Biography

After completing her doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in 2001, Pamela Kea worked as a research officer at The Gender Institute, London School of Economics and an associate tutor at The Open University, arriving at Sussex in 2003.  She was an ESRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anthropology from 2004 to 2005.

Role

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Research

Pamela Kea's doctoral research focused on gender, the social relations of agrarian production and migrant farm labour within a changing Gambian political economy.  Her research has been written up as a monograph entitled: Land, Labour and Entrustment: West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference (Brill 2010).  Pamela's current research interests fall into three main areas: gender, labour, the social relations of agrarian production and West African political and moral economy; children, youth, transnational migration and the reconfiguration of the domestic; and West African female asylum seekers, the politics of asylum, victimhood and agency, and the aesthetics of recognition.  She has recently carried out British Academy funded research on West African female asylum seekers' experiences of claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.  She is currently working on a Rockefeller funded project entitled: 'Reconfiguring Transnational Education and Care: West African Migrants in the U.K.'

Current DPhil Students

Mamdouh Fadil - Youth and Education in Egypt

Andrew Lipinski - Migration and the Politics of food in Dakar 

Maureen Baziwe - Gender and land rights in Uganda

Veronika Talviste - Internally displaced female adolescents in Columbia

Recent DPhil Students

Katrin Maier - Nigerian Pentacostals in London

Prosper Asima - Ghanaian migrants in the UK (Awarded 2011)

AUTUMN TERM

Anthropologists and Development (MA ADST)

Gender Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives (MA Gender and Development)

SPRING AND SUMMER TERMS

Gender Across Cultures (UG, 1st Year)

Gender and Development (UG, 2nd Year)

Key Issues in Gender and Development (MA Gender and Development)

Doing Gender and Development (MA Gender and Development)