Department of Anthropology

Staff

Administrative Staff

  RAY, Ms Payel Department Administrator W6A/615 8077 payel.ray@mq.edu.au

Academic Staff

Aaron Denham 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.
anthropology-staff-profile 2 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.
Dr Daniel Fisher 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
anthropology-staff-profile 1 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
anthropology-staff-profile 3 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.
Gabriele Marranci 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
anthropology-staff-profile 4 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.
Dr Jaap Timmer 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
Dr Deborah Van Heekeren 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
anthropology-staff-profile 6 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

  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

anthropology-staff-sm ibedford BEDFORD, Dr Ian Senior Research Fellow W6A/602 8038 Ian.Bedford@mq.edu.au
anthropology-staff-gill bottomley BOTTOMLEY, Prof. Gill Emer. Professor W6A/612 8021 Gill.Bottomley@mq.edu.au
anthropology-staff-sm pcohen COHEN, A/Prof Paul Senior Research Fellow W6A/612 8021 Paul.Cohen@mq.edu.au
anthropology-staff-sm dryland 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
 
anthropology-staff-sm robert NORTON, Dr Robert Senior Research Fellow W6A/602 8622 Robert.Norton@mq.edu.au