She also has interests in conflict and violence. She will be based in the Gender Institute during the Michaelmas term 1999. Her research whilst in London will be on women attorneys. She has a special interest in Feminist Theory in the Social Sciences and has worked extensively in East and Central Africa. Her post is funded by the Health Education authority and the Eleanor Rathbone Trust.
Future projects are likely to include work on multiculturalism and sexual equality.
He is currently conducting research on witchcraft, modernity and gender in Tanzania. She received her Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Vienna, where she is a lecturer and research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her current research project focuses on the pre-start phase of setting up a small business in the service sector in London. There her focus is on the significance of gender roles and ethnic origin on the decision to set up a business and the consequences for current and future policy on fostering entrepreneurship by governmental institutions. She has recently been appointed as VIsiting Centennial Professor at the GI from October 2000.