Anthropology in 2019 at the University of Sussex, where I founded the Social Science and Ethics Research Group: an interdisciplinary network of academics interested in the empirical study of ethics and morality. Prior to my PhD studies, I worked as a high school social science teacher in Colombia and Spain, as a rural development worker and as the coordinator of an educational project for refugee children.
A recent invited talk which outlines the argument of my book can be found here
My main theoretical interests are political anthropology and the social scientific study of morality. I have also written on higher education reform and legal pluralism in Latin America. Recent projects I have led include:
- 'The Politics of Indigenous Religious Ritual in Urban Bolivia' was funded by a Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Postdoctoral Research Grant. This investigated how, in contemporary Bolivia, religious rituals are used by rural-urban indigenous migrants in mass cultural events and political protests to occupy and redefine urban space.
- 'Methodologies in the Anthropology of Ethics' was a three-day international symposium which brought together leading figures in anthropology who study ethics and morality in human social life.
The full programme of Methodologies in the Anthropology of Ethics can be found here
Along with recordings of workshops on Experience and the Human Condition, Social Action and the Everyday and Mind, Cognition, and Culture.
- Critical Issues in Social and Cultural Anthropology (course lead)
- Theory, Ethnography and Comparative Analysis (course lead)
- The Anthropology of Crime (course lead)
- Anthropological Methods
- Being Human
- Introduction to Social Anthropology