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Name	Position	Discipline	Research Interests
Dr Dimitrios Anagnostakis	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Transatlantic relations, European Union and internal security (justice and home affairs - JHA), relations between the European Union and the United States, cybersecurity, terrorism and counterterrorism, international security.
Professor David Anderson	Chair in the Anthropology of the North	Anthropology	Political ecology, human-animal relations, development theory, political anthropology, landscape studies, ethnohistory, archaeology, the history of science and cross-cultural ideas of health, Central and Eastern Siberia and the Russian North, Northern Norway, Northwestern Canada.
Dr Tatiana Argounova-Low	Senior Lecturer and Head of Department	Anthropology	Ethnic identity, nationalism, post-socialist societies; oral traditions; reindeer herding communities, food and diet in reindeer herding communities; Siberia, Sakha diaspora, mobility, migration, roads.
Dr Arnar Árnason	Senior Lecturer	Anthropology	Death, emotion, and psychotherapy and the politics thereof; subjectivities/subjection; narratives, memory and forgetting; embodiment; identity and landscape.
Professor Mervyn Bain	Personal Chair	Politics and International Relations	International relations, foreign policy, asymmetry within international relations, post-Soviet legacies, economic and development issues, Cold War geopolitics, Latin America, Cuba, Russia and the Soviet Union.
Dr Philippe Beauregard	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	International politics; political psychology; leadership; cooperation; security; environmental politics; emotions; personality; transatlantic security community; interventions; intrastate conflicts; qualitative methods, foreign policy analysis.
Dr Lynn Bennie	Reader	Politics and International Relations	Political participation, party membership and electoral behaviour; democracy and political representation; party adaptation and change; multi-level politics with focus on Scotland and UK; social movements and green politics.
Dr Tom Bentley	Senior Lecturer and Head of Department	Politics and International Relations	Collective memory and memory studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory, political apologies.
Dr Margaret Bolton	Lecturer	Anthropology	Andes region (Bolivia); science, technology and expertise; development; animal-human relations; colonialism; the state; ethnohistory.
Professor John Bone	Personal Chair	Sociology	Political economy, social and biosocial theory, well-being and social media research.
Mrs Kerry Boyne	School Administrator (PGT/Research & Student Visa)	School Administration
Professor Alison Brown	Personal Chair	Anthropology	Western Canada; museum anthropology; indigenous heritage management practices; repatriation; material culture; visual anthropology; ethnohistory; Blackfoot cultural histories; First Nations artistic practice; Scots and First Nations' fur trade narratives.
Professor Steve Bruce	Emeritus Professor of Sociology	Sociology	The changing nature and status of religion in the modern world; the political influence of religion; religion and sexual deviance; in particular the use of religion in sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.
Dr Bennett Collins	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Environmental, energy, and climate governance; Environmental and land-use ethics and communication; Place and displacement; Social movements and activism; Transitional justice; Truth-seeking & historical dialogue processes; Critical human rights and collective rights.
Miss Costanza Concetti	Research Fellow	Politics and International Relations	Solar Power in the UK –Planning for a Sustainable Future
Dr Natasha Danilova	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Critical military studies and Feminist IR; gender and war; politics of war memory; art, aesthetics and war; militarisation and militarism; society-military relations; veterans’ politics; heroes and heroism, identity politics in the UK; regional politics and (in)securities in Russia and other post-Soviet Eurasian states.
Ms Jill Davis	School Administrator	School Administration
Dr Stuart Durkin	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Nationalism and ethnic politics, terrorism, conflict Resolution and peace and human rights education policy.
Dr Sonja Erikainen	Lecturer	Sociology
Dr Luisa Gandolfo	Senior Lecturer	Sociology	Gender; memory; memorialisation and commemoration; post-war recovery; refugees and migration; religious practices and social change; cultural resistance; Palestine; Jordan; MENA.
Mr Anthony Glendinning	Emeritus Senior Lecturer	Sociology
Dr Nour Halabi	Interdisciplinary Fellow	Politics and International Relations
Dr Malcolm Harvey	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Scottish politics, constitutional politics, devolution and constitutional change, multi-level governance, referendums and consultations.
