We are looking for new PhD students

4 fully funded positions available at the department. Deadline for applications 24 March.

Apply to the Master's programme

The programme is taught in English. Read more and apply here!

Courses and programmes

We offer basic level courses and programs as well as advanced level studies in Social Anthropology.

Incoming exchange students

Welcome to the Department of Social Anthropology! Here you can find information for incoming exchange students.

Research

Global and comparative perspective toward the diversity of social and cultural forms of the contemporary world.

Publications

Find our researchers publications in the DIVA database.

Remaking Detroit

PhD student Simon Johansson's research project draws on case studies conducted in Detroit, United States.

Welcome to our seminars

Read more about our different seminars at the department.

Here you can find general contact information for the department

News

2023-03-21

Department of Social Anthropology

Elin Linder winner of photo award

Elin Linder, PhD student at the department of Social Anthropology has won this year's SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest

2023-02-19

Department of Social Anthropology

4 PhD positions at the Department of Social Anthropology

We are announcing 4 fully funded PhD positions at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. 2 are linked to the BIOrdinary program, which is centered on biodiversity in ordinary places while 2 are linked to the study of Global Asia.

2022-12-18

Department of Social Anthropology

Podcast on Myanmar with Tomas Cole

Tomas Cole and Kristina Simion discuss the violence that has spread across Myanmar since the 2021 coup.

2022-12-05

Department of Social Anthropology

Digital book reviews receive award

GAD New Directions Award 2022 to Rasmus Rodineliussen, PhD candidate at the department and Emilia Groupp for their work with the Anthropology Book Forum

Calendar

March

Seminar

A day in the life at a migration clinic

Jonathan Krämer, PhD candidate at the department, will discuss his fieldwork in Lombok, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A day in the life at a migration clinic

Jonathan Krämer, PhD candidate at the department, will discuss his fieldwork in Lombok, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

March

Seminar

80 percent seminar with Rasmus Rodineliussen

Rasmus Rodineliussen will present a draft of his thesis Underwater Worlds: an Ethnography of Waste and Marine Life.

80 percent seminar with Rasmus Rodineliussen

Rasmus Rodineliussen will present a draft of his thesis Underwater Worlds: an Ethnography of Waste and Marine Life.

April

Workshop

Auto-Emancipation: Economy, Truth and The Vehicle of Politics

Please join for a workshop with Juan del Nido and Peter Lagerqvist on automobility and politics in Argentina and Israel/Palestine.

Auto-Emancipation: Economy, Truth and The Vehicle of Politics

Please join for a workshop with Juan del Nido and Peter Lagerqvist on automobility and politics in Argentina and Israel/Palestine.

27 April

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29 April

Conference

SANT 2023

The yearly conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association

SANT 2023

The yearly conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association

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News

Elin Linder winner of photo award

4 PhD positions at the Department of Social Anthropology

Podcast on Myanmar with Tomas Cole

Digital book reviews receive award

Calendar

A day in the life at a migration clinic

A day in the life at a migration clinic

80 percent seminar with Rasmus Rodineliussen

80 percent seminar with Rasmus Rodineliussen

Auto-Emancipation: Economy, Truth and The Vehicle of Politics

Auto-Emancipation: Economy, Truth and The Vehicle of Politics

SANT 2023

SANT 2023

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