The anthropology of kinship with particular reference to Malaysia & Britain, domestic relations, historical migration, the house, adoption reunions, kinship & memory, bodily substance, the interface between popular & medical ideas about blood.
Elected 2011
Anthropology of the environment, cultural cognition, ethnobiological knowledge systems; eastern Indonesia
Urban and regional economic change, North America, Europe; innovation theory, policy and geography; institutions, industrial practices, national and regional modes of governance; creativity, cities and economic dynamism; universities and cities