Department of Geography

Dr Jeffrey Pratt

Post:Reader in Social Anthropology (Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre)
Location:ARTS C C204
Email:J.C.Pratt@sussex.ac.uk

Biography

Jeff Pratt completed his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 1974 and then went to Italy for two years on an SSRC post-doctoral fellowship. He was appointed a lectureship at Sussex in 1976. Over the next twenty years he returned to Italy regularly for further periods of research, and also made teaching visits to Amsterdam, Siena, Dhaka, Bergamo and Malta. He was anthropology department head from 1992-1995, became a Senior Lecturer in 1995 and a Reader in 2003. He retired from teaching at the end of 2008, but has continued to be active in research and writing since.  

Role

Senior Research Fellow, Anthropology