Associate professor, University of Western Australia
Richard Vokes is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. He holds a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. His research focuses primarily on the African Great Lakes region, especially on the societies of South-western Uganda, where he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork since 2000. He has published extensively, including on: development (governance, education, and natural resource management), the HIV/AIDS epidemic, new religious movements, and the history of photography, media and social change. His academic research has won numerous prizes and awards, and he has held two Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford. He is Editor of the Journal of Eastern African Studies, a Member of the Organizing Committee for the Australia Social Sciences Week, and President of the Australian Anthropological Society.
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