Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Dr Sanchez is a social anthropologist whose research is about economy, power and working life. He also writes about race and decolonisation. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge in 2016, Dr Sanchez held teaching and research positions at the LSE, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Kent. He is a member of the University Council, the principal executive and policy-making body of the University of Cambridge.

Dr Sanchez is a specialist on the anthropology of class, labour and corruption, and has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in urban India among industrial workers, trade unionists and entrepreneurs.

In 2016, Dr Sanchez published his first book Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India, which considered how changing employment regimes relate to criminality in corporations and political institutions. Since then, his published work has explored a range of issues related to precarity, marginality, work, exchange, criminality, race, and anthropological theory.

He is currently writing a book about why it is in human nature to transform things, and how transformative efficacy is at the core of most major questions about political and economic life.

You can learn more about his anthropological work here: www.andrewsanchez.co.uk