Andrew Sanchez

Andrew Sanchez is an Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Department of Social Anthropology and Wolfson College. His roles include Outreach Coordinator for the department, Convenor of the Human Social and Political Sciences (HSPS) Tripos, and editorial positions at the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. He also serves on the University Council.

• Education: PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009).
• Research Interests: Focus on the anthropology of class, labor, corruption, race, and decolonization, with ethnographic fieldwork in urban India among industrial workers, trade unionists, and entrepreneurs.
• Publications: Includes Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India (Routledge, 2016), and recent works on mixed-race thought, decolonization, and labor politics. His current project is an ethnographic study of the Indian scrap metal industry.
• Teaching: Offers courses on the anthropology of economy, politics, crime, cities, violence, and South Asia.
• Supervision: Advises doctoral students on economy, capitalism, criminality, and urban anthropology.
• Editorial Roles: Editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Economics editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and member of multiple editorial boards.
• Academic Leadership: Former Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Lecturer at the University of Kent.