Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Polly Rossdale
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Key information
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Qualifications
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E.MA in Human Rights and Democratisation
MA Cantab Social Anthropology - Subject
- Anthropology and Sociology
- Email address
- 222605@soas.ac.uk
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Orkideh Behrouzan & Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner
Biography
Polly is an MPhil student in Anthropology and a CAMHRA scholar. Her research will focus on how the concepts of “torture” and “exile” shape subjectivities in a ‘clinic of exile’ in Montpellier, France. Her PhD project aims to build on fieldwork conducted in 2009 with asylum seekers in Montpellier about “idioms of suffering”.
She has a E.MA from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (2009) and an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2000). Prior to joining SOAS Polly worked in the humanitarian and human rights sectors. She has a particular interest in torture rehabilitation and refugees and has worked in the UK and internationally. From 2016-2018 she worked in Athens, Greece, to develop pathways for recovery for survivors of torture. She co-founded an NGO, Trauma Treatment International, in 2016, and continues to consult on program management, delivery and strategy for Lamp Lifeboat Ladder, a refugee resettlement initiative. Polly was previously a director at legal charity Reprieve where she coordinated a rehabilitation project for former Guantanamo detainees.
Research interests
- Anthropology of Trauma & Anthropology of Trauma
- Anthropology of Subjectivity
- History of anti-torture movement
- Migrant Suffering in France and Europe
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