Professor Elizabeth Hallam

Prof Elizabeth Hallam is a Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

She is the Editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Research

Prof Hallam’s research and publications focus on the anthropology of the body; death and dying; material and visual cultures; human anatomy; three-dimensional models, especially in medical education; making and design; mixed-media sculpture; history and anthropology; experimental research with images and texts.

She is currently developing collaborative museum, exhibition and installation projects.

Selected publication

Her most recent book is Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Reaktion), which won the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.