Iain Walker
MPI for Social Anthropology
Iain Walker, Ph.D. (Sydney), is Senior Research Fellow at the MPI for Social Anthropology and chief editor of MoLab. His reseach interests are in the Comoro Islands, where he has worked on mimesis, identities and ritual marriage, particularly on Ngazidja but more recently on Mayotte, and with the Comorian and Hadrami diasporas in the western Indian Ocean. He is the author of Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros (2019).