Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Department of African Studies and Anthropology has over 50 years’ experience and expertise in supporting students from all over the world, including Africa.
We integrate cutting-edge and world-leading research on Africa with distinctive inter-disciplinary teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Our staff are ready to share their expertise in anthropology, history, human geography, development, literature, media, popular culture and religion. This is how we create a warm and informal atmosphere for genuinely innovative learning. Our doctoral students join us from all over the world to produce pioneering new research on Africa, across the disciplines.
The department has particular strengths in social and cultural anthropology, and we put anthropology into dialogue with other academic disciplines and with developmental and humanitarian concerns.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Profiles
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Marco Di Nunzio
- African Studies and Anthropology - Associate Professor
- Centre for Urban Wellbeing
Person: Academic
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Juliet Gilbert
- African Studies and Anthropology - Lecturer in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Person: Academic
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A Break in the Future: Feeling Like an Activist after the Arab Uprisings
Musallam, F., Jul 2025, 1 ed. University of Pennsylvania Press. 264 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Protectorate, Dictatorship, Democracy: Reflections on Malawi’s Past and Present
Johnson, J. & Groves, Z., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Malawi: Enduring Concerns and New Directions. 1 ed. Routledge, (Southern African Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review, Oyèrónké Oládémọ, Women in Yoruba Religions
Nolte, I., 2025, In: Journal of Religion in Africa. 55, p. 147-149 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Prediction, Predation, and Politics: Political Gambling Markets
Pickles, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Project: Research Councils
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Anachisale's Life: narration and ethics in feminist anthropology
Johnson, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research Councils
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African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa
1/01/21 → 31/12/25
Project: EU
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Land + Community Preservation: Organising ABUELOS
Di Nunzio, M. (Invited speaker)
25 Oct 2024Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
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"Council Housing: Key to resolve the housing crisis". Fringe event of the Labour Party Conference 2024.
Di Nunzio, M. (Invited speaker)
23 Sept 2024Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
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Support for Birmingham Fair Housing for developing a planning objection
Di Nunzio, M. (Advisor)
3 Sept 2024 → 5 Sept 2024Activity: Consultancy, CPD, training and secondments › Other
Prizes
Press/Media
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Research quoted in ‘Economic violence’: Birmingham residents decry plan to raze 1,900 homes’, The Guardian, 22 July 2024
22/07/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Research quoted in “Éthiopie : après la guerre, les ambitieux projets de reconstruction à marche forcée d’Abiy Ahmed à Addis-Abeba”. Tama Media,
5/07/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media