Andrew Sanchez

Dr Andrew Sanchez

BA MSc PhD FRAI

Andrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology.

Andrew Sanchez

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.

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Open Call: WolfWords Poetry Anthology 2026

01/12/2025 at 09.00

We are delighted to announce the open call for this year’s WolfWords anthology. The theme for this year’s collection is 'lost and found'.

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Jigsaw Jam at the Lee Library

18/12/2025 at 14.00

Enjoy an afternoon of puzzling and wintery crafts at the Lee Library.

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Art Exhibition: 'Life and Experience'

20/12/2025 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'Life and Experience' featuring work by contemporary artist Janette Parris.

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Wikipedia edit-a-thon

08/01/2026 at 14.00

Spotted an error you want to correct? Know a citation that needs adding? Itching to add content about your own specialism? Now is your chance!

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Winter Wellbeing Reads

15/01/2026 at 12.30

This relaxed session brings students and staff together to chat about our favourite (or least favourite!) books. 

 

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