Professor Bernadette Hayes	Emeritus Professor	Sociology	Gender relations; political sociology; sociology of religion; Ireland, North and South; post-conflict societies.
Dr Mohsin Hussain	Research Fellow	Politics and International Relations	Solar Power in the UK –Planning for a Sustainable Future
Professor Tim Ingold	Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology	Anthropology
Dr James Johnson	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Strategic studies; artificial intelligence and future warfare; great power strategic competition; deterrence theory and strategic stability; nuclear weapons; and nuclear non-proliferation and arms control issues.
Professor Michael Keating	Emeritus Professor	Politics and International Relations	European politics, nationalism, public policy, urban and regional politics and society, and social science methodologies.
Dr Isabella Kasselstrand	Senior Lecturer	Sociology	Secularization, secularisation, nonreligion, religious indifference, religion and social trust, cultural religion, ritual participation, quantitative methods, Scotland and Scandinavia.
Dr Christopher Kollmeyer	Senior Lecturer	Sociology	Macro-comparative sociology, political sociology, political economy, globalization, societal change, trade unionism, income inequality.
Dr Manu Lekunze	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	International Security; Maritime Security; US-Africa Relations; National Security in Africa; Political Economy; The Post-Colonial State; Post-Brexit UK-Africa Relations; Military Organisational Strategy; Security Governance and Policy; Social Cohesion; Complexity Science.
Mrs Janice Longhurst	School Adminstration Assistant; UG PIR Sub-Honours (Level 1 & 2)	School Administration
Dr Peter Loovers	Research Fellow	Anthropology	Arctic, collaborative research practices with Indigenous Peoples, colonialisation and decolonisation, filmmaking, food security and food sovereignty, human-animal relations, museum and heritage, energy transition, resource extraction, social and environmental justice, United Nations Declaration on Indigenous issues.
Dr Karen Lumsden	Senior Lecturer in Sociology	Sociology	Autoethnography, bereavement, cyber-crime, ethnography, digital media, narratives and storytelling, online hate, policing, qualitative methods, reflexivity, social media, victims and victimization
Professor Joanne McEvoy	Head of School, Personal Chair	Politics and International Relations	Ethnic conflict, post-conflict institutional design, power-sharing, external actors and peacebuilding.
Dr Andrew McKinnon	Senior Lecturer and Head of Department	Sociology	Global Anglicanism, conflict, metaphor, narrative and ritual); social theory (especially: classical theory, religion, rhetoric); and I maintain an active ongoing interest in historical sociology.
Dr Samantha May	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Religion and the Public Sphere, Political Islam, post-secularism, Critical Counter-terrorism, Faith-based charity, Gender and International Political Economy.
Professor Gearoid Millar	Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies	Sociology	Peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, transitional justice, international development, international interventions in post-conflict contexts, complex interactions between global and local actors, ethnographic peace research methodologies, monitoring and evaluation of peace interventions, local experiences of post-conflict interventions, complexity theory, complex challenges to peace, climate change, interdisciplinary research, sub-Saharan Africa, Sierra Leone.
Professor Martin Mills	Chair in Anthropology	Anthropology	Tibet and Tibetan-speaking areas, Tibetan modes of protest.
Mrs Susan Mitchell	School Administration Coordinator; UG PIR Honours (Level 3 & 4)	School Administration
Dr Peter Olayiwola	Lecturer	Sociology	Human trafficking, exploitation/'unfreedom', migration, and qualitative research methods.
Dr Sabine Parrish	Interdisciplinary Fellow	Anthropology	Anthropology of food and nutrition; Brazil; coffee; food insecurity.
Dr Johan Rasanayagam	Senior Lecturer	Anthropology	Uzbekistan and Central Asia, postsocialist societies, the anthropology of Islam, morality and subjectivity, healing practices and spirit possession, religion and the secular, anthropology of the state.
