Professor James Staples
Professor - Anthropology

Topics

India, South Asia and the UK; medical anthropology and anthropology of global health; anthropology of food; anthropology of the body.

Research supervision

As first supervisor:

Veronika Senkyrova: Policing, obesity, and the body

Anna Stepien: Orangutan conservation in Indonesia

Katie Crossan: Experiences of living with home parenteral nutrition in the UK.

Maren Hueffmann: Disabled Children with Complex Needs in British Society: the construction of personhood

Michelle Carter: Learning to be a nurse (Submitted 2018)

Thea Vidnes: Maternal health among Nepali migrants in Norway (Submitted 2017)

Eva Luksaite: The intimate state: female sterilisation, citizenship and the body in North India (Submitted 2015)

Gemma Clay: Tibetan monks in exile (Submitted 2015)

Pat Mahon-Daly: Blood, society and the gift: an ethnography of change in the giving relationship (Submitted 2012)