Janet Carsten#
Membership Number: | 6644 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
Elected: | 2023 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/janet-carsten |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-0286-9936 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
- 2002 - 2022 Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
- 1996 - 2002 Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
- 1993 - 1996 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
- 1989 - 1993 Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
- 1987 - 1989 Evans Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Houses
- Kinship studies
- Marriage
- Memory
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Domesticity
- Malaysia
- Gender
- Southeast Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2017 - 2022 ERC Advanced Grant, ‘AGATM: A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage’ (€2,297,584.00)
- 2018 Hamburg University, keynote lecture
- 2016 - 2017 British Academy Newton Mobility Grant
- 2016 European Association of Anthropology, biennial conference, Milan, plenary speaker
- 2016 Invited lecture, Dept of Anthropology, University of Helsinki
- 2016 Invited public lecture, University of Aarhus, Dept of Anthropology
- 2014 Invited lecture, Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 2014 Invited Annual Distinguished Lecture, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto
- 2014 Invited lecture, Stanford University
- 2013 Invited Annual Four Fields Anthropology Lecture, University of Michigan
- 2013 Invited lecture, Laboratoire d’ Anthropologie Sociale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 2012 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, University of Rochester, NY
- 2011 Fellow of the British Academy (elected)
- 2007 - 2010 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship: ‘Blood Work: Cultures of Biomedicine in Malaysia and Britain’ (£140,661.00)
- 2006 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected)
- 1997 - 1998 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship
- 1996 Robert F. Heizer Prize, American Society of Ethnohistory