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ABOUT US
Sussex Anthropology is a leading force in anthropology's engagement with contemporary global society. We are one of the largest Departments of socio-cultural anthropology in the UK, and were ranked 5th among socio-cultural anthropology Departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. We achieved a student satisfaction rate of 80% in the 2008 National Student Survey.
Sussex Anthropology is a vibrant and energetic community of students, teachers and researchers with a strong commitment to anthropology that addresses contemporary social and political problems. We have long been world leaders in the anthropology of gender, and of international development, whilst more recently Sussex Anthropologists have pioneered work in the anthropology of human rights, of migration, of medicine and biogenetics, and of religion. Our regional expertise centres on South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, though we also have colleagues working in East and Southeast Asia, Amazonia and the Caribbean.
Taught Programmes
At undergraduate level, our teaching revolves around the BA in Anthropology, although a number of colleagues also contribute to the BA in Development Studies. Both can be taken as single honours, or jointly with a range of other subjects, including Cultural Studies, History, Languages or Politics. We have a suite of MA programmes which reflect our research expertise. As well as the MA in Anthropology, we have programmes in the Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation, Medical Anthropology, the Anthropology of Conflict, Violence and Conciliation, as well as regionally-focused MAs in Europe, South Asia and Africa.
Research Programmes
Our Doctoral Programme is served by the MSc in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods, that offers a one-year pre-doctoral research programme. We invite doctoral applications from students working in any region, and any area of socio-cultural anthropology. Current DPhil projects include:
- Anti-nationalism and peace activism in Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora
- Civil-military co-operation (CIMIC)/military stabilisation training and its role in military stabilisation support
- African Immigrant Christianities in the UK
- Political Ethnographic Narratives of Breast Cancer in Spain
- Education and neoliberalism in Kerala, India
- Gender and Practices of Development in Ghana
Anthropology is a Department in the new School of Global Studies