Â鶹´«Ã½

Biography

Before becoming an anthropologist, Mark Leopold worked as a journalist, researcher and consultant.  In 1987, with Patrick Fitzgerald, he published Stranger On The Line: the Secret History of Phone Tapping (London, Bodley Head).  From 1991-1995 Mark was a Research Assistant at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Oxford Refugee Studies Programme.  After completing a MSt in Social Anthropology, and fieldwork in North Western Uganda, he gained his D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Oxford in 2001. His 2005 book based on this research was Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier (London, Santa Fe and Kampala, James Currey).  Before starting as a Lecturer at Sussex in 2006, he taught social anthropology at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and at Goldsmiths College, Â鶹´«Ã½ of London.

Role

Lecturer in Social Anthropology.  Convenor of Undergraduate Yr3 options 'The Anthropology of Africa' and 'Conflict Violence and Peace', and of MA core course 'Anthropology and Ethnography'.