Rupert Stasch

Rupert Stasch is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He serves as Director of Postgraduate Education, Chair of the PhD Committee, and Visual Anthropology Lab Manager. As a Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College, he contributes to academic governance and student mentorship.

• Research focuses on representation processes, particularly visual and linguistic, in social relations.
• Regional expertise in Indonesia, Melanesia, and the Pacific, with fieldwork on Korowai culture and state formation dynamics.
• Key projects include studies on primitivist tourism, structuralist theory, and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

His recent publications analyze more-than-human relations in West Papua, linguistic mediation in tourism, and structuralist frameworks. As Lab Manager, he oversees visual ethnography initiatives. He supervises PhD students and contributes to academic debates on cultural theory and ethnographic methodology.