UBVO Associates
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Professor Stephen Oppenheimer is a member of Green Templeton College, Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. |
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Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek is a social and economic historian with a specific interest in using anthropometry and biological anthropology as indicators of malnutrition, public health and historical welfare. He is a fellow of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a lecturer at Tubingen University, Germany. He joined the UBVO in 2010 to complete a six-month postdoctoral project analysing anthropometric data on Korean adoptees, before moving on to UC Berkeley. |
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Dr Marius Kwint is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Portsmouth. He is a cultural historian and keen amateur athlete who has published research on topics including the circus, the souvenir, and scientific imaging. He is particularly interested in the visualization of energy flow through human performance and also by objective, scientific methods. |
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Dr Tenna Jensen is a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her Doctoral thesis was entitled "Food consumption in Denmark in the 20th century". |
Dr Karin Eli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. In her doctoral thesis, she analysed processes of selfhood among eating disordered people in Israel. Her current research examines the interaction of socio-environmental and individual factors in narratives of anorexia and bulimia, highlighting the roles of genetic discourses.
She is also a lecturer in the Anthropology of Body and Gender paper offered as a part of ISCA's Masters in Medical Anthropology course. |
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Professor Stella Bruzzi is Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. She is working on a major new project, APPROXIMATION: Documentary, History and Staging Reality, which examines and analyses the current cultural interest in alternative ways of representing factual events since ‘9/11’ and the impact of digital technology on documentary, history and memory. She is an advisor to the UBVO project on obesity, eating disorders and the media. |