PopAnth is a community run project, and the secret ingredient in any successful community is a network of fantastic people. We're no exception! So please take your time to get to know some of the people that make this project possible.
Gawain Lynch

Gawain Lynch

PopAnth Editor, Founding Member, Site Manager & Architect

Code ninja and knowledge-sharing visionary who leaps disciplinary divides in a single bound! “Nani gigantum humeris insidentes”

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Erin B. Taylor

Erin B Taylor

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Hangs out in the Caribbean asking endless questions about financial culture and mobile phone use

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John McCreery

John McCreery

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member, Writing Coach

“In Taiwan I studied magicians. In Japan I joined the Guild”

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Jolynna Sinanan

Jolynna Sinanan

PopAnth Editor, Founding Member

Post-doctoral researcher in Anthropology (social networks in Trinidad), PhD in Development Studies (post-conflict development in Cambodia), former comedian. Really.

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Laura Miller

Laura Miller

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Expert on bad girls and beauty in Japan

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Edward F. Fischer

Edward F Fischer

PopAnth Author, Editor

When not writing or teaching, Ted Fischer spends his time developing Maní+, a snack used to treat malnutrition in Guatemala

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Gillian Bowan

Gillian Bowan

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Currently on fieldwork in India, Gillian can eat with her hands, quote Shah Ruhk Khan and drape her own saree.

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David Slattery

David Slattery

PopAnth Author, Editor

Everything you ever wanted to know about poets, madmen and scoundrels in Ireland.

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Elizabeth P Challinor

Elizabeth P Challinor

PopAnth Author, Editor

My passion for anthropology is for a ‘knee-deep’ philosophy

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Erin B. Taylor

Erin B Taylor

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Hangs out in the Caribbean asking endless questions about financial culture and mobile phone use

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John McCreery

John McCreery

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member, Writing Coach

“In Taiwan I studied magicians. In Japan I joined the Guild”

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David Thompson

David Thompson

PopAnth Author, Intern

Can typically be found crafting his art on a Mexican couch, at a Brazilian protest, or in a Bolivian jail.

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Luke Bennett

Luke Bennett

PopAnth Author

Ex-lawyer fascinated with metal theft, quarries and the afterlife of military bunkers

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Augustín Fuentes

Agustín Fuentes

PopAnth Author

Agustín Fuentes chases monkeys in Asia and explores the lives of early humans to challenge our assumptions about human nature.

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Elizabeth P Challinor

Elizabeth P Challinor

PopAnth Author, Editor

My passion for anthropology is for a ‘knee-deep’ philosophy

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Paul Mullins

Paul Mullins

PopAnth Author, Community Advisor

Archaeology of the unexpected, from doughnuts and barbies to roadside memorials and Finnish ruins

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Celia Emmelhainz

Celia Emmelhainz

PopAnth Author

Classifying knowledge in Kazakhstan

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Ioulia Fenton

Ioulia Fenton

PopAnth Author

Blogging food, agriculture and development

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Steven Bunce

Steven Bunce

PopAnth Author

Investigating all walks of life in Bogotá, from slums to high-class fiestas

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Laura Miller

Laura Miller

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Expert on bad girls and beauty in Japan

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Edward F. Fischer

Edward F Fischer

PopAnth Author, Editor

When not writing or teaching, Ted Fischer spends his time developing Maní+, a snack used to treat malnutrition in Guatemala

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Gillian Bowan

Gillian Bowan

PopAnth Author, Editor, Founding Member

Currently on fieldwork in India, Gillian can eat with her hands, quote Shah Ruhk Khan and drape her own saree.

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David Slattery

David Slattery

PopAnth Author, Editor

Everything you ever wanted to know about poets, madmen and scoundrels in Ireland.

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David Picard

David Picard

PopAnth Author

Cultivating the human garden in Madagascar and Portugal

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Diana Espírito Santo

Diana Espírito Santo

PopAnth Author

Spirits, dreams and divination in Cuba and Brazil

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Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

PopAnth Author

Art as a reflection of human social and cultural life

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Dolly Hayde

Donnelley Hayde

PopAnth Author

Apocalyptic geek and luxury bunker connoisseur

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Susan D Blum

Susan D Blum

PopAnth Author

Professor of human universals and divergences

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Dylan Kerrigan

Dylan Kerrigan

PopAnth Author

Race, carnival and violence in the West Indies

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Sascha Fuller

Sascha Fuller

PopAnth Author

Culture of agriculture in Nepal

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Dawid Kobialka

Dawid Kobialka

PopAnth Author

Archaeology of now

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Daniel Lende

Daniel Lende

PopAnth Community Advisor, Founding Member

Itinerant neuroanthropologist…

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Greg Downey

Gregory J Downey

PopAnth Community Advisor, Founding Member

Neuroanthropologist, sports researcher & farmer. Expat Yank with a wonderful Aussie wife & daughter.

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Keith Hart

Keith Hart

PopAnth Community Advisor

Economic anthropologist with a young family and a virtual social life, plus a hideaway on the Indian Ocean

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Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

PopAnth Community Advisor

Playing and exploring the politics of sound in Yucatan, Mexio

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Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz

Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz

PopAnth Community Advisor

Igor strives to discover whether we really are what we eat

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Jason Antrosio

Jason Antrosio

PopAnth Community Advisor

The moral optimism of anthropology can change the world.

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Paul Mullins

Paul Mullins

PopAnth Author, Community Advisor

Archaeology of the unexpected, from doughnuts and barbies to roadside memorials and Finnish ruins

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Lauren Knapp

Lauren Knapp

PopAnth Community Advisor

Storyteller, filmmaker, rocking Mongolia

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Isabelle Rivoal

Isabelle Rivoal

PopAnth Community Advisor

Conoisseur of life

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David Thompson

David Thompson

PopAnth Author, Intern

Can typically be found crafting his art on a Mexican couch, at a Brazilian protest, or in a Bolivian jail.

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Claire A Cerdá

Claire A Cerdá

PopAnth Forum Moderator, Intern

Anthropology student and budding journalist

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Larry Stout

Larry Stout

PopAnth Translations Coach

Birding, botanizing, history and archaeology in Ozarkistan

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Belinda Taylor

Belinda Taylor

PopAnth Marketing Liaison

Makes PopAnth go ‘pop’!

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Melanie Tan Uy

Melanie Tan Uy

PopAnth Editor

Tech ethnographer, lateral thinker and pattern-finder

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