Dr Margaret Bullen joins the Anthropology and Archaeology department this term as a visiting scholar from the University of the Basque Country. Maggie is a social anthropologist working on themes of migration, identity, language, social change and gender. She received an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages from the University of Bristol before completing her PhD at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, on cultural and social economic change among Andean migrants in the shanty towns of Arequipa, Peru.

In the Basque Country, her research has centred on conflicts relating to changes proposed in rituals in the festival context, especially the polemic over the participation of women in the parades or Alardes of Hondarribia and Irun. She is a member of AFIT (Feminist Anthropology Research Group) and is currently in Bristol writing up research on “New solidarities, reciprocities and alliances. The emergence of collaborative spaces of political participation and redefinition of citizenship, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity.

Welcome Maggie!