Professor James Staples
Professor - Anthropology

Membership and affiliation

• Co-editor of Medical Anthropology: Cross-cultural Studies in Health and Illness (2021-2025)
• Vice-President, Royal Anthropological Institute (2015-2018)
• Chair of Publications Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2013-)
• Honorary Reviews Editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society (JRAI) (2007-2013)
• Member of Council, Royal Anthropological Institute (2011 - 2014)
• Publications Officer and Committee member of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) (2008 - 2013)
• Editorial board member of the journal Ethnographica: Journal of Culture and Disability (EJCD)
• External Examiner, University of Cambridge, Social Anthropology (2022- ongoing)
• External Examiner, University of Oxford, Human Sciences degree (2018 - 2022)
• External Examiner, SOAS MA Anthropology of Food (2014 - 2017)
• External Examiner, SOAS MA Medical Anthropology (2013 - 2014)
• External Examiner, BA Anthropology Programmes at Goldsmiths, London (2012 - 2015)