Jed Stevenson

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Jed Stevenson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology of Global Health. His work explores experiences of hunger and thirst, and their causes at the levels of communities, states, and world-systems. He has carried out research in Ethiopia for more than 20 years, and has collaborated with local colleagues and community members in support of Indigenous people’s rights to land and water. He is co-founder of the Omo-Turkana Research Network (www.oturn.msu.edu), which brings together researchers across disciplines and from the global North and South concerned with a transboundary river basin in Ethiopia and Kenya. At Durham, Jed coordinates the Decolonising Anthropology Working Group. He also serves as Quaker Chaplain to Durham University.

Read more about Jed and his work here.