Faculty of Arts The School of Philosophy,
Anthropology and Social Inquiry

School academic staff

Academic staff are listed under relevant discipline areas of study.

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.

Anthropology

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.

Development Studies

Director

Professor Andrew Dawson - Social anthropology, postmodernism, community, identity, policy, migrancy, (especially former Yugoslavs in Europe and Australia).

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Dr Alan Thorold - Development studies and anthropology. Social anthropology of religion, governance, development, East and South Africa.

Program Coordinator / Postgraduate Coordinator

Dr Salim Lakha - Development Studies, Globalisation, Industrialisation, India.

Honours Coordinator

Dr Hans Baer - Social anthropology of health and religion. Especially USA, Australia, Germany

Program Administrator, Internship Coordinator

Dr Violeta Schubert - Security, protection and humanitarianism, Indigenous development, cross-sector partnerships, kinship, gender, ethnicity, national identity, Macedonia, Balkans.

Dr Nadeem Malik

Dr Anthony Marcus - Development studies, urban anthropology, civil society, gender, political economy, public policy and 'race' and ethnicity in the Americas.

Faculty from other Schools

Dr Jon Barnett - Development studies, global environmental politics, climate change and human security, Oceania

Gender Studies

Program Coodinator

Associate Professor Mary Patterson - sorcery, political anthropology, kinship, cosmology, and gender relations.

Dr Kalissa Alexeyeff - Expressive culture in dance and music, gender politics cross-culturally, colonialism and contemporary feminist thought.

Dr Maree Pardy - Gender, identity, sexuality and globalisation. Australian nationalism, multiculturalism.

History and Philosophy of Science

Program Coordinator

Dr Rosemary Robins - email - biography

Honours Coordinator

Dr Kristian Camilleri - email - biography

Postgraduate Coordinator

Assoc Prof Helen Verran - email - biography

Dr Michael Arnold - email - biography

Dr James Bradley - email - biography

Prof Janet McCalman - email - biography

Dr Neil Thomason - email - biography

Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt - email - biography

Philosophy

Program Coordinator
Christopher Cordner ccordner@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 7564 Old Quad, Rm 1.13
Undergraduate Coordinator
Howard Sankey chs@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 6558 Old Quad, Rm 1.18
Honours Coordinator
François Schroeter fschro@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 8169 Old Quad, Rm 2.14
Postgraduate (Coursework & Research) Coordinator
Greg Restall restall@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 0282 Old Quad, Rm 2.03
Karen Jones jonek@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 0268 Old Quad, Rm 2.12
Graham Priest g.priest@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 7118 Old Quad, Rm 2.22
Laura Schroeter lauras@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 7120 Old Quad, Rm 1.14

Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics

Andrew Alexandra a.alexandra@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3863 Old Quad, Rm 1.08
Tony Coady t.coady@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 5155 Old Quad, Rm 1.05
Alicia Coram corama@unimelb.edu.au    
Steve Curry sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3852 Old Quad, Rm 1.31
Iwao Hirose ihirose@unimelb.edu.au    
Simon Keller stkeller@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3406  Old Quad, Rm 1.23
Neil Levy nllevy@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3855 Old Quad, Rm 1.41
Jeremy Moss jmoss@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 5091 Old Quad, Rm 1.31A
Gerhard Overland gerhardo@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3406 Old Quad, Rm 1.25
Igor Primoratz iprim@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3854 Old Quad, Rm 1.07
Doris Schroeder doriss@unimelb.edu.au    
Adrian Walsh adrianjw@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 5155 Old Quad, Rm 1.05
Jess Wolfendale jwo@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 3419 Old Quad, Rm 1.31B

Social Theory

Dr John Cash johndc@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 6668 Old Quad, Rm 229
Dr John Rundell johnfr@unimelb.edu.au +61 3 8344 7287 Old Quad, Rm 248
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