Penelope Harvey#

• 2000 - present Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
• 1991 - 2000 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
• 1985 - 1990 Lecturer in Latin American Studies (and Modern Languages), University of Liverpool
• 2012 - 2019 Professor II, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway
• 2015 Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, UK.
• 2006 - 2014 Director of ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester
• 2004 - 2006 Professor II, Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway

• Field studies of large-scale infrastructures, notably roads (Peru) and big data (UK)
• Gender, political formations and change
• Material and social relations of modern statecraft
• Governance and expertise: critical approaches to knowledge relations
• Ethnographic field work in Spain, Peru and the UK
• Social (socio-cultural) anthropology
• Innovation and technology (approaches from STS and the anthropology of the modern state)
• Nuclear decommissioning, and the social foundations of public trust

• 2022 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
• 2019 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
• 2019 Elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Prestigious Named Lectures
  • 2022 Marrett memorial lecture, Exeter College, University of Oxford
  • 2021 Edward Westermarck memorial lecture, University of Helsinki
  • 2019 Strathern Lecture in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
  • 2018 The Munro Lecture, University of Edinburgh
• 2020 ‘Intersections of Climate Change and Nuclear Power: An Interview with Penelope Harvey by Virginia R. Dominguez, American Anthropologist, 122:4, 953-958

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