Hannah Bennett

Hannah Bennett is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Convenor of the Anthropology BA Programme at SOAS University of London. She also coordinates the project 'Mursi: Encountering the Other'. Her academic background includes a BA in History (Oxford), MA in History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia (SOAS), MPhil in Social Anthropology (Cambridge), and a PhD in Social Anthropology (SOAS, 2024), funded by the ESRC.

Her research focuses on gender, class, and professionalism among golf caddies in Southern China, emphasizing 'affective professionalism' as a theoretical framework. Key interests include migrant labor, vocational education, affective labor, and the anthropology of sport. She actively seeks collaborations on topics like feminization, improvisation, and global labor dynamics.

Her ESRC-funded PhD thesis (2024) explores training regimes and labor dynamics in China’s golf industry, challenging conventional understandings of vocational education and migration. She teaches on programs such as the MA Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability, integrating fieldwork insights into pedagogy.