Department of Anthropology
Staff
Administrative Staff |
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| RAY, Ms Payel | Department Administrator | W6A/615 | 8077 | payel.ray@mq.edu.au | |
Academic Staff |
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| DENHAM, Dr Aaron | Lecturer | W6A/616 | 7564 | aaron.denham@mq.edu.au | |
| Interests: Medical and psychological anthropology; child and maternal health; infanticide discourse, representation, and practice; development and health; divination and meaning-making processes; intergenerational relations; mental health; psychoanalytic theory and practice; historical trauma; electronic health records and patient-provider relational styles; West Africa; and, North America. | |||||
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DOWNEY, Dr Greg | Senior Lecturer | W6A/611 | 8079 | greg.downey@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Social movements; popular culture; sports and violence; sustainable development; human rights and cultural rights; dance; embodiment and the senses. | |||||
| Fisher, Dr Daniel | Lecturer | W6A/605 | 8026 | Daniel.Fisher@mq.edu.au | |
| Interests: Aboriginal Australia and Indigenous Social Movements; Music and Sound; Material Culture; Art; Media; Expressive Culture and Cultural Poetics; Ethnographic and Documentary Video | |||||
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HOUSTON, Dr Chris | Head of Department, Senior Lecturer | W6A/614 | 8471 | Chris.Houston@mq.edu.au |
| Political Islam in Turkey; republicanism, nationalism and identity; architecture and urban planning | |||||
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LYTTLETON, A/Prof Chris | Associate Professor | W6A/610 | 7783 | Chris.Lyttleton@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Sexuality and subjectivity; health and development; social impact of HIV/AIDS in SE Asia; migration and health vulnerability; ethnic minorities in the upper Mekong; drug reduction programs. | |||||
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MARRANCI, Dr Gabriele | Senior Lecturer | W6A/617 | 8040 | gabriele.marranci@mq.edu.au |
| Interests:Anthropology of identity and emotion;Anthropology of religion (specialisation in Muslim communities);Anthropology and neuroscience;Youth and society;Anthropology of global social threats;Immigration and migration; South and Southeast Asia; Western Europe, US and Australia;North and West Africa | |||||
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RAM, Kalpana A/Prof | Associate Professor | W6A/604 | 8016 | Kalpana.Ram@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Class, gender and development in India; Embodied experience and gender: rural women's experiences of puberty, maternity, family planning and childbirth; Aesthetics and Indian performance cultures: performance of power in everyday life, specific performance traditions in dance and music, intersection of aesthetics, gender and nationalism for the Indian middle class and middle class diaspora. | |||||
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TIMMER, Dr Jaap | Lecturer | W6A/603 | 8121 | Jaap.Timmer@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Religion, ethnicity, migration, tenure arrangements, access to justice, governance, and non-state regulations | |||||
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VAN HEEKEREN, Dr Deborah | Lecturer | W6A/607 | 8622 | Deborah.VanHeekeren@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Christianity, cosmology and identity in Papua New Guinea; myth, history and ontology; phenomenological anthropology | |||||
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WYNN, Lisa Dr | Lecturer | W6A/606 | 8095 | Lisa.Wynn@mq.edu.au |
| Interests: Transnationalism; tourism and travel; gender; identity and nationalism; medical anthropology; new reproductive health technologies; sexuality; the language of medicine; cyberfatwas; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada. | |||||
Research Staff |
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| WARTA, Dr Christian | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Visiting) | W6A/612 | 8021 | christian.warta@mq.edu.au | |
| Interests: Anthropology of Religion; Papuan Diaspora; Migration, interreligious relations | |||||
Honorary Staff |
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BEDFORD, Dr Ian | Senior Research Fellow | W6A/602 | 8038 | Ian.Bedford@mq.edu.au |
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BOTTOMLEY, Prof. Gill | Emer. Professor | W6A/612 | 8021 | Gill.Bottomley@mq.edu.au |
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COHEN, A/Prof Paul | Senior Research Fellow | W6A/612 | 8021 | Paul.Cohen@mq.edu.au |
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DRYLAND, Dr Estelle | Hon. Associate | W6A/616 | 9458 | Estelle.Dryland@mq.edu.au |
| GODDARD, Dr Michael | Hon. Associate | W6A/612 | 8021 | michael.oddard@mq.edu.au | |
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NORTON, Dr Robert | Senior Research Fellow | W6A/602 | 8622 | Robert.Norton@mq.edu.au |














