Durham University Anthropology
@durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary teaching and research with a global reach. Ranked 3rd (Times and the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026)
Explore our postgraduate courses!
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/anthropology/postgraduate-study/taught-courses/
Explore our postgraduate courses!
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/anthropology/postgraduate-study/taught-courses/
Aug 2025 when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh:
Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aug 2025 when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh:
Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
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First paper out in FACE-UP project on protecting children from urban air pollution www.growkudos.com/articles/10.... with Judith Covey and @clairehorwell.bsky.social. @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Children’s preferences for features and designs of KN95-style respirators: A comparative study between Indonesia and Nepal
This study explores children’s preferences for different designs of KN95-style respirators in two highly polluted cities: Kathmandu, Nepal and Bandung, Indonesia. It aims to understand which designs a...
www.growkudos.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
First paper out in FACE-UP project on protecting children from urban air pollution www.growkudos.com/articles/10.... with Judith Covey and @clairehorwell.bsky.social. @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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'Undamned: indigenous leadership in river restoration in North America', a talk by Prof Beth Rose Middleton Manning (University of California, Davis) on 10 Nov, 5.30pm at Trevelyan College. No need to book, just come along. #IASFellows @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
'Undamned: indigenous leadership in river restoration in North America', a talk by Prof Beth Rose Middleton Manning (University of California, Davis) on 10 Nov, 5.30pm at Trevelyan College. No need to book, just come along. #IASFellows @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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Thanks @patrickesavage.bsky.social great to see the door stop being used in great teaching @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social
This thicc 71-chapter book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...) arrived just in time to use as the textbook for my new "Cultural Evolution" class I've just started teaching!
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Thanks @patrickesavage.bsky.social great to see the door stop being used in great teaching @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social
📢 Upcoming event! 📢
This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre
Free and open to all!
More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange
This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre
Free and open to all!
More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📢 Upcoming event! 📢
This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre
Free and open to all!
More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange
This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm
📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre
Free and open to all!
More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange
Our Head of Department Prof Yulia Egorova a few weeks ago:
💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.
📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.
📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our Head of Department Prof Yulia Egorova a few weeks ago:
💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.
📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’.
📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
Delighted to share that Athena Swan have conferred a Silver Award on our Department!
This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!
@advancehe.bsky.social
#AthenaSwan #Anthropology
This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!
@advancehe.bsky.social
#AthenaSwan #Anthropology
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Delighted to share that Athena Swan have conferred a Silver Award on our Department!
This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!
@advancehe.bsky.social
#AthenaSwan #Anthropology
This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application!
@advancehe.bsky.social
#AthenaSwan #Anthropology
Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school:
🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square!
Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork
🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square!
Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school:
🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square!
Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork
🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve
📋practice behavioural data collection
😋and a dinner in Casemates Square!
Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork
Congratulations to our Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies!
This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.
This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Congratulations to our Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies!
This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.
This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.
The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee with the Rivers Memorial Medal, one of the highest accolades in #anthropology!
This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.
This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee with the Rivers Memorial Medal, one of the highest accolades in #anthropology!
This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.
This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.
Congratulations to one of our PhD students, Emily! 👏🎉 Read more in the new blog post Emily's linked to below!
#Anthropology
#Anthropology
Back in April, I was lucky enough to win the Best Student Long Talk award at EHBEA 2025 @ehbea.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social have a new blog up all about the conference awardees, which features a little bit about me. A big well done to all the other awardees. peerj.com/blog/post/11...
PeerJ Award Winners at EHBEA 2025 | PeerJ Blog
peerj.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Congratulations to one of our PhD students, Emily! 👏🎉 Read more in the new blog post Emily's linked to below!
#Anthropology
#Anthropology
Ever wondered what #Anthropology is and how it can kickstart your career?
Our BSc Anthropology alum Lucy Faber spoke to Prof Rob Barton on exactly this topic! Learn how Anthropology gives you the skills & perspective to thrive in the workplace ☝️
🎞️ Full interview on YouTube - link in bio/thread!
Our BSc Anthropology alum Lucy Faber spoke to Prof Rob Barton on exactly this topic! Learn how Anthropology gives you the skills & perspective to thrive in the workplace ☝️
🎞️ Full interview on YouTube - link in bio/thread!
September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ever wondered what #Anthropology is and how it can kickstart your career?
