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
- Development Studies
- Gender Studies
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy
- Social Theory
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 - biographyHonours Coordinator
Dr Kristian Camilleri - email - biographyPostgraduate Coordinator
Assoc Prof Helen Verran - email - biographyDr 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 |
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| Christopher Cordner | ccordner@unimelb.edu.au | +61 3 8344 7564 | Old Quad, Rm 1.13 |
Undergraduate Coordinator |
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| Howard Sankey | chs@unimelb.edu.au | +61 3 8344 6558 | Old Quad, Rm 1.18 |
Honours Coordinator |
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| François Schroeter | fschro@unimelb.edu.au | +61 3 8344 8169 | Old Quad, Rm 2.14 |
Postgraduate (Coursework & Research) Coordinator |
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| 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 |