Curriculum Vitae

Education

1996-2001    
PhD in Anthropology, University of Sydney.
Thesis title: An Historical Anthropology of Ngazidja. Degree awarded 2003

1982-1986    
MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.
Dissertation title: Zaffer Pe Sanze: Ethnic Identity and Social Change among the Ilois in Mauritius.

Employment

2020-     
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

2017-2019    
Senior Research Officer, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle

2016    
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

2015-2016    
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

2011-2014    
Senior Research Officer, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford

2009-2011    
ERSC Research Fellow, COMPAS, University of Oxford

2008-2009    
Departmental Lecturer, Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

2008    
Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS

2005-2007    
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Middle East & North African Studies/Dept. of Politics & International Relations, Macquarie University

2004    
Lecturer, School of Sociology & Anthropology, Univ. of New South Wales

2002-2004    
Tutor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney

2002    
Lecturer, School of History, University of New South Wales

2000-2001    
Lecturer, Université de Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, Paris

1999-2000    
Lecturer, School of History, University of New South Wales
Tutor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney

1996-2001    
Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney
 
1995-1996    
Tutor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Research Assistant, Dept. of Economic History, University of Sydney

1992-1994    
Educational support and development, Sydney Institute of Technology

Awards and Grants

2019    
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Conference Grant

2017-2019    
German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Grant

2011-2013    
John Fell OUP Research Fund Award

2011-2013    
British Library Endangered Archives Programme Grant

2009-2011    
Economic and Social Research Council Mid-Career Fellowship

2008    
British Academy Conference Grant

2005-2008    
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

2005-2006    
American Institute of Yemeni Studies Fellowship

1997-2000    
University of Sydney Postgraduate Award with stipend

1999    
Carlyle Greenwell Research Fund Fieldwork Grant

1999    
Univ. of Sydney Faculty of Arts PhD Students Research Support Scheme

1997-1998    
Carlyle Greenwell Research Fund Fieldwork Grant

1997    
University of Sydney Faculty of Arts Fieldwork Fund for Research Students

1985    
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Fieldwork Grant

Teaching (Selected)

2015-2016    
Ethnography of identities in Eastern Africa, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle

2008-2014    
Various courses in MSc programmes – Migration Studies, Archaeology and Anthropology, Visual Anthropology – and MPhil, ISCA, University of Oxford

2008    
BA Ethnography Of A Selected Area – Eastern Africa; MA Culture And Society Of Eastern Africa, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS

2004    
Anthropology, Identity & the Cinema, Anthropology & Tourism, School of Sociology & Anthropology, Univ. of New South Wales

2002    
Southern African History, School of History, University of New South Wales

2000-2001    
English Language, Université de Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, Paris

2000    
Southern African History,School of History, University of New South Wales

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