The Centre for Transnational Studies

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

External members

In addition to the University of Southampton academics listed on this page, our membership includes:

Dr Julie Vullnetari

Associate Dean EDI
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Dr Ka-Kin Cheuk

Lecturer in Anthropology

Research interests

  • Transnationalism
  • Migration
  • Inter-Asian connections

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Katy Heady

Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professor Laura Lewis

Professor of Anthropology

Research interests

  • History and ethnography of race and Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mexico

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Maria Villares-Varela

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Migrant entrepreneurship
  • Work and employment relation in small firms
  • Family businesses

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Marion Demossier

Professor of French & European Studies

Research interests

  • climate ethnography and environment and climate change
  • French and European politics
  • Republicanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen, SFHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Scott Soo

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Conflict, migration and commemoration in contemporary France and Europe
  • Mass internment in France during WWII
  • The Spanish Civil War

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
  • humanitarianism 
  • political participation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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