Our BSc Anthropology alum Lucy Faber spoke to Prof Rob Barton on exactly this topic! Learn how Anthropology gives you the skills & perspective to thrive in the workplace ☝️
🎞️ Full interview on YouTube - link in bio/thread!
Our BSc Anthropology alum Lucy Faber spoke to Prof Rob Barton on exactly this topic! Learn how Anthropology gives you the skills & perspective to thrive in the workplace ☝️
🎞️ Full interview on YouTube - link in bio/thread!
🎓 Interested in studying #Anthropology at the 'University of the Year'?
Check out our undergrad courses: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- and our postgrad taught courses! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Congratulations to our global university community on this success! 👏 Read more below 👇
Check out our undergrad courses: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- and our postgrad taught courses! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Congratulations to our global university community on this success! 👏 Read more below 👇
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎓 Interested in studying #Anthropology at the 'University of the Year'?
Check out our undergrad courses: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- and our postgrad taught courses! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Congratulations to our global university community on this success! 👏 Read more below 👇
Check out our undergrad courses: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- and our postgrad taught courses! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Congratulations to our global university community on this success! 👏 Read more below 👇
It's a wrap! Team BONES finishes the field season and departs
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya.
Our Department's Fire Kovarovic stops for the traditional post-field-season photo on the equator 🌍
#Anthropology #Fieldwork #Palaeoanthropology #DUresearch #DurhamUni
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya.
Our Department's Fire Kovarovic stops for the traditional post-field-season photo on the equator 🌍
#Anthropology #Fieldwork #Palaeoanthropology #DUresearch #DurhamUni
September 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It's a wrap! Team BONES finishes the field season and departs
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya.
Our Department's Fire Kovarovic stops for the traditional post-field-season photo on the equator 🌍
#Anthropology #Fieldwork #Palaeoanthropology #DUresearch #DurhamUni
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya.
Our Department's Fire Kovarovic stops for the traditional post-field-season photo on the equator 🌍
#Anthropology #Fieldwork #Palaeoanthropology #DUresearch #DurhamUni
🎙️ 'Betwixt The Sheets': History of Celibacy 🎙️
aka a #HistoryHit #podcast ft. our Emeritus Professor Sandra Bell and Professor Elisa Sobo! Together they've edited a book: 'Celibacy, Culture, And Society: #Anthropology Of Sexual Abstinence'.
🎧 Listen to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
aka a #HistoryHit #podcast ft. our Emeritus Professor Sandra Bell and Professor Elisa Sobo! Together they've edited a book: 'Celibacy, Culture, And Society: #Anthropology Of Sexual Abstinence'.
🎧 Listen to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Sounds - Betwixt The Sheets, History of Celibacy
Why celibacy meant power for Queen Elizabeth I, the Church—and 'No Nut November' today.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🎙️ 'Betwixt The Sheets': History of Celibacy 🎙️
aka a #HistoryHit #podcast ft. our Emeritus Professor Sandra Bell and Professor Elisa Sobo! Together they've edited a book: 'Celibacy, Culture, And Society: #Anthropology Of Sexual Abstinence'.
🎧 Listen to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
aka a #HistoryHit #podcast ft. our Emeritus Professor Sandra Bell and Professor Elisa Sobo! Together they've edited a book: 'Celibacy, Culture, And Society: #Anthropology Of Sexual Abstinence'.
🎧 Listen to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
(1/3) Check out this blog post below by one of our BA #Anthropology alumni, Abigail Lewis! Abigail is now Access and Participation Programme Coordinator at Durham Students' Union.
wonkhe.com/blogs/for-so...
wonkhe.com/blogs/for-so...
For some students, home doesn't feel like home
Drawing on lived experience research, Abigail Lewis explores the realities of class-based exclusion and how institutions can respond
wonkhe.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
(1/3) Check out this blog post below by one of our BA #Anthropology alumni, Abigail Lewis! Abigail is now Access and Participation Programme Coordinator at Durham Students' Union.
wonkhe.com/blogs/for-so...
wonkhe.com/blogs/for-so...
New #research co-authored by our Prof Rob Barton reveals that in primates, longer thumbs and larger brains evolved together 🧠
Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#DUresearch #Anthropology #PrimateEvolution #CognitiveEvolution #DurhamAnthropology
Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#DUresearch #Anthropology #PrimateEvolution #CognitiveEvolution #DurhamAnthropology
Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
New #research co-authored by our Prof Rob Barton reveals that in primates, longer thumbs and larger brains evolved together 🧠
Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#DUresearch #Anthropology #PrimateEvolution #CognitiveEvolution #DurhamAnthropology
Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#DUresearch #Anthropology #PrimateEvolution #CognitiveEvolution #DurhamAnthropology
(1/2) A recently deceased male elephant provides an opportunity to study the dispersal of large mammal remains!
