Janet Carsten#

• 2022 Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
• 2002 - 2022 Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
• 1996 - 2002 Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
• 1993 - 1996 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
• 1989 - 1993 Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
• 1987 - 1989 Evans Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

• Houses
• Kinship studies
• Marriage
• Memory
• Social and cultural anthropology
• Domesticity
• Malaysia
• Gender
• Southeast Asia

• 2017 - 2022 ERC Advanced Grant, ‘AGATM: A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage’ (€2,297,584.00)
• 2018 Hamburg University, keynote lecture
• 2016 - 2017 British Academy Newton Mobility Grant
• 2016 European Association of Anthropology, biennial conference, Milan, plenary speaker
• 2016 Invited lecture, Dept of Anthropology, University of Helsinki
• 2016 Invited public lecture, University of Aarhus, Dept of Anthropology
• 2014 Invited lecture, Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• 2014 Invited Annual Distinguished Lecture, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto
• 2014 Invited lecture, Stanford University
• 2013 Invited Annual Four Fields Anthropology Lecture, University of Michigan
• 2013 Invited lecture, Laboratoire d’ Anthropologie Sociale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• 2012 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, University of Rochester, NY
• 2011 Fellow of the British Academy (elected)
• 2007 - 2010 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship: ‘Blood Work: Cultures of Biomedicine in Malaysia and Britain’ (£140,661.00)
• 2006 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected)
• 1997 - 1998 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship
• 1996 Robert F. Heizer Prize, American Society of Ethnohistory

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