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Anthropological Studies and Insights

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jairo I. Fúnez‐Flores
Texas Tech University
2
Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
University of Manchester
3
Robert Kudakwashe Chigangaidze
Oxford Brookes University
4
Theresa Stewart-Ambo
University of California San Diego
5
Rida Qadri
Google (United States)
6
Susanna Rosenbaum
City College of New York
7
Balmurli Natrajan
William Paterson University
8
Danai Avgeri
Chatham House
9
Carlota McAllister
York University
10
Yolanda Ariadne Collins
University of St Andrews

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
Middle East Critique|2024
51 cit.
2
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”: An exploratory study into the ways racialized PhD students experience white ignorance in elite universities in the UK
Sociology Compass|2024
12 cit.
3
The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education and decolonial theory
London Review of Education|2024
11 cit.
4
Humanitarian capitalism: The labour regime of aid and the surrogate welfare state in times of global displacement
Political Geography|2024
9 cit.
5
AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue
Unknown Journal|2025
8 cit.
6
The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability
South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies|2024
5 cit.
7
Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee rentierism, racialized containment and the humanitarian-development nexus in transit states
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2025
5 cit.
8
Some religious, myths, beliefs, and cultural dispositions as contributors to child sexual abuse in Zimbabwe
Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social Thought|2024
4 cit.
9
From Green to Black: A Voluminous Political Ecology of the Extraction–Conservation Nexus
Annals of the American Association of Geographers|2024
4 cit.
10
Embracing decolonial theory in critical whiteness studies
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ryan Cecil Jobson
University of Chicago
2
R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3
Malini Ranganathan
American University
4
Trevor Paglen
Birmingham City University
5
Sarah Hunt
University of Victoria
6
Megan Ybarra
University of California System
7
Jemima Pierre
University of British Columbia
8
Théodora Vetta
Universitat de Barcelona
9
Barbara Lang
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
10
Ulises A. Mejias
State University of New York at Oswego

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
'Mafias' in the waterscape : Urban informality and everyday public authority in Bangalore
Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University)|2023
96 cit.
2
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2022
60 cit.
3
Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City
Journal of Urban Technology|2022
35 cit.
4
Geopolitical ecology for our times
Political Geography|2023
33 cit.
5
CODA: The Racial Ecologies of Urban Wetlands
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research|2022
15 cit.
6
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador
American Anthropologist|2022
11 cit.
7
Grievance redressal processes in urban service delivery : How effective are they?
Figshare|2023
10 cit.
8
Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies
Latino Studies|2022
7 cit.
9
Against abstraction: Reclaiming and reorienting to embodied collective knowledges of solidarity
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2024
7 cit.
10
Decarbonized Futures: Struggles Over Ecological Distribution in Greece
Capitalism Nature Socialism|2022
6 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Comaroff
Harvard University Press
2
Stefan Helmreich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3
Dan Brockington
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
4
Peter Geschiere
University of Amsterdam
5
Sarah Wright
University of Canterbury
6
Arjun Appadurai
New School
7
C. Jason Throop
University of California, Los Angeles
8
Thomas J. Csordas
University of California San Diego
9
Philippe Lemey
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Caroline Osella
University of Sussex

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
International Migration Review|1998
18.2k cit.
2
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Public Culture|1990
3.9k cit.
3
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Theory Culture & Society|1990
3.6k cit.
4
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1988
2.2k cit.
5
THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY
Cultural Anthropology|2010
2.2k cit.
6
Bayesian Phylogeography Finds Its Roots
PLoS Computational Biology|2009
1.9k cit.
7
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Ethos|1990
1.7k cit.
8
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming
Public Culture|2000
1.5k cit.
9
Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas
Annual Review of Anthropology|2006
1.5k cit.
10
Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony
American Ethnologist|1999
1.5k cit.

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