Welcome to Professor Ann Kelly

The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography is delighted to welcome Professor Ann Kelly to the team.

Ann joins the team as Professor of Medical Anthropology and will be affiliated with Exeter College.

 

“I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The prospect of working in a department committed to expanding the boundaries of anthropological enquiry and alongside colleagues whose work has been so deeply inspiring to my own, really is the opportunity of a life time. I cannot wait to begin.” 

Professor Kelly's work is directed toward plotting new ethical imaginaries in conditions of endemicity. Over the past two decades, she has led multiple transdisciplinary collaborations at the intersections of infectious disease control, health-systems-strengthening, global health innovation and emergency R&D. Her engagement in these projects has been driven by an abiding concern with the socio-material conditions that structure the production of biomedical knowledge, and the ecologies of labour that circumscribe its circulation and use. From examining kinship dynamics among experimental subjects in the Gambia and Tanzania to how domestic space is conjugated by public health crises, she has probed the systems of value that connect scientific ends, social benefits, and lucrative commodities, appraising the public character of public health in the context of inequality and rapid social change. She is currently leading a collaboration with scientists, designers, architects and masons in Tanzania, the United States, and Brazil to unsettle entrenched models of ‘equitable access’ for mosquito control technologies. She also serves WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) for Ebola Vaccines and Vaccination and is on the Editorial Board of Economy & Society, Cultural Anthropology, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 
 
Professor Kelly will be teaching on the Medical Anthropology Masters Programme and supervising doctoral students.