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Professor Dominic Bryan
Professor Dominic Bryan’s work focuses on power and public space. He is interested in how identity is expressed through rituals and symbols and how these activities bond social groups and create conflict. His work looks specifically at peace and conflict in Northern Ireland.
Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Dr Evi Chatzipanagiotidou is a political anthropologist researching conflict and peace, displacement, migration and diasporas, and the politics of memory and loss. She has conducted ethnographic research in Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, and the UK.
Professor Hastings Donnan
Professor Hastings Donnan is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He has conducted extensive field research on state borders in Pakistan and Ireland and has published over twenty books and lectured worldwide. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Dr John Knight
Dr John Knight has undertaken extensive field research in rural Japan on a range of topics, including migration, forestry, farming, and tourism, on which he has published widely. His main area of research is human-animal relations, including sportive hunting, wildlife pests, and the use of animals in tourism.
Dr Jonathan Lanman
Dr Jonathan Lanman is a cognitive anthropologist interested in the scientific study of religion. He has collaboratively conducted field, survey, and experimental research on atheism, secularization, ritual, and self-sacrifice and is President-elect for the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion.
Professor Fiona Magowan
Professor Fiona Magowan is a Fellow and Research Theme Leader in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. As PI of 'Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation' (PaCCS grant, 2017-2021), she is heading a team of 6 Queen's staff and 10 partner organisations researching sound, music and creative practices in conflict transformation around the globe.
Dr Fiona Murphy
Dr Fiona Murphy is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Indigenous Australian politics and movements, refugees and mobility studies, and business anthropology. She has a particular interest in new forms of public anthropology. She has conducted research in Australia, Ireland, the UK, France and Turkey.
Dr Paulo Sousa
Dr Paulo Sousa is a Cognitive Anthropologist working at the interface between the cognitive, evolutionary and social sciences, and whose interests focus on agency, moral psychology and inter-group conflict, as well as their relation to religion. He is Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture and Research Fellow of The Mitchell Institute.
Dr Maruška Svašek
Dr Maruška Svašek's main research and teaching interests include materiality, art, human mobility and affect/emotions. As Research Fellow of The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, she is interested in conflict-related issues, in particular in conflicts about material production.
Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis
Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis is an ethnomusicologist with a focus on popular music industries. He researches the impact of ‘The Greek Crisis’ on musicians, as well as the role of cosmopolitanism in subcultural creative practices. He is currently conducting collaborative research on performing artists in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Research Fellows
Christina Captieux
Project: 'Sounding Conflict: from resistance to reconciliation'
Dr Brendan Sturgeon
Research Fellow
Project: 'Building Capacity in Communities in Transition'
Dr Briony Widdes
Research Fellow
Project: 'Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity'