Janet Carsten - Curriculum Vitae#

Current position:

Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Appointments:

• 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

Education:

• 1988 PhD Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
  
• 1978 B.Sc. (Econ), London School of Economics

Honours and prizes (selected):

• 2011 Fellow of the British Academy
  
• 2006 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
  
• 1996 Robert F. Heizer Prize, American Society of Ethnohistory

Research grants and fellowships (selected):

• 2017 - 2022 ERC Advanced Grant, ‘A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage’ (€2,297,584.00)
  
• 2007 - 2010 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship: ‘Blood Work: Investigating Cultures of Biomedicine in Malaysia and Britain’
  
• 1997 - 1998 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship

Leadership roles, University of Edinburgh:

• 2011 - 2012; 2002 - 2004 Director of Research, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
  
• 2006 - 2007 and 2002 - 2004 Head of Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

PhD supervision:

Supervised approximately 30 students to completion at University of Edinburgh and currently supervise 3 PhD students

Offices in professional organisations:

• 2021 Chair, Anthropology Caucus, British Academy
  
• 1990 - 1993, 1997 - 2000, 2019 - 2022 Member of General Council, Royal Anthropological Institute
  
• 2012 - 2015 Sectional Fellowship Committee, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  
• 2012 - 2016 Co-editor Journal of the British Academy
  
• 2011 - 2015 BASIS committee member, British Academy
  
• 2010 - 2016 Member of Editorial Board, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
  
• 2006 - 2009 Sectional Fellowship Committee, Royal Society of Edinburgh