Director and Former Directors
Professor Nigel Rapport
: (Founding Director)
cosmopolitanism and liberalism, individuality, universalism, humanism, and freedom.
Dr Huon Wardle: (Former Director)
cosmopolitanism and modernity, urbanism, creolization, selfhood, adventure, and imagination.
Dr Daniel M. Knight: (Current Director)
cosmopolitanism and time, philosophical anthropology, the anthropology of the future, and crisis studies. Daniel also co-edits History and Anthropology journal.
Director: Dr Daniel M. Knight
CCS St Andrews Staff Members
(please see publications tab for more information on research topics and interests)
Dr Mattia Fumanti:
youth cultures, popular and elite cultures, capitalism.
Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco:
cosmopolitanism and gender, sex, memory, narrative, Gypsies and urbanism.
Dr Richard Irvine:
deep time; religious life; magic, rationalisation and disenchantment; environmental change; and the relationship between human life and deep time in the UK and Mongolia.
Dr Aimee Joyce:
borders, religion, material culture, art and anthropology, postsocialism, the anthropology of place and landscape, anthropology of death, and anthropology of absence.
Dr Christos Lynteris:
Medical anthropology, history of medicine, infectious disease epidemics, zoonosis, plague, animal-human relations, medical epistemology, biopolitics, medical visual culture, photography, Global Health, existential risk, colonialism, China, South Siberia, Manchuria
Dr Stavroula Pipyrou:
minority governance, civil society, displacement, representation and power, equality and diversity, Italy, Greece. Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research.
Dr Adam Reed:
engages with cosmopolitanism through the prism of anthropology and literature, specifically through an ongoing interest in fiction reading, literary composition, activist literary culture and characterization.