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Joe Ellis is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and serves as Deputy Senior Tutor (Teaching and Outreach) at Hughes Hall. He completed his BSc degree in Anthropology at University College London in 2009 and continued to pursue further studies, culminating in a PhD in Social Anthropology at Cambridge in 2013, which involved extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mongolia. His teaching background includes a focus on social theory within anthropology, and he has held various academic and pastoral roles in the collegiate university system. His research is primarily based on long-term ethnographic studies in Mongolia, emphasizing themes such as the intersection of cosmological, political, and moral concepts with social life. Joe's work encompasses a variety of topics, including the dynamics of violence, shamanism, and the impact of religious practices on the economy. He is particularly interested in the Kazakh minority population living in the Altai Mountains and their transnational connections across Central Asia, as well as the challenges faced by adult learners in higher education. In his role, Joe teaches various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises student dissertations in anthropology.
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge • Cambridge, UK
Teaching and administrative responsibilities in Social Anthropology.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.