Jane Cowan
Jane K. Cowan is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Sussex, where she taught from 1991-2020. With regional expertise in Greece and the Balkans, her research interests include gender, power, the body, dance, performance, culture and rights, international supervision and petitioning in international institutions. The author and editor of numerous publications, including Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece (Princeton 1990) and Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (co-edited with M. Dembour and R. Wilson, Cambridge 2001), she is currently writing about two projects: first, she is examining the intersection of rights talk, ritual performance and audit practices at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (with J Billaud) and second, she is exploring political interactions around petitioning at the interwar League of Nations minorities supervision in relation to Macedonia. Since November 2020 she is president-elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and chair of the jury for the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology.
