Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies Research Associates Network

Scholars affiliated with the Centre:

Dr Laurel Birch Aguilar, Malawi Famine and Community Development Charitable Trust:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and community, urbanism and rural change;

Dr Hayder Al-Mohammad, Independent Scholar:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and existentialism, embodiment, war and death;

Professor Vered Amit, Concordia University, Montreal:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, transnationalism and globalism;

Dr Andreas Bandak, University of Copenhagen:
specializing in religion, post-conflict displacement, art and temporality;

Professor Mette Berg, University College London:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism, gender, equality, diaspora and labour;

Professor Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and nationalism, gender and intellectual history;

Professor Rebecca Bryant, Utrecht University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and sovereignty, temporality, state-formation;

Dr Eduardo Caetano da Silva, University of Leiria:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, nationalisms and nation-States;

Dr Shuhua Chen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, history, and writing;

Dr Peter Collins, University of Durham:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and selfhood, health, religion, narrative and dialogue;

Ms Liria de la Cruz:
specialising on collaborative anthropology, ethnographic writing, gender and Roma/Gypsies;

Professor Andrew Dawson, University of Melbourne:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and community, home, migration and post-industrialism;

Dr Guilherme Mansur Dias, UNICAMP, Brazil:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and international migrations, migration governability and multilateral entities, temporary labour, human trafficking;

Dr Dace Dzenovska, University of Oxford:
specializing in emptiness and vacancy, political anthropology, migration, materiality;

Dr Jan Grill, Universidad del Valle, Colombia:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, Gypsies and the state;

Dr Anna Gustafsson, Stockholm University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and the emotions, craftwork and identity;

Professor Ulf Hannerz, University of Stockholm:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and the global ecumene, mass media, culture and politics, transnationalism and localism;

Professor Keith Hart, The Memory Bank:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and economics, development studies and philosophy;

Dr David Henig, Utrecht University:
specializing in historical anthropology, religion and ritual, Balkan Europe;

Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly, University of Gottingen:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and nationalism, ethnicity and identity;

Dr Hua Liu, Guangxi University for Nationalities:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and Chinese history and culture, globalism and health;

Dr Gonzalo Iparraguirre, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Institute of Anthropological Sciences:
specializing in temporality, agendas of development, anticipation, cultural rhythmics, policymaking;

Professor Andrew Irving, University of Manchester:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and phenomenology and issues of health and embodiment, in particular AIDs in Africa and North America;

Professor Laura Jeffery, University of Edinburgh:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and human rights, refugees, displacement and migration;

Professor Lisette Josephides, Queens University Belfast:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and existentialism, morality and social practice;

Dr Trenholme Junghans, Cambridge Univesity:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and state institutions, health and quality of life;

Dr Panas Karampampas, Panteion University, Athens:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and intangible cultural heritage, performance;

Dr Kai Kresse, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and Islam, post-colonialism, philosophy and intellectual practice;

Professor Kristin Kuutma, UNESCO Chair, University of Tartu:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and heritage (tangible and intangible), and the United Nations;

Dr Sonja Lenk, Frankfurt Rhine-Main:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and the phenomenon of human consciousness;

Dr Huw Lloyd-Richards, University of St Andrews:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and listening and, hearing, sound and music;

Dr Raquel Machaqueiro, George Washington University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and post-colonialism, development and the environment;

Dr Gabriela Manley, Durham University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and future-creation, Scottish politics, time and the environment;

Ms Bethan McRobbie, University of St. Andrews:
specializing in Health and Wellbeing, Scotland, Digital Technologies, Vulnerability, Diversity, Access to Healthcare;

Professor Morten Nielsen, National Museum of Denmark:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and statehood, issues of urban poverty and pragmatism, stand up comedy;

Dr Laura Obermuller, University of the West Indies, Mona:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and Caribbean migration, asylum seekers and border control;

Dr Mimina Pateraki, Hellenic Open University:
specializing in dance and performance, film and media anthropology, historical anthropology;

Dr Salma Siddique, University of Aberdeen:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and clinical-cum-applied anthropology, issues of displacement, vulnerability and trauma;

Professor Jan Ketil Simonsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and identity, entrepreneurialism and business;

Dr Elena Sischarenco, University of Freiburg:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and identity, entrepreneurialism and business;

Dr Jonathan Skinner, University of Surrey:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and travel, identity, postcolonialism, tourism and leisure;

Dr Marta Sokol-Klepacka, University of St Andrews:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, community and home;

Dr Giovanni Spissu, University of Cagliari:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and urbanism, mapping and movement;

Dr Márcia Anita Sprandel, UnB, Brazil:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and migration, peasantries, Brazilian social thought;

Professor Ronald Stade, Malmö University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism from Classical philosophy, and peace and conflict;

Dr Simone Toji, Urban Institute, Sheffield:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and urbanism, methodology and representation, identity and belonging;

Professor David Valentine, University of Minnesota:
specializing in cosmopolitanism in Outer Space, neo-colonial projects, futures and time;

Dr Holly Warner, Edinburgh Futures Institute:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and technological futures, and sonic cultures;

Professor Solrun Williksen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and home, narrative, reverie, memory and the self;

Professor Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and human rights, humanitarianism, empathy and reconciliation;

Professor Pnina Werbner (*), Keele University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and postcolonialism, migration, urbanism and pluralism;

Professor Helena Wulff, University of Stockholm:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and embodiment, emotion, gender and dance;

Dr Yang Yang, Independent Scholar:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and aspiration, artistry, capitalism and creativity;

Dr Qingqing Yang, University of Arizona:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and urbanism, space, modernization and personal identity;

Dr Jvan Yazdani, Sapienza University:
specializing in cosmopolitanism and diaspora, ethnicity and home;