Anthropology and Sociology

Understand global issues from a grounded perspective.

Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) approaches the study of international affairs and development by inquiring into how social and cultural life, as well as political and economic practices, are shaped across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Our master's and PhD degree programmes foster the study of contemporary issues in global and transnational terms.

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Our faculty ground their research and teaching in a commitment to theoretical innovation, robust empirical research and fine-grained ethnographic fieldwork. From this, we develop critical perspectives on how global problems are experienced differently around the world. Among the few bi-disciplinary departments of anthropology and sociology in Europe, our work bridges conventional North-South divides, theory and practice, and the worlds of academia and policy.

Be it in Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, or in Europe, North and South America, our research is primarily geared towards the analysis of social, political, economic, legal and cultural phenomena across the following domains:

Governance, the state, international organisations, law and policy
Global security and everyday insecurity, violence and conflict
Markets, land, labour and corporations
Migration, forced displacement, borders and minorities
Poverty, inequality and social movements
Race, ethnicity and gender relations
Environment, rural development, agriculture and food security
Cities and urban issues
Bio-medicine and bio-technologies
Visual and material culture
Gender, sexuality and queer theory

Faculty

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Aditya BHARADWAJ

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Chair, Department of Anthropology & Sociology

Co-Director, Gender Centre

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Jean-François BAYART

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

YVES OLTRAMARE CHAIR FOR RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

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Julie BILLAUD

Associate professor, Anthropology and sociology

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Filipe CALVAO

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

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Anna-Riikka KAUPPINEN

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development

Faculty Affiliate, Centre for Finance and Development

Faculty Affiliate, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy

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Minhua LING

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology

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Grégoire MALLARD

Director of Research

Managing Researcher of Sanction and Sustainable Peace Hub

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Faculty Associate for Global Governance Center, Centre for Finance and Development, ALBERT HIRSCHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY and Gender Center

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Kristen MCNEILL

Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Sociology & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development

Faculty Affiliate, Centre for Finance and Development

Faculty Affiliate, Gender Centre

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Alessandro MONSUTTI

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, CENTRE ON CONFLICT, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACEBUILDING

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, Global Migration Centre

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy

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Graziella MORAES DIAS DA SILVA

CO-DIRECTOR, ALBERT HIRSCHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

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Till MOSTOWLANSKY

Research Professor, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, ALBERT HIRSCHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY

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Vinh-Kim NGUYEN

Co-Director, Global Health Centre

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

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Shaila SESHIA GALVIN

Associate PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Affiliated with the Centre for International Environmental Studies

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, ALBERT HIRSCHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY

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Patricia SPYER

PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

FACULTY ASSOCIATE, ALBERT HIRSHMAN CENTRE ON DEMOCRACY

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UMUT YILDIRIM

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Anthropology and Sociology

Affiliated to the Global Migration Centre, the Centre for International Environmental Studies and the Gender Centre

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Yvan DROZ

SENIOR LECTURER, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

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Françoise GRANGE OMOKARO

Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology

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