Key information
- Duration:
- 3 years full time
- Typical A-level offer:
- AAB-ABB
- UCAS code:
- VL16
- Start date:
- September 2019
- 7th in the UK for Anthropology (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018)
- 8th in the UK for History (The Guardian University Guide 2018)
- 97% of Department of Anthropology students were in work or further study six months after graduating (HESA EPI, Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey 2016)
Anthropology gives you an in-depth understanding of cultures and societies across the world. It helps you grasp your place in the world, so you can make a difference.
Combining anthropology and history also helps you understand how local communities and global processes have interacted across time.
Modules
Find out about our types of undergraduate degrees, their structure, modules and credits
Core modules
Autumn teaching
Spring teaching
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Autumn teaching
Spring teaching
Options
Autumn teaching
- History Short Period: America in the 20th Century
- History Short Period: Britain in the 20th Century
- History Short Period: England in the 16th Century
- History Short Period: Europe in the 20th Century
- History Short Period: The Middle East and North Africa since 1908
Spring teaching
- Cities and Urban Lives
- Culture and Representation
- Ethnographic Field Research
- Time and Place 1851: Science, Empire and Exhibitionism
- Time and Place 2008: The Spectacle of the Beijing Olympics
- Time and Place: 1796: Lithography and the Mass Produced Image
- Time and Place: 1831: Slave Revolts
- Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War
- Time and Place: 1938: Kristallnacht
- Time and Place: 1942: Holocaust
- Time and Place: 1953: Monarchs and Murders
- Time and Place: 1956: The Battle of Algiers
- Time and Place: 1968: Rivers of Blood
- Time and Place: 1984: Thatcher's Britain (Observing the 1980s)
- Time and Place:1780 The Gordon Riots: Blood Community and Retribution - London 1780
- Visual Anthropology
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Study abroad (optional)
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career. Find out where your course could take you
Placement (optional)
A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for. Find out more about placements and internships.
Please note: If you’re receiving – or applying for – USA federal Direct Loan funds, you can’t transfer to the version of this program with an optional study abroad period in any country or optional placement in the USA. Find out more about American Student Loans and Federal Student Aid
Core modules
Autumn and spring teaching
Options
Autumn teaching
- Anthropology of Fertility, Reproduction and Health
- Anthropology of Migration
- Anthropology of the Body
- Current Themes in the Anthropology of Latin America
- Environmental Anthropology
- The Anthropology of Africa
- The Anthropology of Europe
- The Anthropology of Food
Autumn and spring teaching
- Anthropology Thesis
- Special Subject: Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain
- Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950
- Special Subject: Genocide
- Special Subject: Gone with the Wind? The Civil War in American Memory
- Special Subject: The Century of the Gene
- Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement
- Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War
Spring teaching
- Anthropology of Fertility, Reproduction and Health
- Anthropology of Islam and Muslim Societies
- Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Human Rights
- Race, Ethnicity and Identity
- The Anthropology of Africa
- Understanding Contemporary India
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Our staff
Anthropology
Dr Paul Boyce
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development
Research interests
Anthropology and Queer Theory in India, Anthropology of Sexualities, Anthropology of the Body, Applied Anthropology, Bioavailability, HIV prevention research, International Development, Intimacy, Male and Transgender Sex Work, Male Sex work in SE Africa, Psycho-social and Psychoanalytic perspectives in Anthropology, Queer and Transgender Representation, Queer Theory, Sexual and gendered subjectivities, Sexuality and Law in Nepal, Visual Anthropology and Media
Prof Jane Cowan
Professor of Social Anthropology
Research interests
anthropology of gender and masculinity, Balkans, Dance Performance, Diplomacy & International Relations, Ethnography And Anthropology, Feminist theory, Gender and Sexuality, Greece, Human Rights, International Organization, Minority Rights, Social and political theory, Social anthropology
Dr Geert De Neve
Professor of Social Anthropology & SouthAsian Studies
Research interests
Anthropology of Development, anthropology of South Asia, Anthropology of the Global Economy, Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Trade, India, Poverty and inequality, Social Protection, Social transformation, Tamil Nadu
Dr Nigel Eltringham
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Research interests
Africa, Conflict and violence, ethnicity, Film, Genocide, Human Rights, international criminal court, International Criminal Law, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Political violence, Post conflict reconstruction, Rwanda, Transitional justice
Prof James Fairhead
Professor of Social Anthropology
Research interests
Ebola, Environmental Anthropology, Green Economy, Health, Historical Anthropology, International Development, New Guinea, West Africa
