Giving to the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

The University of Oxford is a leading international centre for anthropological teaching and research. The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography has a wide ranging and topical research portfolio and runs teaching programmes at both undergraduate and graduate level. The school consists of five major research clusters: Social Anthropology; Visual and Material Culture; Medical and Ecological Anthropology; Migration and Society; and Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology.

Additional funding in this field would enable us to: attract the best and brightest students; attract and retain prominent academics ensuring stability and a continuation of our work; and to fund development of vital infrastructure and resources.

In addition to new posts the School has identified scholarships as a development priority.

The ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, hosted by the School, studies international migration flows, impacts and policy responses. Despite studying migration flows from parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America we don’t yet offer resources or training for scholars from these regions. We would therefore like to offer the opportunity of named scholarships for talented students, interested in migration issues, from less developed countries.

We have the opportunity to access match funding from the University to endow a teaching post in Human Sciences, based at St Hugh’s College. An anonymous donation has provided half the funds needed, and we are raising the final £600,000 required to release the University’s additional match funding. This teaching post will enable us to secure teaching provision specially designated for the Human Sciences, as well as a research specialism in the anthropology of Africa, which has long been one of the School’s areas of strength.

Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) was a distinguished British anthropologist and an alumna of the University of Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. In partnership with UCL Department of Anthropology, where Dame Mary taught for many years, the School plans to establish an annual lecture in her memory on a topic in which she was active (e.g. African ethnography, environment and technological risk, Old Testament scholarship). The fund, which has already received contributions from Oxford, UCL and an individual donor, will be used to support the lecturers’ expenses, to hold a modest reception and/or dinner in their honour, and to cover publicity and publication expenses.

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Contact

Elisabeth Wadge

Senior Development Executive - Social Sciences

University of Oxford Development Office
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