Henrike Donner

Henrike Donner is a Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she has served since 2015. Previously, she held positions at the London School of Economics (LSE), Georg-August Universität Göttingen, and Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on urban anthropology, gender, kinship, and class dynamics, with a particular emphasis on middle-class identities and urban politics in India. She leads projects addressing housing access for marginalized communities and has conducted fieldwork in Kolkata, examining topics such as reproductive labor, consumer culture, and neoliberalism's impact on social structures.

• Education: PhD in Social Anthropology (LSE, 1999), MA in Social Anthropology (LMU Munich, 1992)
• Projects: Principal Investigator for 'A Room for Ones Own' (UKRI-funded, 2018–2020) and 'Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham' (2016)
• Publications: Authored/edited books like Domestic Goddesses (2008), Being Middle-class in India (2011), and Globalising Everyday Consumption in India (2021)

Her current research explores gendered labor and housing access in Kolkata's marginalized neighborhoods, blending ethnographic methods with feminist theory. She supervises doctoral students on themes such as class, kinship, and urban politics.