Curriculum Vitae

Current Role:

Director, Royal Anthropological Institute (2010-)

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Education:

1986 MA (Hons) University of Edinburgh.

1993 PhD University of Cambridge (Social Anthropology)

Previous academic, teaching and professional positions
2023-24 Stadt Wien (Senior Fellow) Internationales Forchungszenteum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna 
2022 Visiting Professor (Anthropology), University of Vienna.
2016-2022 Honorary Professor, Anthropology, University College London 
2016 Member, Exeter College Oxford Senior Common Room
2015-2016 Humphrey Wanley Fellow, Bodleian Library, Oxford; member of Exeter College, Oxford, 
2006-2015 Reader in Anthropology, University of Bristol (from 2015 onwards Honorary Reader). 
2003- 2006 Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Bristol.
1995- 2003: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Wales, Lampeter. 
2001-February 2003: Humboldt Fellow, tenured at the University of Bamberg, Germany.
1992-1995: Assistant/Acting Director British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara

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Teaching:

My main areas of teaching have been: the history and practice of anthropology in the modern and early modern period (ie. from about 1890 until the present day); the social anthropology of Islam; introduction to Social Anthropology; Anthropology and Philosophy; the Alevis: the anthropology of Turkey and the Balkans. 

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Examining:

External examiner (BA) successively to the universities of Oxford Brookes (2011-2014); Oxford (2015-2018), and Winchester (2018-21). PhD viva examiner in various universities, perhaps twenty in total in the UK and overseas. 

Fieldwork Morocco (1985); Turkey 1988-1990, 1992-1995, and regularly since that date, mainly amongst the Alevis, and in Konya looking at the understanding of the remains of the past. 2002-3 and subsequent revisits, Germany; 2018; Vienna October 2023-February 2024. 

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Other professional responsibilities:
2022/3 Member. QAA benchmarking committee for anthropology.
2018- Chair, Anglo-Turkish Society. 
2015 – 2024 Chair, Education Commission IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences).
2015-2017 World Council of Anthropological Associations Treasurer. Member of the IUAES/WCAA liaison group. 
2014 Member. QAA benchmarking committee for anthropology.
2014-. Member, London School of Economics, Archive Committee. 
2006-2010 European Association of Social Anthropologists Treasurer, member Executive Committee. Local Organiser of ninth bi-annual conference, held at Bristol September 2006. Conference title: ‘Europe and the World’.
2006-2010 Royal Anthropological Institute Honorary Treasurer, ex-officio Chair of Finance Committee and Member of Council; Chair, Web-site development group.
2009-2019 Editorial board member, Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie. 
2009Association of Social Anthropologists Convenor, Annual conference Bristol: conference title: ‘Anthropological and Archaeological Imaginations: past, present and future’.
2009-10 British Association for the Advancement of Science President: Archaeology and Anthropology Section. (Previously Recorder 1999-2004)
2007-2017. AHRC reviewer, in different capacities: doctoral training centre programme; Middle Eastern visiting studentship programme (with British Academy); 2010 (renewed). Review College Member (panel: religion). 
2003-2010 British Association of Middle Eastern Studies Associate Editor of the Society’s Journal.
2003-2006 ESRC. Member, Virtual College in the Social Sciences, Member of panel, Seminar Grant Competition, small research grants regular referee. 

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Other:

Occasional professional consultancy reports on Turkey, or as an expert witness to legal cases (both criminal and civil) as may be requested.