Saving Antarctica’s Unique Biodiversity

BA MSc PhD FRAI
Andrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology.
Andrew earned his doctorate in anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge in 2016, he held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Kent.
In addition to his role as an Associate Professor, Andrew is the Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Social Anthropology, and the Convenor of the Human Social and Political Sciences (HSPS) Tripos. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, the Economics editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and a member of the University Council, the principal executive and policy-making body of the University of Cambridge.
Andrew has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in urban India among industrial workers, trade unionists and entrepreneurs. He has published on economy, labour, and corruption, including Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India (Routledge, 2016), Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity (Dialectical Anthropology, 2019) co-edited with Sian Lazar, and Indeterminacy: Waste, Value and the Imagination (Berghahn 2018) co-edited with Catherine Alexander. He is currently writing an ethnographic study of the Indian scrap metal industry, which addresses key conceptual debates in the anthropology of value and exchange.
We are excited to launch an open call for the second edition of our Wolf Words Poetry Anthology; this year our theme is Wild.
This workshop is organised to help students prepare to be part of the Wolfson Research Event 2024.
How can you introduce protection of the environment into consumer contract law when this is detrimental to the protection of the consumer?
Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'How It Is' featuring work by the influential British artist Tim Head.
An interactive session during which students can gain insight into the sphere of entrepreneurship.