Pictured here: our Department's Fire Kovarovic, Briana Pobiner (NMNH Smithsonian), Kari Lintulaakso (Finnish Natural History Museum LUOMUS) and Isaack Kipkoech (Ol Pejeta Conservancy).
Pictured here: our Department's Fire Kovarovic, Briana Pobiner (NMNH Smithsonian), Kari Lintulaakso (Finnish Natural History Museum LUOMUS) and Isaack Kipkoech (Ol Pejeta Conservancy).
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
(1/2) A recently deceased male elephant provides an opportunity to study the dispersal of large mammal remains!
Pictured here: our Department's Fire Kovarovic, Briana Pobiner (NMNH Smithsonian), Kari Lintulaakso (Finnish Natural History Museum LUOMUS) and Isaack Kipkoech (Ol Pejeta Conservancy).
Pictured here: our Department's Fire Kovarovic, Briana Pobiner (NMNH Smithsonian), Kari Lintulaakso (Finnish Natural History Museum LUOMUS) and Isaack Kipkoech (Ol Pejeta Conservancy).
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Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
In Kyoto: Prof Hannah Brown is a RIHN Visiting Research Fellow researching bushmeat, zoonotic disease, and ‘local knowledge’ between #anthropology and #ecology. She will work with Associate Professor Hongo, the FASHLOKS project and engage with others at RIHN.
More: www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/news/...
More: www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/news/...
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In Kyoto: Prof Hannah Brown is a RIHN Visiting Research Fellow researching bushmeat, zoonotic disease, and ‘local knowledge’ between #anthropology and #ecology. She will work with Associate Professor Hongo, the FASHLOKS project and engage with others at RIHN.
More: www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/news/...
More: www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/news/...
🔍 Snaps from a one-day workshop on how to identify mammal bones, evidence of carnivore damage and weathering recorded on them!
Dr Fire Kovarovic, Dr Ogeto Mwebi and Dr Briana Pobiner delivered this workshop, attended by staff at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Thanks Nelly Maiyo for helping us organise it!
Dr Fire Kovarovic, Dr Ogeto Mwebi and Dr Briana Pobiner delivered this workshop, attended by staff at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Thanks Nelly Maiyo for helping us organise it!
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🔍 Snaps from a one-day workshop on how to identify mammal bones, evidence of carnivore damage and weathering recorded on them!
Dr Fire Kovarovic, Dr Ogeto Mwebi and Dr Briana Pobiner delivered this workshop, attended by staff at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Thanks Nelly Maiyo for helping us organise it!
Dr Fire Kovarovic, Dr Ogeto Mwebi and Dr Briana Pobiner delivered this workshop, attended by staff at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Thanks Nelly Maiyo for helping us organise it!
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Really pleased my paper (with Paolo Heywood) 'On the problem of continuity' just got accepted by JRAI. It proposes a theory of culture beyond the inventive assumptions that often dominate analyses and over-determine ethnography. DM or email if you're interested to see the accepted draft.
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Really pleased my paper (with Paolo Heywood) 'On the problem of continuity' just got accepted by JRAI. It proposes a theory of culture beyond the inventive assumptions that often dominate analyses and over-determine ethnography. DM or email if you're interested to see the accepted draft.
#InTheField in Kenya 🚙 Packing the field vehicle to head out of Nairobi to Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy for a few weeks of #fieldwork!
L-R: Our Fire Kovarovic, Ogeto Mwebi (National Museums of Kenya), Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
#anthropology #DUresearch
L-R: Our Fire Kovarovic, Ogeto Mwebi (National Museums of Kenya), Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
#anthropology #DUresearch
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#InTheField in Kenya 🚙 Packing the field vehicle to head out of Nairobi to Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy for a few weeks of #fieldwork!
L-R: Our Fire Kovarovic, Ogeto Mwebi (National Museums of Kenya), Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
#anthropology #DUresearch
L-R: Our Fire Kovarovic, Ogeto Mwebi (National Museums of Kenya), Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
#anthropology #DUresearch
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Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does One Health need an ontological turn?
One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU
@britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@mamatommy.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@mamatommy.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU
@britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@mamatommy.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@mamatommy.bsky.social