Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

External members

In addition to the University of Southampton academics listed on this page, our membership includes:

Dr Eugene Michail (advisory committee member)
Dr Dominique Bauer (advisory committee member)
Ayọ̀ Akínwándé
Naluwembe Binaisa
Dr Devran Gulel
Shelia Liu
Stash Kozlowski

Dr Julie Vullnetari

Associate Dean EDI

Research interests

Linking migration to development
Older people in migration and development
Critical border studies

Connect with Julie

Email: j.vullnetari@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Ka-Kin Cheuk

Lecturer in Anthropology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ka-Kin

Email: ka-kin.cheuk@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

Critical Realism
Critical Discourse Analysis
Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Karin

Email: k.zotzmann@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Dr Katy Heady

Senior Teaching Fellow

Connect with Katy

Email: k.v.heady@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor Laura Lewis

Professor of Anthropology

Research interests

History and ethnography of race and Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Laura

Email: l.lewis@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Dr Maria Villares-Varela

Associate Professor

Research interests

Migrant entrepreneurship
Work and employment relation in small firms
Family businesses

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Maria

Email: m.villares-varela@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Marion Demossier

Professor of French & European Studies

Research interests

climate ethnography and environment and climate change
French and European politics
Republicanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Marion

Email: m.demossier@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen

Associate Professor

Research interests

Discourse Analysis
Political Discourse
Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Michael

Email: m.kranert@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Dr Scott Soo

Associate Professor

Research interests

Conflict, migration and commemoration in contemporary France and Europe
Mass internment in France during WWII
The Spanish Civil War

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Scott

Email: s.soo@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

activism and volunteering
humanitarianism
political participation

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Silke

Email: silke.roth@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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