Professor Christos Lynteris awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Christos Lynteris has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project Zoonosis Before Bacteriology.
Department news
Endemic Transformations Workshop
Workshop on "Endemic Transformations" to be held on July 9-10.
Just and Sustainable Plastic Waste Management Workshop
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews will host an international research policy workshop on Just and Sustainable Plastic Waste Management on 13–14 June 2026.
New book by Christos Lynteris: How Plague Got Rats
Christos Lynteris has published his new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026).
Peter Gow Memorial Lecture 2026
“‘Nothing is simple'. An ethnographic theory and its history”. Prof Marcio Goldman (Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). 5pm, Thursday 16 April 2026.
CFP Colonial Medical Ennui Workshop
Paper proposals are invited for the Colonial Medical Ennui Workshop, deadline April 30.
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
The Department of Social Anthropology seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Social Anthropology.
Departmental Seminars 2025-6 Semester 2
The 2025-6 Departmental Seminar programme for Semester 2 has been announced.
Daniel Knight interviewed on polycrisis
Dr Daniel Knight has been interviewed by The Guardian newspaper for an article on living in a time of polycrisis.
David Riches Medal awarded to Viktoriia Grivina
Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust awards Viktoriia Grivina for thesis chapter.