Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz is an economic anthropologist: her research looks at the nexus of labour and different forms of migrations in global economies, particularly in the Middle East, and in the context of the Syrian conflict. She is also interested in rethinking research ethics for fieldworkers "beyond do no harm".
Between 2022 and 2026, she will be a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. For her project "BROKERS OF DISPLACEMENT – An ethnography of the infrastructure of Syrian refugees’ circulations throughout the Mediterranean" (2022-25), she will do ethnographic research in Tunisia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Jordan, and the UK.
In 2023/ 2024, she is also the principal investigator of the project “Make them count! Supporting civil society action to improve refugees’ and migrants’ livelihoods in Sousse, Tunisia” (2023-2024), a collaboration with policy experts and humanitarian practitioners from the Mixed Migration Centre in Tunis and Association Tunisienne Awledna in Sousse. This project is funded by the Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights Network Plus.
Between 2019 and 2022, she was a lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. In 2026, she will start a permanent lectureship in Edinburgh's Social Anthropology department.