Staff Profiles

Anja is Associate Lecturer in the social sciences.  Her research interests intersect ethnography, historical anthropology, identity(s), place, transitional spaces, identity effects/affects in a globalising world, symbolic appropriation, anthropology of art, and the public/private agendas of visual expression.  Specific issues include the multilayered articulation(s) of diplomacy between countries and the complex dialogic tensions between cultural politics and symbolic representation.  Her ongoing research into the philatelic archive broadly concerns stamps as a legitimate and important resource for short term and longitudinal scholarly inquiry into the articulation of states’ and nations’ society, culture, politics and economy.  Anja’s publications reflect these links in a Mongolian context.