Prof Raminder Kaur Kahlon
Professor of Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Research interests
Aesthetics and Politics, censorship, Conflict and violence, creative arts, culture and health, cultures of sustainability, diaspora, digital anthropology, environmental movements, gender, health risk perceptions, heritage, identity-based conflict, indian cinema, Media and international development, migration studies, nuclear power and politics, public culture, public engagement, race and ethnicity, religion and media, Religion and ritual, Science And Technology Studies, South Asia, Visual Anthropology and Media, visual cultures
Dr Pamela Kea
Senior Lecturer In Anthropology
Research interests
Anthropology of West Africa, Asylum and FGM, childhood and youth, Feminist theory, gender and generation, Intimacy and transnational kinship relations, Mobility and relatedness, Photography art and politics, Postcolonial/Decolonial theory, race and ethnicity, The aesthetics of migration, The household moral economy, The politics of domesticity, Transnational networks and subjectivities, Visual and Material Culture, Well being
Dr Evan Killick
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development
Research interests
Amazonia, Climate & Climate Change, Conservation, Development studies, ethnography, Friendship, indigenous peoples, International Development, Kinship, Latin America, REDD
Dr Jon Mitchell
Professor of Social Anthropology
Research interests
Alternative Spiritualities/New Religious Movements, Anthropological Controversies, Anthropology of Catholicism, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Sport, Anthropology of the Body, Anthropology of the Senses, Atheism/Secularism, Darkness in El Dorado, Experiential Anthropology, Football, Human Terrain, Malta, Marathon Running, material culture, Neoliberal subjectivities, Performance, Politics of Europeanisation, Religion and Cognition, Ritual, Statues, The Impact Agenda, UK
Dr Rebecca Prentice
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Research interests
compensation, Development studies, Economic anthropology, Embodiment, Ethnographic Methods, Garment industry, gender, Health, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Labour relations, labour rights, medical anthropology, Neoliberal subjectivities, precariousness, Skill and craft, West Indies
Prof Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Professor of Social & Medical Anthropology
Research interests
Anthropology of the Body, Biobanking and society, Bioeconomies and Biosocieties, bioethics, Biopolitics, China, Commodification of life, cultural studies of science, culture and health, East Asian cultures and societies, Embodiment and technology, Ethnography And Anthropology, Gender and ethnicity, genomics and society, Health, culture and development, Japan, Kinship and society, Life science, culture and ethics, Nationalism, Patient organisations and global health, Race, ethnicity and identity, Regenerative medicine and society, Reproductive cultures and technologies, Research Ethics, Science and global regulation, Science and innovation in society, Social anthropology, social studies of science
Prof Maya Unnithan
Professor Of Social And Medical Anthropology
Research interests
caste and kinship, childbirth and infertility, gender and development, health and migration, human rights and reproductive health, maternal health inequalities, reproductive technologies, Social anthropology
Dr Alice Wilson
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Research interests
Economic anthropology, Ethnography of the state, liberation movements, Middle East and North Africa, Political anthropology, refugees, revolution, Sovereignty, veterans
History
Dr Vinita Damodaran
Professor of South Asian History
Research interests
Climate change, Energy, environmental history, Global history, indigenous peoples, Mining, South Asian history
Dr Jim Endersby
Reader In The History Of Science
Research interests
charles darwin, darwinism, history and sociology of experimental organisms, history of botany, history of evolution, history of genetics, History of Science/Medicine/Technology, history of taxonomy and classification, History of the 19th and 20th-century life sciences, Hugo de Vries, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Oenothera Lamarckiana, science fiction, The Mutation Theory
Dr Maurizio Marinelli
Senior Lecturer In East Asian History
Research interests
Beijing, Chinese History, Chinese Politics, ecological civilisation, Europe and China relations, Global history, Hong Kong, Intellectual History, Tianjin, Urban China, Urban geography
Dr Joanne Paul
Lecturer In Early Modern History
Research interests
Early modern history, History of Political Thought, Intellectual History, Renaissance studies, Republicanism, rhetoric, Seventeenth-Century History, Shakespeare, Sixteenth-Century History, Temporality
Dr Gideon Reuveni
Reader in History/Director of the Centrefor German Jewish Studies
Research interests
Judaism
Prof Lucy Robinson
Professor in Collaborative History
Research interests
Alternative Spiritualities/New Religious Movements, British party politics, Cultural History, Digital history, Economic And Social History, Gender and Sexuality, Memory, pedagogy, Popular Music, Social identities, Trauma, War and the media, War Studies, Youth
Dr Gerhard Wolf
Senior Lecturer In History
Research interests
German history, Migration, War and violence in international politics