Dr Isabel Seidel	School Administration Assistant; UG Sociology	School Administration
Dr Judith Sijstermans	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Political parties; nationalism; populism; Western Europe; Scotland; United Kingdom; European Union; transnational networks.
Professor Michael Smith	Chair in International Relations	Politics and International Relations	International security; international cooperation/organization/institutions; conflict resolution; social/experiential learning; regional integration/governance; Europe/European Union; the international politics of science/technology.
Dr Rachel Smith	Lecturer	Anthropology	Oceania (esp. Melanesia/Vanuatu); economic anthropology; anthropology of work; labour migration; development; anthropology of religion; cognitive anthropology; agriculture and horticulture.
Dr Digdem Soyaltin Colella	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Good governance and anti-corruption policy, global governance of corruption, EU and fight against corruption, politics of corruption, mechanisms of state capture, autocratic bureaucracies, illiberal governance, Turkish politics, Southeast European politics.
Dr Norman Stockman	Emeritus Senior Lecturer	Sociology
Dr Ezel Tabur	Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Immigration, asylum, migration and development, European Union, EU Neighbourhood Policy, EU Policymaking.
Dr Kathrin Thomas	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Research methods, public opinion, survey methodology, comparative politics, elections and voting, political participation, political psychology.
Mrs Pam Thomson	School Administration Manager	School Administration Manager
Dr David Toke	Reader	Politics and International Relations	Technology policy and politics and 100 per cent renewable energy systems; neoliberalism and the energy crisis; planning politics of onshore wind, solar farms and offshore windfarms; nuclear power policy, politics and regulation; co-operative and community renewable energy; ecological modernisation and energy.
Dr Marta Trzebiatowska	Senior Lecturer	Sociology	Religion, nonreligion, gender and sexuality, atheism, Catholicism, Poland, migration, qualitative methods.
Dr Jo Vergunst	Senior Lecturer	Anthropology	Scotland and Europe, landscape and phenomenology, environmental anthropology, rural histories and rural development, walking and mobilities, environmentalism, heritage, contemporary art.
Dr Ritu Vij	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Political Economy; Social Theory; International Political Theory; Precarity and Affect; Postcolonial theory; Informality and Subalternity; Aesthetics and Politics; Temporality and Politics; Global Studies: South and East Asia (India, Japan).
Dr Nancy Wachowich	Senior Lecturer	Anthropology	Arctic anthropology, ethnohistory, oral traditions, indigenous media, museums and material culture, visual anthropology, symbolic anthropology, anthropology of colonialism.
Dr Jennifer Walklate	Lecturer	Anthropology	Museums; Museology; Temporality; The Uncanny; The Carnivalesque; Literary Theory; Anxiety; Museum Philosophy; Museum Histories; Social Responsibility; Ethical Practice.
Professor Claire Wallace	Chair in Sociology	Sociology	Quality of life, social and community wellbeing; national and European identity; digital communications in rural areas; cultural heritage; gender, work and welfare; the social impact of oil.
Dr Andrew Whitehouse	Lecturer	Anthropology	Nature conservation, farming, identity, knowledge and values, ecological anthropology, continuity and change, human-animal relations, sound, landscape, Islay, Scottish Highlands, Britain.
Dr Anders Widfeldt	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Political parties, party organisations, Nordic politics and the European extreme right.
Dr Rhoda Wilkie	Senior Lecturer	Sociology	Human-animal interaction.
Dr Robert Wishart	Lecturer	Anthropology	Sub Arctic Canada: Gwich'in, Ojibwe, Scottish Fur Traders; oral history, identity, colonial wildlife management regimes, continuities in hunting traditions, ethnohistory, landscape.
Mr James Wyllie	Emeritus Professor	Politics and International Relations	Strategic theory; British foreign and defence policies; European security issues; Middle East security issues.
Dr Ilia Xypolia	Senior Lecturer	Politics and International Relations	Middle Eastern Politics and History; Imperialism, Nationalism, Eurocentrism, Orientalism; Global Politics of Human Rights; The politics of numbers and global benchmarking.